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Fire-Breathing Dragon Attacks Waymo Igniting a Waymo vehicle with fireworks was not part of San Francisco’s planned Lunar New Year events in Chinatown kicking off the Year of the Dragon. But that’s what happened when a rowdy and rebellious crowd surrounded the autonomous vehicle on Jackson Street at 9 p.m. Saturday. The crowd first began attacking the Waymo car by breaking out the windows and spraying graffiti on it. Then someone threw fireworks inside and ignited the explosives before the high-tech car went up in flames, according to witnesses and videos posted on social media. Waymo’s driverless car was so torched it looked like the victim of a fire-breathing dragon. —KRON news report, February 12, 2024 -------------------- International Art English Language also helps to keep outsiders away. Bosker quotes a widely discussed paper on the birth of “International Art English,” a blatantly exclusionary dialect, “not necessarily for communicating,” that instead serves to build tribal identity among art elites. It grew, the argument goes, out of dubious translations of French theory in American magazines in the 1980s and still shapes art-industry-speak, where the francophone suffix -ité is often applied awkwardly to made-up English words. Bosker quotes a news release describing artworks that allegedly “summon forces of indexicality and iconicity from the aspirations, alibis and abuses of sovereignty.” “Art devotees spoke like they were trapped in dictionaries and being forced to chew their way out,” Bosker writes. When she told a curator that a performance art piece was “boring,” the curator disagreed: It wasn’t boring, it was “durational.” —Washington Post review of Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See, by Bianca Bosker -------------------- Rocks Were in a Road Highlights from “Sheriff’s Calls” column, Point Reyes Light INVERNESS: At 7:36 a.m. an alarm was sounding and a security camera caught the image of a man in a puffer jacket circling a living room with his hands held waist high and then walking out through a glass door. LAGUNITAS: At 11:41 a.m. a woman heard shots unlike any she’d heard before. POINT REYES STATION: At 8:28 a.m. a man wanted to talk about interactions at work. FOREST KNOLLS: At 12:13 p.m. a woman wanted to know why deputies had come to her house. NICASIO: At 2:14 p.m. rocks were in a road. BOLINAS: At 3:18 a.m. a man said his ex-girlfriend was naked, breaking things and refusing to leave. TOMALES: At 7:21 a.m. an injured cow was lying on a roadside. WOODACRE: At 4:33 p.m. a man said a woman was racketeering, making criminal threats against him and committing domestic violence. MARSHALL: At 2:35 p.m. a kite surfer was struggling to get back onto his board. BOLINAS: At 4:41 p.m. a man driving a rental car was lost on Mesa Road.