Liz Hurder

ICE released a statement after an agent aimed a pepper ball at a priest’s head after he prayed and laughed when he was hit: “If you are obstructing law enforcement, you can expect to be met with force.”

IT'S SO GOOD. people don't understand how *riveting* Rebecca is. It will take 3 hours of your life and you'll wake up from a dazed amazing dream

A modern-day police procedural take on ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’ is in the works at NBC. The series follows Jay Gatsby, a charming investigator with a gift for reading human behavior, and Nicole “Nicky” Carraway, a cop with dreams of becoming a writer. (Source: Deadline)

NEW: Pope Leo XIV is set to become the first sitting pontiff in the Catholic Church’s two-thousand-year history to vote in a secular election. Leo requested an Illinois mail ballot on Oct. 3, and it was sent to his brother John’s home in New Lenox, Ill. John Prevost visited the pope at the Vatican on Wednesday and may now be carrying the ballot back to the Will County clerk by hand. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…

When I was a kid in the 80s, my mom had a big group of friends she took a girls’ trip with every summer. Just a weekend away, a couple hours from home in Michigan - 8 women sharing 4 beds in 2 adjoining hotel rooms, because they were all working class broads with bills to pay and kids to feed. But they did it. Every year. In 1995, my mom died - the 1st among them. The other 7 kept going. Another passed around 2008ish. The other 6 kept going. 2 more passed in quick succession in 2018. The remaining 4 kept going. Another passed 2 years ago. There are 3 left - all in their early-to-mid 70s now - and they still go. I’m only in touch with one of them anymore, and I see her pictures online every year, and I just wanna say with my whole chest that I think this is fucking fabulous and I feel really fucking fortunate to have a similar group of girlfriends who know how to have fun, prioritize doing it, and are game to do it sans spouses & kids. And I really think some people should get outta their heads and outta their homes and do this sort of shit more often.

Okay, so here's the thing. If you didn't read Bad Blood or the early WSJ reporting about Holmes (which I did, obsessively, because I am obsessed with scammers) you had a completely different experience of this movie. You *cannot* have engaged with that media, and then

My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.

18 years ago today, Paramore released ‘Decode.’

last night at an OpenAI community event, the mic got passed around and a guy said he was missing his kid's birthday party to be there we need alcoholics anonymous but for AI