Local:
- After that three-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself in Antioch in April, his grandfather who’d been charged with two felonies pleaded not guilty. The 51-year-old grandfather Jamal Edwards is charged with felony counts of child endangerment and criminal storage of a firearm. [NBC Bay Area]
- A new, 68-bed transitional housing facility for people in recovery is close to being approved to open in the former Marina Inn. The potential facility is at Octavia and Lombard streets, and would be administered by the Salvation Army and the SF Department of Public Health. [KPIX]
- In a headline that sounds like a dystopian science fiction plot, Facebook/Meta is buying a bunch of nuclear power just to run its energy-hogging (and still unproven) AI technologies. The combined forces of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp signed on to a 20-year contract to acquire nuclear power from a Baltimore-based company called Constellation Energy. [Bay Area News Group]
National:
- 27 Palestinians were killed Tuesday morning in Gaza when Israeli forces opened fire on a food distribution site, the second such incident in the last two days. [NY Times]
- After Trump’s FEMA head David Richardson said on Monday that he didn’t even know the US had a hurricane season, his spokespeople now claim he said that as a joke, which is perhaps like the worst possible excuse one could make in that situation. [Reuters]
- In a situation that parallels the new HBO movie Mountainhead, Time magazine found that Google’s latest AI tool really excels at creating fake videos of riots or election fraud. [Time]
Video:
- E-40 just released his new NPR Tiny Desk concert to enormous acclaim, and the 11-track, 27-minute performance with an eight-piece band reminds you just how musically inventive, funny, and genuine the man still is. You’ll get big hits like “Snap Yo Fingers,” "U and Dat," "Tell Me When to Go," plus more recent works. And sorry autotune haters, but there is some amazing autotune in this performance. Oh plus fair warning there is a smattering of obscene and occasionally sexist language in this performance.
Image: NPR Music via Youtube
