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If you're completely overwhelmed by the suffering of the world and a feeling of hopelessness,
do one small thing locally.
It's basically the antidote.
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Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social)
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Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/challenge-accepted-a-reader-wrote-a-program-to-find-fake-references-in-books/

Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books
Hermann/Pixabay Following our coverage this summer of a book with citations that did not exist, we asked you to send us examples of other books with similar issues. One reader took the request as a…

Just finished "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas (I haven't yet read "The Hate U Give" but that's now high on my list of things to find). It's excellent, and in particular, an excellent treatise on positive masculinity in fiction form. It's not a super easy book to read emotionally, but is excellently written and deeply immersive. I don't have the perspective to know how it might land among teens like those it portrays, but I have a feeling it's true enough to life, and it held a lot of great wisdom for me.
CW for the book include murder, hard drugs, and parental abandonment.
I caught myself in a racist/classist habit of thought while reading that others night appreciate hearing about: early on I was mentally comparing it to "All my Rage" by Sabaa Tahir and wondering if/when we'd see the human cost of the drug dealing to the junkies, thinking that it would weaken the book not to include that angle. Why is that racist/classist? Because I'm always expecting books with hard drug dealers in them to show the ugly side of their business since it's been drilled into me that they're evil for the harm they cause, yet I never expect the same of characters who are bankers, financial analysts, health insurance claims adjudicators, police officers, etc. (Okay, maybe I do now look for that in police narratives). The point is, our society includes many people who as part of their jobs directly immiserate others, so why and I only concerned about that misery being brought up when it's drug dealers?
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SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control weaknesses, if not fixed, could hurt its ability to report results "in a timely and accurate manner" (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

❝ Move slow and feel things ❞
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Micah Parsons didn't hold back on Jerry Jones after legendary Packers-Cowboys tie https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/micah-parsons-didnt-hold-back-jerry-jones-legendary…

"This pocket recission thing is easy. Sure they can sit on the funds until they expire and then they’re gone. I think that’s right. However, failing to spend appropriated funds is a failure to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, and is impeachable.
So impeach the shithead."
-- Phlebas the Phoenician

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-…

"This pocket recission thing is easy. Sure they can sit on the funds until they expire and then they’re gone. I think that’s right. However, failing to spend appropriated funds is a failure to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, and is impeachable.
So impeach the shithead."
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Filing: Meta plans to raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30B; the company has said its capex next year would be "notably larger" than in 2025 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-issue-bonds-worth-up-30-bi…