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[Mission Local @MLNow]

San Francisco Democrats, as predicted, voted overwhelmingly to oppose the California billionaire tax.

In doing so, the local party made the rare choice to buck the state Democratic Party, which narrowly endorsed Prop. 40 in August.

by @junyao98

https://t.co/Ktsi3tcE3k

[Mission Local @MLNow]

JUST IN: San Francisco Democrats endorsed Manny Yekutiel in his supervisor race tonight, despite allegations of sexual assault.

The meeting was contentious. Yekutiel's accuser took the mic, & outraged attendees cried “Shame!”

https://t.co/18wSGZZmAU

[OurSF49ers @OurSf49ers]

The body cam footage of Jed York’s arrest had been released 👀

Via: @TMZ

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

OPINION: Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature are reportedly considering proposals that would limit or absolve investor-owned utilities of liability for wildfires their equipment caused. https://t.co/9MSLFqLiXs

[Marina Newman @marina_e_newman]

Big news: the city attorney's office settled with landlords at Alice Griffith for a whopping $9M.

This is what this job is about — a big thank you to my editors and all the tenants who bravely shared your stories with me

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

the Meta settlement money figure is a rounding error compared to Meta's annual capex on AI — especially when it's amortized over the next *ten years*

but these required product changes could actually significant if they are enforced, not easily bypassed by kids

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

Meta is going full bore with pushing other companies to add the same restrictions it will add to its apps as a part of settlement:

Meta plans to run this copy as a full page print advertisement in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the New York Times tomorrow morning

[Annie Gaus @AnnieGaus]

.@ButcherBoy415 unpacks how Jed York is seen by SF 49er fans of a certain age: as the nepo-nephew who moved the team 40mi away to the biggest dump in the NFL.

"We’ve already been out on Jed ... and this was the cherry on top of the 💩 cake"

https://t.co/1iM1h5g38F

[Nathan McDermott @natemcdermott]

We probably won’t ever see anything like this for the rest of our lives

[Joshua Topolsky @joshuatopolsky]

what was going on was they had a genius creative director (@Mr_Turley) and an editor who had really fucking great taste (@Tyrangiel), and a team of writers and editors and artists who were allowed to take chances

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

fancy/rich people all have folks writing their op-eds, etc for them. that's not surprising. but imo i don't think its handwringing to be bummed that places that sell a specific product (writing!) don't seem all that energized to fight for it (and actually seem relieved to cave)

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Precedent-setting moment in news media. The editor of the second most important opinion page in the country greenlights the use of AI for drafting pieces, no disclosure necessary.

[Daniel Boguslaw @DRBoguslaw]

Undercover DHS agent goes to a @sunrisemvmt movement event, notes in his report it focuses on non-violence/de-escelation, then tells an organizer he works construction and could use his materials to escalate direct action and that he isn't afraid to go to jail.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Gmail has a cool feature that uses AI to suggest cleaner word choices and phrasings so your writing can become truly unremarkable

[brandon pho @brandonphooo]

Billionaire and SF police drone/flock benefactor Chris Larsen gives another $500K to Mayor @DanielLurie 's charter reform committee which would expand his power at City Hall. https://t.co/UPIwRicn0x

[Joe Rivano Barros @jrivanob]

last year, San Francisco police officers arrested a man after drone surveillance picked up what they said was a drug deal

his lawyer says it was a handshake, the DA’s office subsequently dismissed the case, after the man spent 4 days in jail

[brandon pho @brandonphooo]

New from me:

[Mission Local @MLNow]

A man was in jail for four days after San Francisco police surveilled him with drones, and arrested him over what his attorney said was a handshake.

https://t.co/TU454YbRCS

[Amy Taxin @ataxin]

A quiet channel between ICE and Iran shaped deportation flights, newly released emails show
https://t.co/zZTX4AnYoC

[Emily Holshouser @emilyytayylor]

Horrific stuff about Phoenix PD. FWIW – one of the reasons I left PHX was bc that dept is very difficult to report on. It was an open secret that records reqs often took 3+ years. Our Cronkite investigation found many violent encounters like this one. https://t.co/jElY8yOhBl

[Semafor @semafor]

Most AI-generated images from models trained on large datasets can’t be traced back to their training data, potentially throwing a curveball in intellectual property theft cases, a new MIT study found.

https://t.co/wwx2qYRumc