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Wellness foods often get seen through a Western lens. These Bay Area Asian Americans are trying to reclaim them
Cathy Erway
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Chang feeds his chickens in the backyard of his home in Occidental, Calif.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Erin Wilkins organizes herbs inside of her shop Herb Folk in Petaluma, Calif.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Herb Folk sells jars of broth herbs, which are also used in the virtual workshop.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Growing up, Adrian Chang spent a lot of time in his grandfather’s Chinese apothecary in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The small shop on Washington and Waverly streets, Superior Trading, closed two years ago, but Chang recalls the floor-to-ceiling drawers holding dried cicadas, twigs, berries, tangerine peels and even seahorses.
Twitter to Users: ‘You Have Things in Common’
People replying to someone they don’t follow or engage with may see a prompt as part of a test
The test is Android-only, for now
Twitter December 17, 2020
Will you respond differently to someone you don’t know on Twitter if you and that person have something in common? The social network is running a test to find out.
Twitter is Testing ‘Humanization Prompts’ in Hopes That We Won’t Be Such Trolls to One Another
Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
We will acknowledge that Twitter has generally been far better than Facebook in making earnest attempts to make its platform less toxic. They have given Trump consequences for posts intended to undermine democracy and see as many Americans killed as possible, and have made efforts to combat harassment and abuse on the site. Yet the tenor on Twitters is still often terrible, and so Mashable reports on the latest strategy, which is to test “humanization prompts” that show you common interests you have with someone before you tweet something horrible at them.
Our national security is extraordinarily vulnerable, Romney said on SiriusXM s The Big Picture with Olivier Knox. In this setting, not to have the White House aggressively speaking out and protesting and taking punitive action is really, really quite extraordinary.
Hackers believed to be part of a nation state have had access to federal networks since March after exploiting a vulnerability in updates to IT group SolarWinds’s Orion software. The hack has compromised the Treasury, State and Homeland Security departments and branches of the Pentagon, though it is expected to get worse. SolarWinds counts many more federal agencies as customers, along with the majority of U.S. Fortune 500 companies.
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