2026-04-30 03:31:05
FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a "direct data feed" to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelli
FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a "direct data feed" to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelli
SUPERCAM IDENTIFIES CORUNDUM IN JEZERO CRATER, MARS, USING TIME-RESOLVED LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY: #Jezero Crater.
Devin Moore Has Under-the-Radar Path To Playing Time For Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/devin-moore-has-under-the-radar-path-to-playing-time-dallas-cowboys
Ohio State WR Carnell Tate's 40-yard dash at NFL combine under dispute https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7079130/2026/03/01/carnell-tate-40-time-nfl-combine/
Trump Threatens to Pull U.S. Out of NATO Amid Fallout Over Iran War. Can He Legally Do That? (Tiago Ventura/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/04/01/trump-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato-iran-war-legal-options/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p69#a260401p69
There’s a 10-day livestream with just external camera images from Artemis II with no commentary
Great to put up on your TV and check by from time to time. Bonus: glitch art!
Moon fly-by is likely on April 6.
No, I don't know why (at least some of) the cameras are 4:3.
https://www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBtepa4
Watch: Raiders top pick QB Fernando Mendoza takes practice field for first time https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/01/watch-raiders-top-pick-qb-fernando-m…
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Yndling:
🎵 Time Time Time (I'm in the Palm of Your Hand)
#NowPlaying #Yndling
https://yndling.bandcamp.com/album/time-time-time-im-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
[Who helped make that happen? Trump: The New Cost for 2025 Tax Cut Extensions - $4 Trillion
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/the-new-cost-for-2025-tax-cut-extensions-4-trillion/]
US national debt surpasses GDP for the first time since World War II era | Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-national-debt-surpasses-size-economy-first-time-since-world-war-ii-data-shows
Pahlavi family hoping to be brought to power by the US for a second time. First time was 1953, over oil interests.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/exiled-crown-prince-calls-on-iranian-people-finish-job-cheers-trump-hum…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Medicine:
🎵 Time Baby II
#Medicine
https://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/track/time-baby-ii-medicine
https://open.spotify.com/track/5tujK4iuRbqaDQv94ZRH98
As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
Vacation Film Forgotten in 70-yo Vintage Camera Was Developed for the First Time: Do You Know These Skiers? https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/vacation-film-forgotten-in-70-yo-vintage-camera-was-developed-for-t…
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade/sou…
RE: https://flipboard.com/@time/top-stories-088ho5dkz/-/a-GEvcnIoITBWFS6wpkHkwVw:a:3195429-/0
Note: These guidelines are from the American Heart Association, real doctors, and not from the quacks and social…
it seems impossible I'm deeply curious what kids across ages and location do all day (after school and weekend). When my kids were younger I felt a lot of pressure to limit and monitor all technology use. Parents would brag about how they limit time.
But it's really hard to monitor your kids 24/7 because I want to do my own stuff. Also 24/7 monitoring sounds bad. But weekends are long and tech / videos / games can easily fill up so much time.
I've lost track on what i…
🎁 Shipping damage, measured in real time: How wireless origami cushioning could improve logistics
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-shipping-real-wireless-origami-cushioning.html
Time Work. Debt, inheritance, and intergenerational practice. https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/24/time-work-debt-inheritance-and-intergenerational-practice
Time is Not Compute: Scaling Laws for Wall-Clock Constrained Training on Consumer GPUs
Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28823
arXiv:2603.28823v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scaling laws relate model quality to compute budget (FLOPs), but practitioners face wall-clock time constraints, not compute budgets. We study optimal model sizing under fixed time budgets from 5 minutes to 24 hours on consumer GPUs (RTX 4090). Across 70 runs spanning 50M--1031M parameters, we find: (1)~at each time budget a U-shaped curve emerges where too-small models overfit and too-large models undertrain; (2)~optimal model size follows $N^* \propto t^{0.60}$, growing \emph{faster} than Chinchilla's $N^* \propto C^{0.50}$, with $\alpha = 0.60 \pm 0.07$ robustly exceeding compute-optimal across all sensitivity analyses; (3)~a \emph{dual U-shape mechanism}: short-budget U-curves arise from compute bottlenecks, while long-budget U-curves emerge from data bottlenecks (overfitting), with an intermediate regime where the U-curve temporarily disappears. These findings have immediate implications for researchers training on consumer hardware, where wall-clock time -- not FLOPs -- is the binding constraint. We release all code, logs, and 70 experimental configurations.
