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Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
7+ hour, 58+ min ago (818+ words) Microsoft on Monday debuted draft principles for governing how the company will train future AI models, as part of a public consultation process. The Windows biz has solicited feedback to refine its Humanist AI Code of Conduct [PDF], with the…...
Developers planned a city of 30,000 people in the hills directly across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, with 50 apartment towers, hundreds of homes, a shopping mall and a luxury hotel — the project collapsed in court, and its planned main boulevard is now a hiking trail through the Marin Headlands
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (525+ words) A visionary developer's plan to build a gleaming metropolis across from San Francisco seemed unstoppable—until grassroots activists turned it into a ghost town that never was....
Covalence for September: Does AI have a greater potential to help or harm? - Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (206+ words) by Susan Barreto | Sep 13, 2026 | Covalence Monthly The societal impact of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, creating an urgent need for broad, thoughtful discussion. That is one of the central messages emerging from a new ELCA paper and the wider conversation…...
Does AI have a greater potential to help or harm? - Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (206+ words) by Susan Barreto | Sep 13, 2026 | Covalence Monthly The societal impact of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, creating an urgent need for broad, thoughtful discussion. That is one of the central messages emerging from a new ELCA paper and the wider conversation…...
Los Altos staff breaks down impacts of Measure D
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (563+ words) Los Altos Mayor Sally Meadows had a full agenda at the Sept.8 City Council meeting, including a staff report on the impacts to the city should the citizens’ initiative Measure D pass in November. City staff at the Sept. 8 Los…...
What Time Of Day Do Pedestrian Road Accidents Typically Occur?
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1494+ words) Most pedestrian accidents occur in the evening and at night. The Traffic Safety Facts 2023 from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reveals that most accidents involving injured pedestrians (49.7%) occur between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. Meanwhile, pedestrian fatalities were most concentrated (43.7%) between 6 p.m. and…...
Endorsement: No on Proposition 40’s reckless wealth tax
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (350+ words) Taxation is theft, libertarian thinkers have long asserted, and Proposition 40 on the November ballot contains nothing that proves them wrong. The measure known as the Billionaire Tax Act would amend the state constitution to override existing limits on taxing and…...
Richard Dobransky: The pieces of downtown St. Paul need to reinforce one another
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (468+ words) That memory has stayed with me because it shows the energy downtown can have when everything comes together. We saw that again this summer during the Minnesota Yacht Club festival, when hotels and restaurants were busy, and the city was…...
The Church should speed up, as much as AI should slow down
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (34+ words) It’s time to confront the Church’s sense of entitlement There’s plenty that’s not good about AI. I have certainly written about that …...
Santa Ana Measure X
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (1693+ words) Background: Voters in 2018 approved a 1.5% sales tax increase — dubbed Measure X. The tax is set to decrease to 1% in 2029 before going away by 2039. The city is asking voters to make the tax permanent to avoid deeper cuts to city services…...