Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-again-and-ai-may-…
California lawmakers want to rename César Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-08264e63b6f594278239af1ad23ba1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p83#a260319p83
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, is released on $10K bond from ICE custody following her arrest on March 4 during a traffic stop (Jonathan Mattise/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/reporter-ice-ar…
IEA calls for working from home, driving slower and flying less to tackle energy crisis https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4540d0g4o
California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/technology/amazon-antitrust-suit-california.html
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116434197606361201
There are now nine nuclear powers.
Even three is infinitely more complicated than two.
The agreements,
the norms between countries,
are all falling apart.
Weapons are getting crazier.
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/technology/amazon-antitrust…
The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…