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How Trump's immigration policies, visa fees, and fuel costs are affecting international artists' US tours; Pollstar: US concert volume in Q1 is down ~17% YoY (August Brown/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entert…

Karol G at Coachella was a global hit. Yet other foreign acts fear touring the U.S.
We love the U.S., but now there is a reality in which we have to cut our losses and stop coming,' one band said. 'A lot of bands are giving up on the U.S., for sure.

The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…

Arts panel approves Trump ballroom despite 99% negative public comment
The Commission of Fine Arts unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19.

It's going to be a busy #EGU poster session for our team this year:
🌲 Explainable Machine Learning for diagnosing Data Quality Issues in Dendrometer-Based Tree Growth Time Series https://meetingorganizer.coperni…

Reuse,
gut für die Fischerei
schlecht in der Kryptografie
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/

Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…

Giants trading Lawrence could be good, or bad, for Cowboys draft plans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/20/giants-bengals-dt-lawrence-trade-cowboys-draft/89698954007/

Juten Sonn- und Spieltach allerseits ☕
#BMGM05 #Fohlenelf #Abstiegsangst
Aus persönlichen Gründen besuche ich heute nicht das Stadion.
Meinem Kumpel, der meine DK nutzen wird, wünsche ich frei …

“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Bareo Hassen Bareo, Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…

Palestinian journalists recount abuse in Israeli prisons, CPJ report finds  - Committee to Protect Journalists
International community must pursue accountability for Palestinian journalists harmed in Israeli custody Amman, February 19, 2026 — Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  The report, ‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons,...