As blog readers will know, we keep track of the video doings of Gov. Newsom on a quarterly basis, along with other items that seemed relevant during those time periods. The fourth quarter of 2025 is now available at:
https://archive.org/details/united-we-can-yes-on-50-united-we-can-10-3-2025
It includes the beginnings of the race to become the next governor in the forthcoming 2026 primary and general elections, the campaign for Prop 50 (which gerrymandered the congressional districts in response to other states' gerrymanders), the governor's apparent campaign for president in 2028, and a comment on the UC/UCLA conflict with the feds.
Gov. Newsom, when we started tracking such matters during the pandemic, was given to long and detailed statements with lots of facts and figures he had memorized. As the end of his governorship and the prospect of the presidential race approached, he moved toward shorter statements and soundbites.
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PS: Yours truly tried to get various AI programs to show a slice of pie that was one fourth of the entire pie but was unsuccessful. The programs could easily draw pie slices but could not "grasp" the one fourth part, even when told to make it 90 degrees out of 360 degrees of the circle. I finally got one program to draw a complete pie divided into fourths. But note that the details of the image are really of four slices from similar but different pies stuck together, i.e., the pieces don't quite match at the cuts. That observations should remind us that one concern going into 2026 is that the state budget (and thus the UC budget) is heavily dependent on capital gains from the stock market and the stock market in turn seems vulnerable to an AI bubble bursting. For a skeptical view on current AI hype, consider Harry Shearer's interview with Gary Marcus:
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