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The country is in flames and the Boston Globe looks up and courageously steps forward to ask the piercing question that truly rises to the moment.

The good news is, there’s only two months left in this year. You almost survived 2025.

Is there an independent third party confirming these user stats or is this from ChatGPT themselves?

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

What does “three hops away” even mean?

Like, if you played hopscotch with a gang member and you’re on 2 and he’s on 5?

Broken clock. Twice. Day.

If “intellectual diversity” means printing lies, the term has no meaning. Or suddenly becomes interchangeable with “intellectual dishonesty”

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Huh

Exile really gives Blu some fantastic beats.

They didn’t question the war on terror either

Or the Vietnam War

Or basically anything that the monied class wants to do

If they bombed newsrooms, the articles would explain how the regime justified the strikes, but would end mid-sentence as the ordinance goes off.

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Louis Gossett Jr., Iconic Actor And Oscars History-Maker, Dies At Age 87 - Blavity Louis Gossett Jr., one of the first and few Black Oscar winners in the industry, as well as a core figure in Black Hollywood, has died. He was 87. His death was announced by Gossett’s family, as repor...

RIP Louis Gossett Jr

Rest easy OG

blavity.com/entertainmen...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Top Intel Democrat rips Trump administration over exclusion from boat strike briefing A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat

This literally makes no sense:

"The administration says it is relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."

And the reporting doesn't question it.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Warn That Ohio’s Ballot Language Is Misleading Voters  - Bolts If “yes” on Issue 1 wins, it'd create an independent redistricting process. But some voters are saying the GOP-crafted ballot summary tricked them into opposing a reform they support.

(Why Dems took deal, part 2: If they were to lose the veto referendum, the 13-2 map would be in 2028.)

I'll let others debate what Dems should do or should have done here, but where fair maps really lost was when the GOP put confusing language on the ballot last year: boltsmag.org/ohio-issue-1...

*Why Dem leaders took deal? GOP was floating a way more aggressive gerrymander to lock in a 13-2 delegation. They could push it thru without Dems.

*Why GOP leaders offered deal? Dems cld have tried a "veto referendum" on a new map, which (if they got the signatures) would have blocked map in 2026.

Ohio Republicans are going ahead with their map, having struck a reported deal with state Democrats.

*Map could keep delegation at 10-5 in 2026. But it makes road even-tougher for Marcy Kaptur, who already sits in a Trump district, & it endangers Greg Landsman by making his district roughly even.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

This point is nonsensical. A real capitalist would indeed leverage the government to insure they can access the lowest cost labor possible. And there’s no lower cost labor than slave labor. What?

56,000 U.S. purchase agreements were canceled in August, representing 15.1% of homes that went under contract.

That’s the highest share for August deals falling through in records dating back to 2017, per Redfin.

Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...

Oh man, this is good news. Jamaica has disaster insurance which should (knock on all the wood there is) pay out $150 million pretty quickly, with about $820 million in total financing available. Crucial to getting up an running fast

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Canada received a request for aid from Jamaica & quickly went into action. Plus tradespeople from Maritimes are already there. That is who we are. Any country in need can count on us.
It goes for USA too. If a mayor or governor ask our assistance we will be there.
Trump approval not needed

I know there is a looming crisis here in america but if you can spare anything Jamaica was hit horribly by Hurricane Melissa and people are hurting *right now.*

Through @caloes.bsky.social, I'm deploying highly trained @lacofd.bsky.social Urban Search and Rescue teams to Jamaica to help reach victims of Hurricane Melissa.

California stands ready to help when disaster strikes — at home or abroad.

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Newest LLM tell/quirk in coding assignments this semester: instead of generating code based on the CSVs that I provide, LLMs have been inventing datasets with rnorm() and sample() (and an obligatory set.seed(42)) and then making plots with the fake data.

I'm so tired.

Senator Gallego - “How can I negotiate? The president’s in Asia for five days. Johnson’s keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with?"

Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database Is ‘Flawed’ and Could Lead to Disenfranchisement, Election Administrator Warns Read more here.

NEW: States using the Trump administration’s overhauled citizenship verification system to find noncitizens on the voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, a Texas county election administrator revealed in a federal court filing Wednesday night.

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'