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"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is unpatriotic not to read these books."
""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Robert M Hutchins (of Great Books fame)

OK so checking tracking it looks like the 4U case for the VM server is coming Tuesday, so is the power supply. The heatsink isn't due until Friday.
But I might re-case the box even with the existing heatsink when the PSU/case come in. It will let me swap some PCIe cards around, and hopefully improve thermals at least a bit with the larger fans and better airflow even before the big heatsink comes in.

London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/05/bound-secures-245m-series-a-to-expand-fx-hedging-tools/…

🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…

Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Division Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/nyregion/doj-cassidy-hutchinson-investigation-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p114#a260407p114

I’m sorry I forgot to tell you, but #TimeStereo is on Bandcamp! https://timestereo.bandcamp.com/album/jl-hudsons-demolition-project-1998

We speak with economist
Michael Hudson,
who details how Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations.
“The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,”
but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson.
The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says

A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. “The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,” but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson. The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says.

Vor 100 Jahren: Der erste Linienflug der „Luft Hansa AG“ hebt ab
100 Jahre ist es her, seit der erste Flug der heutigen Lufthansa in Berlin gestartet ist. Nun steht das Unternehmen von neuen Herausforderungen.

Aidan Hutchinson Issues Blunt Message on Raiders’ Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aidan-hutchinson-blunt-message-maxx-crosby/

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics (Antonia Hitchens/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/how-the-internet-fringe-infiltrated-republican-politics?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p90#a260406p90