In brief: There is a very small chance that a weak tropical system could develop near the Florida or Georgia coasts over the next couple days. Any development would be on the lower end of the intensity scale, and the primary impact will be some heavy rainfall.

Un-Sunshine State

A weak disturbance is crawling up and just offshore of Florida’s east coast. The odds of this thing actually developing as it comes north are pretty low. Currently the NHC holds the odds around 10 percent. No real model solutions suggest that this will formally organize. Perhaps there’s a slightly higher chance of development as it turns the corner past the Carolinas and heads out into the open Atlantic. Whatever the case, in terms of a formal tropical entity forming, the chances are very low.

That being said, there will be impacts from this system as it comes north, and it will primarily come in the form of rainfall. South Florida took on a good dose of rainfall yesterday.

A flood watch is in effect for Fort Lauderdale, Miami, the Everglades, and Naples today. While official rainfall forecasts are on the order of another 2 to 4 inches of rain, some model guidance does hint at maximum totals in isolated areas hitting upwards of 6 inches or even a bit more. That would be most likely to occur south of Alligator Alley, which is to say in a less populous part of South Florida. Additional rains are likely tomorrow.

The actual disturbance we’re tracking will be up near Jacksonville by tomorrow evening. As it comes northward, it will spread some locally heavy rain up the coast. You can see from the map above how anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain is plausible across central and northern Florida. Some sort of weak low will probably come ashore between Savannah and Charleston tomorrow night, bringing more locally heavy rain up the coast there as well. Since this is likely to just sort of track along the coast and move inland from there, the heaviest rains will remain offshore, but anywhere from 1 to 3 inches is possible along the coast from Jacksonville through Myrtle Beach.

From there, the disturbance will turn right and exit the Carolinas out to sea where it will make another attempt at low-end development.

Bottom line? Whether this is unnamed or gets tagged as something formal, the impacts will be the same with locally heavy rain and flash flooding possible on the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and North Florida, as well as across South Florida.

Elsewhere

Meanwhile, the GFS model has Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” on repeat. It continues to show a fantasy (read: phantom) storm in the 10-to-15-day portion of the model. It remains alone, as it often is this time of year. No other model support exists. So we will continue to disregard it as fantasy. Broadly, conditions become a tinge more favorable next week in the Caribbean or southern Gulf, but we don’t see any specific systems of note at this time.

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In brief: Houston will see typical June weather this week before temperatures spike this weekend. Highs in the upper 90s will coincide with an influx of Saharan dust that will make for hazy skies and deep red sunsets. Some relief may arrive next week.

Tuesday

If you liked Monday’s weather, you’re in luck, because today will be similar. Much of the region will see temperatures of around 90 degrees, or slightly above this afternoon, with mostly sunny skies. Winds will generally be from the south at 10 mph, with gusts up to 20 mph. From late morning into the afternoon we may see a few showers streaming inland from the coast, but overall rain chances are probably only about 10 percent. Low temperatures tonight will only drop into the upper 70s for most locations.

Wednesday

A cold front will die north of the Houston area on Tuesday night, but it could perturb the atmosphere enough to generate some shower activity. Areas north of Houston (i.e. College Station) may see some showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday morning, with the broader Houston area seeing scattered activity during the daytime. Overall rain chances will be about 30 percent in the city, with mostly slight accumulations. Partly cloudy skies should help limit high temperatures in the lower 90s.

Thursday and Friday

These days will see a warming trend, with highs in the low- to mid-90s and mostly sunny skies. We cannot rule out a chance of rain, but it is likely on the order of 20 percent daily. We’ll continue to see southerly winds of around 10 mph, with higher gusts, and warm nights. Beginning on Thursday or Friday, and lasting into the weekend, we will see increasingly hazy skies due to the influx of Saharan dust. This is fairly typical for this time of year, and will reduce visibility while cranking up the vibrancy of sunsets.

Saturday and Sunday

Hazy and hot. Highs both days should be in the mid- to upper-90s for most locations, with the possibility of some inland areas hitting 100 degrees as high pressure builds over the area. There will be a slight chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms both days, but it likely is on the order of 10 percent. Nights will be sultry, with temperatures only dropping to about 80 degrees.

Next week

I am hopeful that high pressure will retreat some next week. This should allow temperatures to fall back into the lower- or mid-90s, and bring us a healthy chance of showers each day. This is nearly a week out, however, so no promises.

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…

1. How to ask HR for additional support without undermining my boss

Recently, I raised a concern with my skip-level manager, Crowley, about a colleague (Alastair) making inappropriate comments about my appearance. Crowley immediately flagged the comments as inappropriate, told me I shouldn’t have to deal with remarks about my age or appearance at work, and said he’d speak to Alastair’s manager — which he did the same day and confirmed when it was done. He also told me to come to him again if anything similar happens.

Now, Alastair has emailed me to apologize and ask what, specifically, he said that made me feel disrespected. Crowley is willing to address it directly with him, but feels it’s best done in person and he’s leaving for a two-week business trip in two days. I don’t think it’s my job to remind Alastair of the specifics of what he said that was upsetting.

I agreed with that plan initially, and I do respect that as a manager Crowley wants to address this face to face. But as the hours pass today, I’ve realized this situation is still causing me a lot of stress and impacting my ability to focus. I’d like to explore a way to move forward with more support, ideally sooner rather than later, so I’d like to involve HR.

Complicating things, my direct supervisor, Bobby, has been on vacation this week. He’s aware of past issues I’ve had with Alastair, but not of this recent development.

To be clear, I don’t think Crowley has mishandled anything. He’s taken this seriously and responded quickly. I just think HR involvement could provide more support and help ensure accountability. I don’t want to suggest I’m unhappy with how Crowley has handled this — I simply need more help navigating it. How can I raise this with HR in a way that’s respectful to him while still advocating for what I need?

I don’t know, I think Crowley handled this pretty close to ideally. The one thing I’d like to see him do that he hasn’t already done is to respond to Alastair and say that he’ll speak with him further when he’s back from his trip and that meanwhile Alastair should leave you alone and not pester you to give him answers. Ideally you’d just ask Crowley to do that before he leaves; that’s a message he can deliver in an email and doesn’t require him to be in the office to do.

I’d go to HR if Crowley wasn’t handling things, but he did.

If you want, you can also respond to Alastair’s email, cc Crowley and Alastair’s direct manager, and say, “Please speak to Crowley about this when he’s back; it’s not something I want to discuss further. Thank you.” If Alastair doesn’t respect that and Crowley isn’t there to deal with it, then you have a new issue, and that’s something you could take to HR — but as things stand right now, I think HR would be an unwarranted escalation that ignores that Crowley has already acted very decisively.

That’s not to say you can’t go to HR now if you want to. I just don’t think it’s necessary when you have a boss who’s clearly on top of this and handling it well.

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2. Are employees who casually recruit job applicants (but aren’t involved with hiring) held to the same legal standards?

I saw a post in my city’s subreddit where someone was advertising that their job was hiring. They were not in charge of the hiring but said they were looking for someone, preferably female so they could be “besties,” and to contact them if interested.

This made me wonder, are employees who recruit — whether looking for a fun coworker, or a referral bonus — held to the same legal standards? Would this violate any gender discrimination laws when not coming from the company itself such as a hiring manager, HR, or recruiter?

To be clear, I don’t mind women giving each other a boost in the job world. I’m just curious about the legality of it and comparable statements. Swapping the genders would definitely feel weirder, but I think it works the same either way. It does seem that would open the door for employees to push out certain genders/classes from the hiring pool while the official company stance remained “neutral.”

Definitely not okay! The person may have been thinking of themselves as not officially recruiting for their company and so therefore not governed by the same laws, but they were acting as a representative of their company when soliciting candidates and they are exposing their company to legal risk. That post alone is unlikely to lead to a lawsuit, but if the company ended up rejecting a man for a less qualified woman and that man happened to have seen the post, he’d have grounds to question whether gender was illegally a factor in the decision.

Her company would undoubtedly tell her to stop if they knew about it. (And that’s before we even get into how odd it is to solicit random strangers to be your work “bestie,” although I’m guessing that was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)

3. I just started a new job — can I mention I’m interested in a different area?

I’ve started a new job as the manager of a new area for my organization and couldn’t be more excited! It’s a great opportunity and I’m grateful. All of the team members I’ve met so far have been wonderful.

The role is new, and my boss has made it clear I’ll have a lot of agency, in terms of projects, focus areas, and even shaping the department over time. He’s also expressed genuine interest in supporting my long-term career goals, which has me reflecting on what those might be.

