08 April 2026
Port of Oakland. Oakland, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 6 April, 2026
Japan Town. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 31 March, 2026
Heading west towards San Francisco. San Francisco Ferry. Photo: Robert Gumpert 5 April, 2026
Window. San Pedro, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 March, 2026
Cabrillo Beach. San Pedro, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 11 March, 2026
Insane Headlines
The Middle Class Is Selling Blood Plasma to Get By - NYT 5 April 2026
The Upper Middle Class is Now the Largest Income Group - CBS News 7 April 2026
Trump says military action helping people of Iran because ‘they want to hear bombs because they want to be free’ Guardian 6 April
Hegseth Likens Easter Rescue of U.S. Airman to Resurrection of Jesus Christ - NYT 6 April 2026
Trump warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight’ - NPR 7 April 2026
The Reads
FASHION AND PANDORA DOLLS: HOW STYLE TRAVELLED THE WORLD BEFORE PRINTING AND CAMERAS #69 - Jo Andrews - Haptic & Hue podcast
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned - Emanuel Maiberg - 404 Media
Caught My Eye: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things - Michael Shaw - Reading the Pictures
No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris - Sarah Lyall - NYT
K-pop has an AI problem - Taylor Glasby - DAZED
Carrie Mae Weems Gets to the Heart of the Matter - Sarah Meister - Aperture
A Kind of Paradise is overwriting hierarchical colonial visuals - Diane Smyth - 1854 Photography
The ‘victims’ left in Kristi Noem’s wake: ‘The damage is done. To me, to the Americans who have been murdered, to the migrants’ - Carla Gloria Colmé - El País