Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about the never-seen-before early Imagineering maps for Disneyland. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

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As construction teams rip up the carpet in Kennedy Library, one Cal Poly alum saw an opportunity to save it from the landfill. He partnered with Cal Poly students to upgrade his marketplace website to get the materials up and distribute them as a shared resource. The hope is to give them out elsewhere in SLO, with this example being a pillar of “community-based approach to conservation,” one student said. “We needed a system to repurpose valuable resources, not discard them,” the alum said.

Kelly Wollschlager / KSBY

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The Monterey Artichoke Festival is canceled — forever. Ongoing financial strain cause the event’s board to make the call and cut off the 65-year tradition with deep roots in the thistle’s local production. All artichokes sold commercially from the U.S. are grown in California, most of those are in Monterey County. The area’s artichoke roots go further back than the festival’s beginnings in 1959, including naming a young Marilyn Monroe the Artichoke Queen in 1948. The decision was not easy for the board, but the financial realities became “insurmountable.”

Katie Dowd / SFGate

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As Elon Musk cements himself in the federal government, people have protested by using graffiti and other vandalism of Teslas, to blowing them up with Molotov cocktails. But, by state law, is it “nothing short of domestic terrorism” like the attorney general claims? Turns out, California is one of the states that doesn’t have an explicit domestic terrorism law, but vandalism only counts as a criminal threat if it is intended to cause fear. But don’t go and take it out on your neighbor’s Cybertruck because vandalism itself is still a crime. 

Kendrick Marshall / The Tribune

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving cities a framework to ban homeless encampments and encouraging local authorities to clear them out. But here aren’t enough beds to accommodate everyone. San Francisco’s homeless population is roughly double the number of beds offered and Oakland’s beds cover just over a third of its unhoused residents. And with an influx of state funding, Newsom is not taking any excuses. “It’s time to take back the sidewalks,” he said.

Maggie Angst / San Francisco Chronicle

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After recording video of his suicide, publishing an obituary and releasing a memorial cryptocurrency, reporters found a Bay Area crypto founder alive at his parents house. Speculation had been swirling that it has been a “pseudocide” to cash out on his holdings and escape harassment that he had told another founder about; he moved $1.4 million around in the days after his death. Since then, the video has been taken down and the obituary deleted, but one X account still said it will hold a “a unique blockchain funeral event” for him.

George Kelly / The San Francisco Standard