Call it Hillary Clinton’s I-told-you-so moment.  The 2016 Democratic nominee will have an opportunity to address the nation Wednesday in a prime-time speech for the first time since she lost her bid for the White House in a stunning defeat to now-President Trump.  The live address, which will come just before Sen. Kamala Harris's (D-Calif.) speech, will be forward-looking for the most part, with a we-could-have-done-this-better sentiment in the backdrop, according to Clinton allies.  “This is a chance I’m sure she’s been looking forward to for a very long time,” said one longtime Clinton ally. "I think she's anxious to put this dark period behind us and get the nation back on track."

The Golden Gate Wrestling Club, one of the pioneering sports organizations in the world for LGBTQ people, is ending its run after 40 years. The group of wrestlers in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBTQ, was founded by the late Don Jung. It was designed as a safe space for LGBTQ people, though its mission went far beyond that, working with youth and others to build an interest in the sport of wrestling. In his announcement on Facebook, GGWC president Gene Dermody pointed to issues related to the club’s home venue and COVID-19, which has presented unique challenges to grappling sports around the world. “I have invested a lot of my resources since Gay Games 1982, to keep GGWC operating professionally, almost free, and welcoming all,” Dermody wrote. “I promised this to GGWC’s founder Don Jung on his death bed in 1986. Promise kept and debt paid.”

A defining feature of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is that it roughly simulates every corner of our planet, with varying degrees of detail, by leveraging the satellite data that enables Microsoft's Bing Maps. Pick any spot in the world, fly your plane there, and chances are you'll see something resembling the reality.  As players finally get to spend more time with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, they're finding several quirks in Flight Simulator 2020's version of our world, including Buckingham Palace rendered as a boring office building and bizarre glitches that erect impossibly tall skyscrapers where they don't exist.  But players have been flocking to one location in recent days for more troubling reasons: Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in Little St. James, U.S. Virgin Islands. 

A small but evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites. Earth's magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unusually weak spot in the field—called the South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA—allows these particles to dip closer to the surface than normal. Particle radiation in this region can knock out onboard computers and interfere with the data collection of satellites that pass through it—a key reason why NASA scientists want to track and study the anomaly. The South Atlantic Anomaly is also of interest to NASA's Earth scientists who monitor the changes in magnetic field strength there, both for how such changes affect Earth's atmosphere and as an indicator of what's happening to Earth's magnetic fields, deep inside the globe.

George Floyd’s brother called on Americans watching the Democratic National Convention to not only remember the names of his brother and the victims of other high-profile killings of Black people at the hands of police, but those who can’t be collectively mourned by the nation “because their murders didn’t go viral.” “People of all races, all ages, all genders, all backgrounds peacefully protesting in the name of love and unity is a fitting legacy for our brother,” Philonise Floyd told viewers Monday night. “But George should be alive today.” He then listed the names of other Black Americans killed by police: Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Stephon Clark. Atatiana Jefferson. Sandra Bland. In his solemn but emotionally charged segment, Floyd described his brother, who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck, as a selfless man with a generous spirit.

Residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned. The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line for roasted “cocoa nibs” in its factory in Olten, between Zurich and Basel.

The Democratic presidential ticket is set and the kids are not alright. Despite … everything, Trump voters continue to eagerly look forward to Election Day, when they’ll vote for their candidate of choice. By contrast, Biden voters will be pulling his lever come November primarily because he isn’t Trump, and many will be doing so grudgingly. Many of those disenchanted voters are young people, who overwhelmingly sided with Bernie Sanders during primary season (I’m using “young” liberally here, it includes anyone under 50). As has been chronicled at length, the age splits in the Democratic primary were profound; Biden banked less than one-fifth of voters under 45. For under-30 nonwhite voters, the margin was even greater, with millennials and Gen Zers, arguably the most politically animated demographic in the country right now, backing Sanders nearly unanimously. Biden had a chance to close some of that youth enthusiasm gap with a vice president who appealed to their progressive, criminal justice reform–minded politics. He picked Kamala Harris.

In a nationwide rule change that went unnoticed this summer, the U.S. Postal Service has forbidden employees from signing absentee ballots as witnesses while on duty. The change could make it more difficult for Alaskans, particularly rural residents, to vote by mail. In Alaska and several other states, absentee ballots must be signed by a witness who can verify that a ballot was legitimately filled out by a particular voter. Without a signature, the ballot will not be counted. Alaska’s ballot instructions say to “have your signature witnessed by an authorized official or, if no official is reasonably available, by someone 18 years of age or older.” It lists postal officials as an example of an authorized official, but many Alaska voters said postal clerks told them they were forbidden from signing ballots.

In early March, after a quick, two-witness trial, Somerville police officer Shaun Clark was convicted of stealing more than $83,000 from the police union. He was the union's treasurer. By a remote hearing a month later, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Clark, 42, was sentenced to two years probation. He remains a Somerville police officer — on unpaid leave — as the city moves toward firing him. Clark’s theft and conviction remained fairly quiet outside the police department.

He could be a rising star of the party or an alt-right Trojan horse. Or maybe there’s no difference between the two.

