Morning Updates: Restaurateurs slam Olive Garden, what the heck is code?
Good morning, Boston. Here’s what you need to know today, including the 13th homicide in Boston this year, Olive Garden’s enemies in the North End, and a shakeup at Twitter.
A brutal, targeted killing in Boston: “But about two months ago, [16-year-old Jonathan Dos Santos] came to his basketball coach with a problem: People were hassling him, trying to get him to join a gang, the youth had said. He didn’t want to. But he was scared to go to school because he was afraid they would be looking for him at the train station. On Wednesday night, two young men waited with guns drawn for Dos Santos to come riding his bicycle down Fuller Street in Dorchester, according to an official briefed on the investigation. When the teenager pedaled past, they opened fire, killing him.’’ (The Boston Globe)
North End Italian eateries slam Olive Garden: “Olive Garden’s food truck will give free samples of their new sandwiches, which use their famous (or infamous) breadsticks as buns, from Thursday to Sunday at the North End Park and nearby Faneuil Hall. [George Mendoza, one of the owners of Monica’s in the North End,] says don’t go. ‘It’s like if you took a P.F. Chang’s and put it in Chinatown and passed around spring rolls,’ he said.’’ (Boston.com)
What is code, anyway?Bloomberg Businessweek magazine published a delightful 38,000-word treatise on the essence of computer coding. “You, using a pen and paper, can do anything a computer can; you just can’t do those things billions of times per second. And those billions of tiny operations add up. They can cause a phone to boop, elevate an elevator, or redirect a missile. That raw speed makes it possible to pull off not one but multiple sleights of hand, card tricks on top of card tricks.’’ (Bloomberg)
Twitter CEO steps down amid flagging growth: “Though Twitter has brought out an accelerating set of improvements over the last year, it remains a punishingly difficult service to get accustomed to and use. Twitter may be alone among large social networks in turning away more people than it attracts. About 300 million people use it every month, but more than a billion have signed up and quit.’’ (The New York Times)
The third season of Orange Is The New Black is out now: Get to watching. So what if it’s work time. (Netflix)
How Boston has celebrated LGBT pride for 45 years: “It’s interesting because we always try to capture that Pride is a celebration, but it’s also a concentration of rights,’’ said Sylvain Bruni, president of Boston Pride. “It’s a celebration of who we are out there but also being wicked proud at being physical–still marching, still political, still showing elected officials and decision makers that we’re here and asking for full equality.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye: The Boston Pride Parade through the years
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