I have some strong ideas for this role and plan to throw myself fully into the work. That said, I’ve also been thinking ahead. Long-term, I could see myself growing or shifting into a different area; let’s call my current area llamas and the different area alpacas. There’s a full alpacas department here, and while llama and alpaca work have a lot of overlap, I know there are distinct skills and responsibilities as well.

I’m wondering about how to gracefully, yet intentionally, work towards this shift. I don’t want to give the impression that I’m not interested in llamas. I am! I enjoy the work, and I’m experienced and skilled at it. I just think alpacas is an adjacent field with strong long-term potential. I believe a lot of my llama experience would translate, but would love more opportunities to gain experience and perhaps earn some certifications in this field.

What’s the best way to go about this? Is it okay to express interest in exploring this adjacent field early on, or should I wait until I’ve been here longer? Would it be appropriate to talk to the director of alpacas at some point, or is that something best filtered through my boss?

I’m worried about unintentionally sending a message that I view the llama department as just a stepping stone. I don’t! But since my boss told me he wants to help me reach my longer-term goals, I’ve been thinking about what those are, and alpacas seem pretty great.

Well … if I’d just hired someone to lead a new area for the organization, I wouldn’t be thrilled to hear they were actually hoping to move to a different area. It would be one thing if you came in as a junior team member, but as the person leading the department, I’m hoping you’re going to be invested in and engaged with this work before you start thinking about moving to something different. (And even if you were a junior team member, it would be better to wait until you’d been in your first role for a while.)

I’d wait a minimum of one year before you mention it at all and see how things are going at that point.

4. Is it rude to study during my lunch hour?

I am employed full-time and am also pursuing graduate study in computer science in an online college program, which requires a lot of reading.

At work we have an hour for lunch. I have been in the habit of using that time to read assigned textbook materials while I eat lunch. The only place to eat lunch in the office is in a common break room. My coworkers know that I am a graduate student, but they keep trying to interrupt my textbook reading to include me in the general conversation. It is not feasible for me to go out of the office to eat lunch in my car and study, as the parking lot is next to a noisy freeway. Nobody has ever told me that it is rude for me to study at lunch. Nevertheless am I somehow obligated to cease studying at lunch and focus on my coworkers?

Nope, you can study at lunch. It’s not rude; that time is your own. But people are probably trying to include you in the discussion out of a sense of politeness.

Headphones are the solution here! You’d think the act of reading would itself be enough of a visual signal that you’re immersed in something else, but it’s clearly not — so let headphones provide an additional visual signal. And you also might try saying when you sit down, “I’ve got to do a reading assignment for a class, so I’m going to put on headphones and block everything out.” And if someone misses that and interrupts you later on, it’s fine to answer briefly and then say, “Sorry, I’ve got to focus on this reading right now” and go straight back to it.

5. Recent grad with no car — how to answer “reliable transportation”

I’m graduating next week and I’ve started looking for work. How do I answer, “Do you have reliable transportation?”

I currently live in a city with an excellent public transportation system and therefore have no need of a car. Sadly, my field is very small so I won’t be able to stay and work in this city. Remote work is also impossible since my field is a laboratory-based science and you can do very little of it outside the building.

Should I assure the people I’m interviewing that not only will I sort out housing before moving, I’ll ask get a car? I intend to. I have ironically enough saved as much as a car costs, thanks to several years of subway travel and not paying for parking, insurance, and gas.

You don’t need to get into the details — you can just say “yes” to “do you have reliable transportation?” because you’re confident that you do or you will. They are assuming you will sort out housing on your own (you don’t need to proactively emphasize that unless they specifically inquire), and if asked you can tell them you’ve got transportation covered, too, as long as you’re confident that you will.

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Benjamin Mayo, writing at 9to5Mac:

Apple has appealed parts of the Digital Markets Act law citing user privacy concerns. Specifically, Apple is contesting the interoperability requirements that say data like notification content and WiFi networks should be made available to third-parties.

Apple says the DMA as written allows others to “access personal information that even Apple doesn’t see”. This is because features like notification rendering and WiFi network data are currently handled on-device and stored in an encrypted fashion, so Apple cannot see that stuff. However, the DMA does not necessarily require third-party agents who would be able to access this same data to commit to the same standards of privacy and security.

