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  • Instagram claims a 'bug' caused the accidental rollout of a huge change to its feed, infuriating the easily-provoked 'gram community.
  • Here's the trailer for the scary-looking new feature-length Black Mirror episode, which drops on Netflix Friday and is rumored to be a "choose-your-own-adventure." Is choosing to go for a walk in the park an option?
  • There have been no homicides in NYC during the last six days, according to the NYPD. 283 people have been killed in New York City so far this year, compared to 286 homicides in 2017.
  • Read the touching NY Times obituary for Dr. Larry Eisenberg, a biomedical electrical engineer who was also one of the most prolific NY Times commenters and famous for his limericks.
  • This cool map of NYC's trees shows which neighborhoods are "tree deserts."
  • A cow being driven to a slaughterhouse kicked open the back doors of the trailer and was seen wandering a New Jersey highway.
  • One gambler in Brooklyn bought a $298.3 million Powerball ticket; everyone else is a fucking loser.
  • Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani insists he is "not dead yet," and therefore Special Counsel Robert Mueller cannot step over his corpse to question the president as part of an investigation into whether Trump committed crimes to become president.
  • A Daily Beast investigation looks at taxpayer-funded private prisons for migrants, where some inmates work long hours for $3 a day, in circumstances akin to slave labor.
  • Multiple sources tell McClatchy's DC bureau that "a mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and 'fixer' Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials."
  • And finally, Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini try to explain the difference between Brooklyn and Bronx accents: