Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A reclusive Chinese video-game billionaire has built one of the most extreme family operations on record - using American surrogates to produce U.S.-citizen children who are then raised by nannies on two continents. Xu Bo, founder of Guangzhou gaming firm Duoyi Network, is the man at the center of the story. A December 2025 Wall Street Journal investigation and a fresh CBS News report this month laid out the scale: Xu's company has acknowledged "a little over 100" children...
On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that leading labs should deliberately slow the rate at which they improve the most capable models so safety work can catch up. Anthropic, he said, would unilaterally give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied that he agreed the frontier needed pacing and that OpenAI would match the...
Sydney Sweeney posted a new carousel of images to her Instagram account on Sunday, September 13, 2026, featuring outtakes from her recent advertising campaign for the sports trading app Novig. The post was captioned "it's gamedayyy @novig #novigpartner." Downside of 2026 is that Artificial General Intelligence will likely kill all of us. The upside is, we did get to see Sydney Sweeney's butt. The photographs show the 28-year-old actress nude or topless, using sports equipment...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou remains one of the most watched young long jumpers in Greece, but the 2026 World U20 Championships came and went without her in the pit. The 19-year-old from Ptolemaida, born 17 August 2007 and competing for Aiolos Ptolemaidas, still has a personal best of 6.25 metres from the Alexandrinó meeting in Alexandria, Imathia, on 24 May. That jump remains her listed World Athletics best and was the mark that first put her over the World U20 qualifying standard....
A 22-year-old Indian national who crossed the southern border illegally in 2023 chased down a Sacramento waitress in a shopping-center parking lot, shot her multiple times, then finished her off with a close-range shot to the head - before killing himself on Highway 50 minutes later. Shalini Thakur, 38, was dropped off near her car outside the Panera Bread at Howe and Northrup avenues in Arden Arcade just before 3 p.m. Tuesday when Rohit Rohit confronted her. She ran. He...
Update (Thursday afternoon, Sept. 10): Evacuation warnings have been lifted. Forward progress of the Getty Fire is stopped. The Getty Center remains closed today for fire-crew access.LAFD lifted warnings for zones LFD-0895 and LFD-0967 Wednesday night (about 8:38 p.m.). CAL FIRE also reported all evacuations lifted. The warning box that included the south side of the Getty Center, the 405, and Tigertail is no longer in effect. The fire burned about 25 acres on the hillside...
A pedestrian struck by a car at Ocean Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard on the morning of Saturday, August 29, remains at the center of a grim neighborhood vigil this week, after friends posted that she was being taken off life support today. The collision closed the intersection while Santa Monica police investigated. The city issued an alert telling motorists to stay away from Ocean and San Vicente while officers worked the scene. That official traffic notice is consistent...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou, a rising star in Greek track and field, has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling young talents in women's track and field. Born on August 17, 2007, the 19-year-old from Western Macedonia competes for the Aiolos Ptolemaidas club and has shown steady, impressive progress over the past couple of seasons. What began as consistent junior-level performances has blossomed into senior-level breakthroughs, with her combination of speed, technique, and...
A sprawling homeless encampment near UC Berkeley student housing has drawn renewed attention after a viral video highlighted piles of tents, debris, and belongings along the streets. In mid-August 2026, ABC7 reporter Lyanne Melendez posted footage of the long-standing camp along the Harrison Street corridor near Eighth Street in West Berkeley while dropping her son off at university housing. The images showed densely packed tents, tarps, shopping carts, furniture, bicycles,...
In a stunning reversal of their 2020 "Megxit," Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are packing up their life in Montecito and relocating to the United Kingdom later this month with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5. The couple, who have made the exclusive Santa Barbara County community their primary home for the past six years, will establish a private, non-royal residence outside London while keeping their California property,...
SANTA MONICA - A rare hammerhead shark was filmed swimming near Malibu Pier on Thursday afternoon, August 13, 2026, just a short drive up the coast from Santa Monica, drawing attention from local anglers and marine experts. Video captured by a Los Angeles County fisherman and posted under the account @PIERMACKEREL shows the shark swimming roughly a football field from shore at Surfrider Beach. In the footage, the angler briefly hooks the animal before it spits the bait and...
According consistent reports from Glendale Police and other outlets (including Spectrum, CBS LA, NBC LA, and ABC7), a 79-year-old woman attempted a U-turn in the parking lot of the preschool connected to Temple Sinai of Glendale (Grandview House Preschool, 1200 block of N. Pacific Avenue) on the afternoon of August 7, 2026. She reportedly confused the gas and brake pedals, accelerated, struck a parked vehicle, went through a gate, and crashed into a classroom wall. Key...
