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First a tragedy, then a farce: LLMs bring back Facebook's old "Move fast and break things" motto. And that in a time where we need to move slower, more deliberately.

I guess the new Red Sonja flick had only a VERY limited release here in the USA a day or two ago. I haven't seen anything about it at all advertising-wise (not that I really watch real/primetime TV).
EDIT: It was a ONE day release (thanks, @…!) on the 13th (sheesh) but luckily will be coming to video on demand on the 29th.

Red Sonja (2025)
A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

Lastly, I was wondering about the hard realities of the recent tragedy in terms of personnel decisions. Do Chiesa and Nunez look differently now? The rumors are that Chiesa wants a move back to Serie A. Playing time would change that, I bet. I keep hoping for him to have a dominant performance, but he just hasn't. You can see the glimpses of what he's got, but if it's hard to reach?
Nunez looked mature & patient (not just b/c of the short haircut!). Important pre-season…

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-killing
> In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not onl…

Uvalde schools deploy AI gun detection technology after 2022 tragedy https://youtu.be/Cy-gTMG-qx4?si=pKtUhW9-Ug5ygU-P

How the Tragedy at Camp Mystic Unfolded, Cabin by Cabin (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/camp-mystic-texas-flood-what-happened-9dbde882?st=LW2fd9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p2#a250713p2

I love this. "A dog’s frantic barking in the middle of the night saved the lives of 67 people in a Himalayan village before a massive landslide swept away their homes.
Residents of Siyathi village in Mandi district, in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, said their 5-month-old dog began barking around 1am on 30 June, just as heavy rains triggered a slope collapse that destroyed at least a dozen houses."

Hero dog saves 67 lives before landslide flattens village
The survivors credited the dog, who was adopted just a few weeks ago, with alerting them early enough to escape the tragedy safely

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: Remembering a tragedy - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250802-european-roma-holocaust-memorial-day-remembering-a-tragedy

Never got into these guys, but this is a great starting point
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bands/the-inside-story-of-hanoi-rocks

“Interviewers were telling me that I started the whole glam rock, hair metal scene. I said, ‘What? Don’t blame me for that!’” Drugs, guitars, triumph and tragedy – the inside story of Hanoi Rocks
40 years ago – after moving to London to invent the movement that would inspire a million L.A. bands – Finnish upstarts Hanoi Rocks self-destructed. This is their story

Three stories, one thread: a dying tree, a flawed family record, and a man’s 20-year wrongful imprisonment. What gets lost—and what we uncover—matters.
Read the full post: https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/treehouses-time-travel-and-tragedy/

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy – Bob Mueller
A backyard dream resurfaces, an 1821 mystery catches my eye, and a wrongful conviction case demands we pay attention.

Today's episode of #DemocracyNow is important. #MsRachel, heralded as a modern Mr. Rogers, has opened millions of apolitical eyes to the tragedy in #Gaza. If you can spare an hour, you won't regre…

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: “My Deep Care for Children Doesn’t Stop at Any Border”
We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became wildly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and today has more than 16 million subscribers. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Accurso has used her social media reach to speak out for Palestinian children facing hunger, disease, injury and death. She has been hailed as the heir to Mister…

#AI is a great example of the Tragedy of the Commons. We all know it’s trashing the planet but we carry on using it because ‘everyone else is’.
#Environment

At least 104 dead in Texas floods
In Kerr County, at least 84 bodies have been recovered which includes 56 adults and 28 children.
Kerr County Sheriff’s Office said: “At present, 10 Camp Mystic campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for.
“We share our deepest condolences with all affected by this tragedy.”

The first tragedy here is that we’ve all even heard of Charlie Kirk in the first place.
That dude should have spent his long useless life holed up in his basement ostracized by his neighbors, shunned, shamed, legally constrained, and anonymous to almost everyone.
4/

“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it’s a f**king comedy.”
— Joker (2019)
#Joker #Joker2019 #Tragedy

API design for multiple errors ... a drama in multiple acts.
Each of which may be comedy or tragedy.