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Tools like Claude Design have an assumption baked into them: that "productivity" is fungible, and more "productivity" of artifacts leads to more value.
But if anything, the problem is that there are too MANY artifacts — and decision-making within your company begins to take on a "garbage can" model.
The solution for designers is to step out of clock time work, and think on calendar time.
Low Carbon Investments @Home (2018) - How I cut carbon with negawatts, ISAs, SIPPs and start-ups. How best to put time and effort into a greener low-carbon future? - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-carbon-investing.html
Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
Jazzaria – The Time We Have
https://jazzaria.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-we-have
https://www.
On my first time mentoring #WordPress Credits students, the hardest part wasn't technical! I wrote about this wonderful experience. 🎓
https://josvelasco.com/heres-what-ive-…
Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time sync client/server if all goes according to plan for release 27.04 (~2027). For most this means replacing chrony.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ntpd-rs-its-about-time/79154/1
"They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2°C (3.6°F) in the months after an AI data centre started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1°C (16.4°F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometres away. Seven kilometres away, there was only a 30 per cent reduction in the intensity."
Every time the rage of using MuseScore subsides, they find a way of pissing me off even more.
God I fucking hate that app.
Joplin update woes:
I don't use Joplin on the desktop as much as on the phone, which means that I had neglected updating the desktop version (AppImage; yes, Linux) for some time.
Today I finally did open it, and saw several notes being un-encryptable. Okay, time to update, I guess.
Only problem turned out to be that version 3.5.11 and 3.5.13 (the two I tried) don't load properly: the app only shows a grey rectangle with a half menubar that doesn't respond to but…
This Cyndi Lauper tune is probably my favorite track off this brilliant all Inuktitut cover album.
Elisapie, "Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time)" (2023)
https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/taimangalimaaq-time-after-time
It's the beginning of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:
Varant Zanoyan (co-founder of Zipline AI, creator of Chronon at Airbnb) is joining #bbuzz26 to talk feature chaining and keeping training and serving in sync at scale.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/real-time-ml-pipelines-feature-chaining-with-chronon/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
Arkansas RB Mike Washington Jr. sheds tears after 4.33 40 at NFL combine https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7077890/2026/02/28/nfl-combine-mike-washington-40-time/
Kamala Harris telling it like it is. Donald Trump clearly doesn’t understand that this is not how civilised people do things. Civilised people arm Israel and let it do their dirty work. Just look at the genocide in Gaza armed and funded so elegantly by the Democrats in their time. Not a single US soldier put in harm’s way and still so effective. Nothing as uncouth as all this.
Screw all these people. How has humanity failed so fundamentally that these fuckers are the only two options a…
Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/
@… don’t threaten me with a good time
In a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening, Trump is expected to describe the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a major success that could end in a few weeks.
In what was perhaps a pre-emptive pitch before Mr. Trump’s speech, the president of Iran posted an open letter to the American public,warning of the costs of a prolonged war.
“Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said in the lette…
Looks like it’s time to buy another heating pad… MTBF seems to be about two months.
Helps that every time I’ve gotten an AI-generated response like that the information and recommendations within it have contained some blatant errors. So I can point to them instead of making it seem like a character attack on the person for using AI.
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
dependency cooldowns are all cool and nice until dependabot comes in hot and trying to update reverts some oMg cRiTiCaL rEdOs
Adjacent problem: maybe I want a cooldown for external packages but none for mine? Although the whole topic is moot since devpi doesn't provide upload dates anyways.
our tools still have a LONG way to go, unfortunately. there is no “JUST do this best practice”.
