the world is falling apart but at least mizzou beat ku

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This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections.

They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Paywalls are bad for journalism and also just bad journalism.

No I don’t know how we get paid without them but like they’re not working anyway so 🤷‍♂️

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I just spent 3 days producing 5 videos for an event that has just been postponed until October

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

the absolute best part about baseball that no other sport has is a rich and complex tapestry of barely perceptible hand signals and other unspoken gestures that, if deployed in their proper context, make everyone on the field start trying to commit aggravated assault

I didn’t post anything for March except Ash Wednesday so here we go

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Absolutely wild that the commerce sec. is just on air telling people what stocks to buy — even wilder when it’s the stock of a company whose owner is the president’s best friend

Charley Crockett Goes From DIY to the Big Time on Lonesome Drifter Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

New Charley Crockett album out today ... first one on a major label, but it's still the same ol' Jukebox Charley: Ultra-consistent, highly listenable, effortlessly cool. Here's my review for @pastemagazine.bsky.social. ⬇️
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Ash Wednesday

Found this gem on my phone

Someone decorated the square in Keene

Trump’s FBI Poised to Focus Counterterror Strategy on “Things Like BLM and Antifa” According to current and former officials in the bureau and other national security offices, the shift will jeopardize years of progress combating violent white nationalism.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f...

re: the kennedy center news

Keene High boy’s hockey team versus Trinity High

Yay sports

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Bringing this bad boy out of retirement

Keene hosted its annual Ice and Snow festival this weekend. Please enjoy

USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Post Escorted From Office by Security Phyllis Fong was heading up an investigation into Elon Musk's Neuralink.

USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Post Escorted From Office by Security

I keep everything. I have a pile of external HDDs on my desk labeled with what years are on them, plus a SSD I work off that I format whenever its full. If I could, I'd keep more copies off-site just in case. I also keep everything backed up with backblaze. Always back up in 3s.