Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Today's news and jokes







Hasan being detained exemplifies how important online communities and sentiment is to the Trump administration. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

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— makena kelly (@makenakelly.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Guardian's write-up









This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM








Shell Game: The Worldwide TNT Shortage We talk to a major U.S. artillery shell maker about how ongoing conflicts have severally strained the global supply of critical explosive compounds. Story: www.twz.com/land/shell-g...

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— Tyler Rogoway (@aviationintel.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM








("'an extremely heavy downpour' caused issues with the drainage system which led to a power cut on several platforms")







Look at the Trump official’s tie.

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM








For my last (I think) story for @latimes.com, I followed a former public defender to a Mojave Desert relay race for cops and deputies. He was looking for evidence of deputy gangs -- but instead found a political schism inside the LA Sheriff's Department: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) May 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
("A few weeks before the race, a Lancaster deputy had been convicted in federal court of violating a Black woman’s civil rights during a 2023 use-of-force incident in a WinCo Foods parking lot. [The deputy]’s supporters urged the department’s runners to boycott the race as a show of solidarity with a man they said had been wrongfully prosecuted...by late March, more than 20 sheriff’s stations had dropped out)







("Under the federal H-2A visa program, agricultural employers can hire workers from other countries on a temporary basis, so long as they show that they were unable to hire sufficient numbers of domestic workers. Employers are required to provide the guest workers with housing, food and transportation. But in Monterey County, one of the more expensive regions in the nation, the obligation to provide an exploding number of guest workers with suitable housing was exacerbating a regional affordable housing crisis")







NEW: The newspaper giant Gannett is mass-publishing automated lottery content in local papers across the country. In some states, the AI articles pointedly direct readers toward a gambling site with which Gannett has a financial relationship. futurism.com/gannett-ai-g...

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— Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mharrisondupre.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM








A+ sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/j...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
("the developer of Zerebro, an obscure cryptocurrency token with a market capitalization of $44 million. ... Zerebro was little known until videos of [him] appearing to shoot himself began circulating early Sunday")



my roman empire is how every paragraph of the book speedboat by renata adler feels like getting lightly stabbed (complimentary)

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— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
("People were no longer 'caught' in the old sense on which most people could agree. Induction, detection, the very thrillers everyone was reading were obsolete. The jig was never up")







Toronto school district says data not deleted after ransom was paid to hacker. After paying the hacker a ransom, PowerSchool previously said it believed the incident had been “contained” because the hacker turned over a video showing the data being deleted. therecord.media/toronto-scho...

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— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM










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— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@csmfht.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM








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@viviankahlo Why are there so many signs, i feel like this is so common in Los Angeles now. i should not have to feel like im solving a math problem 😂😂😂 because i will get anxiety and park blocks away or just leave #parking #losangeles #fypage ♬ original sound - bella ☮︎








@swaggymaggyy #fyp #paris ♬ som original - Lana🌸








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