Brian Krohne

Muy bueno esto, recomiendo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdj...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton with the @voiceofsandiego.org team presenting his law and order arguments for why we should cooperate with ICE to deport more people. #Politifest2026

Scott Lewis wrapping up the day at #Politifest2026

Will Rodriguez-Kennedy compares leading the San Diego Democratic party and elected leaders to herding cats that are always trying to bolt. #Politifest2026

Nicole Crosby and Richard Bailey (vying for the D2 seat) engage in a spirited debate about pension reforms. #Politifest2026

Who's going to #politifest2026? See you there!

“… over several sessions, the community spoke, and that's what we designed from. The community were the master planners, which I just think is really radical and awesome.” www.daylightsandiego.org/newsletter-g...

What if the people most impacted by displacement designed the future of the land? Watch the story behind Global Village. youtu.be/zYfEcGMl-PE?... #globalvillagesd #panasandiego #panasd #tedxsandiego

This week San Diego will begin its program of defunding and closing more than 30 public toilets. many of these are near beaches and parks, effectively making public space inaccessible to many people who live here and, unlike our mayor and council, participate in our community

‘Gavin Newsom doesn’t pretend that frolicking with the Gettys awakened in him an early sensitivity to inequality or the unfairness of the American tax code. He seems to have been a personable jock, taking luxury as it came.’ @deborahfriedell.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We all collectively need to learn how to tell better stories about the future we want - this excellent essay helps. I grew with a similar experience to his of believing the American exceptionalism story that has submerged stories underneath that are ugly when you scratch the surface

AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

"All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Survey of nearly 1,000 researchers whose grants were cut shows BIPOC, LGBTQ+ & women investigators faced higher odds of targeted equity-related terminations, raising concerns about long-term impacts on the U.S. scientific workforce @ucsandiego.bsky.social @rebeccafieldingmiller.com buff.ly/oYbM1sp

“Even in Trump’s second term, we understand that it’s selfish and small to not want to pay a tax, especially for something as noble as a library. So we have to say it’s not about a library; it’s about corruption! It’s not about taxes; it’s about *process*.”

Michael Smolens: Ammar Campa-Najjar has a lot of explaining to do

UCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/u...

A fantastic piece by @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social, explaining where those viral Iranian AI lego videos came from, and the generational experiences informing them. Narges is one of the best placed researchers to explain the social worlds of Iranian media and digital life 1/2 nymag.com/intelligence...

"I'd like to visit the moon But I don't think I'd like to live there" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8...

The Iran war is destroying US hegemony. Iran is using this moment to dismantle a key pillar of US power — the petrodollar. For the last 50 years nearly all oil has been purchased in dollars. But Iran and China are starting to kill off this pillar of the US empire. www.jphilll.com/the-war-agai...

“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people on Capitol Hill are refusing to stop it.”

An in-depth report about Maven, the Pentagon's (huge) AI target identification system. 😬 www.wired.com/story/projec... "with the help of Maven’s computer vision the US went from being able to hit under a hundred targets a day to [...] a thousand. Now, [...] that number had risen fivefold to 5,000"

Is San Diego Setting Itself Up for Its Own Version of DOGE? - The Trump brand is tanking, and the polling for Republicans eyeing the midterms looks abysmal. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SanDiegoPolitics

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

The United States is finally, at last, at war with Iran. As long as there has been an Islamic Republic, the United States has fantasized about deposing it, and as long as there has been anything like an Iranian nuclear infrastructure, Israel has thought about bombing it

US used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude, along with Maven Smart, another AI system built by Palantir, to choose 100s of targets in the opening day of airstrikes against Iran Claude + Maven Smart were used to suggest "hundreds of targets, issue precise location coordinates, and prioritize" those targets

Newsom signed the law for mandatory age verification in Linux.

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

was having a late night look through the court records in a case I've been following and stumbled across this www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-d...

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

What an inspiring way to spend the morning in San Diego - in alliance with these lovely ~400 cyclists remembering #prettigood #noice

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back. It took 25 years but they have it now. This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

This sign is new this week inside the federal building in San Diego (same building where there's been dramatic video of ICE abducting Afghan interpreters and others after their immigration hearings).