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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

SB LX, halftime show fall shy of ratings records https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47891761/super-bowl-lx-bad-bunny-half-fall-shy-ratings-records

Aarde is afgelopen tien jaar sneller opgewarmd dan gedacht | de Volkskrant
Wist u dat al? Nou de meesten van u wel
Doet u er iets aan? Nou de meesten van u doen hun best
Helpt dat? Nou, een heel klein beetje
Is dat genoeg? Nee, absoluut niet, wil het helpen dan moet de hele maatschappij flink worden opgeschud
Gaat dat gebeuren? O zeker, goed- of kwaadschiks, evolutie, revolutie, ineenstorting, ik weet niet wat het uiteindelijk gaat worden, maar het gaat iets worden, …

US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coa…

Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
‘A very grimy feeling’: OpenAI quietly helped build a “‘parents and kids”’ AI safety group. Some members quit when they found out.

Reach reports 2025 revenue down 3.7% YoY to £518.4M, adjusted operating profit up 2.4% YoY to £104.7M, and Google Discover traffic down 46% YoY in H2 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/plunging-goo…

Plunging Google Discover traffic hits Reach digital revenue
Major cost cuts at Reach helped keep profits up in 2025 despite falling revenue across both digital and print.

NFL free agency winners and losers: Daniel Jones cashes in; Maxx Crosby waits for what's next https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-free-agency-winners-and-losers-daniel-jones-cashes-in-maxx-crosby-waits-for-what-s-next

AI has so many faces, such as Artificial Integrity.
Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition | The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coalition/

Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
‘A very grimy feeling’: OpenAI quietly helped build a “‘parents and kids”’ AI safety group. Some members quit when they found out.

AI has so many faces, such as Artificial Integrity.
Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition | The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coalition/

Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
‘A very grimy feeling’: OpenAI quietly helped build a “‘parents and kids”’ AI safety group. Some members quit when they found out.

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine
unless European countries joined a U.S. military effor to open the Strait of Hormuz,
the Financial Times (FT) reported on April 1,
citing people familiar with the discussions.
The report comes a month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran,
which has escalated across the Middle East.
Following the attacks, Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which roughly one-fifth o…

Trump threatened Europe over Strait of Hormuz, with weapons for Ukraine as bargaining chip, FT reports
Outraged at European countries' refusal to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump threatened to halt the PURL program selling U.S. weapons to NATO for use in Ukraine, officials told the Financial Times.

I'm not ok. The world seems not ok. But community is important and there is still value in doing things just because. Blinky lights are fun, so last weekend I helped wire some controller boxes for an upcoming Burning Man project (maybe unscruz too?)
(and I've just realized that I don't know the project's name or if it has one...)