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12 May 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Thursday Morning Roundup: SF State Hunger Strike Concludes

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  • Caleb went on an unsuccessful quest for the Goopiest gold dildo. [SFist]
  • A hunger strike at San Francisco State University has ended after students and faculty reached a deal with university officials that included additional funding for the College of Ethnic Studies. [Bay City News] [Golden Gate Xpress] [SF Chronicle] [SF Examiner]
  • Ed Lee has named Jeff Kositsky as the new director of the city's Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing, which will launch July 1. [SF Business Times]
  • The Sheriff's deputies charged with felonies for a Mission beating turned themselves in and posted $140K bail. [KRON 4]
  • [Google] announces Gboard, "a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard."
  • [Wired] has some suggestions for how to make iPhones "fun again."
  • Speaking of that movement, expect tonight's Police Commission meeting to be a doozy! [IndyBay]
  • Google's working on an Amazon Echo competitor called "Chirp." [Recode]
  • Supe candidate hasn't lived in his neighborhood for very long, but says that SF's districts "are a political creation." [Ingleside Light]
  • Recent college graduates can expect to devote 79% of their income to rent in SF, which is why I'm so glad I dropped out. [Curbed SF]
  • Theranos President Sunny Balwani, already threatened with a two-year ban from the blood-testing business, is leaving his job. [SF Business Times]
  • "Startup funding is drying up. Startups are shutting down, one after the other. And larger companies, such as Twitter, or Yahoo and GoPro a little further afield, are laying off people." [The Registry]
  • Instagram's new icon "looks like the Airbnb logo un-pretzeled and with a mole." [Awl]
  • Religious organizations in San Francisco and Oakland continue to organize small but persistent actions to express their support for police reform and dismay at police shootings. [Mission Local]
  • Electing judges is a weird and challenging thing. [SF Weekly]
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