Rejected Jonathan Richman lyrics

Florida student arrested after joke asking Netanyahu to drop bombs A Florida student was arrested after posting messages in a group chat that appeared to call for bombs to be dropped on a campus event. Classmates reported the comments to police.

"In one post, Saldana appeared to reference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writing: 'Netanyahu, if you can hear me, drop some bonbons for us Capstone students in Ocean Bank Convocation Center,' according to an arrest report."

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Huh, I didn't realize the entirety of Connecticut was Boston AOR but it looks like that's the case tracreports.org/immigration/...

This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record

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Screenshot of two tabs: ICE arrests 4 fugitives in Mass. wanted for murd... masslive.com --- ICE Boston arrests 5 foreign fugitives wante... ice.gov

Maybe a little beside the point but also

Egg punk vs chain punk

Home - StateReference

Also shout-out to www.statereference.com I have a slightly different use case is why I did this

Thanks!

I'm not sure if my regex for getting the columns for exemptions cited, etc. are fully accurate yet, but hopefully will finish that in next week or so. (I looked at using LLM for this but it would have been kinda expensive to run that many PDFs through one.)

~13,000 uses of "unclear" LOL

GitHub - JonGerhardson/Massachusetts_records_request_determinations_2016-2026: Searchable database of all determinations issued by the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records office since 2016 Searchable database of all determinations issued by the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records office since 2016 - JonGerhardson/Massachusetts_records_request_determinations_2016-2026

I've been working on making database of the ~30,000 records requests appeals made in Massachusetts since 2016 github.com/JonGerhardso...

Do They? (Glasser Remix), by Crass from the album Normal Never Was

I hadn't heard any of these Crass remixes (released 2020?) until a few days ago, they're pretty good

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Oh, I know. Always fun waiting two weeks for gov to fix some technical error in their response before you can appeal again. Isn't this not exempt by statute (a) for the cops though? Although if DA is claiming (d) maybe there's some wiggle room on if they can be compelled to release or not?

Pleasantly surprised*

I'm actually surprised they ruled this way if the footage is evidence in an ongoing trial.

There's a few of these I was actually like, sure yeah makes sense, but then I read the next sentence.

Like: "Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible."

Oh, wait by "moral debt" you mean they must build (MORE) weapons and surveillance tools? Nevermind...

Put another way, that thing with Geese would be much different if they got big because someone posted a .zip of their album to viva la vinyl or whatever

This is not a defense of Suno and the rest, but my gut feeling is that if it weren't first for algorithmic music feeds replacing peer to peer music recommendation/sharing, popular opinion about audio gen would be different; possibly seen as adjacent to sampling than existential threat to indie acts.

Interesting to read that "police tried twice to use non-lethal force, but it was not effective in stopping him."

So they had enough time to use -- I assume -- tasers. But not enough time to like, I don't know, take a few steps back?

I mean, Longmeadow is rural but based on skimming wikipedia and half of a review headlined "The Beekeeper isn't dumb enough" I'm going with someone just googled where the FBI field office for western Massachusetts was located and find and replaced it into the script last minute

LOL no way really?

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Hampshire fought for years to survive. Now the college reckons with its end Hampshire College will close after years of financial struggle, leaving students and alumni grieving its unique community.

I feel like the way MassLive did it here is also probably fine though

www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

when fine shyt telling you a story about their night out and all of a sudden everyone is nonbinary

Hampshire College closure, state use of AI, rural funding need Today, Rundown panelists dig into Hampshire College's announcement to close its doors, AI use in Mass. government departments and the need for state funding for rural areas.

Thanks to @nepublicmedia.bsky.social and Carrie Saldo for having me on The Rundown this morning. www.nepm.org/therundown/2...

The battery pack looks like 3s6p. Based on the 19 Ah capacity, I would guess it uses 3500 mAh cells, probably something like Samsung INR-18650-35E. Depending on BMS should be good for ~60 amps continuous discharge. Three in series would be a decent e-bike pack. 5 packs for 15s would be more fun tho

If you missed it you can read here: theshoestring.org/2025/10/28/t...

Or just admire these double hockey sticks showing a sharp increase in lobbying spending by the funeral home and cemetery industries, which are kind of in competition with each other and kind of not due to a bunch of regulations

Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism Honors a single story or a series of explanatory reporting that provides insight and understanding of a significant and complex subject. Micro Division The Shoestring, “There’s a Lot of Money in Death”: Funeral Home Consolidation Hits Western Mass, Jonathan Gerhardson

I am excited to brag that a story I wrote for @theshoestring.bsky.social last fall has been selected as a finalist for an explanatory journalism award from @inn.org

#INNYs2026

Rümeysa Öztürk says she has settled with US government and will return to Turkey

BREAKING: the government and Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk settle, ask for Board of Immigration Appeals case to be dismissed. Dr. Öztürk returns to Turkey on her own terms. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Website that lets you calculate how many deaths your tax contributions caused

income-tax-body-count.lav.io

That's fun

Massachusetts’ AI program is more than meets the eye The Shoestring found that the state has been testing at least 40 government use cases for AI, though it remains tight-lipped about most of them.

theshoestring.org/2026/04/08/m...