Chicago Saxophonist Walter Parazaider Dead at 81
The band formed in Parazaider's basement in 1967, and he remained a pivotal part of their sound until he was forced to step aside in 2018 to battle Alzheimer's.
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Every Flag Day, I think about what our flag means to me. I carried it on my shoulder for decades — in the Navy and at NASA. The flag belongs to all of us, and that’s what today is about.
Information Sought
Homicide Detectives are seeking information about the murder of Lamont Goodin, who was stabbed and killed on May 30, 2026, in the unit block of W. Baltimore Street.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact detectives at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
@mattyglesias Can't help but feel that if the Mayor of Baltimore were a Carcetti-esque moderate-coded white democrat this incredible crime drop would be getting way way more national attention.
A herring is a fish.
When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells.
It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail.
Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.
#MISSING: 13-year-old Nasir Tacuma, 5'5" and 145 lbs. Last seen wearing a grey and burgundy shirt, grey shorts with anime, and grey sneakers. He has autism and is high functioning. Last seen in the Essex area on 5/26/24 at 8:15 pm. If located please call 911 or 410-887-0220.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Ravens moms out there!
Perhaps my favorite Ravens mom is Jacoby Jones’ mom, Ms. Emily, who cooked for the entire team before Super Bowl XLVII.
And one of my favorite Ravens mom stories was when Jacoby returned a kickoff 77 yards for a touchdown in the classic 2013 snow game vs. the Vikings, which he caught on the run because he was too busy chatting with Ms. Emily in the end zone. 😂
DOD staff used a military helicopter to fly over a “No Kings” protest and near Kid Rock’s home in what appeared to be a political stunt.
The DOD IG rejected CREW’s request to investigate this possible misuse of military aircraft and taxpayer funds. https://t.co/U2NoMEpaHI
Authorities are telling higher-risk contacts in St Helena to isolate for 45 days.
That alone tells you the concern.
It’s a six-week incubation problem with international scatter.
The grammar nerd in me has to point out that it's "notaries public." (I'm hardly one to judge someone who makes this mistake, though; I still never get "attorneys general" right.)
#Missing 12-year-old Shane Stanley, 5'04" 110 lbs. Last seen in the Catonsville area on 05/05/2026 at 9am wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a tan sweatshirt, black pants, and black shoes. If located please call 911 or 410-887-0872
Gov. Moore has given local police more funding than any Gov in the history of Maryland. Sorry your feelings get in the way of the facts. It takes a village, and he’s proud to be a part of it.
What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.
Dan Orlovsky at 8:18 AM: “I’m not going to overreact to him not being there, maybe he gets there in the next day or two but it certainly sounds like that’s not going to be the case”
Ravens at 8:24 AM: Post Lamar Jackson arriving for 1st day of workouts
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