Kathleen Massara
@kmascara.bsky.social
NY Times Culture desk, NewsGuild steward, queer Nebraskan 🌈
Navy commands that issue shaving waivers are now required to produce monthly facial hair accountability reports. Commanding officers are instructed to maintain a log of personnel requiring medical facial hair treatment plans. Learn more:
Navy commands commence monthly facial hair accountability reports in August
Commanding officers are instructed to maintain a log of personnel requiring medical facial hair treatment plans.
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A full week (a full WEEK) after OpenAI revealed that its AI model escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face, the company now says whoops, by the way, it also broke into accounts on four other platforms in the process. from @mzeff.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
wired.com
As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride
As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis.
newyorker.com
"he was bitten by an animal, then he became that animal" the animal:
‘To call it a ceasefire is a joke': Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza with AP
‘To call it a ceasefire is a joke': Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza with AP
The soldiers said they were speaking out because they were angered and saddened by what they saw in the Israeli-controlled part of Gaza since the deal went into effect seven months ago.
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A new reading room in Tribeca shelves printed and bound copies of 3.5 million files pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein. Visitors are welcome, but they may not read or handle the books. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Trump-Epstein Files: Look but Don’t Touch
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca, housed three and a half million bound files, along with a handy time line charting the ickiness.
newyorker.com
Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical denouncing the "culture of power" driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/ne...
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News
Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human ...
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UN human-rights experts urge Starbucks and US to address union-busting claims reut.rs/49Rllp1
UN human-rights experts urge Starbucks and US to address union-busting claims
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has asked Starbucks and the U.S. government to respond to allegations that Starbucks has carried out a years-long campaign against workers seeking to unionize, according to a March 10 letter made public this week by the U.N.’s human-rights office.
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playbill.com/article/a-we... A 'Weird Al' Yankovic Jukebox Musical Is in the Works
A 'Weird Al' Yankovic Jukebox Musical Is in the Works
The Grammy-winning satirist is working with Beetlejuice and Gutenberg! writers Scott Brown and Anthony King on the project.
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At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there are zero American studio movies in the official lineup, but Demi Moore still showed up to talk about AI.
A Hollywood-less Cannes Begins
This year’s French film festival features zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI.
vulture.com
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
wired.com
"The complaint, initially brought by the Department of Justice and the dozens of state attorneys general in 2024, claimed that Live Nation monopolized the industry by controlling ticketing, concert booking, venues, and promotions."
Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury in antitrust trial finds
Live Nation has vehemently denied acting as a monopoly.
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ICYMI: I made an interactive map for yall to explore all the cherry blossom, magnolia and crabapple hotspots across NYC! 🌸 with @lillysabs.bsky.social! bonus: there's also a tool in here to search how your neighborhood ranks in terms of flowering tree density www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...
A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
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Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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Ryan Coogler reached out to Karlos Hill (Regents' Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American History at OU) to learn more about the history of music in the Mississippi Delta. Parts of their conversations showed up in the film. www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...
Why a local professor's name is included in the end credits of the hit movie 'Sinners'
An OU professor and historian weighed in on the historical backdrop of the hit film 'Sinners' currently streaming on MAX
oklahoman.com
We came to the bargaining table yesterday ready to make serious progress. Management instead continued to ignore our priorities, including funding healthcare, A.I. protections, and hybrid work. ......
“Last month, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Star that the agency had processed 159 gender changes on IDs since a district court injunction was lifted in October. Officials say they expect around 1,800 people to have their identity documents revoked.“
Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday
Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.
kansascity.com
There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
Willie Colón, a trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer who became a luminary of salsa music in a career that spanned nearly six decades, died on Saturday. He was 75. nyti.ms/3MCFkzC
‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom
‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom
Opening the Berlin film festival, No Good Men blends romance and rebellion, capturing love, humour and female agency in Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return
theguardian.com
Saturday's Weather Rating: 1/10 The arctic has arrived - again. We have an Extreme Cold Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect starting at 10:00am. Wind chills fall to nearly 20 below zero tonight. I've got nothing. The vibes have frozen over.
imagine having one of the best tech reporters of all time on your staff and then choosing to lay them off
nitasha tiku@nitasha.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
US farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments reut.rs/3ZmIHNP
US farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments
In a sign of growing stress for U.S. farmers, the Agriculture Department forecast on Thursday that U.S. net farm income would fall 0.7% this year, despite near-record government payments that are expected to account for nearly 29% of producers’ bottom line.
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