How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

Encinitas has about a dozen variable message boards around the city. One of them was tampered with, and the message changed to explicit pictures and words.

“One cheap and easy Halloween trick tradition seemed to dominate headlines on November 1: filling up a sock with flour, then going around the street and smacking neighborhood kids and hapless adults with it. This tradition seemed to begin in the late 19th century and continued for decades. ‘The streets of New York, particularly in the tenement districts, were literally white with flour last night,’ reported the New York Herald on November 1, 1888, noting that groups of boys and girls stood on every street corner armed with socks and looking for victims.” https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/the-halloween-trick-mischief-making-city-kids-at-the-turn-of-the-century-played-on-hapless-adults/

In a 2023 pitch to investors, a "well-financed, highly credentialed" startup named Stardust aimed for a "gradual temperature reduction demonstration" in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. ("Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles," says one s...

Japanese manga publishers have declared victory over Cloudflare after a Tokyo court held the CDN company liable for its customers' piracy.

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