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Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-t

Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts
Globally, Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days,
as Trump attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.

The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircra…

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.

Bonne rentrée!
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/trafic-geneve-lausanne-interrompu-trains-supprimes-entre-prilly-et-lausanne-29152657.html

Ihan hyvää pohdintaa Traficomilta, että kannattaako viranomaisen julkaista kaikkia kriittisen infrastruktuurin kohteita koneluettavassa muodossa.
(Spoileri: eivät julkaisseet.)
Drone-kielloissa on kuitenkin se, että jos joku haluaa kuvata, kielto ei estä. Ainoastaan tunarit jää kiinni; sabotaasiin kykenevälle muutaman sadan euron drone ei merkkaa mitään.

Määräysmuutos: UAS-ilmatilavyöhykkeet (OPS M1-29) 2026 | Traficom
Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto (Traficom) on 15.4.2026 antanut muutetun määräyksen OPS M1-29, joka koskee miehittämättömän ilmailun kieltäviä, rajoittavia ja sallivia UAS-ilmatilavyöhykkeitä. Näitä vyöhykkeitä voidaan perustaa määräyksellä enintään kolmen vuoden määräajaksi, siten kuin ilmailulain 11 a ja 11 b §:ssä sekä EU:n droneasetuksen 2019/947 15 artiklassa tarkemmin säädetään. Uudistettu määräys tulee voimaan huhtikuun AIRAC-päivänä 16.4.2026.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Tropical Fuck Storm:
🎵 Stayin' Alive
#TropicalFuckStorm
https://tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/track/stayin-alive
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WPVxossQMhnx72ZOCzo9I

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Cowboys Draft Target Travis Burke Would Be Perfect Mauler for O-Line https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-nfl-draft-target-travis-burke-perfect-mauler-offensive-line

Slavery, Tariffs and the Dire Strait (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/slavery-tariffs-and-the-dire-strait
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p19#a260317p19

Israëlische Westbank horror door de sadisten van het IDF.
“Ibrahim added that the Israeli soldiers later took the injured children who survived the shooting out of the car and beat them up.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/15/w

‘We killed dogs’: Israeli troops kill two children, parents in West Bank
Each person shot in the head in the village of Tammun, while two other children of the deceased couple sustain injuries.

At least 200 US troops have been injured in the US-Israeli war on Iran, a US military spokesperson said on Monday.
As of Monday, 13 service members have been killed in the US war with Iran. Six crew members died last week when a US military refuelling plane crashed in western Iraq
https://www.