Oakland Review of Books

Sunday Reading

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Sunday Reading
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This week at ORB, Julia Sizek went to see Jerry Brown talk about the UCs (see also), Aaron Bady has never called it Frisco, and Britt Young says Digger Good.

But of course, our main thing was that we published a giant voting guide for all the California propositions. 

Did you want 6k words on why you should vote yes on Prop 40? You didn’t know until now, but you did. And more to come! In the meantime, here’s the cheat sheet: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, Hell fuck yes, Hell fuck no, No, No, No, Yes.)

Elsewhere around town, read El Tímpano:

When is dad coming back?” In early July, Liseth said men who identified themselves as immigration agents knocked on the family’s door in the East Oakland neighborhood where they live. They told her they were searching for a person who no longer lived in the building, but when they checked the family’s IDs, the agents found her husband had re-entered the U.S. illegally more than two decades ago. 

Coyote stays on the Fuck Newsome beat, and also the The Civic Joy Fucks Are Here to Revitalize Your Face Off. Street Spirit on how to stay dry in the first rains of the season, Alexis chatted with Daniel Kramer about his Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California, and an interview with Black Panther Party archivist Billy X Jennings at SF Bayview. How Bay Area public transit was born: 1945-1957. Grist on the great California insurance question. 

Oaklandside’s coverage of the Sheng Thao trial is about as good as we’re going to get (and Azucena’s self-guided Black Panther tour of Oakland is worth taking). And speaking of Oaklandside, Oakland Report has been trying to mask the holy war they’re conducting by framing it as “bias analysis”—and inventing bylines?—but for the popcorn-munching media fans out there, it’s worth reading the comments Oaklandside has been leaving, since apparently Oakland Report will not publish their responses otherwise. It remains very depressing that The Daily Cal was so desperate for Professional Opportunities that they would send undergrads to do internships over there. 

Desiring Machines: “The problem in trying to assess the truth of any story involving A.I. people is that the A.I. industry is generating entirely new clades of dimwit at a furious pace.”