Rachael (Authenticated in My Mind) Myrow
@rachaelmyrow
@KQEDNews | @NPRNews | Experts: "Formidable Provenance"+"The Queen of Succinct" | #QuietQuitting X, but you can still reach me here.
🧵1. In a world where we don't, as a rule, give a damn about other people's #mentalhealth problems, the experience of wanting to respond with integrity to the needs of our own family members is a private grief.
🎉🥳🎊 #sothishappened First Place in the Public Media Journalists Association's 2025 annual awards for its Continuing Coverage category. The work? You know the story. “How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Everything.” via @KQEDnews


It’s still too painful for me to listen to the sound of his voice. The white-hot grief I felt in 1999 rushing up. But when I turn on that Telefunken Opus 7, I can feel my dad 😉 at me from across an unbreachable expanse of space and time. kqed.org/news/12047317/… via @KQEDnews
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Here's everyone Meta hired for their Superintelligence team. Say hello to the new residents of Atherton with their $10M+/yr comp packages, everyone!
“Who are in the middle?” said @panteakarimiart an artist living in San Jose. “Governments are not in the middle. People [are]. They are squeezed,” to their cores, she said, shattering innocent lives. “It’s just so, so, so devastating.” kqed.org/news/12044919/… via @KQEDnews
Are you sure you’re eating the most delicious peaches you could be eating? kqed.org/news/11676561/… via @KQEDnews @AndysOrchard
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kqed.org/news/12042477/… Is it a good idea for banks to request voice samples from customers? Click on the link to find out. Thank you, @rachaelmyrow and @KQED, for speaking with @jeverettlee and the @IDTheftCenter for your story.
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I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.
Parts of Verdun are within the "Zone Rouge" (Red Zone), areas deemed too dangerous for human activity due to unexploded ordnance and pollution. Nine villages near Verdun were completely destroyed during the battle and were never rebuilt. They are known as "villages that died for…
A picture of Verdun, France, still showing an insane amount of damage from WWI
Tensions between DC and #cybersecurity lions have been running high lately, in large part because of staffing cuts at #CISA. But at @Stanford, a surprisingly collegial House Homeland Security Field Hearing revealed broad agreement. kqed.org/news/12041830/… via @KQEDnews
This slow rolling moral crisis continues to smolder. Who smells the smoke? Who will fight the fire? kqed.org/news/12041698/… via @KQEDnews @AfghanEvac @JFCSEastBay
Lyrical? Elegant? Thanks, Nick Roman! 😍Also, after you hit the subscribe button 🔄 to his new #podcast listen to the pitch about local public radio 📻 stations in dire need, and subscribe 💸 to one of yours! ⭐️ 🙌🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/0fZkO7…
“Defunding public media, of course, doesn't just hurt the left because public media doesn't just serve the left.” vanityfair.com/news/story/tru… via @VanityFair