The jousts expanded to one-on-one sword-fighting—ostensibly between two trained “knights” knowledgeable in the ways of armored combat. These two fighters would step into the Octagon garbed in plate mail and proceed to smash each other in the face with shields and swords as an official kept track of things.

Seeing as violence, like fashion, is cyclical, the exhibitions became wildly popular, to the point that M-1 plans to devote entire events to knight fights.

The other update Twitter made today makes it more difficult for abusive speech to be heard, without expressly banning it. The company says it is testing a new feature to automatically “identify suspected abusive Tweets and limit their reach.” It is looking at things like how old the account is (people often set up new accounts with the purpose of harassing others) and how similar the tweet is to others that it has already flagged for abuse. It says that this will not “affect your ability to see content that you’ve explicitly sought out.”

While Twitter did not provide specific detail on how this works, it might mean limiting what shows up in a person’s mentions. In an interview with BuzzFeed News in February, Costolo laid out one such scenario, noting that “people should have a right to speak freely on the platform, but you don’t necessarily have a right to have your mentions of me show up in my mentions timeline with whatever you choose to say, and your response is that I can call you whatever I want to call you.”

Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. DMCA is a vast 1998 copyright law that (among other things) governs the blurry line between software and hardware. The Copyright Office, after reading the comments and holding a hearing, will decide in July which high-tech devices we can modify, hack, and repair—and decide whether John Deere’s twisted vision of ownership will become a reality.

Over the last two decades, manufacturers have used the DMCA to argue that consumers do not own the software underpinning the products they buy—things like smartphones, computers, coffeemakers, cars, and, yes, even tractors. So, Old MacDonald has a tractor, but he owns a massive barn ornament, because the manufacturer holds the rights to the programming that makes it run.

Amazingly, this comes just a few months after an Aramark employee at Kauffman called attention to the disgusting food prep conditions at the stadium. Jon Costa worked for Aramark (which also runs concessions at Arrowhead Stadium) and blew the whistle on the group because, among other things, it "broke rules about storing foods at the right temperatures, hand washing, and had insects and rodents present." Costa says Aramark refused to address the issues, thereby forcing his hand to go public.

Subsequent inspections revealed violations in 20 of 26 reviews at both stadiums. Last month, Costa was fired. On Friday, fans were basically served trash.

Edgerton, 87, spoke to TIME on Wednesday as fast-food workers around the world staged protests and strikes—some at Burger King locations—as a part of the “Fight for $15” campaign, which calls for a $15 per hour minimum wage and the right to unionize.

“What’s going to happen, really, is you’re going to see less and less of the quick and dirty kind of places,” said Edgerton, who founded the fast food giant with James McLamore in 1954 and now serves on the board of Avantcare, a company that makes nutritional products to help treat addiction. “You’re not going to be able to run these places [paying workers] $15 an hour or whatever it will be.”

Another wrote: "The future looks very bleak. I'm selling my McDonald's stock. The morale of franchisees is at its lowest level ever." Added a third: "We will continue to fall and fail." The franchisees' six-month outlook for the company's U.S. business was the worst in more than 11 years of the survey.

Franchisees operate about 90 percent of the roughly 14,000 McDonald's locations in the U.S. They were surveyed after a summit in which executives from the company's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, unveiled their plans for the company's future. Those plans include adding upscale, customizable burgers to the menu and improving food quality.

“I think the film is about a moment in time that the Boston bombings catalyzed, where journalism found itself at a crossroad.... As a society, we’re wrestling with speed of information and ease of information versus real journalistic integrity. I think what happened in the days after the Boston bombings was a really interesting microcosm of what is becoming a very big issue.”