Preparing once again to evacuate in case the #RICESFire keeps getting worse and comes in my direction. I'm probably OK where I am in Grass Valley but it's close enough to need to be ready to go. yubanet.com/regional-fires… #

I'm grateful for California's air support for controlling fires. #

People think of astroturfing as basements full of low paid people posting commercial garbage. But apex astroturfing is professional lobbying groups paying high-achieving interns to deceptively promote corporate client interests as independent opinion. #

They pay people to express pre-packaged opinions, as they state openly here. And when they don’t disclose their affiliation in their pro-corporate posts, it’s impossible to tell of their words are independently expressed opinion or are part of a paid astroturfing campaign. #

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