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The Rumpus Book Club event for this month is a conversation between Debbie Millman, Roxane Gay, and Emily Wilson about Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey. Sept 25th at 7pm ET on Zoom, free for all.

Do you test in production? Microsoft rolled back a configuration change after it prevented some users from loading SharePoint Online sites and pages. Microsoft tracked the incident as SP1472983. Between 1604 and 1730 GMT on September 16, affected users were unable to load SharePoint Online sites or pages and instead received the error message: "Sorry, something went wrong: Thread was being aborted." Microsoft blamed a configuration change affecting how its servers deliver code used to render SharePoint pages. Microsoft reverted the change and said its service telemetry confirmed that the problem had been resolved. It added: "We're further assessing the process by which we validate and deploy configuration changes to ensure future rollouts don't result in similar impact." This is not the first time a configuration change has borked Microsoft's cloud services. An Azure wobble earlier this year rippled through dependent services, while a Microsoft 365 configuration change caused a substantial chunk of the productivity cloud to tumble back down to Earth. In 2025, another change caused problems for users accessing Exchange Online through Outlook on the web. At the time, a Microsoft spokesperson told us: "We are working to enhance our detection of similar events and reduce the time needed to identify, mitigate, or prevent such impacts." Microsoft has not yet responded to our latest request for further detail. It said a preliminary post-incident report will be available within two business days, followed by a final report within five. Spotting problems quickly is only part of operating a business-critical service. Preventing faulty changes from reaching production also matters. The recurring failures suggest Microsoft has yet to get fully to grips with quality control across its cloud and infrastructure – much as Windows Update continues to produce a parade of problems that should have been caught before release. ®

Tweedehandsboekhandelaar Nancy Schot uit Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht verkocht jarenlang vooral aan liefhebbers uit de buurt. Tegenwoordig stuurt ze duizenden bestellingen naar de Verenigde Staten. Haar oude boeken worden namelijk gebruikt om AI-modellen te trainen: “Het is goede handel, maar de boeken gaan op deze manier wel verloren.”

After Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore from his tour over the singer’s support for Palestine, people flooded an online contest to open for Sheeran’s Mexico City show with fart videos, bouncing WWE butts, and troll posts from usernames like “EdSheeranSupportsAndFundsGenocide.” The posts appeared live on the contest page, where people can vote for submissions they want to see win, and went up seemingly without any moderation.

Guitar Center started promoting the “Open for Legends” contest on September 14, the same day Macklemore announced he had been removed from the last 10 shows of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s tour. Macklemore had called for a “free Palestine” on stage at his previous shows and made statements in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Rolling Stone reported. “YOU COULD OPEN FOR ED SHEERAN,” a poster for the contest says.

The contest by Guitar Center was clearly planned before Sheeran’s tour started falling apart. Still, the timing is unfortunate. For most of Wednesday, the submissions went unmoderated and appeared on the site as they were sent. 

Archived screenshots of the “Open for Legends” site from Wednesday show people posting things like a video of a Charles Manson interview and a meme of Gir from Invader Zim dancing with the caption “Welcome to the Cum Zone.” Screenshots posted on Bluesky show more memes with captions like “I”m in love with the gape of you” (a reference to one of Sheeran’s most popular songs) and “I dedicate this song to annoying starving children that block me from my luxury casino being build.” 

Entertainment Weekly documented more of the posts, reporting that one upload featured “a video of a man farting on his roommate’s doorknob titled ‘Me when im not complicit,’” and another from a user named EDSHRANCOMPLICIT was just “a video of a man demonstrating a multitude of ways to give the camera the middle finger” with the caption “FREE PALESTINE RELEASE THE FILES IT’S ALL GOTTA BURN.” Some of the submissions included links to relief efforts for Palestinians, including Gaza Soup Kitchen, UNRWA, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, and Doctors Without Borders.

As of Thursday morning, troll posts and political protest posts were all removed and the site is only sincere entries, mostly people singing in Sheeran’s soft-pop style about failed situationships or feelings about their siblings. 

Guitar Center did not immediately respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.

Macklemore wrote in a statement on Instagram that he was pressured to remove Macklemore by billionaire Gillette Stadium owner Rober Kraft. “Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues,” Macklemore wrote.   

All four of Sheeran’s supporting acts and his backing band for this tour have dropped out of the tour this week in support of Macklemore. 

Sheeran publicly addressed the fallout of Macklemore’s removal on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy. There are too many wars across the world causing immeasurable pain, none of which should be tolerated,” Sheeran wrote as part of a series of bullet points. “I am not complicit. I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have them, and it doesn't mean I don't care. Nor does it mean I don't support causes in my own, personal way,” Sheeran wrote.

After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them win

Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?”

The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser, as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes and 1950s housewives – were created using the generative AI software Krea.

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From soaring ballads to a song that belongs on every road-trip playlist, these are the tracks that underscore why ‘the Voice’ is a national treasure

In the lead-up to a sold-out tribute concert in celebration of the British-born Australian singer’s music, which is being broadcast at Hoyts cinemas around Australia, we rank the songs that sing to Farnsey’s fans in Australia and around the world.

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The manosphere says this type of suffering is targeted neglect, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But your suffering gives you the ability to make your part of the world better.

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I’m approaching 30 and I’m still a kissless virgin.

I’ve suffered with depression and anxiety since childhood and my family isn’t the most functional or supportive. I don’t really have friends either, as I find it hard to connect with others due to being bullied and feeling that I’m not worthwhile or wanted. I was also homeschooled from 14 and moved to a different part of the country at 15 and a few more times since then, so I feel quite rootless and alienated.

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Christine Teunissen (PvdD) vindt dat premier Rob Jetten te weinig maatregelen neemt tegen Israël. Sinds de aanval van Hamas op Israël op 7 oktober 2023 doodde het Israëlische leger bijna 74.000 Palestijnen in Gaza. VN-experts concludeerden dat er sprake is van genocide.

Het kabinet ziet vooral heil in druk op Israël in Europees verband. Maar daar ging Teunissen niet mee akkoord. "Nederland heeft vanuit het genocideverdrag een nationale verplichting om alles te doen om genocide te voorkomen", aldus de PvdD-leider. "De heer Jetten heeft meegelopen in de Rode Lijn-demonstraties, we zien nu een vrijwel ongewijzigd kabinetsbeleid."

Zo opperde ze dat het kabinet kan stoppen met de aankoop van Israëlische wapens. De Rode Lijn-protesten hadden onder meer als inzet om elke vorm van militaire samenwerking met Israël te beëindigen. Volgens Jetten kan dit niet, omdat alleen Israël de materialen kan leveren.