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A federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order and eliminates the March 23 deadline, now ordering 70 people due back each week (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-slows-voice-of-america-return-to-work

Federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order
Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order Friday night, eliminating the Monday morning deadline he had set for the Trump admin to bring all affected employees back to work.

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galax…

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones Will Work With Apple's AirDrop, Much Like the Pixel 10
AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.

Cowboys will not work on contract extension with franchise-tagged WR George Pickens in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-will-not-work-on-contract-extension-with-franchise-tagged-wr-george-pickens

OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218

Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on 'Work Trip' (Daysia Tolentino/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-busted-celebrating-in-olympic-locker-room-on-work-trip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260222/p47#a260222p47

Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output https://theconversation.com/yes-ai-could-boost-productivity-but-work-is-about-more-than-maximising-output-278121

Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output
Work needs to deliver security, fairness and social value as well as efficiency.

Work resumes on the Hudson River rail tunnel project, but NJ Transit delays continue
A thousand workers are expected to be back on the job after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars to fund construction.
https://share.google/xcagr3k9euo6b6RIS

I've written another essay about my mad #PostScarcitySoftware #Lisp system.
"We don't need to know, or have known, these people to build on their work. We don't have to, and cannot in detail, fully understand their work. There is simply too much of it, its complexity wou…

At last ! Everything you ever wanted to know about getting a healthy sleep and using blue light filters:
https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work
TL;DR : blue light filters don't work 🫠
by @…

Blue light filters don’t work
Why controlling total luminance is a better bet

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Missy Elliott:
🎵 Work It
#MissyElliott
https://bigenigma.bandcamp.com/track/missy-elliott-work-it-big-enigma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jagJCUbdqhDSPuxP8cAqF

Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…

OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech ...

Saquon Barkley 'super excited' to work with new Eagles OC Sean Mannion: 'It's refreshing' https://www.nfl.com/news/saquon-barkley-super-excited-to-work-with-new-eagles-oc-sean-mannion-it-s-refreshing

On Website Technicals (2020-11) - Tech updates: work storage, Let's Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html

On Website Technicals (2020-11)
Tech updates: work storage, Lets Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub.

The final piece of the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia has been laid in place,
bringing the church to its maximum final height 144 years after work began.
After several days when it has been too windy to work,
the upper section of the 17 metre-high four-sided steel and glass cross was winched into position at 11am on Friday,
completing the tower dedicated to Jesus Christ.
At 172.5 metres, the Sagrada Familia, to which the Catalan architect Antoni G…

MAGA wants more teen births. It won't work - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/20/maga-wants-more-teen-births-it-wont-work/

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

RE: #peopleFarming

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

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Welcome to my island
#NowPlaying #CarolinePolachek
https://stereonuke.bandcamp.com/track/caroline-polachek-welcome-to-my-island-stereonukes-after-work-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bp2wYweUPvsBrQfntdYcr

💧 Climate change is a water story.
Too much, too little, or too polluted.
Water justice = climate justice.
#WorldWaterDay #WaterIsLife ht…

World Water Day | UN-Water
World Water Day, he

So which do you think I rode in to work today? The tallbike or the balance bike? 😜

Some days are for work, some are for watching Star Trek with the kids.

It's sooo nice having SEM sample prep and mounting gear at home.
I don't need to waste time in the lab at work getting everything ready, I can prep my sample in the comfort of my own home then show up bright and early Monday morning and pop it in the chamber with no dilly-dallying.

“The main goal of hackers is personal data that can be used for blackmail or manipulation. If the device has a microphone and camera, they can technically be activated for surveillance, even if it is programmatically prohibited.”
Hackers have learned to hack smart vacuum cleaners
https://

Hackers have learned to hack smart vacuum cleaners
It is impossible to visually determine a hack - the device continues to work properly

> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

For the countries that seem so much better than the US... do you just have fewer assholes?
Did you find a way to create fewer assholes?
Do you still have the assholes but they never get into positions of power?
How does it work?

IEA calls for working from home, driving slower and flying less to tackle energy crisis https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4540d0g4o

Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges
People should change how they travel, work and cook to tackle the energy price crisis, the International Energy Agency says.

I had a conversation with a friend who lives in Australia today. He said that his family members with teenage kids are saying that it’s ‘business as usual’ for Australian teens on social media. They find workarounds that quickly get shared amongst them. I wonder if the Australian government will do an assessment of the impact of their recent ban. It would be cynical if they didn’t.
Coincidentally, this came up in my news feed today as well:

"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…

Prevented from reading (for fun) by having to read (for work) 😔 #academicChatter

I work from home (so don't commute), haven't daily driven a guzzolene car in 6 years, and primarily get around by bicycle between April and November. I still feel empathy for people who feel trapped into paying $75 for a tank of gas for their Camry, though. I feel more empathy for people who are trapped by a $300 /mo WE Energies bill. We really need to get out of using fossil fuels in this state.

#guzzolene #oil #StopBurningShit

Now Trump wants to send ICE agents into airports to work in place of TSA security. The tear gas and head smashing should make for great TV and distract from the fact that he's hiding what's really in the Epstein files.

Faster than understanding
"Is this really a productivity boost? Probably only for people who do not care about whether or not they produce software that works correctly."
Oof, that captures the core concern with AI "work" painfully well.
https://phpunit.expert/a…

Faster than understanding
An AI coding agent implemented a complex software metric in 15 minutes. I have now spent hours trying to figure out whether the implementation is correct. Is this really a productivity boost?

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

"Stop mowing the lawn – and five more ways to save Britain’s ‘charming’ and ‘polite’ gatekeeper butterflies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

My kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)

Bike trailer parking. #cargobikes #bikes #carryshitolympics

Meta is installing a tool it calls Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US-based employees' computers that runs in work-related apps and websites, recording mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916681/meta-ai…

Just picked up 16 A1 sheets from the printersI Will be putting up in the Community Centre this week to celebrate the local magazines 50th Anniversary, I volunteer creating it with a small team of editors and a huge team of locals who deliver it to their neighbors. Not done any display work for quite a few years and it’s all come out great!

#EleanorHimmelfarb isn't a household name when it comes to abstraction, but look at how beautiful and complex her work is. Her painting "On the Fourth Day" is now on view in our galleries. Learn more about how nature inspired her work and her history of environmental activism.

Sometimes work can be pretty awesome
#Maui #Hawaii #RoomWithAView

Wholesale energy prices are zero or even negative for most of the morning and afternoon all over Europe. Yet almost none of the public EV charging operators encourage EV users to charge their vehicles during these periods. Regulators and public authorities need to step in to make this work for users
#EVcharging #EV

In the last couple of days I have had two different types of NUC sized computers, both with Intel x86-64 processors (of different generations) that refuse to put out a video signal via HDMI to an LG 4K monitor.
If I switch to Display port (either via a true DP interface on the NUC or via a USB4==>DP cable) things work just fine.
Weird.

@… That’s some awesome work :)

Enough of my commute is due east-west, and with solar time about 35mins behind UTC, I like to catch equinoctial sunsets when I leave work a bit late #equinox

@… Hey there, one more time for your work! I just realized there isn’t any way to get the latest iPad beta. Did you stop offer an iPad Beta?

How to make me hate your website?
Move the page scroll bar slightly to the left, as that breaks "move mouse cursor to the right of the screen blindly, hit button, move mouse downwards".
Looking at you, #gitlab[1] (where I need the scroll bar often, as the pages for issues are really long, so using the scroll wheel is not really a option.
[1] see for example

Playing with #OpenHands and #Devstral from #MistralAI. I already hit a RateLimitError 429 ☹️ I'm also missing the time I can resume my work. And yes, I have activated the tokens compression settings.

I believe I've heard that Shortcuts Automation does *not* work with iCloud folders on #macOS?
Could experts confirm this?

Another Saturday wasting dealing with pointless churn from #LLVM developers constantly deprecating workflows #Gentoo use, because we are supposed to switch to this new fancy workflow that doesn't actually improve anything but lets them save 10 CMake lines, except it doesn't really work but who cares…
Honestly, one day I'm just going to last rite all Clang runtimes from Gentoo, and tell people to just use GCC.

The complex problems driven by the #ClimateCrisis aggravated by aggressive shifts to industrial agricultural practices,
World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns

New favourite eyeliner - Make Up For Ever Artist Color[sic] Pencil in 100-WhateverBlack Matte.
The Toronto Pro Loft is only open 10-5 weekdays (10-6 on Thursday) though! Would be a tight squeeze to rush there after work, but it's super close to Wellesley subway station. Might be doable.
#cosmetics #eyeliner

I created a Workshop called "Naming Files and Folders - Best Practices at the Microscope" and now the slides and examples are published under #CCBY40, so feel free to use and adapt if you are working in #RDM as well. I am open for Feedback.
This was work for the CRC TRR 384 "IN-CODE",…

Saw this decaying wooden rain gutter in the morning sun on my way to work the other day.
#mosstodon #SilentSunday

If I can't be sure that the recipe website I just found isn't filled with AI production that may or may not work well for human taste buds, ... maybe I will have to go back to referencing physical cook books.
That were printed 2025 or earlier.
#ai #recipe

RE: #brokenadage

POSTDOC> 2026-2028 Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138845/2026-2028-ho-center-buddhist-studies-stanford-postdoctoral-fellowship

City Silhouettes IV 🏙️
城市轮廓线 IV 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- A live track from Work Money Death
Soweto presents another night of the best in jazz from the UK and around the world.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v243

FUCK YES
I finally managed to open my Steelseries Arctis Pro headset (fuck you, product manager who signed off to use the softest security torx screws known to man. Luckily a drill will solve that problem permanently...)
Headset wouldn't turn on anymore.
Because a hair thin wire broke and the power button press didn't pass through to the main PCB anymore.
Annoyingly, BT still doesn't work, because a tiny capacitor broke off at some point and took its pad wi…

I don't mind a Misha as the new Melvin at all. This is good stuff.
[In Our Time] On Liberty #inOurTime
https://podcastaddict.com/in-our-time/episode/216969316 via…

In Our Time - On Liberty
Listen to In Our Time - On Liberty by BBC Radio 4 on Podcast Addict. Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social

A little work done on my web browser. I'm working on bookmarks, and instead of storing them in a text file like I originally planned I'm going to try out storing them in an sqlite database. Some of that infrastructure is in place. Bookmarks are going to be tag based rather than in folders, so you can tag a bookmark with multiple categories and it will show up in all of them. I think that's a better way of organizing them than the traditional folder view.
Downloads are worki…

For over a decade I've told people that I don't like the music of #DaftPunk.
Today, I decided to try them again.
I listened to Homework on my work commute.
I don't like the #music of Daft Punk.

Eric DeCosta: Ravens have 'some work to do' to re-sign pending star free agent Tyler Linderbaum https://www.nfl.com/news/eric-decosta-ravens-have-some-work-to-do-to-re-sign-pending-star-free-agent-tyler-linderbaum…

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

Since September last year, Trump has announced several changes to the H1-B visa category, which allows highly skilled immigrants to live and work in the U.S. for up to six years.
From higher costs to increased scrutiny in the process,
the uncertainty has made applicants and companies wary.
FY2027 applications will close at the end of February 2026, and the lottery will run after that.
A presidential proclamation subjects new H-1B applications to a $100,000 fee,

What it takes to get an H-1B visa in Trump’s America
An immigration lawyer explains the behind-the-scenes challenges of getting the coveted U.S. visa in 2026.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
U.S. Girls:
🎵 Woman's Work
#USGirls
https://usgirls.bandcamp.com/track/womans-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/21nNxQbb5pIZioynr1Vluq

Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

I’ll raise a quiet glass to Robert Mueller here. In the public mind, he was first the messianic savior of democracy and then an emblem of inadequacy and institutional failure — and both those visions did him a disservice.
He tried to do the right thing in a principled way. His effort failed, and we’ve paid dearly for that failure. The failure was his, but also all of ours to share: for every one of his choices that I can second-guess, I can name half a dozen places where others failed to hold up their/our end of the bargain, took the work he handed off and dropped it flat.
He failed, but he tried his damndest — and that’s more than I can say for a lot of folks in the USA over the last 10 years.

Bolton on Trump’s Greenland reversal: ‘No grand strategy at work here’
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5702282-bolton-trump-greenland-strategy/

So this is a weird one... I am working on a device that has two different things, and one needs 4.5v and one needs 1.5v.
Is there any reason I could not just solder a wire in place to just get power from one cell and also use the existing wire to provide 4.5v elsewhere?
I know this isn't the best way to do it, but it's a quick hack to make something work... I can't find an issue with it under that condition. Can you?

There's Another Reason Gen Z Can't Find Work (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/gen-z-job-ladder.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p78#a260422p78

A look at the rising popularity of "WorkTok" videos, where employees film their daily work routines on TikTok and Instagram, particularly among Gen Z viewers (Kimi Chaddah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7fe88a68-272b-4e56-94ad-bf68f1b2865e

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

So if potus is sending ice agents to airports, how long until they shoot someone to death in a concourse.
Deprivation of civil rights in the Duty Free, state sponsored human trafficking before baggage claim, summary executions between the McDonald’s and the Cinnabon.
https://

Trump says ICE will work airport security unless Democrats fund DHS
President Donald Trump says he'll order federal immigration officers to take a role soon in airport security unless Democrats agree on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. In a pair of social media posts, Trump first threatened and then said he'd made plans to put officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in airports beginning Monday if the congressional standoff continues. He made the announcement as a partial shutdown contributes to long lines to get through screen…

The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday,
we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood
in this special episode that celebrates the life and work of public media’s most famous defender.
Reveal’s Michael Schiller visits WQED in Pittsburgh
for a look back at how Fred Rogers, the host of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,
championed public television throughout its decades-long struggle to survive Washington politics.

Mr. Rogers and the fight for public media
Take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life and work of public media’s most famous defender.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Roots:
🎵 Thought @ Work
#TheRoots
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"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/year-doge-former-federal-employees-still-unemployed-looking-jobs-rcna265911
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p39#a260422p39

Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation
Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation
worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere

The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials
and prompte…

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation
The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to buy Cursor for $50B ; SpaceX says it is working with Cursor to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
The potential acquisition comes as Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker, which has been emphasizing artificial intelligence, is preparing to go public.

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Coca-Cola sued by US agency over work event that excluded men
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/coca-cola-work-discrimination-lawsuit-men-women-only-event

Southern Poverty Law Center says Justice Department is investigating its work with informants (Hannah Rabinowitz/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/politics/splc-justice-department-criminal-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p65#a260421p65

In a strongly worded decision this week, a federal judge ordered that the Voice of America
— its mission to provide news for countries around the world largely shut down for the past year by the Trump administration
— come roaring back to life.
Whether or not that actually happens is anybody’s guess.
The government filed notice Thursday to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s order two days earlier to put hundreds of VOA employees who have been on paid l…

Can Voice of America be put back together again?
A judge this week ruled that Voice of America's employees — and the news organization itself — get back to work. Whether that actually happens is anybody's guess. The government-run agency that broadcasts news around the world has been limping along with a skeleton staff for the past year, largely shut down by the Trump administration. But twice in the past two weeks, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ruled in favor of lawsuits designed to keep it alive, saying that its overse…

An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropic-code-leak-copy…

Leaked Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era
Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?

Mundane Things II 🌀
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'I can cancel the vote': Rand Paul threatens to sink Mullin for hiding 'classified work' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mullin-paul-classified-work/

A NOAA ‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks.
Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/19/pdx-hurrica…

‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew spent 6 weeks at PDX, studying atmospheric rivers
A NOAA “Hurricane Hunter” crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks. Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.

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AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build "reinforcement learning gyms" and train AI agents in simulated workplaces (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-…

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails