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  1. You're taking the day off - but take a moment to leave messages for your electeds to hear tomorrow! (thanks to 5calls.org/ )

    * (Federal and State) Make sure Trump can't intefere in our elections.
    * It's time to Impeach Trump.
    * Oppose Heidi Overton and Danielle Thumann
    * Reinstate the FDA safety protocols
    * Abolish ICE - and restrain their tactics while we do so.
    * (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein files

    Find your rep: house.gov/representatives/find

    Senators:
    Schiff: 202-224-3841
    Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)

    Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841

    #politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol

  2. Weekly output: Zipline drones, fixed wireless broadband, AI transformations, Dashlane, AI fairness, FCC resignations, AI resiliency, National Capital Radio & Television MuseumM

    My third week in a row of business travel had me in Santa Clara, Calif., from Tuesday through Friday–at a venue I’d last set foot in at the Demo conference in 2013.

    6/3/2025: Inside Zipline’s high-tech drone factory where delivery innovation takes flight, Fast Company

    My decision to book an early-afternon flight from SFO to National at the end of my Google I/O trip last month paid off when I used that time to visit the drone-delivery startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco. I followed up that visit by quizzing an executive from the firm a week later.

    6/3/2025: Fiber Is Fast, But 5G Home Internet Is More Appealing for One Reason, PCMag

    I didn’t want to write up this J.D. Power customer-satisfaction survey without getting some answers about the weirdly-high scores for old, slow digital-subscriber-line services.

    6/4/2025: Transforming Industries with AI & Big Data—Success Stories from the Frontlines, TechEx North America

    The first of three panels I did at this conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center (with the organizers covering my lodging and reimbursing my airfare) reunited me with a fellow panelist from 2021: Lufthansa Industry Solutions’ Stanislaw Schmal, who was on a panel I did at my first post-pandemic conference trip in September of 2021. It was a treat to have Stan on stage again, and he and my other panelists–Oracle’s Shasank Chavan, Ford Credit’s Manav Khatri, Airbnb’s Dror Engel, and Deepgram’s Kris Efland–made my panel-moderation work easy.

    6/5/2025: This Password Manager Now Lets You Create an Account Without a Password, PCMag

    Dashlane gave me an embargoed copy of their announcement of their new option to let people create accounts secured only by USB security keys, but that left me a little fuzzy about how exactly this would differ from that password-manager service’s existing support for passwordless authentication–and my editor was fine with holding the post until I could get those details cleared up.

    6/5/2025: AI Fairness and Bias Mitigation—Advanced Approaches, TechEx North America

    My second panel had me quizzing JPMorgan Chase’s Naresh Dulam, Aon’s Aras “Russ” Memisyazici, and PwC’s Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld about how to avoid having AI systems amplify human biases.

    6/5/2025: Who’s Running the FCC? Surprise Resignation Reduces the Agency to a Duo, PCMag

    I’ve been writing about the Federal Communications Commission for well over two decades, probably closer to three, and I can’t remember a commissioner announcing a resignation on a Wednesday effective on Friday of the same week. Also unprecedented: having this five-member commission reduced to two people.

    6/5/2025: Building Resilient AI Infrastructure, TechEx North America

    My last panel at TechEx was a late addition when another moderator dropped out; when an event paying your travel asks for you to pitch in, it’s a good idea to be a team player. My teammates on this panel: Ford Motor Company’s Robert Gray, Oracle’s Iman Zadeh, Red Hat’s Mark Kurtz and InfoVia’s Mike Magalsky.

    6/6/2025: Spotify Takes Flight on United Airlines: Here’s What You Get, PCMag

    When I got to try this on my flight from San Jose to Houston Friday, I realized that United’s implementation of Spotify did not include the ability to listen to the airline’s longtime theme song, “Rhapsody in Blue”–which made the lede I’d written incorrect. Instead of just rewriting that, I opted to take notes on the experience over that three-plus hour flight and rewrite the entire post.

    6/7/2025: This Little Museum Outside DC Offers a Deep Dive Into Retro Radio and TV Tech, PCMag

    My friend and longtime CES fellow traveler Gary Arlen suggested that I visit the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., where he’s a docent, and I took him up on that advice in February. Then I didn’t write the post until March, after which my client needed a little longer to get the story edited and published.

    #AI #artificialIntelligence #conference #Dashlane #droneDelivery #DSL #FCC #FIDO2 #fixedWireless #JDPower #NationalCapitalRadioTelevisionMuseum #passwordManager #SantaClara #Spotify #techHistory #TechExNorthAmerica #UA #UnitedAirlines #vacuumTubes #vintage #Zipline

  3. FROST ADVISORY,
    FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM FRIDAY (3/7)

    Temp as low as 32 F will result in frost.
    Temps in the higher elevations may drop down to as low as 28 F.

    WHERE: Interior #Monterey County & #SantaLucia Range, #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in southeast Monterey
    County, North SF Bay Interior Valleys, Eastern #SantaClara Hills, East Bay Hills & southern #Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San Antonio. #California

    MPACTS: Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered. Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

    #FrostAdvisory #SFBay #CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #NorCalWX

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  4. FROST ADVISORY,
    FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM SATURDAY (2/15)

    Temps as low as 32 F will result in frost formation.