Here’s Apple’s latest statement on the matter, in full:

At Apple, we design our technology to work seamlessly together, so it can deliver the unique experience our users love and expect from our products. The EU’s interoperability requirements threaten that foundation, while creating a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation. These requirements will also hand data-hungry companies sensitive information, which poses massive privacy and security risks to our EU users. Companies have already requested our users’ most sensitive data — from the content of their notifications, to a full history of every stored WiFi network on their device — giving them the ability to access personal information that even Apple doesn’t see. In the end, these deeply flawed rules that only target Apple — and no other company — will severely limit our ability to deliver innovative products and features to Europe, leading to an inferior user experience for our European customers. We are appealing these decisions on their behalf, and in order to preserve the high-quality experience our European customers expect.

Apple’s full statement is worth reading closely. Specifically, this sentence jumped out to me: “In the end, these deeply flawed rules that only target Apple — and no other company — will severely limit our ability to deliver innovative products and features to Europe, leading to an inferior user experience for our European customers.” The Wall Street Journal’s story on the appeal, for example, didn’t include that portion of Apple’s statement. But that’s the part that explains what’s going to happen if the EU upholds these “interoperability” requirements, which are intended to require Apple to give away its own intellectual property as though Apple were a public utility. To cite just one example, the Commission’s March ruling requires Apple to make AirDrop available to third-party devices, as though AirDrop was an open standard. (It also requires Apple to allow AirDrop to be replaced on iOS devices, like an interchangeable component, with third-party file sharing software.)

When you think about it, this is nothing like the EU’s recent-ish mandate that most electronic devices must support USB-C ports for charging. I still think that law was unnecessary — the market forces had worked, and the whole world had either already moved (like iPads did starting in 2018) or was on the cusp of moving to USB-C (like iPhones). But at least requiring the inclusion of USB-C for charging is actual open interoperability. USB comes from a legitimate industry consortium. Same thing with the Chinese government seemingly forcing Apple’s hand to adopt RCS in order to get the necessary certifications for 5G cellular networking in China — RCS is an industry standard protocol. Mandating the inclusion of a standardized port or standardized protocol is the sort of thing government regulatory bodies do. That’s very different than if the EC had regulated port compatibility by requiring Apple to open up Lightning, or if China had regulated messaging by requiring Apple to open iMessage for other companies to use as though they’re open standards.

The EC’s March mandate basically says that third-party devices must be permitted to do everything Apple’s own devices do when it comes to communicating or interoperating with iPhones and iPads, even if that requires allowing those third-party companies to install and run system-level background processes with broad privileges on iOS. In fact, as Mayo alludes to above, in order to have the same capabilities as Apple’s own devices do, third-party system software extensions might need broader privileges.

I’ve long seen that there are two ways Apple can comply with this mandate, if the EU court declines Apple’s appeal. The first is what most people are thinking, and surely what the European Commission’s bureaucrats are thinking: that Apple will somehow make all third-party devices as capable as Apple’s own when it comes to pairing with and communicating with iPhones and iPads. (And that when Apple is set to unveil new devices, they’ll share the details with third parties in advance so they can do the same things.) The second, though, is that Apple will limit its own devices in the EU and only in the EU to the same features available to third-party devices through open standards like Bluetooth. New features and entire devices will either come late, or never, to the EU. We’re already seeing that with iPhone Mirroring — perhaps the single best feature Apple announced (and actually shipped) last year. I use iPhone Mirroring every day while I’m working. We’re one week out from WWDC 2025 and iPhone Mirroring still isn’t available in the EU. I think it’s very clear that under the EC’s current DMA “interoperability” mandate, Apple would be required to somehow make it work with third-party devices and PCs. If AirDrop were brand new, users in the EU wouldn’t get that either, I suspect. And if this mandate holds up, EU users might lose AirDrop. The same is true of entire devices like AirPods and Apple Watch.

Apple’s statement doesn’t say that complying with these breathtaking demands will adversely affect their customers around the world. They’re saying it will lead “to an inferior user experience for our European customers”. Mandating that the public has to be allowed to use the same doorways as a (say) hotel’s own staff doesn’t mean those existing doors will be opened to everyone. It could lead to those doors being closed to everyone. And all of a sudden no one staying at the hotel is getting food from the kitchen.

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Paggi House at The Loren is quite the special venue. A historic home turned contemporary gallery, it’s a space to explore art through the lens of the past, present, and future with its hand laid brick walls, an enclosed courtyard preserving an original well, and creaking wooden floors. Its latest exhibition, Unstable Territory: Reflections on Memory, features six artists whose work offers thoughtful reflections on the nature of memory, its fragility and fluidity through paintings, drawings, and more.

