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Ferengi Love Songs #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 20) Rom ♡ Leeta; Zek ♡ Ishka; Quark ♡ $ Rewatching ST:DS9 Much pew is pewing inside the bar, which is closed due to a vole infestation. Quark is not in the mood for Rom cheerfully announcing his engagement to Leeta, but he does accept his suggestion to visit their mother on Ferengibar. Trying to be supportive of Rom’s interest in pleasing Leeta with a traditional Bajoran wedding, O’Brien and Dax accidentally make him doubt his identity as a Ferengi.

Ferengi Love Songs #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 20) Rom ♡ Leeta; Zek ♡ Ishka; Quark ♡ $

Rewatching ST:DS9 Much pew is pewing inside the bar, which is closed due to a vole infestation. Quark is not in the mood for Rom cheerfully announcing his engagement to Leeta, but he does accept…

Ties of Blood and Water #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 19) Kira re-evaluates a Cardassian father figure Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira is excited to welcome Tekeny Ghemor, the sympathetic Cardassian who was tricked into believing a surgically-altered Kira was his daughter (s3e5 "Second Skin"). Now that Dukat and the Dominion have displaced the legitimate government on Cardassia, Kira has high hopes that Ghemor will inspire a resistance, but before the opening credits roll, Ghemor informs her that he is dying.

Ties of Blood and Water #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 19) Kira re-evaluates a Cardassian father figure

Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira is excited to welcome Tekeny Ghemor, the sympathetic Cardassian who was tricked into believing a surgically-altered Kira was his daughter (s3e5 "Second Skin").…

Two high-ranking NOAA employees connected to 'Sharpiegate' incident put on leave The agency is down hundreds of employees after staffing cuts and voluntary buyouts implemented by the Trump administration.

Two top NOAA officials who played a role in the high-profile “Sharpiegate” investigation at the agency were placed on administrative leave this week.

York Plays 2025: Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage. Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage. I'm almost at the halfway point of editing 35 short videos from the 2025 York Plays, presented in Toronto by a troupe of hundreds of performers in June. The event was a textually faithful but theatrically creative staging of some 50 plays that were performed as part of the Corpus Christi ("Body of Christ") festival in the medieval city of York, England.

York Plays 2025: Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage.

Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage. I'm almost at the halfway point of editing 35 short videos from the 2025 York Plays, presented in Toronto by a troupe of hundreds of performers in June. The event was a textually…

I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Her next is “To Battle: A Fight Play.” August 1-10. Tickets for To Battle: A Fight Play

I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Her next is “To Battle: A Fight Play.” August 1-10.

Tickets for To Battle: A Fight Play

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First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower Coders who used AI self-reported that they worked 20% faster, but an objective study found AI actually made coders 19% slower. This study confirms that while AI can help for general low-level tasks, humans with deep knowledge of the specific project could spend far more time working on higher-level tasks, rather than hunting for errors in the work generated by AI.

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders who used AI self-reported that they worked 20% faster, but an objective study found AI actually made coders 19% slower. This study confirms that while AI can help for general low-level tasks, humans with deep…

The Scapegoat by Richard Maples (1957 Sci-Fi Short Story) I had a great time narrating and coming up with the character voices for this short story. Look for elements of the classic crime story, with a plot that touches on social commentary, showing tension between a reporter and his politically ambitious boss, and between the reporter and his wife. The narrator lives lives in the same walkable neighborhood where he covers the crime beat, and when he shows up to collect his son at one point, he reminds the boy to get his his hat.

The Scapegoat by Richard Maples (1957 Sci-Fi Short Story)

I had a great time narrating and coming up with the character voices for this short story. Look for elements of the classic crime story, with a plot that touches on social commentary, showing tension between a reporter and his politically…

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

February 21: The Epstein client list is on Pam Bondi's desk ready to be reviewed
July 7: The Epstein client list does not exist and the case is closed
July 12: There is an Epstein file but it's a fake written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, and Brennan

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

Did you like or share that social media post about two Camp Mystic girls found in a tree? From an article in the Houston Chronicle: It’s still unclear who started a widely shared rumor over the weekend that raised false hopes of desperate parents that two girls had been found alive clinging to a tree around Comfort or Center Point. I first saw the rumor spread on Facebook where a user mentioned it in passing during a live video post on debris-clearing efforts.

Did you like or share that social media post about two Camp Mystic girls found in a tree?

From an article in the Houston Chronicle: It’s still unclear who started a widely shared rumor over the weekend that raised false hopes of desperate parents that two girls had been found alive clinging to a…

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This is particularly evident in its first release (Macintosh, 1993), which was composed of interconnected ...

Nice Myst analysis: a graph of the original game's nodes, extracted from the Hypercard source code.

glthr.com/myst-graph-1

I agree with the sentiment, but montecello.org says there's no record of this quote before 2017.

www.monticello.org/research-edu...

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Business as Usual #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 18) Quark accepts a lucrative job offer; O’Brien carries baby Yoshi everywhere. Rewatching ST:DS9 Playing tongo at the bar, Dax is annoyed that Quark is distracted by bad financial news. He’s put the bar up as collateral to three different debtors and he's wiped out. At this very moment, because the opening credits are gonna roll soon, Quark’s cousin Gaila the weapons dealer shows up with a lucrative job offer. Exhausted from walking his baby to sleep, O'Brien reluctantly accepts Jake’s offer to babysit, but changes his mind.

Business as Usual #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 18) Quark accepts a lucrative job offer; O’Brien carries baby Yoshi everywhere.

Rewatching ST:DS9 Playing tongo at the bar, Dax is annoyed that Quark is distracted by bad financial news. He’s put the bar up as collateral to three…

Any studio making use of generative AI is sending a very clear message: they don't care about the cataclysmic effects AI is having on their own industry, they don't care that so much of AI content is slop, they don't care that millions of people out there who are their prospective fans and customers are wholly opposed to its use. I don't want to write about a game with AI in it, I don't want to support studios that use it and I don't want to spend a second of my time on it.

The link in this paragraph is to this excellent @wired.com piece from earlier today, 'The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger'

www.wired.com/story/genera...

Our online Poetry section has also reopened!

Likewise, before submitting poems (whether for print or online), please review ALL guidelines, format your pitch correctly, and submit to the appropriate inbox.

We'd also like to call particular attention to our most recent submissions policy update:

“If music be the food of love, play on!” I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Twelfth Night opens tonight!

Touch Me Now: York Plays 2025 A cast of hundreds participated in a public medieval re-enactment dramatizing the Christian story from Creation through Final Judgement at the University of Toronto a few weeks ago. I attended as the event videographer. I had at least three cameras running at all times -- sometimes five -- while a roving camera also caught the action from the street level. …

Touch Me Now: York Plays 2025

A cast of hundreds participated in a public medieval re-enactment dramatizing the Christian story from Creation through Final Judgement at the University of Toronto a few weeks ago. I attended as the event videographer. I had at least three cameras running at all…

Los Angeles immigration raids protests began on June 6. The @pressfreedomtracker.us is investigating:

- 47 assaults on journalists
- 8 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 5 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures

View our database: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

EPIC response.

My daughter, the comedian

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt*

CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt*

ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug*

CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug*

ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.