Every time a company comes up with "existing thing but as a platform" in an attempt to dodge legislation that has been in place about the thing for good reasons, like Uber pretending not to be a taxi company to avoid legal obligations taxi companies have to fulfil on the flimsy basis that they are just connecting drivers and riders, I feel like they should be put under the existing legislation until proven otherwise?
This video by @…
Past time for regime change in Russia, Israel and USA. The new axis of evil
⭐ Starred a repository
ruvnet/wifi-densepose
Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers
github.com/ruvnet/wifi-densepose
I spend a bit of time today reading into Matrix and Jabber etc. I also watched some videos about the signup process (to see how easy it is).
Und just when I spoke with my wife about it, I noticed what "felt wrong" when seeing them as alternatives to signal/Whatsapp/...: The signup requires eMail.
When looking for a replacement of the classical messengers, I would expect that I signup by phone number and find contacts via my address book (email / phone).
Need to …
Putin doesn’t want PEACE – he wants EXRTRA TIME for WAR! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/28/putin-doesnt-want-peace-he.html
remembering that time in 2004 my friend jake booked david allan coe's first nyc show in decades. the gig was on a boat, supposedly because coe wouldn't set foot in nyc due to a beef with the hells angels, so the boat picked him up & dropped him off in new jersey. https://jakerocksoff.com/d-is-for-davi
Time to swap out the winter tyres for summer variants and do a general checkup. So I am off to the Bike shop.
First step, put the unicycle in the cargo bike, so that I have transport home.
You all do this, right?
#UnicyclesArePractical
@… I’m a big fan of Fastmarks!
I don’t think you spend much time on this app anymore , you probably consider it feature complete and or not a worthwhile place to spend your time, and I can’t argue with either.
If you do spend any time on it, I wonder if you’d consider adding the ability to launch a link in a private window, and also another keyboard sh…
Been a long time since I listened to Meantime fully. This will determine whether this is my top album from 1992, or if it's Piece of Cake by Mudhoney, which I just did fully- and is another SERIOUS contender. These are my final two out of a larger list for '92, and this one is CLOSE, like some of the others. Some years are really tougher to figure out than others 😅
About a week ago, I wrote a piece on how CISOs are going to have a hard time figuring out where Anthropic is across their enterprises if they have to deal with the Pentagon's ban of the AI technology.
Turns out, a district court judge just gave companies that do business with the DoD or other federal agencies more time to figure out their AI supply chain situation by issuing a preliminary injunction against the Anthropic ban.
Anthropic wins reprieve against US DoD ban, buying…
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories; Norway holds the top spot (Reporters Without Borders)
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low…
When we talk about this time, it's gonna sound like gonzo journalism. But like... here it is.
I want us to save the world so we can spend the rest of history making fun of this time.
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Tuvaband:
🎵 Im Safely Passing in Time
#NowPlaying #Tuvaband
https://tuvaband.bandcamp.com/track/im-safely-passing-in-time-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qxuOHtHY4thD20IrrmsJv
Raiders rebuild: Is there real hope this time? https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/27/raiders-rebuild-is-there-real-hope-this-time/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flight of the Conchords:
🎵 Business Time
#FlightoftheConchords
https://flightoftheconchords.bandcamp.com/track/business-time-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gpF9X9AliEO6f91LJT8Ej
Your Estimated Wait Time for a Work Permit Is ... 173 Years? (Dara Lind/Documented)
https://documentedny.com/2026/02/27/your-estimated-wait-time-for-a-work-permit-is-173-years/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p30#a260227p30
"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration
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Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q
If you're stuck in a doom loop, stop here for a moment.
Doom scrolling to see the exact moment we're all gonna die in nuclear hellfire isn't a good use of time. Choose something with longer term impact and focus on that. If we all die, you won't know the difference. If we live, you won't have wasted your time doom scrolling.
Good luck. I hope you do something cool.
#Iran
FACT CHECK
The previous post is a lie: they are not, in fact, doing it just one location at a time. They’re doing whole massive batches of locations at once.
Investors have grown accustomed to buying into major selloffs because stocks recover quickly
— not this time so far.
