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Lionsgate's Michael opens with $97M domestically and $217M globally in its first weekend, the best start ever for a biopic and the second-biggest debut of 2026 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/michael-box-office-opening-w…

'Michael' Box Office: Biopic Opens to Record-Setting $97 Million
"Michael," a biopic about the King of Pop, arrived in theaters as an instant sensation with $97 million domestically and $217 million globally.

The uncertain brightness and tail(s) development of #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is one thing - see the curves in https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2026A1 and https://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2026A1/2026A1.html for guesses and https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 for the current value which is ~8.5 mag. - but the viewing geometry is the other: here it is for 51.5° North (my place Bochum) and 22.5° South (Windhoek) as the view is much better from the southern hemisphere.
The table first gives the elongation (angle between comet and Sun in the sky) and the phase angle (the angle Sun - comet - Earth) which nearing 180° can lead to significant boost of brightness by forward scattering on dust.
And this is followed by the altitude of the comet at the solar depressions given in the top line, for Bochum and Windhoek: sunset and end of civilian twilight and for the latter also the end of nautical and astronomical twilight, i.e. the onset of night. Also of importance is the angle of a hypothetical dust tail (simulated in https://hdr-astrophotography.com) after perihelion, also much better in the South: https://britastro.org/section_news_item/c-2026-a1-maps-a-kreutz-group-sungrazer - but first MAPS has to survive the latter *and* release a lot of dust at the right time ...

Donald Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight
and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it,
according to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week.

The Justice Department shared those findings, detailed in a January 2023 briefing document written by then-special counsel Jack Smith’s team,
with lawmakers as they conduct a …

Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says
The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.

T - 7hours
Every end-of-semester, it's the same story: I let students submit late term papers without penalty. But, the university sets a hard deadline after which students need to petition the Registrar's Office for acceptance of late work. With Canvas that hard deadline becomes a minute instead of a day (11:59pm to be precise). Of course, no one has submitted a paper and no one will until 11:53 or so (there's always an anxious student or two), with the rest flooding in be…

Wir müssen verhindern, dass Leute, nur weil sie sehr reich sind, Wahlen beeinflussen.
Pareien, die Wahlkampfspenden verstecken, sollten, nachdem das nachgewiesen ist, von Wahlen ausgeschlossen werden, bzw. aus dem Parlamtent oder der Regierung entfernt werden. Die Verantwortlichen sollten zu mehrjährigen Haftstrafen verurteilt werden, inklusive der Spender, deren Vermögen konfisziert werden sollte.
Sonst lernen die es nie.

The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right
Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday.

If I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.

Meet the District 4 Candidates: What is your No. 1 issue?
Some say the Sunset needs to be more affordable. Some say it needs more police. They all want to be District 4’s next supervisor.

#SoundSpace: What and where through sound https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772363.3798944 CHI EA '26

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-brea…

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

This is likely the least of what DOGE took.
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

Okay, I think this thing is ready-enough to tell people about it.
I made a #BBS to watch aircraft near #YUL (#Montreal airport), through my home #ADSB