From Virginia and CBS News comes the story of an old prison complex turned into gorgeous apartments that sold out within a month of opening. The Lorton Reformatory was opened at the dawn of the 20th century during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Built with the intention that prisoners wouldn’t feel they were incarcerated, it […] The post Old Reformatory Prison Turned into Sunny New Apartment Complex Called ‘Liberty’ After $64M Injection appeared first on Good News Network.

News I Know What You Did Last Summer Jennifer Love Hewitt Asks the Tough Questions in the I Know What You Did Last Summer Trailer I bet you know what they did. I bet you do. By Molly Templeton | Published on April 22, 2025 Screenshot: Sony Pictures Entertainment Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Sony Pictures Entertainment Let it never be said that a deeply awkward title might spell doom for a movie. Almost 20 years ago, way back in the ’90s, a gaggle of young stars—including Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Party of Five star Jennifer Love Hewitt—starred in an adaptation of the Lois Duncan novel I Know What You Did Last Summer. Not all of their characters survived the film, in which a group of friends is menaced by a fishhook-wielding slasher who knows their darkest secret. It was part of writer Kevin Williamson’s teen pop culture boom; Williamson also created Dawson’s Creek and wrote Scream. The movie was a hit and led to two somewhat less smashing sequels and a TV series. Now, its time has come again, and in the great tradition of just naming a new Scream film Scream, we have another movie called simply I Know What You Did Last Summer. Despite seeming to have a plot just like the first film, it is not a straight reboot, because Hewitt and her first-film co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. show up here to be useful once a new set of youths start getting murdered. Said youths include Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (the upcoming Him), Chase Sui Wonders (The Studio), and Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds). Some of them are not likely to last very long, one suspects. The synopsis says: When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) directs from a screenplay she wrote with Sam Lansky; Robinson and Leah McKendrick have story credit. I Know What You Did Last Summer is in theaters July 18th.[end-mark] The post Jennifer Love Hewitt Asks the Tough Questions in the <i>I Know What You Did Last Summer</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

News Wicked Cynthia Erivo Will Voice the Original Elphaba in a New Audiobook Version of Wicked Maybe it’s actually easy being green (metaphorically speaking). By Molly Templeton | Published on April 22, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share This time, we won’t get to hear her sing, but that’s okay. Cynthia Erivo, who stars in Wicked and the upcoming Wicked: For Good as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, is going to play the iconic role once again—in a very different form. Erivo is the narrator for a new audiobook version of Wicked, Gregory Maguire’s novel on which the musical and movie are based. As a fan of the book more than the musical, this feels like a gift, and a lovely way to connect the blockbuster film back to its origins. Book Elphaba is different, and her story is wildly different, and frankly the thought of getting to hear Erivo perform my favorite scenes from Wicked gives me goosebumps. (One imagines she will have fun voicing Galinda, too.) First published in 1995, Wicked was generally well-received but hardly a smash hit. Over the years, and in the wake of the musical, its visibility grew, and Maguire returned to Oz for three more books in the Wicked Years series: Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. More recently, he wrote a trilogy about Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, called Another Day. Just last month he published Elphie, an unexpected prequel which takes readers back to Elphaba’s childhood years. The new audiobook of Wicked will release on July 1st, and is available for preorder now.[end-mark] The post Cynthia Erivo Will Voice the Original Elphaba in a New Audiobook Version of <i>Wicked</i> appeared first on Reactor.

Books Dissecting The Dark Descent Of Cats, Conspiracies, and Carcosa: “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers Who are the heroes and villains in a world gone mad? By Sam Reader | Published on April 22, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. We’ve all encountered the work of Robert W. Chambers before. Even if you haven’t read his bizarre romantic/weird fiction mosaic novel The King in Yellow, the later connections made between Chambers’ work and the Lovecraftian figure of Hastur, the repeated mention of the doomed city of Carcosa in cosmic horror, and the way references to his work pop up everywhere from True Detective to The Witcher mean that in some way, you’ve experienced his work. The most ambitious of The King in Yellow’s tales about the mysterious, madness-inducing play that gives the book its title is “The Repairer of Reputations,” the story of a megalomaniac, an insidious blackmailer, and their plans to take over a dystopian fascist United States of America. In its exploration of gothic archetypes, it lays bare the petty delusions of its power-hungry villains and questions the incorruptible pureness of its heroes; in doing Chambers shines a light on the complex relationship such stories have with power and privilege (a relationship usually taken for granted, or simply ignored). Hildred Castaigne is a recently released mental patient, a man whose tumble from horseback left him with an “excited temperament” and a new purpose: to become king of the United States of America and usurp the fascist government. Aiding him in this task is a blackmailer and “repairer of reputations,” the disfigured Mr. Wilde, and Wilde’s army of “clients” he forces to do his bidding in various ways. From Wilde’s tiny room, they direct their conspirators in various schemes, all in service of their own power and a mysterious play titled The King in Yellow.  Threatening to derail Castaigne’s plans are his love for the innocent armorer’s daughter Constance Hawberk and the fact that his dashing cousin Louis, a cavalry officer in the United States Army, has captured Constance’s heart. As the shadowy conspiracy reaches its fever pitch, Castaigne’s petty romantic rivalry threatens to derail his plans and lose him the throne. At the start of the story, Castaigne’s got all the qualities of a Gothic antihero. He’s well-spoken and well-read, urbane, and his villainous qualities are partly the cause of a major head injury and the influence of a corrupting artifact, the eldritch play The King in Yellow. It’s also clear he’s a despicable fascist from the appreciative way he talks about the gleaming aesthetics of Chambers’ dystopian setting, highlighting in his opening narration such “flourishes” as government-sponsored suicide booths with marble columns and the expulsion of anyone who isn’t a white European. It’s the first sign of a certain wrongness in everything, that perhaps instead of the cultured, Byronic villains of gothic text there might be something far worse going on with Castaigne, and that he might not have the tragic or sympathetic qualities his narrative voice would suggest. Like last week’s Clara Militch, Castaigne has deluded himself into believing that he’s some kind of dark antihero where in reality he’s a megalomaniac who fell off his horse a little too hard. He’s also petty and jealous, quietly terrorizing Constance’s father with knowledge gained from Mr. Wilde’s job as an information broker and bitterly fantasizing about misfortune befalling his more functional cousin/rival. His own machinations are heavily dependent on Wilde feeding his delusional megalomania, as he remains eagerly in thrall to his disfigured comrade—the only two places he ever seems to go are his own rooms and Hawberk’s building, where he can creepily make advances on Constance while also visiting Wilde on the third floor. Whenever Castaigne’s delusions are challenged, he reacts violently, expanding the scope of his plan, which eventually extends to murdering his psychiatrist, Mr. Hawberk, and Constance for presumably mocking him. The further the story gets, the more his delusions are laid bare, much like his cherished Yellow Crown being revealed as a brass-and-tinsel costume piece. This pettiness and bottomless desire for power also extends to Wilde, who is seen in most scenes abusing his cat and gleefully namedropping the number of powerful people he controls from the tiny upstairs room he never leaves. Wilde is a grotesque, a disfigured man who wields soft power openly in this fascist state (though in a grim moment of humor it’s implied that the cat he mistreats might be responsible for his disfigurement rather than any tragic accident, as it brutally attacks him whenever it sees an opening). He’s a study in contrasts—a man who appears to wield immense power and influence, though confined to an office, and the only demonstration we see of his power is when he reads names and figures from books, in one scene hypnotizing one of his more unstable lackeys through merely reading a scroll about the secret lineage of the United States (which in Chambers’ bizarre future is apparently a monarchy, or used to be). It’s this hypnosis scene that shows Wilde as he is. Far from the mysterious power broker pulling all the strings from his tiny room, he’s a self-aggrandizing manipulator, preying upon the paranoid and mentally unwell. In the end, he doesn’t even live to see his plans collapse around him, as the realistic outcomes of abusing a feral animal to the point of homicidal rage and relying on psychologically disturbed people to carry out his conspiratorial aims mean his cat appears to have mauled him to death in his sleep and his hired killer fails to kill anyone before diving headlong into a suicide booth, shrieking madly. The story ends (relatively) happily, with the bewildered Louis set to marry Constance and Castaigne dying a day later in a psychiatric facility. Even in this apparently happy ending, there’s still a wrongness to everything. While the heroes have won, Louis remains a military officer serving a dystopian regime who did nothing to stop the villains whatsoever. He’s the very image of a dashing hero, but both his passivity in the plot and the undeniable fact that he’s a fascist officer create an unnerving dissonance. Louis might be cast in the heroic role, but his passivity and active support of dystopian powers mean he’s no hero. If anything, he’s rewarded merely for not being the worst person in the story and thus not causing his own downfall. Despite appearances, he’s just as wrong as everyone else in the story; he just seems nicer. This is the genius of “The Repairer of Reputations.” By setting the entire story in a fascist dystopian version of the United States, Chambers puts the reader on their guard with an all-encompassing wrongness, forcing them to question exactly how much else is wrong even as he plays many of the usual gothic tropes straight. Within this framework, he’s able to show his villains as pathetic and despicable victims of their own delusions of power, his hero as a passive figure who vigorously supports the power and privilege around him, and ultimately the grand conflict of conspiracy and ambition as a petty struggle that leaves the oppressive dystopian regime with barely a scratch. By blending elements of science fiction and gothic horror, Chambers crafts a twisted gothic satire that remains heightened and fantastic even as it highlights the grim pettiness of its protagonist’s grand ambitions. Now to turn it over to you. Do you think the dystopian futuristic setting was an inspired choice, or just an odd stylistic touch? How much of the story is Castaigne’s delusions? Which is your favorite of Chambers’ King in Yellow stories? And please join us in two weeks for a look at a ghost story writer’s ghost story writer as we delve into Oliver Onions’ “The Beckoning Fair One.”[end-mark] The post Of Cats, Conspiracies, and Carcosa: “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers appeared first on Reactor.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. A major breach of personal information in Long Beach will likely intensify the debate over the dangers of digital ID systems, as city officials confirmed that a cyberattack in November 2023 led to the exposure of highly sensitive data. The public only learned of the incident in April 2025, following what the city described as a complex and time-consuming forensic investigation. Although the city reports no confirmed misuse of the stolen information, the breach involved a wide array of personal records. Data accessed included Social Security numbers, biometric identifiers, passport and driver’s license details, dates of birth, medical histories, financial account numbers, and payment card information. The types of compromised data varied among individuals, but the range and sensitivity of the information raise serious concerns. More: Brazil’s Digital ID Dream Just Had a Nightmare  Among the most troubling aspects of the breach is the exposure of biometric data. Unlike passwords or account numbers, biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and facial scans cannot be changed once compromised. This permanent nature of biometric data highlights the risks of centralized identity systems that rely heavily on unchangeable personal traits. Long Beach began notifying affected residents in April 2025 and created a multilingual FAQ and a hotline to provide assistance. Credit monitoring and identity protection services have been offered. However, residents have been advised not to share personal information with hotline staff, as they are not permitted to collect sensitive details. While ransomware was not involved in this incident, the breach did force the city to temporarily disable certain digital services, including its main website. Emergency systems remained functional. The city declared a local emergency to enable quicker response and access to emergency funding. There was a 17-month delay in informing the public. Residents were denied the opportunity to take timely precautions that might have reduced the risk of fraud or identity theft. The delay also points to broader issues with how municipalities handle data breaches, especially when large digital ID databases are at stake. In response to the incident, Long Beach has set aside $1 million in its 2025 budget to strengthen its cybersecurity defenses. Public institutions often operate on outdated infrastructure and with limited resources, making them appealing targets for cyberattacks. A 2024 report by Spin.AI estimated the average cost of a ransomware attack to be nearly $4.91 million, underlining the financial and operational strain