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Suhaib Abdali
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Living in sunny Oakland, California.
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andrewmccalip.com/space-datace...
Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers
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December 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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oaklandside.org/2025/07/24/h...
Temple nightclub group buys historic Oakland Greyhound station
Three years after underground ravers took over the 1920s Beaux-Arts building, the former Greyhound station in downtown Oakland has been purchased by the team behind San Francisco’s Temple nightclub.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Björk : w/PJ Harvey - I Can't Get No Satisfaction 1994 BRIT Awards
YouTube video by Björk's Joyous Tunes
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June 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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sfyimby.com/2025/05/addi...
Additional Units Approved for Noodle Factory Development in Oakland
Revised plans were approved for an eight-story mixed-use building at 419 4th Street in Oakland’s Jack London neighborhood.
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May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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oaklandside.org/2025/05/15/o...
OakDOT plans to remove one lane on Grand Avenue to slow down dangerous traffic. Some rattled residents want more
At a meeting in the Adams Point neighborhood, a packed crowd argued with an OakDOT rep about the Grand Avenue Complete Streets Paving Project.
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May 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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www.adpresearch.com/high-paying-...
High-paying jobs? They’re a dime a dozen - ADP Research
More than a million people in the United States earn $500,000 or more, and they might be closer to home than you think.
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May 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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oaklandside.org/2025/04/29/h...
Here are the 19 new Bay Wheels locations in Oakland's flatlands
10 will be in East Oakland, but there are still no stations east of 71st Avenue.
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April 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Over- versus under-representation of topics among right-leaning articles
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April 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This Classic Oakland Chinatown Restaurant Hits the Spot at 3 a.m.
New Gold Medal has long been a late-night favorite for no-frills Cantonese food.
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April 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.
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April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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New poll shows Taylor leading Lee
Analysis of the Oakland special mayoral election with 19 days to Election Day: Report: Former AC Transit GM is moonlighting in Oregon while still receiving controversial $500k salary in the East Bay
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April 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Global cereal production has grown much faster than population in the last half-century
This line chart shows the growth of global cereal production, yield, population, and land use for cereal production from 1961 to 2023, indexed to 1961. Cereal production increased by 250%, surpassing population growth, which rose by 164%. Cereal yield grew significantly, while land use for cereal production remained nearly constant. The chart highlights that higher yields, not expanded land use, drove most of the production increase. Data sources: UN FAO (2023), UN WPP (2024).
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago
It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress — LessWrong
This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading. …
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March 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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manidoraisamy.com/developer-fo...
Developer forever - The Era of Solopreneurs is Here
DeepSeek just dropped a bombshell: $200M in annual revenue with a 500%+ profit margin—all while charging 25x less than OpenAI. But DeepSeek didn’t just build another AI model. They wrote their own par...
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March 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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www.spur.org/news/2025-02...
What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 2: Budget-Setting, Spending, and Revenues
Oakland city leaders must close a $129 million shortfall in this year’s budget and eliminate an additional $280 million deficit projected over the next two years. Now, policymakers, administrators, em...
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February 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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www.spur.org/news/2025-01...
What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 1: How We Got Here
Oakland is at a pivotal moment as city leaders work to address a significant budget shortfall of $129 million this year, with an additional $280 million projected over the next two years. Solutions to...
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February 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic.

Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s. The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession. Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.
February 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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run don't walk for these fried chicken sandwiches from Hina Yakitori's chef www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
A master of Japanese chicken is back in the Bay Area
Tommy Cleary of the acclaimed, now-closed Japanese fine dining restaurant Hina Yakitori, is popping up in Berkeley at Berkeley Bowl West.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A New 1,000-Capacity Music Venue Is Coming to Oakland | KQED
Ceremony, opening in March, boasts a state-of-the-art sound system and a no-frills approach to live music.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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www.spur.org/news/2025-01...
What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 1: How We Got Here
Oakland is at a pivotal moment as city leaders work to address a significant budget shortfall of $129 million this year, with an additional $280 million projected over the next two years. Solutions to...
www.spur.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/24/f...
Big things are blooming at this hidden farm in Oakland
Community, commitment and passion (fruit) can all be found at Laurel's Fig Leaf Gardens, a backyard-turned-community-garden shaped by multiple generations of owners.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM