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Ryman Auditorium show a big one for Wright Middle School mariachi ensemble - Nashville Banner Wright Middle School's mariachi ensemble prepares for a performance at the Ryman Auditorium, overcoming obstacles and embracing their heritage.

Meet the Wright Middle School mariachi band, soon to be opening for Jason Isbell at the Ryman.

Great story by @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

“Cards Against Humanity has quietly settled with Musk's rocket company.”

Thousands take part in Nashville 'No Kings' protest - Nashville Banner Thousands of protesters rally against President Trump and his policies in the 'No Kings' protest. Participants feel hope and community.

Nashville’s second No Kings protest drew thousands of residents, united in their anger at the Trump administration and its platform.

✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre Andrew Harding Paris correspondent, at the scene

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Headline missing a sort of important detail about what the fighter jet was doing in this AI video (it was dropping poop on Americans).

Thieves steal priceless jewels from the Louvre in daring Paris heist The museum was closed for the day Sunday after the robbery, which was carried out by thieves using a ladder mounted on the back of a truck, officials said.

Jewel heist!

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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Sponge Bob and Patrick Star out for #NoKings in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Sponge Bob and Patrick Star out for #NoKings in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

incredible photo

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

Obviously Metro Nashville taxpayers need to partially fund a new head coach for the Titans.

On article from 1989 about peep shows and skin mag stores closing downtown.

“Historic Lower Broadway.”

The history:

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success". When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be. ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich. "Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

and I feel fine

I really just wish Auburn had a bad football team with Cadillac Williams as head coach instead of … this.

Arrest Kirby Smart

bsky.app/profile/iams...

I repeat

Guys love to have a beer and say “indisputable video evidence” repeatedly

I see what you mean now, this other author is making the same choices in those areas you would make. I’m sure that is trippy. Thanks!

Very curious to hear more about the way this author / you do that if you don’t mind elaborating!

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

the phrase "AI Tinder for Jobs" is violence

Setting everything else about Bari Weiss and this memo aside, one thing I believe about journalists. If you are a source and a journalist tells you they will keep what you tell them secret, you can trust them. If you are a journalist and *another journalist* tells you that ... eh.