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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“This was rent that didn’t get paid, food that wasn’t there for hungry kids. We’ve waited six years for this,” said Alvaro Bolainez, vice president of Rideshare Drivers United, a union representing over 20,000 drivers, in a statement.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social criticized President Trump’s #AI industry-friendly inaction at an hour-long event with reporters Wednesday. He also had harsh words specifically for Trump’s self-regulation accord. “That should scare the hell out of everybody.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Every day you turn on the television, it seems like AI is doing something else bad,” said subcommittee chair Sen Hawley. “Setting up surveillance camera networks nationwide, data centers in all of our states, and hacking, hacking. The reports of cyber attacks just continue to metastasize.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Back when I was hosting the California Report for @kqednews.kqed.org, I got to know the delightfully erudite pomologist David Karp, and he turned me on to Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seriously, if you're curious what an engaging conversation about the national debt sounds like, give a listen. My guests Scott Horsley, Talmon Joseph Smith and Maya MacGuineas were FABULOUS! 😍 www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Can Anyone Solve America’s $40 Trillion Debt Problem? | KQED

We talk to economic experts about the current and future impacts, and whether there’s a solution.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What a week! You'll recall the AGs v Meta trial in Oakland came to a screeching halt with a settlement announced and approved on Wednesday. And as the smoke clears, we ask "IS this a good deal, tho?" For children? For parents?

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#ICYMI Meta’s landmark child safety settlement with 47 states+ set a new industry standard for child and teen tech protections, reshaping how young people interact with social media. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov warned other tech titans, including the owners of #TikTok, #snapchat and #YouTube.

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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Do you work at Meta and work on this logo? DM me and let’s talk (anonymously!) ✉️ cyd.01 on Signal

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Heading into Week 2 of AGs v Meta in Oakland, the fight moves from what the world's largest social media giant knew to whether social media actually harms kids. San Diego State University's Jean Twenge says the evidence shows a clear causal path.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Whistleblower Arturo Béjar acknowledged that Meta hired highly hundreds of well-qualified people to work on safety. But, he said, the company also elided the psychological harm it caused children behind euphemistic language and misleading metrics. “Safety and security was an afterthought.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵 On #DayOne of the Meta youth-addiction trial in Oakland, Deputy AG for California Megan O’ Neill told Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (and advisory jury), “We’re not here to hold Meta responsible for bad people who post bad things.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🎙️TUESDAY at 9 am PST on KQED Forum: In 1962, Rachel Carson warned us that the chemicals we spray on our fields don't stay in the fields. Sixty years later, the pesticides are still with us, and PFAS, and microplastics. So where does that leave us — the public in public health?

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🎙️MONDAY at 9 am PST on @kqedforum.bsky.social: Remember when we were all told to bring our full selves to work? That’s in the rear view mirror now. 🫠 Claire Stapleton spent twelve years helping tell Google’s story from the inside.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#isthisatrend #orjustvibes Google's Play Store started opening up to rival app stores in the US under a court order stemming from the case lost to Epic. Then, the European Comm fined Google @$1 Bil. "Google lost. And I think that perception will affect juries going forward." - @tnarecha.bsky.social

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#huggingface 🤗 OpenAI and Anthropic are the only two frontier AI developers that have publicly disclosed a containment failure... which is not the same as being the only two to have had one.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"My dad’s fame, especially with Phantasm, is for a particular subset of humanity: Gen X males. Every now and then here at KQED, some guy of a certain age will rush up to me and say, ‘Rachael Myrow, are you related to Fred Myrow?" www.kqed.org/arts/1381319...

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An Iconic Horror Soundtrack's Surprising KQED Connection | KQED

The Tall Man has a strange connection to KQED -- are you brave enough to investigate?

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Few stories move us the way Homer’s Odyssey does. The ancient Greek epic about a war hero’s circuitous and messy journey home to his wife and son is so provocative, and so weird, it’s inspired multiple translations over the generations.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#RememberWhen Dario Amodei predicted AI would replace software engineers in 6–12 months? And Sam Altman warned entry-level white-collar jobs were about to go the way of the 🦕🦕? Not to throw my compatriots 👩🏻‍💻🧑🏾‍💻under the 🚌, but many in the tech press are hard-wired to note the layoffs vs the hirings.

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Sue F @sue-f.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Check out Catherine Breed's progress swimming along the CA coast in July at www.swimcalifornia.com

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Swim California

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Three years after this 2023 strike, the fight over AI's March on Hollywood has only gotten hotter. Coming up at 10 AM Tuesday on @kqedforum.bsky.social, I'll talk about "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with Steven Zeitchik of The Hollywood Reporter and Peter Murrieta of the @wgawest.bsky.social.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

RIP David Hockney, an English immigrant to California, whose saturated, sun-drenched paintings captured the dreamlike, sultry quality so many of us appreciate most about life in the "Golden State." For @kqedarts.bsky.social a few years back, I got to witness him young artists in East Palo Alto.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#WaitingToExhale Since the #H1BVisa program was introduced in 1990, it's been the primary pathway for #siliconvalley companies to take advantage of foreign talent. And vice versa. All of that is now back in play after a federal judge in Boston blocked Trump's $100,000 visa fee Monday.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What does national defense have to do with shipping coal to Asia out of West Oakland? The Trump administration just invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law, to revive a terminal this city spent a decade trying to kill. @replsimon.bsky.social weighed in today on @kqednews.kqed.org

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Why is a California Republican pushing a federal shield for stone makers in Minnesota + Spain? A CA ban on high-silica stone would stop the next generation of sick workers - IF it happens - but McClintock's bill erases recourse for the young men already dying from cutting our kitchen countertops.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Every #vote counts! Head to @kqednews.kqed.org for results and analysis. 🤓

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Sarah Wynn-Williams signed a non-disparagement agreement in 2017 and took the severance. Then she wrote a bestselling book about her time at the social media giant. Now Meta is keen to stop her from appearing in public and/or promoting the book. ...

