😵💫 UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-24-year-olds-not-in-work-o…
California is forecast to be on the western flank of a broad area of high pressure over the interior West this weekend into early next week.
Winds high in the atmosphere flowing clockwise around the high-pressure system will draw humid, subtropical air from the south toward California and push it as far north as eastern Oregon and Washington.
For California, the monsoon is only an occasional presence, but when winds do align, it can trigger thunderstorms statewide.
Lightning…
Colts release CB Kenny Moore II after failing to find trade https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-release-cb-kenny-moore-ii-after-failing-to-find-trade
Cowboys Linked to Former Pro Bowl RB James Conner in Potential Trade https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-linked-to-former-pro-bowl-rb-james-conner-potential-trade
I have some individual faculty funds I can spend on books. Recommendations please! Is there a book you •love• on the any of the following topics?
⁃ software development
⁃ programming languages
⁃ creative coding / generative art
⁃ software teams
⁃ design, usability
⁃ engineering for accessibility
⁃ computing / engineering and society
⁃ computing history
⁃ …etc…
Obvious, well-worn classics welcome, no matter how familiar! I might not know it!
And for once, redundant replies are welcome. I’ll treat them as upvotes.
For #footpathFriday , I chose this photo from my recent blog post - and thus from my recent hike that I did. 🙂
Not the best photo I ever took, but I reminds me of a beatiful walk - even though my legs were tired right from the start. But going a bit slower fixed the issue.
#hiking…
Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/reuters-and-time-adopt-bot-blocki…
"Under the order filed in Illinois, Deere will now be required to make diagnostic and repair tools available to equipment owners and independent repair shops, not only its own network of authorized dealers. It also prevents Deere dealers from retaliating against equipment owners or repair shops who choose to fix their own equipment instead of paying for Deere’s services."
#DigitalSovereignty
Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…