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Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/best-spud-harvest-in-a-decade-clears-the-gloom-of-crops-failing-from-scorching-summer/

Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer
A spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac even as climate uncertainty continues to make farming more challenging. 

We've been fired from trick or treat. Neither of the kids were gentle about it either. So now we get to dole out candy while feeling nostalgic watching kids go door-to-door with their parents.

Alaska’s Republican-run state government on Saturday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race,
writing that there is “no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any longer.”
The scathing filing from the state’s attorney general’s office comes as U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason set a deadline of Saturday for argu…

Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3.  The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next.  The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…

This one is a solid spooky season watch… I was sort of peripherally aware of Mia Goth, but man, she's a beast. She wrote this and starred in it and I reckon it'll stay with ya for a while
#Films #Movies #Cinema

Pearl
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

Filing: Byron Allen sold his 10.7% Starz stake over August and September, netting a bit less than $45M; he acquired it from Steve Mnuchin's Liberty 77 for $25M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Byron Allen Sells His Stake in Starz
The mogul acquired more than 10 percent of the company earlier this year in a deal with Steve Mnuchin.

“Let’s set that aside for a moment” whenever discussing failings, impacts, and costs of LLMs is such an offensive dismissal of human harms that I am surprised to hear it from an accessibility-focused session chair at TPAC (not today; time-delayed to obfuscate person / session).

Feeling a little entitled and grouchy about Nobara Linux today. It's a great distribution and a remarkable achievement from mostly one developer. But there's a sense that the update mechanism is brittle and can break systems. He launched something new last week where updates are deferred until reboot. Not ideal, but may solve some problems.
Today I'm learning the new updater may have broken Timeshift, a system snapshotting tool. And the fix may be some scary surgery from a USB rescue disk :-(
In an unrelated problem, one of the software repositories has an HTTP bug that's breaking updates.

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30 years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Jezebel restores 100 articles with racy or abortion-related headlines following objections by ex-staffers, says they were reposted after an "article review" (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Feminist publication Jezebel restores over 100 articles after Post story
The women-focused website faced blowback from former staffers for removing articles, many of which had racy headlines.