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The CHIPS and Science Act includes a provision stating that any company asking for >$150M in government funding must submit plans for how it will provide affordable and quality childcare for employees. Wouldn’t it be nice if this applied beyond just the largest chip companies?

Did U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission choose this timeframe based on Target’s 4-day timeframe in 2013? cnbc.com/2014/01/12/tar…

What’s the FAA regulation compensating a passenger for a delay because the charter flight before your flight wrecked the plane so much they need a lot of additional time to clean it…? Asking for a friend. United Airlines

Rule #1 of dirty machine politics is you don’t talk about dirty machine politics Rule #2: if you must talk about it, don’t let yourself get RECORDED. Someone working for the Tammy campaign screwed up big time, and got recorded threatening the College Dems not to endorse Andy.

BIG NEWS. Microsoft Microsoft Azure is the first cloud to offer new VM series powered by AMD's MI300X AI Accelerator: msft.it/6019YwyRz

The abandoned car wash on Divisadero is such an eyesore and it could’ve been nice housing by now if it weren’t for Dean Preston. Good explainer by Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂 on the subtle ways NIMBYs make SF less affordable for families who want to put down roots here. Will be voting for him!

My guide on who NOT to vote for has arrived, courtesy of SF League of Pissed Off Voters. Much obliged! Interesting that most of those recommended paid for and authorized to be included according to the fine print inside. Is that normal? Haven’t noticed before!

Really really hoping the US college industrial complex collapses by the time my kids are deciding whether to go

New rule: Companies must standardize on dates for open enrollment. When you and your partner have zero overlap and information is not provided ahead of time, you can’t make an informed decision about healthcare coverage at all. It’s already opaque enough…

The mark of the authoritarian: - Undermine the trust of the public in the sources of reliable information: the media, professional journalists, Wikipedia, universities, scientists, and government agencies. - Accuse those sources of being corrupt, woke, Marxist, fascist, beholden

The median home price in California is 9x the median household income. A healthy ratio ranges between 3 and 5. (The ratio in Texas is 4.5.) It's cold confort to say "all are welcome here" and then uphold housing policies that exclude all but the wealthiest.

I wish Senator-elect Kim all the best in what is sure to be a surly environment in "the world's greatest deliberative body." If anyone can handle it though, it's him.

BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class

Nvidia government relations kicking it up a notch. I wonder why 🤔

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating

my New Year's resolution is to stress out less unfortunately, y'alls resolution is to pet a bobcat so I will not be meeting my goal

Observations From The Munich Security Conference -  It took a World War and eight decades to build the strongest alliance that this world had ever seen. It took less than a year to practically destroy it. When Secretary Rubio said the “old world order was dead” during his speech

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain