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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Thomas Weelkes, Timothy Byram-Wigfield, Anonymous, Winchester Cathedral Choir & David Hill:
🎵 Service for Trebles: Evening Canticle 1. Magnificat
#ThomasWeelkes
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IMzTKVWYtV9c4WSfy2E9e

This tangled.org GitHub alternative built on top of ATproto, open source, with self hosting capabilities and the ability to run your own CI sure seems like a gift of the gods.

Hegseth, Kushner, Trump and all other members of the administration are totally corrupt and constantly enriching themselves while they destroy the US and the world as we know it.
#trump #kushner #hegseth

The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/senate-prediction-markets-trading-ba…

U.S. senators ban themselves from prediction markets trading
The move came after Democratic lawmakers asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit event contracts on elections, war and military actions.

Protesters interrupt Hegseth's opening statement
As Pete Hegseth was delivering his opening remarks, protesters interrupted him and were removed from the room.
One protester said as they were removed by security:
“This is despicable, the American people [did] not want to go into this war.”
“We appreciate the first amendment rights of Americans to express themselves but disruptions of this hearing will not be tolerated,”
said committee chair Roger Wicker.

Given the current trajectory and if some of us survive, somewhere in the future, someone will ask, "Why didn't the billionaires try to save themselves and everyone else? Why did they accelerate climate change at the last moment and end civilization? I want to know in as much detail as possible. I want to understand this."
And somewhere along the line, at some point, someone will start their response with, "Do you know what 'Harry Potter' is?"

No Kings

The Ankler is moving from Substack to a new platform with its own site and subscription infrastructure, powered by Automattic and Ben Thompson's Passport (The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/the-anklers-next-chapter/

The Ankler's Next Chapter - The Ankler
With rapid growth and a broader footprint, Ankler Media launches its own platform to bring newsletters, podcasts, video and events under one roof

One super PAC, Public First, is allied with Anthropic,
while the other, Leading the Future, is aligned with OpenAI.
“The two couldn’t have deeper disdain for one another,” said Cooper Teboe, a Democratic strategist who advises Silicon Valley donors and House campaigns.
“This is a war for the future and it will be bloody.”
The A.I. companies themselves are rivals. Anthropic was formed by a renegade group of OpenAI executives,
and the leaders of each firm, Dario A…

Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence this year’s elections.