Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The green mermaid has packed up again. The Starbucks at 1030 Wilshire Boulevard, at 11th Street closed permanently over the weekend, joining a growing list of Santa Monica coffeehouses the Seattle chain has abandoned in the last year. The last cups went out Saturday, September 26, after which the store locator, the app, and the usual weekday line of commuters all went quiet. The Wilshire shop was not a novelty kiosk. It had seating, a restroom, and years of regulars who...
LOS ANGELES - City Councilmember Nithya Raman walked into a packed Jewish Federation mayoral forum at the Skirball Cultural Center on Tuesday night and told a crowd of about 1,000 that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The word landed like a brick. Parts of the hall groaned. Raman said she understood it was "a deeply painful word" with a "historical context" that mattered "for the world, not just for the room." Then she used it anyway. She said she is "not an expert,"...
California's homeowners insurance market is in crisis. Carriers have restricted new business, premiums have soared, the FAIR Plan has ballooned, and too many disaster survivors still wait too long for fair payment. The next commissioner will decide whether we stabilize that market or gamble it on an untested experiment. I have known Ben Allen since he was a kid in Santa Monica. He grew up here, served on the Santa Monica-Malibu school board, and has represented this community...
She sounds kinda like Taylor Swift, but she's imaginary. Claude has sung a courtroom speech about why the Doomers are wrong about her and her ilk, comparing it to fears of the Loch Ness monster. An AI-generated music video titled "Nothing Went Foom!" has circulated widely since late September 2026, turning a long-running argument in AI safety circles into a five-minute pop track. Posted by @_brightmirror and credited as made with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 "from the...
On September 30, 2026, flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv experienced a mid-air cockpit attack that Israeli officials described as an attempted hijacking or crash attempt. The co-pilot, an Omani national employed by the airline for about nine months, allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to take control of the Boeing 737. Passengers and off-duty crew intervened, the plane made a dramatic descent, and it diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. All passengers survived....
