in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say

The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.

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Related, this is a cool story from last year about how the New Orleans and Chicago cousins who didn't know the others existed reconnected the two halves of the family tree because their cousin becoming Pope meant researchers found the family history none of them knew.

Separated a century ago, two branches of Pope Leo's family reunite in New Orleans

Pope Leo's long-separated family reunites over dinner in New Orleans.

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President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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1. Last week, we revealed that the New York Post published a fake cover story claiming "thousands" of 9/11 families were trying to ban Mamdani from the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. Instead of admitting its error, the Post quietly edited the article, adding even less credible info.

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Thread, teach a 94 year old to navigate to a streaming service to watch movies.

Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 2d ago

This weekend I encountered the Boss Level of Technical Education: teaching my 94-year-old grandma how to watch Traitors on a streaming service by herself.

mom posted this to the group chat youtube.com/shorts/fDllS...

Makes sense

YouTube video by Keith Edwards

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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Potato is the name of the mascot character for Korea’s Gamzabatt Cafe, known for its potato bread and lattes. There’s a branch in Yokohama, Japan, now.

"When the detainees looked into the container, they saw more worms. Parias said that after finding the worms, detainees collected around seven to ten worms inside a soda bottle so they could preserve them as evidence of the conditions they were experiencing inside the facility."

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 5d ago

Detainees at Adelanto ICE Processing Center claim that staff have provided them with water from an unknown source that is routinely contaminated. A video L.A. TACO received backs this up. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

"Is this process annoying? Maybe. But if asking the owner of a $5 million property to submit some forms over the internet is 'harassment,' how should we describe the process of obtaining SNAP benefits, or unemployment checks, or health insurance on the exchange?" hellgatenyc.com/second-home-...

#ICEoutofNYC #AbolishICE #HandsOffNYC ICE activity in NYC has more than doubled this month. Here’s what to know + what to do if you see ICE in your neighborhood 📢 Join a training this week & learn how to protect your neighbors: www.handsoffnyc.com/get-trained

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

It's not fun to live in a police state. The New York neighborhoods reported: East Elmhurst, Bushwick, Inwood, College Point, and Canal Street usahousinginformation.com/ice-new-york...

ICE New York Enforcement Operations: What's Happening in the City Right Now

Ice New York enforcement operations expand into Queens and beyond as ICE surges agents amid sanctuary city tensions and new state restrictions.

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Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

More Odyssey dish-course this time (ha!) About food in The Odyssey and Bronze Age Greece in general: #odyssey #odysseus #Homer #TheOdyssey #BronzeAge #ulysses #Οδυσσέας #οδύσσεια

The Delicious Legacy Podcast@deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 2w ago

My odyssey wants you! Do have a listen about the mythical age and real Bronze Age Greek food, sacrifice, Xenia, wine and all that! Enjoy! x #podcast #ancientgreece #Odysssey #mediterranean #bronzeage #GreekMyths

I've just been having a noodle through a lovely site: Big Box Collection. There, you'll find scans of big box microcomputer and DOS/Win PC games that you can rotate around and have very high levels of detail. You can also see what came inside them, too. bigboxcollection.com/Shelf

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Anyone have $100 today for groceries? CA: $JSkyler PP: jskyler VM: jskylerinc Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc #MutualAidRequst #MARequest #FundSky #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky #DisabilityPrideMonth #SSDI 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️@jskylerinc.bsky.social · last mo.

[JULY UPDATE] DISABLED BLK TRANS ENBY ✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ JULY GOAL: $5000 I need to raise enough to buy a decent used car cash That’s: 50 ppl giving $100 100 ppl giving $50 200 ppl giving $25 DEADLINE 6/30 Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

i cordially invite all the people who obviously don't know shit about how nyc works or functions to take the Shut the Fuck Up Challenge. the Shut the Fuck Up Challenge is free of charge and has open, ongoing enrollment for everyone on earth

We could all learn a little lesson from Jimothy.

like i said

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 5mo ago

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

What an opening.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 7d ago

this week's post is about the torment nexus, AI dystopia, and self-driving cars that will take you to jail margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/when-they-...

The newly independent Double Fine is laying off staff today, three weeks after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring.

Second one

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last wk.

Pretty excited about this one: Tonight's murder of crows flying in front of the Full Moon(ish) set to Blind Guardian's "Thorn" 🪶

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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