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  1. Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial starts day 7 of deliberations

    PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial started a seventh day of deliberations…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #APTopNews #Connecticut #CTStateWire #Generalnews #Health #Juries #LindsayClancy #Massachusetts #RhodeIsland #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #WilliamSullivan
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  2. 🚨 61 DAYS TO GO!

    📣 #RHODEISLAND Democrats need your help!

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  9. Yeah, I haven’t finished it… Weekly Recap 8/24/2026

    I have a confession.

    I’ve yet to actually finish Dune—the book, anyway. I really enjoyed each of the movies.

    I have, of course, started the book, but here’s my issue: every 2-3 pages, I have to do research. I find myself flipping to the glossary in the back and looking up key terms, except it’s not enough.

    Suddenly, I’m buried in tabs from Internet searches, Reddit threads, and Dune wikis. I’m looking up fremkits, thumpers, ornithopters, and stillsuits. I’m thinking about how spice hallucinations allow interstellar travel to occur. I’m reflecting on how advances in technology could irrevocably alter the ethos of religions in the real world just like they did in the books.

    Hours later, I’ve read [at max] five pages.

    It’s going to take me a while.

    Daily writing prompt What’s a book you never finished but still think about? View all responses

    Good morning and happy Monday, friends.

    If all goes as planned, I’ll probably be about 40,000 feet in the air when Monday officially hits—perhaps even when this post gets sent to you. As such, I’m writing this section of my update while sitting near Terminal C, Gate 36 of Boston’s lovely Logan International Airport.

    Gate 36 isn’t where our flight will be departing, however—it’s just where there happened to be space to sit and charge devices. Actually, we don’t really know for sure where we’ll be leaving from. For every hour that we sit here, our flight seems to be getting delayed by 90 minutes. At this rate, will we ever make it home? Are we stuck at the airport forever?

    Cue narrative voice over: “But you’re probably wondering how I got here…”

    As a few of you are already aware, a significant portion of this past week was spent taking a kid to college.

    This involved flying to Boston (with a slight detour in New York), renting a car, and driving to Rhode Island. On the plus side, we did get to eat every meal in a different state.

    And I have been graced by the type of wisdom that can only be contained within crispy, fried batter.

    We spent a few days at an AirBnB—which I have been unaffectionately referring to as “home sweet hell”—and holy smokes, my friends…. this place was not like the listing pictures at all. Unequivocally, it has been the worst AirBnB experience we have ever had. Like… the floors were somehow permanently sticky, the pillows and blankets were few and far between, and there were so many cracks in the window AC unit that mosquitoes were just letting themselves in.

    I have composed a haiku to commemorate the occassion:

    Why is it sticky
    Not nearly enough cover
    Skeeters unceasing

    There was plenty else wrong with it, too, but those were the complaints that fit neatest into haiku form. Were it not for the fact that we needed a physical address in Rhode Island to ship an unbelievable amount of college-related boxes to, we would have gotten the hell out of there.

    That was the bad. Please enjoy some photographic highlights of things that were not so bad.

    For instance, I found a sunflower. And yes, if you have a very pretty sunflower growing in front of your house, I will probably stop and take a picture of it.

    We found a cool Mexican place in Providence.

    Hey, how about combining flan and chocolate cake?

    At some point, I got another pizza…

    I am really happy to report that I finally found a legit source of coffee milk. I’ve been wanting to try it since our first visit.

    It reminded me of cereal milk with a slight coffee aftertaste.

    For a brief moment, we just wandered around Boston to kill time. I met up with some locals, but they were pretty busy bathing in a puddle.

    The return trip was basically the entire process in reverse, except this time we at least have a direct flight back to West Palm, which… right, like I mentioned, we’re still waiting on that one to happen.

    Earlier in the week, I passed my FCLE. Now I can stop thinking about US Government, the Constitution, and landmark Supreme Court cases, right?

    I posted Nicholas Pearson’s interview on YouTube. I think it make a very excellent episode. You should definitely go watch it.

    My fall semester has officially started. I have no idea what to expect from my classes—they’re all super technical. I’m signed up for them because they’re required for my degree, but there wasn’t a huge amount of info available on what they’ll all be covering.

    That’s all for now, friends. I can promise you one thing: I’m exhausted. Stay tuned for more soon!

    #books #boston #college #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2866 #dune #food #providence #reading #rhodeIsland #sunflowers #updates
  10. 'Dangerous' air quality in Detroit, Minneapolis as thick wildfire smoke shrouds the sky for millions

    Smoke from wildfires burning in Ontario have caused air quality to reach "dangerous" levels across Canada, and the northeastern and midwestern United States. And it could get worse before conditions improve.

    By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist

    Published Jul 15, 2026 11:50 AM EDT | Updated Jul 16, 2026

    " Massive plumes of smoke are descending across parts of Canada and the United States, creating dangerous air quality and scenes reminiscent of the historic wildfire smoke outbreak from three summers ago.

    " 'In 2023, a major fire outbreak in Quebec caused days of unhealthy air quality in the northeastern U.S.,' AccuWeather Vice President of Forecast Operations Dan DePodwin said. 'This event could cause similar levels of poor air quality in spots.'

    "Air quality alerts have been issued for millions of people, including across all of #Connecticut, #Delaware, #Massachusetts, #Michigan, #NewHampshire, #NewJersey, #NewYork, #Ohio, #Pennsylvania, #RhodeIsland and #Wisconsin.

    "Over 800 wildfires are currently burning across Canada, including dozens that are out of control across western #Ontario, the source of most of the smoke. 'Many of these fires may have been started by lightning,' AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said.

    "On Wednesday, #Toronto had some of the worst air quality in North America, reaching 'very unhealthy' levels with an AQI of 220. #BostonMA was not far behind with an unhealthy AQI of 147.

    " 'When the AQI climbs into the 150+ range for a full day outside, that’s in the ballpark of [smoking] 7 to 9 cigarettes,' Dr. Jonathan M. Tan, division chief of General Anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told AccuWeather.

    "Conditions deteriorated by Thursday morning, with widespread "dangerous" air quality across nearly all the Great Lakes region and into parts of the Northeast. Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, as well as Detroit, were among the worst cities at daybreak Thursday, with AQIs over 340.

    " 'Any exposure to the air, even for a few minutes, can lead to serious health effects on everybody,' Plume Labs said.
    Avoid outdoor activities.' "

    Read more:
    accuweather.com/en/weather-new

    #CanadianWildfires #CRBox #AirQuality
    #WildfireSmoke #AQI #HEPAFilters #CorsiRosenthalBox #AirCleaners #Masks #ParticulateMatter #RespiratorMasks #StayIndoors #HazardousAir #AirQualityAlert

  11. Brown professor says students used #AI to cheat — and made this ‘very basic strategic mistake’

    Serrano knew something was “fishy” when several tests came back with an identical circuitous answer to a mathematical question, instead of the simpler response it warranted. His suspicions were piqued when he saw the grade distribution and confirmed when a teaching assistant fed the question through ChatGPT, which solved the problem the same way.

    Among the 86 students in “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory,” the average score on the midterm was 96, and nearly half of the students earned a perfect 100. In previous years, the average midterm grade ranged from 65 to 80.

    If his students’ first error in judgment was trying to game a game theorist, their second was assuming no one else would think to do the same — “a very basic strategic mistake” 

    #brownuniversity #rhodeisland

    bostonglobe.com/2026/07/15/met