Yosemite Radio Updates
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The Damaging Trillion-Dollar Battle to Hack Your Attention and Your Money
The Big Picture –By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If people knew how much value grabbing and holding their attention held for media outlets, social media platforms, corporate advertisers and politicians of all stripes, would it make a difference in how people spend their time and money? Maybe. Maybe not. But at least some people
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No Reservations Required for Yosemite Firefall
There will be no reservations required for Yosemite Firefall/Horsetail Fall in February, Yosemite National Park Superintendent Ray McPadden announced to a group of tourism officials on Thursday. “A bunch of boots on the ground is going to be our principal strategy,” McPadden said. What exactly that means is not entirely clear, according to the Mariposa
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Calling All Volunteers: Community Ride Share and Calendar of Events
Calling all volunteers in and around Coulterville, California. We are looking to establish a new and better community calendar of events and a ride share site for those who need rides to nearby towns for grocery shopping, doctors visits, etc. The Mariposa County Transit authority provides some help here. We also need a community outreach
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National Park Service will void passes with stickers over Trump’s face
The Interior Department’s new “America the Beautiful” annual pass for U.S. national parks. Department of Interior
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Unsealed: California’s Secret Police Misconduct and Use-of-Force Files
After four decades of secrecy, a 2019 change in California law opened up some internal investigations of police misconduct and serious uses of force. A coalition of news organizations formed to obtain this long-hidden information have published over 100 stories, uncovering abuses of power, false arrests and officers fired for misconduct only to be rehired by other agencies. The law, SB
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Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of Artificial Intelligence Culture
By Glynn Wilson –Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – We were somewhere around Sunnyvale headed north at high speed on Interstate 101 when the sun finally burned through the fog just in time to reveal the view of South Bay. The sativa gummy was kicking in as I ejected the cassette
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Google’s Waymo Taxis Mysteriously Die During Power Blackout
Multiple Intersections Blocked for Hours – Another Black Eye for Google – Tales From the MoJo Road By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Nothing says Silicon Valley like Google’s Waymo robotaxis, the newest, greatest form of transportation invented since the electric streetcar in 1892, the year my grandmother was born. It served as
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Yosemite National Park: Sometimes You Eat the Bear, Sometimes the Bear Eats You
Yosemite Falls from the valley floor: By Glynn Wilson “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” Tales From the MoJo Road By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, the written word can make all the difference. Yet sometimes, no matter how hard
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Yosemite Spotlight: Postmaster Cady Richardson
COULTERVILLE, Calif. — Postmaster Cady Richardson urges kids of all ages to make sure to write and mail their letters to Santa ASAP, as Christmas Day, Dec. 25, is only a week away. Richardson took the oath to become the Gold Rush town’s Post Master on March 15, 2018. She began her career with the
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want: The A.I. Bubble Will Burst
Tales From the MoJo Road –By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San Jose on
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A Question For the Bots: Can A.I. Be Designed and Trained to Be Used for Good?
Tales From the MoJo Road –By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So on the eve of my trip to San Francisco to meet some of the human bots whose technology controls so much of our lives now, I awoke at 5 a.m. with an existential question that has been hounding my thoughts of late for
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When Life Itself Seems Lunatic, Who Knows Where Madness Lies
Don Quixote by Pablo Picasso, 1955