In early June, the killing of a Santa Cruz police officer made national headlines. The murder was later linked to the drive-by fatal shooting of a security guard at Oakland’s federal courthouse building, during what began as a peaceful protest for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Black Lives Matter. Both incidents were linked to the upstart “boogaloo bois,” a loose national community often described as an extremist alt-right movement.  Initially organized online, these so-called boogaloo bois have been showing up, heavily armed, at recent protests, and have been linked to other incidents of domestic terrorism and charges of inciting riots. Their goal, it’s been reported, is to start a second Civil War by directly engaging government agents to provoke further violence. Steven Carillo, the alleged shooter in the Santa Cruz and Oakland incidents, was not a participant in the BLM protests, but “came to Oakland to kill cops,” according to the FBI. Immediately following Carrillo’s arrest, the term “boogaloo bois” began trending online. Dozens of articles describing the movement appeared all over mainstream media outlets, from CNN to NPR to the BBC. But none of those reports mentioned that for more than 50 years, the term “boogaloo” has been associated with an African-American-derived dance culture that began in the Bay Area. 

For 40 years, ever since he got elected Arkansas governor at age 32 and thrown out of office at age 34, Democrats have been falling in and out of love with Bill Clinton. At the moment, many of them are feeling distinctly out: The former president’s brand of centrism is seen as too compromising, and his private life and disreputable personal associations too compromised. When will this generation of progressives fall back in? For some, it will be just hours from now, when the 42nd president addresses the virtual Democratic national convention. His familiar fluency surely will help some sympathizers remember why they liked him, or make some skeptics forget why they were so mad.

The University of Notre Dame suspended in-person classes on Tuesday, eight days after the school’s fall semester began and after 146 students and a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said. The two-week suspension, which is effective Wednesday for the school’s 12,000 students, came one day after the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill made a similar announcement and as Michigan State University on Tuesday ordered undergrads to stay home for the rest of the fall "effective immediately."

Leni Riefenstahl’s film communicates the pleasure the people experienced—how “good” it felt to them, as Knausgaard puts it—at having escaped the quotidian chaos of their shabby republic and their trivial private lives, at being liberated from the restrictions of rationality and deliberation, at being on the brink of achieving something large and lasting, deep and simple. Knausgaard attempts to reconstruct the emotions of those who were attracted to National Socialism, on grounds that it is impossible to understand “the last major utopian movement in the west” without understanding what moved Germans to embrace Nazism.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham imagines the world exactly as it always was.

Photographer Jomppe Vaarakallio has been a professional retoucher for 30 years, but he's never seen anything quite like this before. While working on an image, he used Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI software to upscale it… and found that the software added Ryan Gosling’s face to his photo. To be clear, this isn’t a knock on the Gigapixel software. Vaarakallio tells PetaPixel that the software is “amazing” and he uses it all the time. But his experience shows you what happens when computer vision gets tripped up by what looks like a blurry face.

A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories of Instagram content: visually unchallenging, impossible to disagree with, pink. Even if people do not exactly know how to show up every day for something they believe in—particularly during a pandemic—the basic spirit of the message is blandly uplifting for a millisecond during a bleary-eyed morning scroll through the feed: Today, I will, in some way, demonstrate that I believe in something, somehow! Hardly anything about it would dissuade the casual follower from double-tapping her appreciation before moving on. But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory. QAnon is flexible and convoluted, but generally posits that President Donald Trump is locked in a battle with the “deep state,” and is attempting to bring down a ring of pedophiles and child traffickers that counts various high-profile politicians and celebrities as co-conspirators. Most famously, it’s the evolution of Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory that motivated a man to storm into a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant with an AR-15 in December 2016, bent on exposing a supposed pedophilia ring in its basement, which did not exist. When Schroeder’s feed nods to Q, it does so subtly, mostly in her stories and captions. On the grid, she posts photos of her manicures, her graphic tees, her favorite gummy vitamins, and the mommy-and-me sundresses she and her young daughter wear. She is also candid about mental health and the effects that giving birth can have on the body; recently, her followers have watched her prepare for and undergo surgery to correct an abdominal separation.

Hundreds of unpaid and lowly paid bloggers who worked for SB Nation will split $2.5 million.

Dr. Asma Rashid, who runs a members-only medical concierge service in the Hamptons, has received some of the most sought-after party invitations this summer. “We’ve gone to these private, private, private events, where they have me sign a ‘nothing you see in this house can be leaked’ document,” she said. “This is still a party town.” Dr. Rashid is there to administer rapid or real-time tests for coronavirus. She performs the procedure — either a finger prick or a nose swab — in the car, and then lets guests into the house only if their tests come back negative. The entire procedure takes less than 30 minutes. Consider it a pandemic pregame. Suffolk County still lacks rapid testing infrastructure, and the private service is expensive: up to $500 per test, and not all insurance companies will cover the cost. Most doctors don’t even have kits to do the tests; patients willing to pay can wait up to a week for an appointment at the offices that have them in New York City.

The San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. is one of the most exciting young players to arrive in Major League Baseball in quite some time, and is off to an amazing start to the truncated 2020 season. However, the "unwritten rules" of the game caught up to the 21-year-old phenom when he apparently missed a take sign on a 3-0 pitch with the bases loaded and blasted his first career grand slam. That drew the ire of his own manager. "He’s young, a free spirit and focused and all those things," said Padres manager Jayce Tingler said. "That’s the last thing that we’ll ever take away. It’s a learning opportunity and that’s it. He’ll grow from it. "Just so you know, a lot of our guys have green light 3-0. But in this game in particular, we had a little bit of a comfortable lead. We’re not trying to run up the score or anything like that."