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As the fall semester comes to a close, a graduating UC Berkeley student and tenet of Berkeley life will no longer update Scanner Berkeley, an emergency service tracking account known as @ScanBerkeley on X, formerly known as Twitter.

After months of litigation over the city of Berkeley’s efforts to clear the Eighth and Harrison streets encampment, city workers officially began the largest abatement effort at the camp in over a year.

The events leading up to a sit-in, a hunger strike and a years-long investigation. The story behind the #Justice4Ivonne campaign and their vocal demands to reinstate UC Berkeley colonial studies professor Ivonne del Valle.

In broadening baseball’s nickname as “America’s pastime,” the “U.K. Oakland A's,” a United Kingdom based Oakland A's supporters group, stands as a testament to the power of sports in bringing people together — both within and across borders.

The UC Board of Admission and Relations with Schools, or BOARS, voted Friday to undo a decision to allow data science to count instead of Algebra II for UC undergraduate admissions requirements.

Yet this very paradigm of critical mass that has been instilled in me and so many other techies by business news, professors, colleagues and even movies is being shattered. A titan of social media is splintering before our very eyes.

Win or lose, rain or shine, this group of Cal fans will, reliably, always be on Twitter to hype up any “hogs” and get fans excited about seasons to come.

Many platforms work to feed people the content that will yield the most engagement in order to keep people scrolling. But the speed and precision at which people are targeted has amplified polarization and outrage.

“Swarm” needs convicted characters and innovative direction to achieve the acclaim or cultural revelation Glover and Nabers show reaches for.

Speaking with McHayle, it's incredibly evident (despite her laissez-faire attitude towards men, naysayers and the industry) just how seriously she takes herself.