"This is a little bit of a more protracted, longer duration selloff than what investors have become used to,"
"Ironically, I think that's keeping people from feeling that they can buy the dip."
Big Tech firm's are spending at such a record rate to fund their AI ambitions, their capital expenditure is a bigger driver…
I’m glad the last time I was in a band was 32 years ago and I never had to type the words “Link in bio” to promote my music.
Configuring a new Windows VM for the first time in a while and wow, this is infuriating and I installed 24H2 not even whatever the latest is.
Even locked up in a hypervisor I want to take a hammer to it.
Kurt Volker: “The coalition of the willing” must enter Ukraine now – there is no time for hesitation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/28/kurt-volker-the-coalition-of.html
Humble brag time: I've supervised four postdocs. Every single one has landed a tenure-track job (in history!).
Of course, this really has nothing to do with me at all - they're all super impressive scholars and I didn't "supervise" anything (how does one supervise a humanities postdoc, anyway?). Still, maybe I'm a good luck charm?
Last photo from a week ago when temperatures were high and we enjoyed some time out.
When I look at the photo I notice that ... "times" ago I didn't like the brown grass after winter as I was missing the vivid green.
That day however I didn't even think about it. Maybe becuase of the sun ... or the nice contrast of these heather like flowers? Anyways - it's been a great day out there.
Eagles three-time Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson indicates he's returning in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-three-time-pro-bowl-guard-landon-dickerson-indicates-he-s-returning-in-2026
OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/89dd9814-e0f3-4464-9a06-58686e85c76e
MAGA media provocateur Nick Shirley boosted an antisemitic video. It was only a matter of time. (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism/maga-media-provocateur-nick-shirley-boosted-antisemitic-video-it-was-only-matter-time
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p65#a260227p65
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Yndling:
🎵 Time Time Time (I'm in the Palm of Your Hand)
#NowPlaying #Yndling
https://yndling.bandcamp.com/album/time-time-time-im-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration
One in four full-time workers in Britain would be “better off swapping wages for benefits“, according to new analysis which featured on the front of The Sun.
The report – published by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) earlier this month – resurrects the spectre of the ‘#welfare #scrounger’,
a hypothetical …
Hi, “Bernie already did this” Reply Guys. Two things:
What was the first item on my list? •That• was the primary item in his campaign?? in 2016??? before Trump was president even the first time????
Regardless, my assertion is that this is a winning campaign •now•, not 10 years ago.
Seriously, try this in a congressional race.
Ukraine’s Mirage 2000s seen striking Russian positions with AASM Hammer bombs for the first time: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/28/ukraines-mirage-s-seen-striking.html
Feeling nostalgic for a time when we didn't have to fight with the kids on cold mornings to just put an effin' coat on already.
NFL combine 2026: Grading top TE prospects as Kenyon Sadiq, Eli Stowers deliver all-time performances
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-combine-2026-te-grades-keny…
Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check "to confirm the game's license", likely to combat refund scams (Gabe Gurwin/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstat
Steelers seem worried Aaron Rodgers could sign with another team: Possible landing spots for the four-time MVP
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-free-agenc…
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-ad-boom.…
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Yndling:
🎵 Time Time Time (I'm in the Palm of Your Hand)
#NowPlaying #Yndling
https://yndling.bandcamp.com/album/time-time-time-im-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
2026 NFL combine: This draft prospect just put together the best quarterback performance of all-time
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-combine-draft-prospe…
Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla in the Middle East starting 8PM local time on April 1 (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple…
Jeff Siemon, four-time Pro Bowl linebacker with Vikings, dead at 75 https://www.nfl.com/news/jeff-siemon-four-time-pro-bowl-linebacker-with-vikings-dead-at-75
Amazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/amaz
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…
Sources: Brzezinski seeks full-time Vikes GM job https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48628854/sources-rob-brzezinski-seeking-full-vikings-gm-position
AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-ai…
The persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion
Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/excl
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81% of the funding; just four companies raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/record-breaking-funding-ai-global-q1-202…