"I first got interested in decluttering two years ago after reading an article about the KonMari Method, the latest organizational method, developed by Japanese influencer Marie Kondo," writes Leo. It’s not the KonMari Method. But the "Convict Method" shares a similar result. https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/03/08/like-marie-kondo-try-convict-method/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky
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"I know it’s too hot in my prison when prisoners start checking into suicide-watch cells in our medical area. People employ various excuses, but most know they do it because the infirmaries have air conditioning." https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/09/19/what-extreme-heat-is-like-in-u-s-prisons/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky
Racket
• Em Cassel
What Are WeDoing Here: Warehouse District Receives Pointless, Expensive-Seeming ‘New Look/Vision’
Plus MN's changing wildfire season, a cellular first from the U, and canine heatwave coverage in today's Flyover news roundup.
Study of a Nude Man #michelangelo #highrenaissance
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
Solar just became Europe’s biggest source of electricity – here’s the milestone it hit

Solar power reached a new milestone across Europe last month, generating a record 52 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity and supplying 25% of all electricity used in the European Union in June 2026, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember.

Give the good weather there are quite a lot of butterflies around this week. This looks like quite an old one that has been in the wars, black faded and very ragged. I wonder what tales it could tell. My butterfly by month page is building nicely.
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond
Blanche Does Cagey Dance on DOJ Independence: Dept of Justice Is ‘Under the Executive Branch’
There was no question heading into Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that Blanche would receive little...
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Kovensky
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like many others in the crowd that day: white,...
Techdirt
• Ken B. Morales
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court. These decisions, which make […]
Simpler instance-starting
We just converted both rss.chat and demo.rss.chat to use a different storage system, instead of using Amazon S3 to store the feeds, we're storing them in our database. So instead of there being two domains for on system, now there's only one. Cuts out one of the most complicated parts of setting up a new instance.
So if this works, it will show up on the blogroll on Scripting News, which is watching the old url, which should redirect to the new one.
Ars Technica
• Scharon Harding
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Ars Technica - All content
• Scharon Harding
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"
The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Ars Technica - All content
• Ashley Belanger
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Ars Technica - All content
• Samuel Axon
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
Whatever
• John Scalzi
Krissy Has a New Toy
Out here in the boonies, many of our neighbors have golf carts that they use for very short trips not on the official roads, like going to visit friends, or hauling their trash cans from their houses at the end of a long driveway to the curb, and then back again. Krissy has always wanted […]
Hello. Heard about this from Manton Reece too and I got curious. We'll see what happens when I click "Publish".
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
Explosive Diarrhea Forcing New York Restaurants To Make Changes
Popular restaurants are changing their menus due to a parasite that causes "explosive diarrhea." Continue reading…