Michelle Childs

@DailyMemphian How does the City of Memphis pay one employee, Rodrick Holmes, MATA’s operations trustee, an annualized salary of $900,000? What justifies this? Is that legal?

Kelsey Huse is no stranger to transit and biking issues in cities, but in less than three years, she’s already helped others elevate those issues in Memphis. dailymemphian.com/article/61108

Is this real?

A retired nurse smelled her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before his diagnosis. Joy Milne noticed the smell in 1982. Woody. Musky. Yeasty. Doctors didn't diagnose him until 1994. For over a decade, she was puzzled why he was smelling different. It was his neurons dying. So they put her to the test. Joy Milne had to smell 12 T-shirts: 6 from Parkinson's patients, 6 healthy controls. She correctly identified all 6 PD patients. She did make 1 “mistake” and marked one control as "false positive." 8 months later, that person was also diagnosed with Parkinson's. She wasn't wrong. She was just early. New research (2025): Parkinson's can be detected through scent 12 years before physical symptoms appear. Twelve years. Imagine starting treatment that early. Slowing progression before it even begins. This started because one woman could smell it on her husband. Now science is catching up.

A Pole became a stem cell donor for an American woman — and years later attended her wedding 💖 This touching story took place in the United States and became widely known in February 2026. Young American Kaedi Cecala, who was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome in 2020, overcame the disease thanks to stem cells donated by Karol Zwierzynski from Poland 🇵🇱 Several years after Kaedi’s recovery, Karol flew from Poland to the U.S. to personally attend her wedding. He was introduced to the guests as the person who gave her a second chance at life.

@mikerodak Is that women’s soccer? I didn’t think UA had a men’s soccer team but a men’s club team instead.

Here are Alabama's sport-by-sport profits/losses for the 2024-25 fiscal year; football ($65 million) and men's basketball ($9 million) posted profits, while the largest losses were from women's basketball ($4.7M) and baseball ($4.5M).

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people. When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed. The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch. The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep. Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours. And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill. The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful. That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.

@treywallace True and even without the stability contracts bring NFL. Without changes it’s unclear how long the fan base remains interested in the college football musical chairs chaos.

Lane Kiffin points out this generation aren’t bothered by noise “It’s a different generation, guys…They can leave every year, a lot of that is financial based. They don’t think the traditional way like years ago about their coach, what’s gonna go on with them next year…”

Parents: Do not give your children any AI companions or AI enhanced toys. With social media 15 years ago, we can say we didn't know. With AI, we can already see some of the harms, such as suicide and psychosis. Other harms will surface years from now. afterbabel.com/p/dont-give-yo…

@teachthemx3 Sounds concerning that school board policies on cheating are not being followed consistently from one student to another.

A teacher at my school came into my room after dismissal yesterday and showed me an email she received (summarized with her permission, student’s name has been changed): Counselor: Johnny’s parents are concerned because he’s only failing your class. Any idea why? Teacher: Attaches detailed phone log of conversations with parents sharing her concerns about the student sleeping in class and playing games on his Chromebook instead of working. Teacher also shares the 2 office referrals for cheating which resulted in zeros for test grades. Counselor: We’re going to allow him to retake the 2 tests he cheated on. Additionally, please make arrangements with the student to attend your after school tutorials and re-teach the lessons so he can make up the additional work he is missing. She didn’t even reply. She’s genuinely considering not coming back after Thanksgiving break.

More evidence for the sensitive period hypothesis: Boys are especially "imprinted" by the teams that won championships when boys were 8-12. Their brains are soaking up culture and values, weighted by prestige. Don't let social media choose who imprints and guides their brain dev

Not sure there’s a worse pharmacy than @Walgreens when it comes to customer service and how many hours it takes to fill a prescription.

When people learned that the bakery owner's wife was in critical condition, customers began buying out the entire stock every day so he could close the shop and stay by her side. 🙌❤️

Child sexual exploitation cases increase to ‘monumental’ degree. In most cases, suspects are using social media apps like KIK or Snapchat to reach children.

Feeling the Heat ☀️ - mailchi.mp/startschoollat…

Had to share the most heartwarming use of AI I’ve seen yet. A teacher made AI-generated images of her students as adults living their dream careers (ex: astronaut, football player, cartoonist, veterinarian) 🫶

@WMCActionNews5 Lakeland also has boys soccer and girls tennis and individual boys tennis and boys track and field and girls track and field going to state this spring.

They are the ONLY public high school in Shelby County that advanced to the State Tournament. actionnews5.com/2025/05/17/she… actionnews5.com/2025/05/17/inc…

STATE BOUND! Big time result for your Lakeland Lions!! They are heading to STATE for the first time in program history!! Only our second year as a varsity program and we still don’t have any seniors!! Record: 19-2-2 @johnvarlas @memphispreps @FauseyJay @Localpitchpod

Lakeland soccer can join the baseball team at Spring Fling with a win Saturday. The Lions will also be represented in tennis and track and field with individuals. Really cool to see this athletic department grow.

@LPS_Soccer wins 6-2 against Sheffield. Regional Champions!! Substate/sectionals on Saturday at LPS at 1pm. @johnvarlas