I've made my feelings about AI quite clear. When it comes to AI "art"... it's theft. When it comes to AI "writing"... it's theft. AI has mined the hard work of countless creatives in order to make a Frankenstein monster that's delivered to you based on what you want it to provide.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

AI needs vast resources to operate, centered around the data centers which power them. And the more you look into it, the worse it gets.

AI many, many times does not provide accurate information. Which means a lot of people relying on AI for information are being lied to. And this is how misinformation starts, which is destroying us.

It goes on and on.

There are, however, many uses for which AI can be a benefit. One of my favorite has been AI analysis for weather patterns to provide more advanced warning to people in the path of weather-related danger. Or analyzing patient scans to provide better care. Stuf like that.

But, no, I don't endorse AI when it comes the mass-adoption models we're getting.

This morning I took a look at Facebook's Muse AI agent to see if it was worth destroying the planet to install more data centers.

But first thing's first. I asked my fuzzy Muse avatar to add some bear ears. And this is what I got...

Adorable.

And then I got to work. Asking Muse to help me with finding information, shop for the best prices, and helping me build a travel itinerary.

The results were better that what I've seen from other AI models, but there were always problems. Information wasn't entirely accurate. Travel itineraries were basic. And shopping usually ignored a bunch of places where I would have checked if I were charged with finding the best price...

I tried five times to have Muse find the best price on an item. It only did so three of the five, and I was able to find better with minimal effort twice. And so... would I trust Muse to hunt down the best price for me as a shopping agent? No, not really. I'd be too worried that it would give up before searching all the places I would check. The only way this would be useful to me would be if Muse checked a lot more places, including those that I didn't know to check and finds lower pricing than I could find. And what about finding the best shipping inclusive price? Without that, it's all pretty useless. Maybe it finds an item $10 cheaper at one place... but the shipping cost makes its total price $5 more? That just means I'm paying more. Which is certainly not worth stripping the planet of resources.

And so... cute as Muse is, I'm going to be ignoring it. Like I'm ignoring most AI tools that are being unleashed because they aren't worth the trouble.

Maybe if I asked Muse to turn into a cat?

Finding vegetarian and vegan substitutes for foods I like is so much easier than when I first stopped eating meat decades ago. There's just so many options out there. But I'm not always loving those options. Cheese, for example, is always tough. I've bought so many fake cheeses that I can't even count them. My favorite vegan alternative so far is from Chao, but it's still nowhere near being as tasty as real cheese. But I keep looking.

Fake vegan meats I like are far easier to find.

My latest obsession is Ground Bef (textured soy protein)...

I love it most on nachos...

It's also great on taco pizza and taco burgers because it picks up seasoning so well. I've tried making Sloppy Joes out of it, however, and was not a fan. Any time I put it in a sauce (like a red sauce for pasta) it gets kinda rubbery, I think. I did like it in Chili though.

My next recipe from my childhood I'd like to try is Spanish Rice. Rice, tomato sauce, bef, peppers, and spices. If I can keep it from going rubbery, that will sure bring back memories.

I think.

I haven't had the stuff in probably 40 years.

   
• Incredible! Michel Gagné spent 14 years animating a feature film. Here's the trailer...

Looks amazing. Those fourteen years don't seem wasted, that's for sure.

   
• Tomb Raider! Footage from the reimagining of Tomb Raider is burning up the internet, and it looks more like a film than a game...

By way of comparison, here's what I was playing with on my PlayStation 1 back in 1996...

And, keep in mind, that was cutting-edge back in the day. It was the best graphics yet seen at the time and I couldn't believe how crazy-good it looked.

   
• DOOM! Every time they release a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday they add just a little bit more of what's going on. This latest trailer adds more than a little bit, and the film looks phenomenal...

December seems so far away.

   
• Scrabbled! Well this is more than a little mind-blowing...

There are people whose brains just work different. And sometimes those people make the rest of us look less than smart. And speaking of less than smart...

   
• The Stupid, It Burns! Pretty much...

Nobody, including scientists, are saying that science gets it right every time. But there is a scientific method that, when followed, is an authentic method of understanding the world... and medicine. Those who deny it and buy into the misinformation bullshit without knowing what the fuck they're talking about are literally responsible for harming society. We've got thousands dying from measles worldwide now. Measles!

   
• Stay Seated! I keep hearing these stories of airline passengers losing their shit because they asked somebody to swap seats with them and that person refused. It's insane. People book the seats they want. Sometimes they pay extra money to book the seats they want. If there's a seat you want, then book that fucking seat! I don't care if you want to sit next to your husband or grandmother or child. I want the seat that I paid for! I have swapped seats when asked a couple times... but only to an equivalent seat. I have twice asked somebody to switch seats with me... but they were military personnel flying home, and I was asking to swap my First Class seat with their Economy seat because they had already been on a very long flight from their deployment and I wanted to thank them for their service by letting them have a seat they could rest on before they get home to people who were excited to see them and not letting them rest. But otherwise? STOP EXPECTING PEOPLE TO GIVE UP THEIR SEAT!!!

   
• Super! "Artificial" means that something is "not naturally occurring." AI is not naturally occurring, and the only thing super about it is that real human intelligence made it possible. That's about as accurate as it gets.

This is just an attempt by billionaires to rebrand their tech to try and spin it from a negatively-perceived technology to a positively-perceived technology. You can call me "the enemy" all you want, but it's not going to change facts.

   
• Going Out on a High Note! I had never seen this before. It's wonderful...

Fuck anybody who thinks that public programming like this deserves to be defunded. Every other fucking thing on television is built to sell things to kids... not educate them. We need more education.

   
And now I'll go back to eating ramen because my cats like heat.

Jenny has escalated her pickiness when it comes to the food she eats. Many times now when I throw down some wet food for her to eat, she's turning up her nose at it. Won't eat it. I've long suspected that her sense of smell is deadened a bit, and it could very well be that her ability to smell food has declined even further with age.

And so... I am rolling the dice every time I put food in front of her. Sometimes I can make it palatable by putting some stinky fish flakes around it. Sometimes that doesn't help. Sometimes I can add a few pieces of dehydrated fish in the mix and she eats it up. Other times it has no effect.

Thankfully, she's still yumming up the dry food, but I want to be sure she's well hydrated, so I continue to look for wet foods she'll eat.

As for Jake?

Yeah. No problem with finding something for him to eat!

It was announced today that the Fort Hood terrorist who killed 13 people will be executed for his crimes. And that the execution will be live-streamed.

Now, I've tried to live a life of non-violence since I studied Buddhism in the late 80's. I don't consider myself a Buddhist, but I do find that integrating some Buddhist precepts and teachings in my life leads to my living a happier, more fulfilling existence. As an example, it's a small joy to me to catch a spider and release it outside as opposed to killing the poor thing. There's a power which comes from not taking a life that makes me feel better about my existence in a way few other things do. It's why I'm a vegetarian.

So you can imagine my confusion here.

One one hand, I'm thinking "Fuck yeah! Light the asshole up! He's a piece of shit terrorist, a murderer, and he deserves to be executed!" But on the other hand, I'm thinking "Doesn't wishing a man dead, regardless of his crimes, make me just as bad as he is? Can't there be a way to punish him in a way which doesn't result in killing?"

Ultimately I would prefer to not kill under any circumstances, I think. But in this case? I just don't know. I'm glad it's not my decision to make.

Regardless of what side of the fence I reconcile with, I absolutely do not feel that an execution should be presented as public entertainment.

And let me tell you why.

First of all, I do not buy into the argument which says it makes the country look strong in the face of terrorism. What it does is make us look like a country of psychotic monsters who get a thrill from watching somebody be killed in real-time. Live-streaming an execution? Who does that? Terrorists... and, apparently, We The People of The United States of America. What a sick thing to be presenting to the world.

Second of all, I do not agree that publicly executing somebody will dissuade others from committing terrorist acts. Especially when we all know that this will just drive more people to commit terrorist acts. Because they're terrorists. Nothing makes them happier than public displays of violence which advance their cause... even when it is them on the receiving end of that violence. It's all part of their plan. They become martyrs for the cause, and the entire world can see it happen live. And the reaction will be the opposite of what's intended. Dissuade terrorists? Hell no. You're inspiring them. If you absolutely must lower yourselves to executing the asshole, then do it in private and let him slip into obscurity. Don't give him the martyrdom notoriety he's craving.

And lastly, I honestly do feel that this makes us no better than the person we're executing. He used violence to make a public statement. Public execution is the same thing. It's not going to solve anything.

Over and over again I see people on the Right justifying public execution with "Liberals cheered when Charlie Kirk was executed publicly... why is this execution any different?" And the answer is that people tuning in to watch Charlie Kirk were not expecting to see him murdered. Whereas people tuning into Hegseth's snuff film will be watching somebody be killed as entertainment intentionally. And if I have to explain why that's wrong, then nothing I can say will change your mind, so I hope you have fun watching a person being killed.

I, however, will not be tuning in to watch.

I prefer my violence as entertainment to be fake and come from Hollywood, because they know how to do it up right. An actual execution is likely boring as hell. And highly disturbing. And destroys your soul, whether you know it or not. But in a movie? Well, it's not for everybody. But for me? That's entertainment.

UPDATE 10/12/26: Oh look... co-signed by somebody who actually knows what they're talking about...

This is so important that I'm typing out Lieutenant General Sean McFarland's post for accessibility...

This is a terrible idea - Pete Hegseth is giving Hassan exactly what he wants. I have no problem with executing this man. In fact, when I was CG of Fort Hood, it was my responsibility to approve his death sentence. I also had the solemn duty of presenting Purple Heart medals to those he wounded and to the next of kin of those he killed. But it is fair to ask whether carrying out the sentence at Fort Hood and live streaming it is justice, vengeance, or a mere spectacle for the masses. It also surrenders a piece of the moral high ground we have held up to now in our campaigns against Al Qaeda and ISIS by adopting their barbaric practice of video recording the executions of their prisoners. Once it is aired, it is bound to make it harder for our service members to be seen as "the good guys" in foreign lands. How many insurgents were inspired to attack our troops by photos from Abu Ghraib prison? Worst of all, it will make Nidal Hassan an international martyr. Shooting a hole in the chest of a wheelchair bound paraplegic on live tv will not be a good look for America, no matter who we are shooting. By all means, deliver justice to this man. But do it humanely, with dispassionate professionalism, in seclusion at the US Disciplinary Barracks. This will deliver the necessary punitive and deterrent effects while upholding our reputation as a civilized nation to be admired and emulated. It will also deprive our enemies of a propaganda weapon to use against us.

What in the hell are we even doing any more?

Hey Google, what is "Vibe Coding?" — Vibe Coding is a software development approach where you use natural language prompts or voice commands to tell an AI what to build, and the AI writes, tests, and fixes the code for you.

I had a problem when Adobe went to their package subscription model instead of allowing me to purchase the programs I wanted to use and upgrade them when I wanted to. If all I use is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Light Room, and Adobe InDesign, why does it cost more to subscribe to them alone rather than a price subscription to everything you make?

I also have a very big problem when Adobe started treating their subscribers like pirate criminals with their idiotic licensing restrictions. I fucking loathe having to log in and out of my apps because I have a laptop, desktop, work computer, and travel laptop.

And don't get me started with Adobe shitting their unethical AI shit all over everything.

So when Affinity released apps which were inexpensive and could do many of the things I need to do with the Adobe apps, I was thrilled. Finally I could go back to the purchase model that I enjoyed, and I started using them at home while continuing to use Adobe for work. THEN the Affinity apps were made free and the only thing you have to pay for is if you want to use their AI tools. Which I do not. Nice!

And then ArtCraft used AI to "vibe code" Adobe app equivalents using the amazing Rust coding environment.

Hey Google, what is Rust? — Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance, type safety, and concurrency. It is widely recognized for delivering the blazing speed and low-level hardware control of C and C++, but with a crucial advantage: it enforces strict memory safety at compile time without needing a conventional garbage collector. Rust is well-suited for AI infrastructure and production systems, though it is rarely used for early-stage exploratory model research.

Oh the irony of Adobe slapping AI on their apps which made it so that people without graphic talent could fake what graphic artists do... only to have somebody use AI to turn around and make apps that fake what Adobe does.

As you can imagine, ArtCraft has been slammed with people trying to make accounts, so you can't activate a studio account just now, but you can still go to their site and download their individual apps, which do not require registration of any kind...

• PhotoCraft: An image editor in the vein of Photoshop.
• VectorCraft: A vector illustration app in the vein of Illustrator.
• FilmCraft: A video editing app in the vein of Premiere.
• LightCraft: A photo cataloging app in the vein of Lightroom.
• PdfCraft: A PDF tool in the vein of Acrobat.
• EffectCraft: A motion graphics tool in the vein of After Effects.
• DesignCraft: A page layout app in the vein of InDesign.

The only thing really missing is a website development app in the vein of DreamWeaver, a 2D animation app in the vein of Animate, and a 3D package like Substance. I'm sure they're coming.

I've been playing around with the apps and, yep, there it is. Vibe-coded alternatives to Adobe's bullshit and greed. They are distinct from Adobe and definitely aren't clones... but the way they operate is similar enough that I wasn't immediately lost. I was able to pick them up fairly quickly. They are a bit raw in places to start, but it's very easy to see where they are going. And the fact that they are open-source just means they're going to get there quicker because, theoretically, every coder on earth can contribute. It's pretty great.

Between Affinity Studio and now ArtCraft providing alternatives which will likely doom Adobe over something they fully brought upon themselves, I find myself thinking BWAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAA! in my head, because it's just so deserved. Few companies have worked so hard to make people loathe them than Adobe has. If I had to guess, I'd think that eventually Affinity Studio and ArtCraft will merge. Their business model is the same... free with a paid side of AI, so it could follow the path of Adobe, who bought out a bunch of their competitors to fold them into their lineup.

I remember long ago when I thought the world of Adobe. I thrilled to every new release and was excited at the prospect of giving them my money because they unleashed my creativity anew in the computer age. They earned my patronage and devotion. Then things went terribly wrong. Now I spend more time cursing them than appreciating them, and it's just sad. Maybe this latest salvo across their bow will force them to take a step back and return to who they used to be rather than the collection of customer-abusing decisions they became.

Because...

This is not about having to pay for the tools I use. I have never complained about that. I want to pay people for their hard work on my behalf.

No. This is entirely about not wanting to support companies that hate me.

This morning on the way to work I noticed the bare mountains in the distance and started wondering if we were going to get decent snow-pack this year so we're not facing drought come Summer 2027. This year was more brutal than I had hoped, but certainly not as bad as it could have been. I mean, sure I wasn't able to float the river because water levels dropped before I had a chance... but at least there wasn't water rationing.

I had to leave work for a bit to have my annual plumbing inspection back home. While the inspector was wandering around my home turning water off and on and draining my water heater, I was wandering around picking up my messy house. At one point I took out the recycling and noticed that there were more mole holes dug in my lawn. I really, really hate that, but when the alternative is killing the poor things, I'll just try my best to ignore them. The sad thing is that I've tried everything I can think of to get the moles out of my yard... from sonic stakes to mole repellant. Nothing works. At best all I manage to do is move the moles from one part of my yard to a different part of my yard.

After a hectic day at work, I arrived home to greet my cats and finish cleaning the house. Somewhere in the middle of it I realized that it would have been my grandmother's 109th birthday today! We were very close, so that was a punch in the gut I wasn't prepared for. I toyed with the idea of running out to the cemetery and leaving some flowers since I gave her flowers on her birthday and Valentine's Day every day, but I didn't want to attach sad memories to something that ended up being a tradition between us.

And then I saw the new extended trailer for Avengers: Doomsday...

Pretty amazing, that.

And now... time for bed, so I can get up in the morning and start all over again.

I am obsessed with the game Marvel Champions.

It's thematic in a way that's next-level engaging... they've designed it so you really feel like you're a super-hero fighting bad guys. It's strategic in a way that's so much fun to play... you're making decisions not just for the moment, but also planning ahead to find a path to winning. It's highly flexible in a way that's surprisingly easy to manage... it's not overly-complicated to play and allows you to work with whatever hero(es) you'd like in whatever scenario(s) that interest you with whatever villain(s) that sounds fun.

But above everything else, Marvel Champions is a "living card game" (LCG) which means you're buying complete sets of cards in game expansions as opposed to "collectible card games" (CCG) where you're spending a fortune on random booster packs in an attempt to get the cards you need to build a great deck to play. I once heard the phrase "Pay-To-Win" used to describe CCGs, and it pretty much sums up my feelings on CCG games like Magic: the Gathering or Pokémon.

You would think that this would make Marvel Champions cheaper to play and, in theory, you'd be right.

But in practice that's not the case.