Curated by art advisors Erin Ellis and Kristen Force of Ellis Force Art Partners, in cooperation with 12.26, Ochi Gallery, and Workplace, the show includes artists who were on the pair’s “dream lists” from galleries they had worked with before.

As they began their initial outreach, a theme quickly emerged. Ellis explained that the exhibition showcases works that “[deal] with memories, collected and fragmented, taking ephemera such as photographs and film stills to talk about how as humans we remember things and how it shapes our identity.” The result is a visually diverse yet cohesive show that provides moments to wonder. 

Unstable Territory, which marks the duo’s first curatorial project, is also a testament to the city’s robust appetite for art. While it’s still early in Paggi House’s renaissance as an art venue after a decade-long closure and past life as a fine-dining establishment, the show has been well-attended. The art world is growing and there is such an interest. People seem to be clamoring for art events in Austin,” said Ellis.

Choosing the right selections from Austin artist Breck Baig was a process the curators described as “just magic.” Baig’s abstract pieces evoke emotion through color and form, and speak to ideas of memory and nature like Ore Creek, a painting that reminded me of summer afternoons spent at Barton Springs, hot air blazing and only cooled by the water. Another, Lily Pulitzer Acid Trip, is a blend of psychedelic pink, green, and yellow. 

Dallas-born artist b chehayeb’s works, on the other hand, are filled with symbols like cowboy boots, stars, and horses. Tomboy Texas Theater, a piece that reflects on childhood, gender, and self-expression, references her experience of performative girlhood while participating in high school theater. “It’s always a privilege to show work in my home state of Texas. As a child, I remember feeling that it was a land full of storytellers floating in and out of languages and cultures. This show with Ellis Art Force Partners and Paggi House is an exciting reunion and reminder that art is still bringing so many of us together,” she said.

Twins Laura and Rachel Lancaster, both UK-based, share glimpses of past memories through large-scale paintings. “The paintings in the show were made during my residency at Elaine de Kooning’s studio in East Hampton, New York, which was a key point in the development of my practice and a really valuable experience. I really like the themes of the show — particularly regarding memory — as this is an intrinsic part of my paintings, and [it was] interesting to see how other artists … address this in their work too,” said Laura Lancaster.

While the artists’ oversized works fill the gallery rooms with plenty of brushstrokes to muse over, the other two artists in the show, Aglaé Bassens and Julia Maiuri, contributed smaller yet equally dynamic pieces. Despite the size of Paggi House, Ellis and Force’s selection and placement of works successfully fill each room without overwhelming guests. There’s the large courtyard space, as well as the rooms of the original Greek Revival home.

Bassens shares three paintings based on photographs, each depicting familiar scenes expressed through a soft, muted palette. Night Laundry, for instance, elevates an everyday moment and seems to suspend time.

In the final room, Maiuri’s moody paintings are a nod to film noir and horror. “We decided to install them in the hallway on a dark wall and they really pop and get the attention they deserve,” said Force. Her piece, Study of Yesterday in Phthalo Green, is as if a Disney movie has taken a dark turn — the haunted heroine looking out toward the audience. Her Study of Forever in Quinacridone Violet appears as if two images overlap, hands entangled with an alarming cat-like eye staring at the subject from the corner. Most people enter the gallery through the courtyard, yet walking up into the home’s interiors and finally glancing toward the front door is a fun surprise.

Throughout the show, memory is examined, reinterpreted, and reassembled into something left open to interpretation. A majority of the works are abstract and enjoyable to dissect. Walking through the gallery and seeing all of the works was a calming experience. Maybe that’s due to the building’s rich history with plenty of natural light and cozy small rooms, or the fact I took a solo tour, having as much time as I wanted to study each piece.

Laura Lancaster’s painting depicting the toss of a bouquet at a wedding is a joyful, over-the-top exclamation and Baig’s Once I Tell You easily feels like an homage to Texas’ wildflowers. Overall the works had me thinking back to my own childhood, my time spent in nature in California’s East Bay, summers on the swim team, and even the few years I did competitive tap dancing. B chehayeb’s Tomboy Texas Theater, in particular, brought me back to those dance days, the bright stage lights, and glittery costumes. While the collection may not have an obvious theme at first glance, each provides a striking look into the artist’s personal experiences. 

 

Unstable Territory: Reflections on Memory is on view at the Paggi House in Austin through June 6, 2025.

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Michael Anthony García’s exhibition Radical Synergy opened at the Galveston Arts Center (GAC) almost exactly one month after the proclamation of “Gulf of America Day,” though on the night of the show’s reception the Gulf itself was completely obscured from view. Earlier that day the artist wrote a poem as he watched a thick, uncanny fog roll in over the Gulf, its name — like so much else these days — now hotly contested territory. He read this poem from a slim slip of paper at the exhibition’s opening, pulling it slowly from his chest as if it was a kind of long-running receipt. The piece ended with the haunting phrase “American fog,” pointing to a pervasive feeling of disorientation that went far beyond the night’s unusual weather.

García’s performance took place within his multimedia installation at the GAC. Nearby, cushy pillows are stuffed between a set of tall bars covered with colorful socks. A handwritten wall text reads “Siéntense. Siéntense a gusto. Sí, entren a su hogar” (“Have a seat. Get comfortable. Yes, come into your home.”), a Spanish phrase of welcome and respect. García, who holds both Mexican and U.S. citizenship, seems to be addressing the hostilities of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, reimagining it as a place of soft landing, care, and even humor: one of the planks of his ‘fence’ is topped with rainbow socks, the toes joyfully splayed out.

Other works are also tactile and textual. A few feet away, vaguely threatening phrases taken from mass-produced T-shirts like “FUTURE STRONG” and “NO ONE CAN blink” are a strange contrast to the soft layers of handmade crocheted blankets beneath them. One senses that both the blankets and the shirts have come from either the artist’s home or perhaps from thrift stores. Either way, García finds bits of premade poetry in the world around him. The words text and textile both emerge from the Latin verb texere, to weave. In this case, blankets are woven to keep us warm, and words are woven to create meaning, but García weaves openly enough to allow room for interpretation.

Three pieces feature photos of construction sites in Austin, where García is based. These are a common sight in the city: Austin recently ranked third in the nation for real estate construction, and home prices there have soared 87% over the past ten years. But these homes are “often being built by immigrants who will never be able to afford to live in those spaces,” the artist said in a Q&A session at the opening reception. In these pieces, García has digitally collaged images of traditional textiles from Latin America as an homage to the invisible labor behind so much construction and growth in Austin, and in the United States in general. 

A projection interposes García’s smiling face with images of the 1970s Wonder Woman TV series star Lynda Carter, herself of Mexican descent. The artist grew up watching the show, in which the female heroine embodies a sense of American identity and feminist power, but the values represented in the show seem rocky today. “I just feel like right now all the ideas I’ve lived with my whole life are being seen as radical by some,” García shared in his talk. While we all may be caught in the “American fog” now, the artist’s exhibition offers us a tender place to pause and think.

 

Radical Synergy by Michael Anthony García is on view at the Galveston Arts Center through June 8, 2025.

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SAN DIEGO—Shocked by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids affecting her very own community, local 43-year-old Jillian Beamer told reporters Monday she had assumed President Donald Trump would only deport people on the list she mailed to the White House. “With all of these deportations going on, I can’t help but feel like he’s breaking his campaign promise,” said Beamer, a three-time Trump voter who expressed utter disbelief that the administration would act beyond the half dozen names of personal enemies she had jotted down on a piece of stationery under the heading “Deport!” “These are our friends and neighbors they’re rounding up, not my rival at the PTA or the deli guy who always gets my order wrong. It seems like Homeland Security is deviating from other people’s lists too. I don’t get it at all.” Beamer added that neither she nor the other MAGA supporters she knew had ever imagined that Trump might go after immigrants.

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Mark Alldritt, Late Night Software:

The day has finally come. After 30 years of continuous development, Script Debugger has been retired and will no longer be available for sale. Please see this post for more information.

Over the last few months we have received a wonderful outpouring of well wishes and stories from our customers describing how Script Debugger has helped them over the years, via email and on our forum. [...]

Script Debugger is now a free download. Links to all versions of Script Debugger from 8.0 to 4.0, along with registration numbers, are available on the Downloads page. These free versions of Script Debugger are provided AS-IS and without warranty, maintenance or support.

Those seeking a version of Script Debugger for the Classic MacOS should go here.

