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Opening statements set to begin in Meta's federal trial over child safety
This story is relevant as Bookshop Santa Cruz has very close ties to the Chief Privacy Officer at Meta.
u/chaxnud — 2 days ago
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Sentinel's Most Popular shows 8 year old story
The KTLA news anchor story was published on December 28, 2018. Could it really be the fourth most read story in 2026?
u/chaxnud — 11 days ago
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Coonerty's brother-in-law is replacing humans with AI at Meta
Ryan Coonerty's brother-in-law Michel Protti is the Chief Privacy Officer of Meta, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg.
He is driving this initiative to replace humans with AI:
"Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy and compliance officer for product, disclosed the layoffs on Wednesday to members of the company’s risk organization..."
u/chaxnud — 28 days ago
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Video: One year after the 1989 earthquake, walking around Downtown Santa Cruz November 1990
youtube.comu/chaxnud — 1 month ago
Los Angeles follows Santa Cruz - Gets the Flock Out
Santa Cruz was the first city in California to kick out Flock license plate readers.
Now the LAPD becomes by far the biggest law enforcement office to quit Flock.
https://abc7.com/post/lapd-ending-agreement-surveillance-company-flock-safety/19483200/
u/Smooth-Stand4695 — 1 month ago
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Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
Like Peter Thiel, Ryan Coonerty is a member of the Aspen Institute.
I wonder if Coonerty attended Thiel's speech about the Pope working for Chinese Communists and if so, what his thoughts were.
u/chaxnud — 1 month ago
Santa Cruz City Council pauses charter amendment process
"Councilmember Susie O’Hara, who made the motion, said that while the amendments were important, they could wait. She added that this fall, the city could be seeing a contentious campaign season. O’Hara said she didn’t want the well-researched charter amendments to become mired in political fighting."
u/chaxnud — 2 months ago
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Ami Chen Mills: I reject flattened portrayal of Santa Cruz mayoral campaign
https://lookout.co/ami-chen-mills-i-reject-flattened-portrayal-of-santa-cruz-mayoral-campaign/story
"Yoga instructor Mark Stephens chose to weigh in on the Santa Cruz mayoral campaign without, it seems, having looked deeply into any candidates at all. Mr. Stephens had a lot to say with very little knowledge, and apparently no knowledge about anyone’s actual platform.
He seemed confused about who stands for what — while five different candidate websites have been published, a dozen-plus forums held, and numerous newspaper articles, podcasts and radio shows produced about this race."
u/chaxnud — 3 months ago
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Mayoral candidate refutes LTE about posted flyers
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2026/05/26/letters-to-the-editor-may-26-2026/
"“Let’s not engage in negative campaigning.” One of your recent letter writers, Brian Johnson (May 19), mentions “negative campaigning” by certain candidates, and refers to flyers posted around town on poles.
He then makes a wild leap toward indicting three candidates — all three of them? — for putting these flyers up. Frankly, I have no idea who is putting these flyers up and, as a favor to the city and Mr. Coonerty, I have posted on my social media that posting onto city poles is against campaign rules.
If Johnson is so concerned about spreading lies and misinformation, he might consider not spreading them himself. We have a city code of fair and ethical campaign practices and I have shared these with both with the general public, and with my team — who follow them, as true “progressives.”
— Ami Chen Mills, Santa Cruz (Ms. Chen Mills is a candidate for Santa Cruz mayor.)"
u/chaxnud — 3 months ago