The game was designed by Fantasy Flight Games. That company is owned by board gaming giant Asmodee. For whatever reason, Marvel Champions expansions are NOT KEPT IN PRINT! Which is to say that if you want to play earlier hero decks like Captain America or Scarlet Witch, your only choice is to head over to eBay and pay insane prices to buy them.

And I have.

I've spent way too much money trying to fill in my collection... then finally had to stop because the remaining expansions I need are simply too expensive. Assuming I can even find them...

• Sinister Motives Expansion: Needed to play Ghost-Spider and Miles Morales (Spider-Man)... or fight Sandman, Venom, Mysterio, and Venom Goblin. Currently around $400 new. UPDATE: I am so poor now. But I couldn't help it. I am dying to play Ghost-Spider and Miles Morales.
• Cyclops Hero Pack. Currently $150-$350 new, $100 used. UPDATE: Found used at a price too good to pass up. Even though it's still far more money than I have to spend like this.
• Wolverine Hero Pack. Currently $300-$350 new, $150-$200 used. UPDATE: Due to the popularity of playing this character, he's hard to find complete and in excellent condition used. But I did. Guess I'll be taking out a second mortgage!
• Rogue Hero Pack. Currently $150-$200 new, $100 used. UPDATE: I've seen very mixed reactions to her abilities and am not sure she's the kind of hero I like to play, but I'm a completist and found her at the best price I've seen, so there you go.
• Storm Hero Pack. Currently $300 new. UPDATE: I am working my way down the list here... and it stung. But at least I found it used, because there's no way I have $300 to spend. Heck, I don't have any money to spend because it's all going to my Marvel Champions obsession. Two more to go...
• Phoenix Hero Pack. $300-$400 new, $175-$225 used. UPDATE: I don't know why this character is so hard to find (making her so frickin' expensive), but I managed to get the deck for a good enough price. More than I wanted to pay (naturally) but under the going price range.
• Gambit Hero Pack. Currently $200-$250 new. $150 used.

So... essentially I can't play most of the X-Men and can't fill out my Web Warriors. To do so would be $1,500 or more!

But it gets worse.

The Core Set comes with seven Standard "encounter" cards that get shuffled into your encounter deck. If you want a more challenging game, you can also shuffle in some Expert encounter cards.

As the game grew and expanded, we got "Standard II" and "Expert II" replacements for the originals. "Standard II" received some pushback from players, so we got "Standard III" as well. But the only way to get "Standard II" is to purchase The Hood Scenario Pack (around $150 new). The only way to get "Standard III" is to purchase the Age of Apocalypse expansion (around $100).

Having to pay $350 to get updates to an important part of the game because Asmodee won't keep the shit in-print is infuriating.

It's crap like this that drives me insane about loving to play board games. Why can't Fantasy Flight and Asmodee do reprints? And since it's just a bunch of cards, they could even print them with an on-demand service so they don't have to risk unsold inventory! Heck, you could even throw the old "waves" of content in combo packs! Put the six X-Men I'm missing in a single box and charge $100 or whatever! With more people discovering Marvel Champions every day, people would gladly... GLADLY... pay that.

But no.

What I'm not understanding is the logic here.

Surely there are players and potential players frustrated they can't play as Captain America (or whatever their favorite hero is), so they decide to not invest in the game. Which means sales Asmodee could be getting with minimal cost and effort are being left on the table. It's almost as if they are happy to drive the game into extinction as the heroes they have available get more and more obscure.

Surely such a fantastic game deserves better than that?

It absolutely does.

But here we are.

Oh well. The last semi-affordable piece of Marvel Champions I could find is headed from Kansas to me here in Washington State... via New Jersey, for reasons known only to the US Postal Service... so I suppose that will be the end of it. I'll just have to play with what I have and be happy about it.

Something shifted in me last week.

After I finished Bullet Sunday 969 (the post before this one), which ended with the startling statistic that ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled in states with strict abortion bans... and the Cornell Seven story in the news, I was scorch-the-earth angry about all of it. So I bashed out a trio of blog rants that I was going to unleash this past week. It's what I do.

But then Monday morning I re-read the post for that day, realized I was more unhinged than usual, started to re-write it, realized that this isn't what I want my blog to be, and decided to take a week off to re-center myself.

It didn't work.

If anything, I think I'm more unhinged. I wake up... see what new fresh hell has hit the news... and get mad all over again.

