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digby56.bsky.social digby @digby56.bsky.social · Jan 8
City of Santa Monica Evacuation Order for all areas of the city north of San Vicente. Evacuation Order: Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to LEAVE NOW. The area is closed to public access

This is very northern part of the city bordering Pacific Palisades. Still, very unnerving.
January 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jan 8
Please stay safe!

Mandatory evacuation order in parts of Santa Monica

Santamonica.gov for updates
The image consists of two parts: a tweet from the official City of Santa Monica Twitter account and a corresponding evacuation map. Left Side (Tweet): • Header: The top of the tweet shows the profile picture and Twitter handle “@santamonicacity,” with a small circular icon of a wave on an orange background. • Text: “City of Santa Monica is issuing an Evacuation Order for all areas of the city north of San Vicente. Evacuation Order: Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to LEAVE NOW. The area is closed to public access.” Below the text is a link for updates: “santamonica.gov.” • Footer: Timestamp shows “7:38 PM, 1/7/25” with “290K Views” indicating the popularity of the tweet. Right Side (Evacuation Map): • Map Features: A street map highlighting a large portion of Santa Monica. • Evacuation Zones: • Red Zone (Evacuation Order): The northern section of the map is marked in red, indicating a mandatory evacuation zone labeled “Evacuation order.” • Yellow Zone (Evacuation Warning): An adjacent area south of the red zone is highlighted in yellow, labeled “Evacuation warning,” suggesting a lower-level advisory for residents to prepare for potential evacuation. • Key Landmarks: • San Vicente Boulevard marks the southern boundary of the red zone. • Roads such as Amalfi Drive and Montana Avenue are visible. • Points of interest include the Brentwood Country Club to the east and Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) near Rogers Beach to the west. This map visually reinforces the evacuation directive, dividing affected areas into immediate and cautionary zones.
January 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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January 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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This is why I am here.
caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 8
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Hey everyone; I think I may be coming to this platform, the rest of Social Media is crazy.
January 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM