Gawker: If Netflix asked, would you have played Dahmer? JP: No, I don’t think so. I don’t know what’s to be learned from Jeffrey Dahmer in 2022. I think the money should be given to people who want to build a world with a little imagination, and not just make the same Jeffrey Dahmer story over and over again.

Years before people in Jackson were recently left without running water for several days, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves claimed to have helped block money to fund water system repairs in the capital city. Reeves, a Republican, blames Jackson’s water crisis on mismanagement at the city level. The city’s latest water troubles are far from its first, and they have stemmed from decaying infrastructure beyond one water treatment plant. The EPA said 300 boil water notices have been issued over the past two years in the city. As Reeves climbed Mississippi’s political ladder, he cited his opposition to financially helping the capital as evidence of his fiscal conservatism. Jackson-area lawmakers say the troubled water system is one example of Jackson’s status as a political punching bag for Republican officials, who control the Legislature and the state Bond Commission.

Nearly half of the planet’s bird species are in decline, according to a definitive report that paints the grimmest picture yet of the destruction of avian life. The State of the World’s Birds report, which is released every four years by BirdLife International, shows that the expansion and intensification of agriculture is putting pressure on 73% of species. Logging, invasive species, exploitation of natural resources and climate breakdown are the other main threats. Globally, 49% of bird species are declining, one in eight are threatened with extinction and at least 187 species are confirmed or suspected to have gone extinct since 1500. Most of these have been endemic species living on islands, although there is an increase in birds now going extinct on larger land masses, particularly in tropical regions. In Ethiopia, for example, the conversion of grassland to farmland has caused an 80% decrease in endemic Liben larks since 2007. Just 6% of bird species globally are increasing.

Not just the academics, but industrial AI needs a deep re-think, argues LeCun. The self-driving car crowd, startups such as Wayve, have been "a little too optimistic," he says, by thinking they could "throw data at" large neural networks "and you can learn pretty much anything."

Students at over 90 public schools are protesting the governor’s proposal to roll back transgender rights.

The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme, conspiracy-tinged positions, even before the US Capitol attack, that a fellow member of the rightwing Freedom Caucus thought they “may have had serious cognitive issues”.

A Fontana man accused of shooting his wife and allegedly kidnapping his 15-year-old daughter, leading to an Amber Alert, has been shot in Hesperia, officials said Tuesday. Anthony Graziano, the suspect who has been on the run since Monday morning, was fatally shot during the incident. The shootout was preceded by a pursuit after authorities came in contact with Graziano earlier Tuesday upon receiving a tip that the suspect's vehicle had been seen. After a pursuit and shooting, the California Highway Patrol canceled the Amber Alert for 15-year-old Savannah Graziano, the suspect's daughter. Video from the scene reveals a barrage of gunfire on the 15 Freeway near Main Street in Hesperia, where the shootout occurred. Graziano's white truck was riddled with bullet holes.

In windowless cells in the former death row ward. In the coming days, Louisiana officials will incarcerate about two dozen children inside the old death row of Louisiana State Penitentiary, also called Angola, a massive maximum security prison for adult men that was once notorious for its violence. Children as young as 10 with a history of assault may be transferred from their current juvenile correctional facilities to the former death row, where they will sleep in windowless cells with floor-to-ceiling metal bars that lock them in. The conditions are more punitive than those at the state’s high-security juvenile facilities, where kids normally sleep in dorms. The Office of Juvenile Justice will house the children at Angola temporarily while finishing construction on another place to detain them. Several Louisiana law clinics and the ACLU sued to try to stop the transfers, arguing that keeping children at the adult prison—even temporarily—was unconstitutional and psychologically harmful, and that it might increase their risk of suicide. Though the kids will be housed separately from the adult men, the facility “is going to scream ‘prison’” to them, Vincent Schiraldi, a juvenile justice expert for the plaintiffs and the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, told the court. But on Friday, Chief District Judge Shelly Dick reluctantly signed off on the plan, stating that incarcerating kids at Angola would potentially be “traumatizing” for them, but that government officials had nowhere better to keep the kids, who pose security risks. “The prospect of putting a teenager to bed at night in a locked cell behind razor wire surrounded by swamps at Angola is disturbing,” the judge wrote. But “the threat of harm these youngsters present to themselves, and others, is intolerable.”

