Flutterby™! (short)

My neighbor turned me on to this story of a former coworker of his.

If I ever deck someone in a church, I hope I'm prepared enough to throw multiple 40 oz "incendiary devices" at the cops.

https://contracostaherald.com/...-during-high-speed-police-chase/

I recently learned that the city of Petaluma complained about the guerilla garden at the 5th and H St traffic circle because of the height.

This is what real cities do for neighborhood traffic circles.

Give tools to your AI support bots. What could go wrong? 404 Media: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked. (Among other places, via Tara Calishain).

Related, and I missed the source, but I saw a reference to one of the code assistant chatbots writing to root-owned files by using the fact that they were in the "docker" group, and that they could create external mounts to docker containers, and then running the process overwriting the files as root inside the container.

I didn't track down the full source, and I don't pretend to understand Docker configs, but it sure seems like giving these things access to tools is fraught...

Audiveris is amazing for music OCR, though I'm trying to figure out how to clean up lyrics, but dang the search engines are falling down on serving up the malware dot-com address rather than the actual site.

We definitely need a better web.

https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveris

I love a good "show asks if there's anyone in the audience who can play, random pianist saves the show" story.

https://www.the-independent.co...ence-concert-video-b2987083.html

Helping Celia put up her pictures at the Rivermark Community Credit Union.

That drama with the little faun who spent all day alone in the shadow by the house has the cutest resolution. https://youtube.com/shorts/aEgeqCyW8rc