That last paragraph speaks to what an incredible run this has been. 30 years ago was 1995 — which was so solidly in the classic Mac era that the OS was still named “System 7”, not “Mac OS 7”. I forget when I first started using Script Debugger, but it was definitely in the classic Mac era. The oldest license number I still have is for Script Debugger 3.0 in 2005, but I’d been using it for years at that point.

Script Debugger isn’t just a spectacularly good Mac developer tool. (Indispensable, I would say. A lot of the problems many scripters have with AppleScript aren’t just mitigated by using Script Debugger instead of Apple’s free Script Editor — they go away.) It has also always come with spectacularly thorough and exceedingly well-written documentation — a good user manual describes what a product does, but a great one also explains how to use it.

But even better than that, the product always fostered a community of users. You could email tech support for help and get world-class expert personal assistance, or, you could participate in their (still vibrant!) user forum. Late Night Software always was a small team — Mark and Shane Stanley for the last decade or so, big contributions from Matt Neuburg, and, for a long (but not long enough) while prior to that, Mark’s late wife Gerry Tubin — whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Macworld Expos of yesteryear. Late Night Software never felt like a “company” per se. It always felt like a team. They exemplified all of the ideals of the indie Mac developer community and culture. At this point, it’s fair to say Late Night Software helped define those ideals.

But all good things come to an end. I haven’t really spent much time thinking about “apps” retiring, even while at the top of their game, but here we are. To Mark and Shane, I offer my profound thanks and sincere congratulations. What a run. Script Debugger is going out on top.

Here’s yet another worrying development in the world of privately-owned security cameras. Flock Safety has made aggressive in-roads in both the private and public sector, something aided greatly by the company’s ability to blend the two.

Much like Ring before it, Flock is pitching cheap cameras with local law enforcement buy-in, nudging residents towards leaving their cameras (some of which have license plate reader capabilities) open so law enforcement can search their plate captures without a warrant. Law enforcement agencies are also buying their own cameras to ensure people can’t travel very far without leaving at least a temporary record of their travels the government can access pretty much at will.

And this is how that meshing of public-private is playing out in real life. As Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler report for 404 Media, at least one law enforcement officer has used this meshed network of Flock ALPR cameras to help locate a woman who recently had an abortion.

On May 9, an officer from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas searched Flock cameras and gave the reason as “had an abortion, search for female,” according to the multiple sets of data. Whenever officers search Flock cameras they are required to provide a reason for doing so, but generally do not require a warrant or any sort of court order. Flock cameras continually scan the plates, color, and model of any vehicle driving by, building a detailed database of vehicles and by extension peoples’ movements. 

Cops are able to search cameras acquired in their own district, those in their state, or those in a nationwide network of Flock cameras. That single search for the woman spread across 6,809 different Flock networks, with a total of 83,345 cameras, according to the data. The officer looked for hits over a month long period, it shows.

Some of these cameras were likely owned and operated by private purchasers. But even with those excluded, it’s still a massive data set the government can access without having to offer up much in the way of justification. The justification here (one that was reflected in access audits from Flock systems located as far away as Washington state) seems especially ominous and especially flimsy: “had an abortion, search for female.”

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office claims this search was performed to help, not harm.

Sheriff Adam King of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office told 404 Media in a phone call that the woman self-administered the abortion “and her family was worried that she was going to bleed to death, and we were trying to find her to get her to a hospital.”

“We weren’t trying to block her from leaving the state or whatever to get an abortion,” he said. “It was about her safety.” 

Even if that’s completely true, it’s not that comforting to know Texas law enforcement officers can perform the same searches for the purpose of prosecuting people who have sought abortions in nearby states where this is still legal. The justifications offered during the acquisition process always stresses the equipment will be used to deal with the most violent crimes. While utilizing the tech to search for a missing person is something most people would find acceptable, its proximity to the state’s recent abortion ban definitely isn’t an encouraging sign.

If these tools can be used this way, you can guarantee they will be used this way. Once one law enforcement agency gets the ball rolling on abortion arrests and weathers the press storm that it will provoke, the rest will follow suit, especially in areas populated by prosecutors with anti-abortion beliefs. Companies like Flock will just make everything easier for people looking to punish women for daring to explore their options and retain what’s left of their bodily autonomy.

Warning: this is gross.

A reader writes:

I have a new staff member I manage, Meredith, who the rest of my team is insulting behind her back.