Gadsden County religious leaders are demanding a local commissioner and Gov. Ron DeSantis "come forward" to address allegations that the commissioner resigned last Friday after a photo surfaced purportedly showing him wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood at what could have been a Halloween party years earlier. Jeffery Moore, a Havana resident and former Department of Revenue employee, was appointed by DeSantis in late July and abruptly resigned from the post in Florida’s only predominantly Black county after the photo began circulating in the local community. Moore, the only Republican on the five-member board, also ended his campaign for the District 2 race, which was to be decided in the Nov. 8 general election. In a short letter to the Governor's Office, Moore did not explain exactly why he opted to resign. "Please accept this notification of my resignation, effective this date of Sept. 23, 2022, from the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners," Moore wrote. "Thank you for the opportunity to have served in the position, however for personal reasons I am no longer able to continue." Moore did not respond to questions about his resignation, the photo or the KKK outfit. In an email to the Tallahassee Democrat, he said he was "in the middle of hurricane preparations" and would be in contact on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning.

Players in mobile games trigger downloads of shows no one may be hearing for more than seconds

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had weeks ago warned Germany about possible attacks on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, German magazine Spiegel said on Tuesday, after gas leaks in Russia pipelines to Germany were reported. The German government received the CIA tip in summer, Spiegel reported, citing unnamed sources, adding that Berlin assumes a targeted attack on Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.

The 23-year-old suspect burned the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies.

The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressingclimate change and other pressing planetary constraints.

Guidance Document Public Comment Forum. This is Youngkin's proposal for how the Virginia educational system will handle transgender youth moving forward.

They're trying an alleged cheating scandal this week

Everything we know about a massive leak in the middle of the Baltic Sea.

A hardline Christian activist and an evangelical church in North Texas are arguing that federal employment protections for LGBT workers don’t apply to bisexuals. In a brief filed with the federal appeals court last week, their lawyers argued the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision barring employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity does not apply to bisexuals — as long as bi men are being discriminated against “on equal terms” as bi women. “An employer who discriminates on account of an employee or job applicant’s bisexual orientation (or conduct) cannot engage in ‘sex’ discrimination as defined,” the lawyers wrote, “because that employer would have taken the exact same action against an identically situated individual of the opposite biological sex.” Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell and Gene Hamilton, with the Trump-affiliated American First Legal, are representing the plaintiffs. Their clients are Braidwood Management, a business owned by anti-LGBT activist Steven Hotze, and Bear Creek Bible Church in Keller. If they win, employers with a sincere religious belief would be carved out of the 2020 ruling in Bostock vs. Clayton County that barred sex-based discrimination in the workplace. Mitchell sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2018, arguing that employers with religious objections should be able to hire and fire employees based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. Last year, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled largely in his favor.

A rash of noises described as “explosive diarrhea, vomiting, and a weird, vaguely sexual moan” hit an American Airlines flight last week. It's not the only one.

After learning that a man held at the Rikers Island jail complex had suffered cardiac arrest and was on the brink of death, Louis A. Molina, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, issued a directive to his subordinates. “Make sure we do what we can,” Mr. Molina wrote on Thursday in an email obtained by The New York Times, to ensure the man was “off the Department’s count.” Hours later, after the man, Elmore Robert Pondexter, was granted a so-called compassionate release from detention, he was taken off life support and died at Bellevue Hospital. Because he had been freed, the Correction Department did not count his death as having occurred in its custody, issuing no news release and providing no notice to the city Board of Correction, a jails oversight panel. Mr. Molina does not have the authority to free people from custody on his own, and how much weight his directive carried in the ultimate decision to release Mr. Pondexter was not clear. But the direct involvement of the city’s top jail official appeared to show the lengths to which Mr. Molina was willing to go to keep the death figures down. And although other jail officials have not counted deaths that occurred after ailing detainees were freed, Mr. Molina issued his instruction while under intense pressure to show improvements on Rikers Island — or risk a federal takeover of the city’s troubled jail system. In a statement late Monday night, Danielle De Souza, a Correction Department spokeswoman, denied that Mr. Molina emailed his subordinates out of concern for the department’s death numbers, calling that interpretation “incorrect and offensive.”