SEC filing: Byron Allen buys a 10.7% stake in Starz for $25M from investment fund Liberty 77, led by former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busines…
#EpsteinFiles syndrome?
‘Never been closer’: UFO watchers buoyed by Trump and Vance’s alien ‘obsession’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
#EpsteinFiles syndrome?
‘Never been closer’: UFO watchers buoyed by Trump and Vance’s alien ‘obsession’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
And on the day of the Super Bowl...
✅ NFL reportedly pressuring Seahawks to be put up for sale by Paul Allen estate - Yahoo Sports
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/nfl-reportedly-pressuring-seahawks-t…
SANCTUARY CALAMITY: ICE Arrests Criminal Illegal Alien Facing Kidnapping Charges Following His RELEASE from Jail by New York Sanctuary Politicians (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/04/07/sanctuary-calamity-ice-arrests-criminal-illegal-alien-facing-kidnapping-charges
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p104#a260407p104
Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! #FF2026
Yesterday on our bike ride we almost got a sun burn and two weeks ago I was snowshoeing in the mountains! It's wild 😉
Today we have light rain, so I'm not sure if I want to get out for some activity or let it be a true #silentSunday .
Some background and video of the snowshoe-day can be found here:
Following the links you get to something called Perlisisms which are tiny poems from Alan Perlis. Here are 120 of them:
https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
8. A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
95. Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
(I'm guilty as charged)
110. Editing is a rewording activity.
Flying drones with your eyes: the brain scientist developing Israel's future battlefield tech https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/skgser7wwg Another area her department explores is sensory substitution. "Can people learn to 'see' with sound?" she asks.