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What $2 Million Buys You in California

What $2 Million Buys You in California

Popular restaurants on Shattuck Avenue, including Chez Panisse, are about 10 minutes away, as is the University of California, Berkeley. Oakland is about a 25-minute drive; San Francisco is about 35 minutes away. Size: 3,292 square feet Price per square foot: $592 Indoors: The main house is hidden from the street, with a stone footpath leading from the driveway to a courtyard framed by the…

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The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins

A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon...

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How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group

How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group

At an off-campus space at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1962, a tall, thin Jamaican Ph.D. student addressed a small crowd, drawing parallels between his native country and the United States.

He told the group, a roomful of Black students, that he had grown up observing British colonial power in Jamaica, the way a small number of whites had cultivated a “native Black…

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The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins

A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon.

“Tompkins was an inventive colorist whose generous use of black added to the gravity of her efforts. She worked in several styles and all kinds of fabrics, using velvets — printed, panne, crushed — to gorgeous effect, in ways that rivaled oil paint. But she was also adept with denim, faux furs, distressed T-shirts and fabrics printed with the faces of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Magic Johnson.”

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The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins

A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon.

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The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins

A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon.

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Burrito Delivered by Bot, as Long as Students Don’t Trap It

As an industry begins to sprout, Kiwi Campus and Nuro, two start-ups, are dreaming up new ways to deliver groceries and lunch.

Daily creepy - AI and robots are made of people edition. Kiwi, a Berkeley startup does food deliver by "robot" to students at UC Berkeley. “There’s nowhere in the world that robots are a more integral part of its sidewalks than Berkeley,” they say. Great, robots! Except, "The path followed by each robot at first was guided entirely by remote control by Kiwi employees 3,800 miles away in Medellín, Colombia." - now that the people from Columbia trained the software, "So-called pilots, still in Colombia, where the founders are from, now set and adjust a series of way points along a path." In other words, students at UC Berkeley have people from Columbia delivering food to them via a bit of tech. The robots are coming - or rather, cheap workforce from elsewhere + a bit of tech can masquerade as a sci fi future in rich countries and students can "trap" and "obstruct" these "toys" with impunity because people will continue doing people things.

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No More Manholes in Berkeley as City Writes Gender Out of Codes

Berkeley’s City Council this week voted to purge gender pronouns from its municipal code. He or she will be banished in favor of they, even if referring to one person.