aka multi-user to-do list: Bug Tracker, Bug Tracking, Defect Tracker, Defect Tracking, Feature Request Tracking, Commitment tracker, Task Manager/Task List, etc. (more)

Outliner, issue-tracker https://checkvist.com/ (more)

Real Estate Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson (Author), Robert S. Griswold (Author) (more)

Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth? Schmidt and Frank write that a “species as short-lived as Homo sapiens (so far) might not be represented in the existing fossil record at all.” Today, less than 1 percent of the Earth’s surface is urbanized, a tiny proportion that hardly stands a chance of being re-exposed millions of years in the future (more)

Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth before Ours? One of the creepier conclusions drawn by scientists studying the Anthropocene—the proposed epoch of Earth’s geologic history in which humankind’s activities dominate the globe—is how closely today’s industrially induced climate change resembles conditions seen in past periods of rapid temperature rise. (more)

What CollaborationWare have I used? (more)

C-WIN: The secret meeting that privatized public water supplies. Water policy is convoluted, difficult to parse, and usually proceeds incrementally. But sometimes things happen that dramatically alter the legal and regulatory landscapes. It can be a court ruling, such as the 1983 National Audubon v Superior Court decision, which established limits on the amount of water the City of Los Angeles can take from Mono Lake. Or it can be legislation such as the 1992 Central Valley Improvement Act, which mandated changes in the federal Central Valley Project for the protection and revitalization of fisheries and wildlife habitat. (more)

'Water czar' directed state agency for a record 15 years. David N. Kennedy, who faced the challenges of a five-year drought and three major floods during his record 15 years as director of the California Department of Water Resources in the 1980s and ‘90s, has died. He was 71. (more)

particularly-evil bottled water brand

How This Billionaire Couple Stole California's Water Supply. (more)

*The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968. Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, it was made public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress".[3]. (more)

aka Monterey Plus Agreement, Monterey Amendments - secret 1994 deal for southern-california water. (more)

Erik Hoel: Proving (literally) that ChatGPT (LLM) isn't conscious. (more)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, with supporting performances from John Huston, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, and Diane Ladd. The film's narrative, set in 1930s Los Angeles, is loosely inspired by the California water wars—early 20th-century conflicts over water rights that enabled Los Angeles to access resources from the Owens Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film) (more)

Conflict over water rights in California between 1902 and 2006... The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars (more)

armed conflict over access to Clean Water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_war (more)

The Kern Water Bank is a public-private partnership which oversees a 32-square-mile water recharge basin in California. It sources water from the Kern River, the State Water Project, and the Central Valley Project. It stores underground up to 1.5 million acre feet of water (500 billion gallons). 57% of the bank is controlled by Stewart Resnick and Lynda Resnick, the owners of Pom Wonderful and Halos oranges. In 2021, their stake was estimated to be worth over $1 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_Water_Bank

Stewart Allen Resnick (born December 24, 1936) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the president and chairman of The Wonderful Company, a privately held company he owns with his wife Lynda Resnick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Resnick (more)

Amid Drought, Billionaires Control A Critical California Water Bank. Water prices are soaring in California’s Central Valley, where a quarter of the nation’s food is grown. As the West Coast’s megadrought worsens, one farming company has long been scrutinized for its outsize role in the arid region’s water supply. (more)

The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977,[1] the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the party, as well as by more moderate factions within the Labour movement to refer to the activities of more militantly left-wing politicians that they believed moderate voters would perceive as extreme or unreasonable... The 1980s UK press campaign against the "Loony Left" was echoed in the 1990s in the United States where sections of the press campaigned against political correctness (Politically Correct), using much the same rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left I'll probably use this page to list things that I think qualify. Though I still think I'm a liberaltarian. (more)