What is this, the 19th century?

One of mankind’s great achievements, but even it must come to an end. It’s hard to do an operating system upgrade to the edge of the solar system.

The Independent is doing good legwork with this tragic story today. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary student at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma, died last week after being beaten by multiple girls in the high school bathroom. Heartbreaking.

Wisconsin has historically been the site of some awful gerrymandering; while the state as a whole tilts Democratic, the state legislative districts were constructed to give Republicans a supermajority. That changed after the statewide election of a state Supreme Court justice that tipped the court balance liberal. Now the state district lines have been redrawn, the legislature is forecast to be ”up for grabs”, and the Republicans are crying bloody murder. Chalk it up as a win for democracy!

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos created during in-vitro fertilization are children protected by the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. Another day, more rights taken away.

It took her less than 3 minutes in the game to score the 8 points she needed to break the record. She finished with a career-high 49. She’s well within reach of Pete Maravich’s men’s scoring record. And she has one season of eligibility left, if she chooses to use it. The crowd was chanting “one more year!” after the game.

A study of Tibetan monks shows that those practicing meditation had a changed gut biome that included markers associated with a lowered risk of depression and anxiety.

The fact that our physical and mental health is so dependent on a host of foreign organisms living in our intestines never fails to boggle my mind.

Story at Techdirt. At some point if laws are gonna be followed, guys like this need to serve jail time for breaking them. Fines are just a cost of doing business.