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Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #RainyDayMusic:
1. Corey Glover, “April Rain”—

An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experience" across devices, and more (Verity Burns/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-pepsi-man-is-coming-to-save-…

The Pepsi Man Is Coming to Save Samsung From Boring Design
Mauro Porcini is, amazingly, Samsung's first ever chief design officer. He's got a hell of a job ahead of him.

RivalIQ: WaPo's YouTube channel's views fell 85% from April to September, after Dave Jorgenson, who led the channel, left to launch Local News International (Matt Karolian/📰🤖)
https://mkarolian.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-without-dave

The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can’t Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
The shocking look at what happened when Dave left WaPo to start Local News International

The guy who “invented” the little arrow on the dashboard that tells you which side of the car the fuel tank hole is on, former Ford employee James Moylan, died on December 11 at age 80
#automobilehistory

The Inventor Of The Little Arrow That Tells You What Side The Fuel Filler Is On Has Died
The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a meeting at another building.

Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation

Amazon Leo mission updates: Next launch with ULA set for December 15
Follow along for updates as Amazon Leo launches more than 80 missions to deploy its initial low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.

“Our constitution written by our founders is intended to protect us against a threat identical to Donald Trump.”
- Al Gore, SF Climate Week San Francisco's Exploratorium, April 2025
#algore #trump

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

HMMM - A new way to identify brands to boycott and politicians unworthy of support. How I wish this was an April 1 article.
'Unignorable' flying billboards are slated to come to California
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uni

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6

AI video start-up takes wide-angle view to boost growth
Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries

These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.