that cyber incidents can inflict, regardless of whether ransomware is involved. This breach underscores the inherent risks of digital ID systems. By consolidating sensitive personal information in centralized databases, these systems create valuable targets that, once penetrated, can leave individuals permanently exposed. As governments continue to push digital ID frameworks, the Long Beach case serves as a cautionary tale about the consequences of relying on vulnerable, centralized systems for identity verification and public services. City leaders have stated their commitment to improving data protection and communication with the public. For many privacy advocates, however, the breach is a stark example of why digital ID systems require deeper scrutiny and why alternative, more privacy-conscious approaches to identity management should be prioritized. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Long Beach Cyberattack Exposes Biometric and Personal Data; A Warning To Digital ID Advocates appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Chicxulub impact unleashed colossal global tsunami.Sixty-six million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs, a dynasty that had dominated Earth for over 160 million years, came to a cataclysmic end. The culprit? A cosmic bullet, a colossal asteroid roughly the size of a small city, hurtling through space at unimaginable speed. Its target: the shallow seas of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The impact was not just a collision; it was a planetary-scale detonation, an event that reshaped the very face of our world and triggered a cascade of devastating consequences, including a tsunami of truly monstrous proportions. While the image of firestorms and a choking, dust-laden atmosphere often dominates our understanding of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, the sheer power unleashed into the oceans is equally staggering. The impact carved out the Chicxulub crater, a scar over 180 kilometers wide, and in its immediate aftermath, it birthed a wave unlike anything seen before or since – a tsunami estimated to have reached an initial height of a staggering 1.5 kilometers, nearly a mile high. To put that into perspective, the largest recorded tsunami in modern history, triggered by the 1958 Lituya Bay landslide in Alaska, reached a terrifying but comparatively modest 524 meters. The Chicxulub tsunami dwarfed even that colossal wave. The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. Credit: Wikipedia Imagine: a wall of water taller than the world’s tallest skyscrapers, surging outwards from the impact zone with unimaginable force. This wasn’t your typical earthquake-generated tsunami, a series of long-period waves rippling across the ocean. This was a direct, violent displacement of an immense volume of water, a shockwave translated into a liquid behemoth. Interestingly, the initial towering wave was just the beginning of the aquatic chaos. As the colossal column of water crashed back down into the newly formed crater, it didn’t simply settle. Instead, it rebounded, like a giant splash in a cosmic bathtub. This created a series of secondary waves, each still possessing immense energy, radiating outwards across the globe. Computer simulations, have been crucial in helping scientists unravel this complex sequence of events, painting a vivid picture of the watery apocalypse. The scale of this ancient tsunami was so vast that its fingerprints can still be detected today, thousands of kilometers from the impact site. Geologists have unearthed telltale layers of sediment in locations as far afield as Europe and even New Zealand, layers that bear the unmistakable signature of a cataclysmic wave. These sedimentary records often contain shocked quartz, microtektites (small glassy spheres formed from molten rock ejected during the impact), and even traces of iridium, an element rare on Earth but abundant in asteroids – all evidence pointing back to the Chicxulub impact. Consider the speed and power of these waves. Near the epicenter, in the Gulf of Mexico, the initial surges likely traveled at speeds exceeding 100 meters per second (over 220 miles per hour), with wave heights surpassing 100 meters. These weren’t gentle swells; they were monstrous walls of water capable of scouring coastlines, ripping apart landscapes, and carrying massive boulders inland. One fascinating aspect of the research involves analyzing the directionality of these ancient wave deposits. By studying the orientation of the sediments and the size of the transported debris, scientists can reconstruct the path and intensity of the tsunami as it propagated across different ocean basins. This is like forensic science on a planetary scale, piecing together the events of a long-lost day. The global reach of the Chicxulub tsunami underscores the interconnectedness of our planet. An event localized to a relatively small area could unleash forces that reverberated across the entire globe, impacting not only the land and atmosphere but also the deepest parts of the oceans. The Chicxulub impact wasn’t just about a rock falling from the sky; it was a planetary reset button, and the mile-high tsunami was one of its most devastating pushes. The post Mile-High Tsunami Wave Followed Dinosaur Extinction Asteroid appeared first on Anomalien.com.