    WHERE: Interior #Monterey County & #SantaLucia Range, #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in Southeast Monterey
    County, North SF Bay Interior Valleys, Eastern #SantaClara Hills & Southern #Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco & Lake San Antonio. #SFBay #California

    IMPACTS: Cold will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

    #CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #NorCalWx #Frost #FrostAdvisory

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  5. FROST ADVISORY, FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM SATURDAY (1/25)

    FREEZE WATCH, FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THRU TUES
    MORN (1/28)

    WHAT: For the Frost Advisory, temps as low as 31 F results in frost formation. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temps as low as 29 F possible.

    WHERE: East Bay Hills & Valleys, Most of #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in Southeast #Monterey County, North SF Bay Interior Valleys, Eastern #SantaClara Hills & Southern #Salinas
    Valley, #ArroyoSeco & Lake #SanAntonio. #California

    IMPACTS: Frost & freeze conditions could kill crops & sensitive vegetation & damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations, e.g. unhoused individuals. Cold can lead to hypothermia w prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: Take steps now to protect tender plants. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.

    #CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #SFBay #NorCalWx #Freeze #FreezeWatch #FrostAdvisory

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  6. FROST ADVISORY,
    FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM PST TUESDAY (1/21)

    Temp as low as 33 F will result in frost.

    WHERE: #SantaClara Valley & Eastern Hills, Interior #Monterey County & #SantaLucia Range, Most of #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in Southeast #Monterey County, North
    SF Bay Interior Valleys, East SF Bay Interior Valleys & Northern
    #Salinas Valley, #Hollister Valley & Carmel Valley. #California

    IMPACTS: Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold Conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Temps in the vicinity of Fort Hunter Liggett and in portions of far southeastern Monterey County will experience locally colder temperatures as low as 29 degrees.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

    Be sure to cover or tend to sensitive plants and vegetation as they
    may be damaged by frost.

    #FrostAdvisory #CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #NorCalWx

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  7. FREEZE WARNING,
    FROM 8 PM THIS EVE (12/30) TO 10 AM TUES (12/31)

    Temps as low as 29 F

    WHERE: Interior #Monterey County & #SantaLucia Range, #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in SE Monterey County, North #SFBay Interior Mtns, Nor Bay Interior Valleys, Eastern #SantaClara Hills & Southern #Salinas Valley, #ArroyoSeco & Lake San Antonio #California

    IMPACTS: Frost & freeze could kill crops, sensitive vegetation & possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Cold is hazardous to sensitive populations, e.g. unhoused individuals. Cold can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS:
    *Take steps now.
    *Prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to
    drip slowly.
    *Turn off sprinklers to avoid creating ice patches on driveways & sidewalks.
    *Cover or tend to sensitive plants.
    *Open sink cabinet doors and/or drip faucets to reduce or prevent damage to uninsulated pipes.

    #CAwx #NorCalWx #CaliforniaWeather #Freeze #FreezeWarning

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  8. FROST ADVISORY
    FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (12/9) TO 9 AM TUESDAY

    Temps as low as 32 will result in frost.

    WHERE: #SantaClara Valley & Eastern Hills, East Bay Hills & Valleys, #SanBenito County & the #Cholame Hills in Southeast #Monterey County & North Bay Interior Valleys. #SanFrancisco Bay Area #California

    IMPACTS: Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold Conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS:
    *Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
    *Be sure to cover or tend to sensitive plants and vegetation as they
    may be damaged by frost.

    #NorCalWx #CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #SFBay #Frost #FrostAdvisory

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  9. FROST ADVISORY,
    FROM 10 PM WED (11/27) TO 9 AM THURSDAY (11/28)

    Temps as low as 32 F will result in frost formation.

    WHERE: East San Francisco Bay Hills & Valleys, #Salinas & #Carmel Valleys & #Hollister Area, most of #SanBenito County & #Cholame Hills in Southeast #Monterey County, North SF Bay Interior
    Mountains, North SF Bay Interior Valleys & Eastern #SantaClara Hills. #California

    IMPACTS: Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold Conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.

    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS:
    *Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
    *Turn off sprinklers ahead of sub-freezing temperatures to avoid creating ice patches on driveways and sidewalks.
    *Cover or tend to sensitive plants and vegetation as they may be damaged by frost.

    #SFBay #CaliforniaWeather #CAwx #NorCalWx #Frost #FrostAdvisory

    forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx

  10. I know these clauses are not enforceable and illegal but the fact they're still there is horrible. All you have to do is open your eyes and there's #racism everywhere in the #US. I'm so sick of it being ignored or dismissed or people pretending like it isn't something that still happens.

    "#Stanford researchers map ‘#WhiteOnly’ properties in #SantaClara Co. using #AI"

    kron4.com/news/bay-area/stanfo

  11. City of Morgan Hill: "The County of Santa Clara has issued an evacuation warning for homes in the watershed of the Uvas Reservoir overflow along Uvas Creek. Uvas Creek runs along the southern end of Uvas Road from Uvas Reservoir to & along Watsonville Road. If you live in this area, take action." #CAwx #MorganHill #SantaClara #SantaClaraCounty #EvacuationWarning #Evacuation