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UPDATE: As of 5:15 PM, the fire on W. Franklin Street was still ongoing, but a Chapel Hill Fire spokesperson confirmed that it was being contained to Mediterranian Deli. Smoke and water damage, however, is expected for the surrounding businesses as well. chapelboro.com/news/fire/fir…

Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs jailed bbc.in/44T93aN

Ok I kinda want to gauge something pls so y'all bear with me. If tomorrow you wake up a multi-millionaire on the condition that you *can't use it for charity* what would you buy? Serious question. Rules: - no charity - your debts are already paid off. I wanna see somethin.

Waffle House workers in Columbia, South Carolina are on strike, citing unsafe working conditions and low pay “Nobody’s scared, we’re ready. We are going to keep fighting by any means necessary.” postandcourier.com/free-time…

Idc how fine you are no nigga driving 45mins to see you.

Visiting Portland’s first Black rodeo, @tressiemcphd writes that it had “to talk about freedom within a state that wrote the enslaved out of the narrative entirely,” had to “create a vibe from a cultural mélange that prides itself on being unclassifiable.” nyti.ms/3NgmdaR

What’s the most unhinged thing one of your TTRPG characters has done in a game? 👀

If you got excited about this as a kid you now collect dice

As of just now, AskHistorians has taken its forums offline to protest @Reddit's policies regarding API and third-party developers. You may well be thinking: why has such a dry-sounding issue managed to spark one of the largest user revolts in social media history? Well... 🧵

* People ask LLMs to write code * LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist * Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads * People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinat…

Now that I really sit and think about it, how the hell were we getting around before GPS..

Only you really old mf-ers will get this one 😂