SANTA MONICA - A person was found deceased Monday evening in a driveway near the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Kansas Avenue in Santa Monica, according to multiple neighborhood witnesses. Police and the coroner's office responded to the scene, which was located across from 2600 Virginia Avenue and next to a preschool. Witnesses reported that a motorist pulling into a driveway discovered an individual on the ground and contacted authorities. Santa Monica Police...
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - The body of 5-year-old Amada Mia Brown of San Bernardino was recovered Thursday morning near Christmas Cove Beach, authorities said, ending a nearly 30-hour search that followed a devastating incident in which a rogue wave swept the young girl, her mother, and her brother into the ocean at Treasure Island Beach. The heartbreaking event unfolded around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, when the Brown family was walking along the shoreline at Treasure Island...
We all prize self-reflection, moral complexity, and the hard-won wisdom that emerges from genuine human connection. We turn to novels for empathy, to ethics for guidance through gray areas, and to conversation for the friction that refines our character. Yet many of us now consult large language models for advice on breakups, workplace tensions, or family rifts. A compelling new study in Science suggests this habit carries a subtle cost: the very tools promising understanding...
Santa Monica, CA - A Santa Monica College (SMC) student was assaulted Tuesday morning, May 12, 2026, in what authorities described as an unprovoked attack by an unidentified individual, possibly homeless, near the college's Center for Media and Design (CMD) campus. The incident occurred at approximately 8:25 a.m. as she was walking across the crosswalk at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and 26th Street. Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) and Santa Monica Fire...
SANTA MONICA - While California public schools saw their largest enrollment decline since the return from the pandemic, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) reported only a modest drop this school year, in contrast to steeper losses in the much larger Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Statewide, public school enrollment from transitional kindergarten through 12th grade fell by 74,961 students, or 1.3%, during the 2025-26 school year - the...
A herd of 100–150 goats, hired to graze dry vegetation along roadsides as a natural wildfire prevention measure, escaped through a hole in their electric fence on April 13, 2026. The animals wandered onto Mureau Road near the 101 Freeway, bringing traffic to a temporary halt as drivers slowed to watch the unusual scene. The herd's handler (locally known as the "Goat Man") quickly responded with trained herding dogs, guiding the goats safely back behind the fence within m...
In a moment that perfectly bridges the glamour of Hollywood, the grit of motherhood, and the final frontier of space exploration, actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba experienced what she called something straight out of her "wildest dreams." It all started with a casual request from NASA astronaut Christina Koch aboard the Artemis II mission: a tube of hand lotion from Alba's The Honest Company. During a live transmission from the Orion spacecraft, Koch-mission specialist...
Santa Monica, CA - The Santa Monica Animal Shelter is currently operating at full capacity and is temporarily unable to accept owner-surrendered animals, city officials announced this week. The alert was posted on social media by the Santa Monica Police Department on or around April 7–8, 2026. The shelter, which provides care for stray, abandoned, and surrendered dogs, cats, and other small animals, has no available space for additional intakes at this time." The Santa M...
A new California-based wellness company is emerging with a refined vision for the future of food, fitness, and functional living. Founded by entrepreneur Taylor Penelope Hall, TAYSTY is a modern luxury wellness brand developing date-sweetened sodas, elevated snack products, and immersive lifestyle programming designed to make clean living aspirational, not restrictive. At its core, TAYSTY was created to challenge the standard American pantry. Rather than reformulating...
In early April 2026, a familiar scene unfolded across X (formerly Twitter). A 24-year-old statistics master's student in a sleek satin orange dress posted a polished selfie with the caption: "Why am I still single?" The post quickly racked up thousands of likes, tens of thousands of views, and hundreds of replies-mostly compliments, flirtatious offers, and sympathetic takes on modern dating. She wasn't alone. Similar posts from other young, conventionally attractive women in...
Changchun, Jilin Province, China – March 23, 2026 – In a remarkable display of canine loyalty and determination, seven pet dogs stolen from homes in a village near Changchun have safely returned to their owners after escaping from an illegal transport vehicle and traveling approximately 17 kilometers together. The dogs – including breeds such as a corgi, Golden Retrievers, a German Shepherd, and others – belonged to three neighboring households and were known to play togethe...
An 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University Chicago was fatally shot early Thursday morning while walking with friends near the university's Lake Shore Campus in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Sheridan Gorman, 18, from Yorktown, New York, was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck in the head during the incident, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. on March 19, 2026, on the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach (near the 1000 block of West Pratt Boulevard). Police reports indicate a...
Drone footage of a massive but incomplete wildlife bridge spanning the 101 Freeway has gone viral on X, reigniting debate over a high-profile California infrastructure project that has now consumed $114 million with no end in sight for connecting the structure to land on either side. @vskymedia on Youtube highlights the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - a project launched in 2022 to create a safe overpass for animals including mountain lions and butterflies - as a glaring...
