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Gong Xi Fa Cai! Let's hope for a smooth ride 😉
#lunarnewyear

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html

Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows
A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of
covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe.
Millions of pages remain unreleased.
As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files,
a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein.
“The most extraordinary and worrying …

Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files, a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. “The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United …

I'm listening to Science Friday talking about how GLP-1 medications may affect addition.
One of the guests made the point that many people have used alcohol to not feel things that may be troubling their life, and that while GLP-1 may take away the desire to drink, it doesn't treat the underlying problems. Thus GLP-1s may need to be accompanied by something else to help them deal with the feelings they've been avoiding with alcohol.

When the Strait of Hormuz opens up, there will be a lot more interest in getting out of the Gulf than in sailing into it. To get the oil and gas flowing again, you'll need both, though. That will take a while.

You can count on Trump to humiliate his "allies", no "special relationship" here anymore.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ceqvwrydzpqt?post=asset:b01f1823-6e6f-4196-9013-b72b6fca66ed#post

Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won' and says UK aircraft carriers not needed - follow live
Meanwhile, Iran continues attacks on Gulf states as UAE officials say a Dubai resident has been killed by falling shrapnel.

Good Morning #Canada
Here in beautiful Belle Ewart the temp is -22°C, feeling like -31°C with the wind. But it's a dry cold....
Out west they are struggling with double digit temperatures on the plus side. Edmonton's winter festival organizers are making snow, protecting ice blocks and praying for plunging temps to save their skating rink. The unseasonable weather has impacted events throughput Alberta. The Banff and Lake Louise ice carving festival, Art of Ice, had to take down sculptures because they weren't safe. They were similarly impacted last year. The World’s Longest Hockey Game (WLHG) got underway last Thursday and players are dealing with slushy conditions while golf driving ranges are packed with eager duffers.
I'd gladly make the sacrifice and swap weather conditions with our fellow Canucks out west. It would be a burden that I'd gladly carry.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
https://youtu.be/W59Pi5S-Vic

Google the price of oil, and you’ll most likely find two widely quoted prices for the commodity, one in the United States, the other in Europe.
These prices, which are constantly changing on electronic markets, suggest that although the war with Iran has made energy a lot more expensive, things are not nearly as bad as they were four years ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
But if you needed an actual tanker full of oil — and quickly — it would cost you dearly.
On Tuesday, …

Iran War Drives Deeper Oil Shock Than Prices Reveal
The war with Iran is preventing huge amounts of oil from flowing out of the Persian Gulf, but the prices that many people track don’t fully capture the scale of the disruption.

"‘The world is transitioning away from fossil fuels’: Gulf oil investors turn to African renewables"
#Africa #FossilFuels #Energy

Fossil fuel shocks strengthen Gulf investment in African renewables
Gulf oil money is flowing into African renewables – and the Iran war is only accelerating the trend.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.