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Law & Order (1978) - S01E01 - A Detective's Tale (BBC Two 6th April 1978) - #Dailymotion
#BBC #LawAndOrder

"…poll in April showed a majority of Americans suddenly wanted to restrict that presidency in ways they hadn’t before…percentage who said a president has 'too much' power rose from 32% last year (under Biden) all the way up to 54% (under Trump)."
"All of which suggests Americans-or at least a majority of them-see something extraordinary happening right now."
"Republicans…try to diminish… 'No Kings' rallies…something that’s very real to l…

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing
New polling reinforces how much the thrust of the “No Kings” message has resonated with much of the American public.

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

#EMACS the extensible, customizable self-documenting display editor | #ACM SIGOA Newsletter April 1981
#howitallbegan
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1159890.806466

Literal #enshittification of everything. As far as I can tell, it’s not April 1st today. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/kohler-toilet-camer…

Civilian employees at several federal agencies miss their first full paycheck (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/government-shutdown-federal-workers-no-pay-checks
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p1#a251025p1

The Daily Beast COO Keith Bonnici says the publisher has been profitable through the first nine months of 2025 and expects its first full year of profitability (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/daily-beast-annual-profit-growth/

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Beast Expects First Annual Profit in 17-Year History
The publisher has seen revenue and headcount grow 20% and 25%, respectively, after changing ownership last April

After courting coal miners during his campaign,
Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
Many miners in Appalachia thought they would finally see a commitment to solving the issue of black lung.
Last year, on April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final rule,
"Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection",
which aimed to reduce miners’ exposure to an airborne co…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters