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We drove to San Francisco on a bus filled with people who believe we are all going to die. This is the AI Doom protest 🧵
The UC system released updated data on transfer application totals and major acceptance rates earlier this month.
The most selective major was nursing science at UC Irvine, which only accepted 8 of the 371 applicants at a 2.2% acceptance rate. After that came UC Berkeley’s computer science major, with 1,870 applicants and only 50 acceptances.
Check out the interactive visualization and see the latest transfer acceptance rates for all majors across the UC system at data.dailycal.org
Here's UCLA's chart. While engineering and computing programs dominate the upper left 'high GPA, low acceptance rate' quadrant, the absolute most selective programs at the school actually came from the arts.
UCLA's 3 most selective transfer majors:
1. Film & Television (17/632) 2.69%
2. Design Media Arts (15/360) 4.17%
3. Theater (12/263) 4.56%
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Jwood just scooped the terms of the C&H sugar contract from the strike over the summer. Great reporting
Workers at the C&H Sugar Refinery in Crockett, CA went on strike this summer after C&H proposed to slash overtime and healthcare.
The union fought for weeks, winning a contract—but losing the eight-hour workday. Read my report here:
stacksmagazine.org/articles/…
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As existential risk becomes an increasingly mainstream concern, I think it is important to understand the sort of people who are actually willing to go out and protest.
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Almost a month after we at the Daily Cal published our investigation into A.I. writing in Berkeley comms, the NYT picked up the story.
This comes after Dartmouth’s paper released their story and multiple college publications across the country reached out to ask how we did it.
AC Transit's recovery since the pandemic has been bumpy. Through a records request, the data team @dailycal mapped the system's recovery over time.
During UC Berkeley's return to in person instruction, ridership levels finally began to rise from historic lows in 2020.
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Read the story here: data.dailycal.org/2026-09-24…
Written by John Schultz (already doing damage in data dept)
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Individual donations to the Scott Weiner v. Connie Chan race are dominated by tech. Anthropic and OpenAI employees lead Weiner's donations, while interestingly LeetCode employees have donated the most to Chan's campaign
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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For more than two weeks, UC Berkeley AI researchers have been left in the dark as a massive and ongoing cybersecurity incident knocked all systems in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department offline.
While the administration said they informed law enforcement, officials have refused to call the incident a hack or cyberattack as they restore the network.
Even high-ranking EECS administrators who conduct advanced AI research have been stonewalled from getting answers, as some systems remain down.
“I asked, ‘Can you tell me?’, and (an IT staffer) said, ‘I’m sorry. I’m not at liberty to say,’” said the director of a UC Berkeley AI lab. “That’s the first time that anyone has ever said those words to me (at UC Berkeley) … That suggests that (the staffer) would get in trouble if they said something.”
Read our coverage at the link below: dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-…
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On Wednesday, ICE sent a letter to UC Berkeley threatening to go after officials who "improperly" authorize course credit work applications for international students.
The next day, the administration announced it was suspending applications for the program, known as CPT, for some students.
CPT is a work authorization program that allows international students to work and gain practical experience off campus, either as a requirement of their degree or in exchange for course credit.
Read our coverage here: dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-…
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SF Standard quoted my recent coverage for @dailycal about the District 7 race and People's Park.
My story provides an early sign that the race for the student-dominated District 7 could be heating up as the school year approaches.
Read it here: dailycal.org/news/city/city-…
Behind the shipping containers, a $312 million dorm is nearly done, while the building meant to house those it displaced has not broken ground.
📝: Riley Ramirez sfstandard.com/2026/08/06/pe…
Cambrian explosion has been achieved internally
Our Black Hat talk on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is now live on youtube.
This is a watershed moment for the industry. I encourage all defenders to watch, consider how attack dynamics will imminently change, and plan for accelerating defense.
youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0…
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