#jetbrains #junie = tragedy
The transition from crying to laughing has been so easy.
People are still trying to use it and failing because they thought to get a fully working product from the makers of their own IDE. haha, you fool!
Till today, no apology => bad behavior…

Great news. Canada is doing offering government services (commercial driver’s license tests) in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin.
It’s a crime and a tragedy that indigenous languages are in danger of dying and everything that can be done to fight that is for the better, especially by governments using them.

Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe | CBC News
The former chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation got an early birthday surprise when he was finally able to do his written driver’s test in Ojibwe.   

@… a tragedy

Nine-year-old relative of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt among those dead in Texas flooding

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nine-year-old-…

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy
A collapsed tree, a misdated ancestor, and a man wrongfully imprisoned—this week’s stories all circle truth, loss, and what gets buried, whether in the backyard, family records, or a broken justice system.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/treehouse

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy – Bob Mueller
A backyard dream resurfaces, an 1821 mystery catches my eye, and a wrongful conviction case demands we pay attention.

An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei

The Making Of Dario Amodei
AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy.

In the area, known as Flash Flood Alley, Porter called this “a tragedy of the worst sort” because it appeared camps and local officials could have mobilized sooner in response to the alerts.
“There was plenty of time to evacuate people to higher ground,” Porter said. “The question is, Why did that not happen?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-hurricane-helene

Ted Cruz's rush from vacation after tragedy doubted as flight data revealed (Adam Nichols/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-2672943043/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p31#a250708p31

Great stuff! I can't recommend enough!
OK, I'll try, but it's like I'm trying to slam dunk a basketball, when I can't jump 6" off the ground...
You'll love his books. They're great. Life-lessons. Tragedy. Comedy. And they're a good deal. Did I mention cheap?
#ShortFiction #ProsePoetry

Deep Fried Store — Mark Doyon: Author of 'Deep Fried'
Buy 'Deep Fried' by Mark Doyon in hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook formats.

i just hope that, long after he deploys the illegal it/its schizoaffective palestinian o9a-affiliated jihadist former gifted kid he's grooming on trump, even after he turns all homeless people and his wife into biofuel and dies of reticulan aids from unprotected peter thiel, everybody keeps using this one image of him

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BBCProms
- 2025
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Singers, the BBC Philharmonic and English National Opera Orchestra & Chorus with star soloists in Shostakovich’s operatic tragedy, Lady Macbeth.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hn3l

“Using this tragedy to push your own political agenda is disgraceful, people are dead,” Democratic activist Nina Turner replied on X.
“Even for MikeLee, this is beyond disgusting,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote on X. “Disinformation, beneath contempt.”
“What the hell is Mike Lee doing? Has he completely lost it?” conservative journalist Brad Polumbo also wrote on X.
“It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for …

MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’
Senator Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in portraying the suspect in attacks on Minnesota lawmakers as a leftist.

#Pennsylvania #SteelPlant tragedy takes 3 lives and dozens more injured after #explosions at joint #NipponSteel operated U.S. Steel C…

The Tragedy of Halting Weapons to Ukraine (Jake Sullivan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opinion/trump-ukraine-weapons.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p125#a250702p125

"Untamed" on Netflix was great. Murder mystery in Yosemite National Park with a heart-rending tragedy at its emotional core. Great acting, moves right along, gorgeous scenery. And 6 eps, so not a massive life altering commitment 😁
#tv #miniseries

NFL Hall of Fame Game begins with moment of silence for victims of shooting at league's NYC headquarters

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-hal

Honestly, you know what some blue state governors should do?
Send their NG troops to DC to "help."
Openly say that they trust their troops more than SC and OH troops to obey the law and know what's allowed and what's not,
and they're sending them to reduce the likelihood of a tragedy.
https…

"The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits,”
Megan Greenwell wrote in an eviscerating blog postannouncing her departure.
“It’s that the people posing as experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Greenwell’s entire staff followed her lead shortly after, mass quitting largely in protest of a mandate to abandon higher-traffic stories about politics and internet od…

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Kurt Weill, Golda Schultz, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Robin Ticciati:
🎵 Lost In The Stars - Musical Tragedy ; Lost In The Stars
#KurtWeill #GoldaSchultz #ChamberOrchestraofEurope #RobinTicciati