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Boston Symphony Abruptly Ends Its Music Director’s Contract

Oh, wow

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Jan ‘21 a neighbor tried tapping their maple trees as a COVID experiment, and needed helpers to keep up with the amount of sap they produced.

I sugared a bunch on an outdoor burner and the ratio of sap:syrup truly is incredible.

Facebook post by Boston Public Schools with images of high school students on safari. “Boston Latin School and Association students participated in a life-changing trip to Nairobi, Kenya last month during February Recess. Fourteen Boston Latin School students visited several learning sites, including Nairobi National Park, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo West National Park, and the southeastern city of Mombasa. Much more than a vacation, students also practiced their Swahili language skills, experienced cultural immersion through a visit with the Maasai people, and learned first-hand about environmental conservation. By encouraging students to partake in trips like these, we ensure learning extends beyond the classroom into the far reaches of the globe.

So, @bostonschools.boston.gov, how many students from any OTHER Boston Public Schools schools get to travel to Nairobi?

Just the ones with an $85M endowment?

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

Rewatched One Battle After Another, this time with the kids.

Its flaws are pretty glaring, but man – that second act is really something all on its own.

Another all-time performance by Benicio Del Toro.

Other than that, the fleece vest wardrobe for the white nationalists is just perfect.

Picnic table from Terminator 2 with a combat knife resting next to the carved words NO FATE

Kitchen table in the Lucas house the next morning

A.I. Checks in After Bombing Iran to See If You Still Think Its Bubble Is Bursting “In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificia...

"Look, I understand the anxiety. I really do. It’s uncomfortable realizing that the same technology that drafts awkward emails and pretends to be your therapist also shines in the cruelty department and may one day bomb you out of existence."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

AI companies tell you every day that you are too stupid and helpless to think for yourself.

DOD “unshackled” strikes from the rules of engagement and AI suggested the targets.

Worth noting that SECDEF — KNOWING this — came out yesterday and gave a speech about raining death and destruction down from the sky with the aid of loosened rules of engagement. “Punching them when they’re down.”

Murdering kids at school.

“Never meant to be a fair fight” indeed.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

This isn’t just impeachable, this is criminal negligence and in a just society everyone involved (including the weapons officer who released the munitions) should face prison. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Markwayne Mullen with Krisi Noem extensions

[Miles Morales voice]
"ANYONE can wear the hair. YOU can wear the hair. If you didn't know that before, I hope you know now."

I *swear* my download client pulling 1.6TB moves faster when its application window is in the foreground.

Like it knows I’m checking up on it and is hustling to look busy.
#postchat

The phone scammer with a fake rental listing is not far removed from the subprime auto lender or the private equity-owned hotel/apartment complex.

The hotel that locks up and sells the personal property of its tenants is not far removed from a petty thief.

Brian Goldstone | Author of There Is No Place for Us There Is No Place for Us lays bare the hidden disaster of housing precarity among America's low-wage workers, shattering assumptions about who becomes homeless and why.

I finished this last night, and it is a devastating if not necessarily surprising read.

Poverty and homelessness are defined by a ceaseless deluge of scams – some illegal, MANY legal – designed to extract maximum profit from those who can least afford it.

This is a choice we make as a country.

“Don’t let Claude into your actual file system” but let it make life or death decisions that could lead to a school full of children being hit by multiple strikes.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I would edit: It incentivizes taxpayer to donate to scholarship organizations, which them provide funds to WHOMEVER THEY DECIDE. There are no giving criteria, need-based or otherwise. & it's not "parental choice." The entity exercising choice over use of public funds here is the org, not the family.

City hasn't disclosed BPD's communications with feds Three Boston city councillors last week filed formal requests for information from the Boston Police Department about its collaboration and information sharing with federal law enforcement.

BPD think they’re above the law. City Councillors Weber and Santana last August filed a “17F” request for information on all memoranda of understanding between federal agencies and the City of Boston, including ICE. BPD had ten days to respond. Six months later, Weber and Santana are still waiting.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

All it takes to debunk the theory that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries is to talk to literally any trans person who has tried to get gender-affirming care of ANY kind. It's extremely difficult.

Keeping ICE in existence and “reforming” it is an extremist position that does not enjoy the support of the people.

The curtains are there so they can cover up the list of grievances that apply to both Trump and King George III.

Scrolled down for just this joke.

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

We’ve spent the last 2 years “right-sizing” (closing) Boston Public Schools, because enrollment dropped.

Anyone think there will ever be an effort to “right-size” the BPD, given the low crime rates in the city?