FFFFriday. Batten down the hatches, it’s going to be windy and frigid.
Jan Ransom, previously with the Globe, pulls video of the chaos inside Rikers for this series in the Times.
Life is cheap at Mass and Cass. Live Boston reports that 2 bodies were found by the crew dismantling the encampment. Wu is right to want to get those tents taken down and to put people into proper shelters.
Unions are still a potent force in Massachusetts politics. Shira Schoenberg follows the money.
A new Leica rangefinder was announced yesterday, something that doesn’t happen very often. This one is the M11, successor to the M10, which was released in 2017. I’m a big fan of Leica cameras and lenses but I’ll probably sit this one out. The sensor tech on the M11 is certainly impressive, but so is the price, at almost $9000 for the body alone.
And are algorithms killing the scientific method? Probably not, but they are changing it.