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

RIP Jerry Neuman, an iconic voice on KQED-FM for 37 years until he retired in 2013. For those of us who remember those pipes, a sad day indeed. 😕https://www.kqed.org/news/106157/kqeds-jerry-neuman-retires-after-37-years

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

backstabbing! secret affairs! and also a dramatic reading of the texts from the night of the openai coup!

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

TONIGHT! Stanford University isn’t just a leading academic institution in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's where many of Silicon Valley's ruling elite go shopping for protégés, according to the admirably accomplished already investigative journalist Theo Baker.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

When even software engineers and scientists are struggling with Bay Area #housing math, something has gone wrong with how this place values people and all the good they bring here. “We have a very hot economy. It’s creating a lot of wealth.... And our housing is too expensive.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Catastrophic job loss from AI is not inevitable, it's a political choice." — California labor leader Lorena Gonzalez, responding to Gavin Newsom's new executive order on AI and workers.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 18/05/2026

At Musk vs. Altman trial, where potential damages are the order of the day. Judge Gonzalez Rogers is tearing into Musk's expert witness, who says the defendant's wrongful gains are as high as $135 billion. "Your analysis seems to be devoid of connection to the underlying facts," the judge tells him.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

⚖️3 weeks of testimony. A courtroom full of billionaires. 1 Oakland jury. + a 🦜 in a 🍐 🌳. 🎼 If Musk wins: $150 Bil redirected to the nonprofit, OpenAI's for-profit structure dismantled, Altman + Brockman removed. If OpenAI wins: the IPO proceeds. Deliberations start Mon in Musk v Altman. 🗒️

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

⚖️ Musk v Altman et al headed into last day of testimony. Right now there's a pre-jury spat about whether to enter into evidence a back half of a jackass award OpenAI employees handed out to Josh Achiam (now Chief Futurist at OpenAI). Musk described Achiam as a jackass on his last day at OpenAI. 🫏

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Berkeley’s City Council voted May 7 to keep its current @flocksafety.bsky.social contract but further review a $2 million expansion. How you characterize this split decision depends on where you come down on surveillance technology for local law enforcement.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

⚖️ Musk v Altman et al Today's "Oooooh!" moment in the press pews: fmr OpenAI board member Helen Toner on Mira Murati during Altman's brief ouster in 2023. “She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow. She did not realize she was the wind. She was worried about retaliation and blowback.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Does anyone in AI really have our best interests at heart? I talked with the @kqednews.kqed.org podcast "The Bay" about the trial transfixing Silicon Valley, Musk v. Altman et al.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

⚖️ Musk v Altman et al: Four days. One witness stand. Don't make the mistake of thinking this case is solely about whether OpenAI was built on a lie. This is also about whether Elon Musk gets to dominate AI's future. Or Sam Altman. Or both. Or neither. 🙆🏻‍♀️🍿🤖

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Musk v Altman et al. OpenAI lawyer William Savitt: Musk’s lawyers urged CA AG Bonta to oppose OpenAI restructuring. Meta as well. 🧵

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Musk v Altman et al Day 3 started out 🌶️ with a heated discussion about what the esteemed Dr. Stuart Russell of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social can testify to later today. Judge YGR: no “climate risk” and “concentration risk,” ... "the risks that I have found sufficiently credible.” 🧵

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Day 3 in Musk v Altman et al. If you believe Elon Musk, the pro human "speciesist" wanted to be first to wield the awesome powers of #AGI. But the team/squad/family he put together turned out to be more interested in💰💰💰. “I would have sued sooner if I thought the charity had been stolen sooner.”

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Whatever the case may be with Elon, @catherinebracy.com has been critical of OpenAI’s restructuring and its potential impact on the future of AI and the nonprofit sector. This is what she had to say about the trial @kqednews.kqed.org @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social www.kqed.org/news/1208129...

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Musk sat on his claims for years,” OpenAI attorney William Savitt said. “He knew everything that was happening, when it was happening. My clients had the nerve to go out and succeed without him.”

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Opening Arguments today in Musk v Altman et al. 🎙️ keeps dropping out on Musk’s attorney Steve Molo. “What can I tell you? We are funded by the federal government!” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers jokes, and the courtroom erupts in laughter. “Is this a Microsoft product?” Molo asks, to more laughter.

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Clean slate! Beginning today. Let the process work. Try to control - all of you - try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom." - Judge. "Do you agree to that?" "Yes, of course," #Musk. "Do you agree to that?" to #Altman and #Brockman. "Yes."

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