The difference is that now I don't feel the need to do a rage-dump and can get back to business as usual in a world that's in no way business as usual.

   
• Solo Funtime Gaming! If you've taken a look at my game collection at Board Game Geek, you'll have seen that there's only one game which gets a perfect 10 ("Outstanding. Always want to play and expect this will never change")... and it's called Puzzle Dungeon. It's essentially a more fun version of Solitaire. I originally had it as a "print-and-play" game, where you pay for a file that you can print out and play with. I fell in love with it immediately. Until my cards were lost and I couldn't find the file to reprint them. I tried to buy a printed set but, wisely, there were none available on eBay because people don't want to part with them. Except I recently found out that the designer, Brian Garber, has reprinted the game and is selling it on his Etsy shop...

And, let me tell you, I snapped up the Deluxe Box, the Expansion Set, and the Play Mat SO fast. I haven't played in years, and October 19th (the ship date) can't come soon enough. I really hope that his Puzzle Dungeon: Pets expansion gets printed one day. And that his other game, To The Death eventually gets reprinted, because I'd love to play that.

   
• Not Helping! One of the most classic of the classic BritComs is That Mitchell and Webb Look. There's been a hit of controversy over this 20-year-old show lately because the BBC cut out some sketches which were deemed "insensitive to modern audiences" or something like that. But the situation is a bit more complicated than that. One of the sketches was cut because Mitchell and Webb were in blackface. But the sketch was pointing out that the white people were able to overlook that the blackface was racist until the situation escalated, and it was the escalation which convinced them to stop and not the actual blackface. The ignorance is the entire point of the sketch. So maybe it's not that modern audiences are "sensitive" to it... it's more likely that modern audiences wouldn't understand it. I don't know. Since I'm white, it's really not my place to say whether it's racist, so I trust that the BBC looked into it by consulting those who can make that call. But in any event, Mitchell and Webb have been back for a few months with a new YouTube series called Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. I've been enjoying it...

I hope they keep going with the series, because their humor has had more than a few bits that were highly insightful and relevant even today, with this being their most famous...

Though there's talk that the BBC wanted to cut that sketch as well, so maybe I'm completely out of the loop? I wonder if this one was considered...

AND THEN... the state of inoffensive comedy gets a comment...

A new classic.

   
• Perfect! Verbi can be brutal. But always hilarious...

I've used Verbi to try and expand my vocabulary, and the app is never completely happy with your performance.

   
• Cash! A dollar is a dollar...

LOL. As insane as it sounds, I'm sure there are plenty of people wearing a band shirt who can't name any of their songs.

   
• The Mighty Thor! For the longest time, I'd see a guy named "Thoren Bradley" pop up on my social media. His entire deal was grabbing an axe and splitting big chunks of wood. And a lot of women shared his posts, which is why he was everywhere. But I never thought to follow him until he started sharing his thoughts on anything and everything. And it turns out he's a very smart thinker who can enunciate his takes on things very well indeed. Which really seems to piss off the "alpha male" contingent...

Whatever his sexuality may be, he's never going to stop having female fans, that's for sure...

And about that...

   
• Feeeemales! It's fucking incredible that this country is content to treat half the population as nothing more than birthing machines, undeserving of proper care when something goes terribly wrong...

This country hates women. Hates them.

   
• SERIOUSLY HATES THEM! A 20-year-old Cornell student says she was pressured into snorting ketamine at the Chi Phi house in Ithaca on the night of October 19, 2024. At 1:42am, according to her lawsuit, a fraternity member posted two words in the frat’s Snapchat group chat, Chi Phi Actives: "Free pussy.” The complaint says Johnathan Newell sent it. More men came upstairs after that. She says the assault went on until about 5:45 in the morning. More than four hours. These seven men are named in the lawsuit:
      • Matthew Ingalls
      • Johnathan Newell
      • Winston Lee
      • Gillio Lopes
      • Diego Sarabia
      • Scott Norris
      • Scott Kretzschmar
She reported it to campus police on November 8, 2024. The fraternity was suspended, and so were those seven men, temporarily. Then, according to the lawsuit, Cornell offered them a way to “mitigate” what they’d done. Write an essay... yes, an essay. Those named deny any wrongdoing. This information was taken from a Facebook post, but reported in The Cornell Daily Sun.

   
And, on that entirely depressing note, I'm off to prepare for the busy week ahead.