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Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/chinese-court-cases-reveal-most-trafficked-rhino-horns-come-from-southern-africa/

Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa
Rhinoceroses, one of the largest groups of animals on the planet, are fighting a battle for survival because of a prized body part: their horn, which they use to defend territories, assert dominance and protect their young. But people use this keratinous horn as medicine, adornment and decoration. In traditional Chinese medicine, it’s believed to […]

Exclusive: US EEOC Chair violated ethics rules halting LGBTQ cases, complaint alleges (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-eeoc-chair-violated-ethics-rules-halting-lgbtq-cases-complaint-alleges-2026-04-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p118#a260423p118

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Chicago Bluestars:
🎵 Comin' Home
#ChicagoBluestars

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
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What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

France: "we're going to ban short-haul flights where alternative train routes exist, in order to curb carbon emissions"
Rest of EU: "we'll start a commission to create a panel which will lead to a discussion on.."
US (via #AccidentallyTheEcoPresident): "what if we started a war so disastrous and stupid that it kneecapped ALL sh…

Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights as Iran war causes jet fuel shortage
The German airline says 20,000 short-haul flights would be removed from its ⁠schedule between now and October.

I never ceases to amaze me that mail systems do this shit. I know it was a thing with Sendmail but most of us have moved on or at least fixed the stupid mailer flags.
#Sysadminnery #Email #Sendmail

The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke,
as part of a push to increase the pace of #denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators in 39 regiona…

Trump Administration Aims to Strip Citizenship From Hundreds of Naturalized Americans
The Trump administration is assigning denaturalization cases to regular prosecutors, which could lead to a surge of people stripped of U.S. citizenship.

Voice of America Journalists Sue, Saying Trump Officials Interfered in Coverage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/voice-of-america-lawsuit-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA.2Dbi.cEQ4w4z_2Hxp&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p71#a260323p71

Exclusive: US SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses over Trump cases before leaving, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-secs-ex-enforcement-chief-clashed-with-bosses-before-leaving-sources-say-2026-03-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p131#a260323p131