One staff member, Pam, came to me in private to let me know the others on the team, especially Angela, are being extremely unkind and trash-talking Meredith in private and it is making her uncomfortable. If what Pam is relaying is true, the things they are saying are so mean: that she shouldn’t have been hired because she’s not skilled enough. She’s a “farter” who will fart all over you if you’re near her. She talks too loud and is doing it on purpose to be annoying. She is a “disgusting butt picker” and “scab eater.”

Angela had a history of being mean to others on the staff, especially those she finds annoying, which I have tried to address. This seems like an escalation of the behavior. I plan on having a serious conversation with everyone, but what if there is some truth to what they are saying?

I’ve spent plenty of time around Meredith and she can talk loudly, but it’s definitely not on purpose. I can’t speak to passing gas or butt picking, but I have seen her eat her boogers. She also has a bad habit of talking with her mouth full during lunch.

So what do I do when I sit down with the group and say they can’t talk about their coworkers like that, and they demand I do something about the “disgusting” new hire? Am I supposed to tell a grown woman she shouldn’t be eating her boogers at work?

I resent having this information, but I’m sure it’s no picnic for you either so let’s figure it out.

First and foremost, yes, absolutely make it clear to Angela and others on the team that it’s not acceptable to talk about a colleague this way and it needs to stop immediately. If they have a concern about Meredith that needs to be addressed, they can bring it to you and you can decide whether it’s actionable or not (for example, maybe Meredith does need to be reminded to lower her voice sometimes, but maybe the gas issue is medical and something people are going to need to deal with), but meanwhile they’re expected to treat everyone they work respectfully, both to their faces and when they’re not around. That’s non-negotiable.

And since Angela has a history of this despite being told to knock it off in the past, take a hard look at whether she’s someone you want to keep on your team.

As for Meredith, I don’t think you should be in the business of telling a grown adult not to talk with their mouth full. If she’s in a role that requires a high degree of polish — like entertaining clients or she’s doing it while seated at the reception desk — that would be different and it would be appropriate to do some coaching about manners for that context. But if she’s just kind of coarsely mannered around coworkers, well, the other grown adults in the equation need to be able to accept that the world is full of all kinds, and it’s not something you should need to intervene on.

However, the issue with eating the contents of her nose — ugh, why — is so gross and off-putting, and so very likely to harm her relationships with even otherwise tolerant people, that I do think you need to address that. This is possibly the most I’ve ever struggled with coming up with a script here, but I think I’d say it this way: “This is a little awkward to bring up and I know you might not even realize you’re doing it! But please make a point of using the bathroom for privacy if you need to put your fingers in your nose for any reason. It can bother people to see.” And yes, I am intentionally leaving out the grossest element of this — the eating — on the assumption that if you can get her into the bathroom for the first stage, she won’t be doing the second stage in public either. If that turns out not to be the case, you’ll need to be more direct — “this is still a problem; you cannot do this in view of other people” — but there’s a good enough chance the first approach will deliver the message that you can start there.

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AUSTIN, TX—Reconsidering his recent departure from Washington as the words ‘YOU DIED’ appeared once more on his screen, billionaire Elon Musk reportedly weighed a return to politics Monday after his 60th death on the tutorial level of Elden Ring Nightreign. “Seems like these enemies are glitched to be unkillable—maybe I should stop back by the DOGE offices until the devs roll out a patch to fix these hitboxes,” Musk said as he waited to respawn for another attempt, with eyewitnesses reporting that he had died against a weak, sluggish enemy intended only to teach him the basics of lock-on targeting. “There must be some congressional special election I can get involved with until they buff Wylder to have better survivability. Dodge rolling needs at least twice the i-frames to be viable. FromSoft must have gone woke and added some DEI hires to their quality assurance team to ship a game this broken. Too bad. I’d been looking forward to some gaming after all my hard work for the American people, but perhaps another government gig like overhauling NASA would be a better use of my talents.” At press time, sources confirmed Musk was contemplating a return to Elden Ring Nightreign after his 60th unreturned phone call to President Donald Trump.

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SASKATOON – As they gather with PM Mark Carney for the meeting of First Ministers, the Premiers of Canada’s provinces are steadfast in their belief that the best way to oppose Donald Trump’s tariffs and attacks on our sovereignty is to do the things they’ve wanted to do for years. “Donald Trump has inadvertently united […]

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