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This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

How Shein is leveraging its Reliance Retail partnership in its return to India, as fashion now accounts for 27% of India's online sales, up from 16% in 2020 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/reliance-shein

Why India's Retail King Needs Shein
India's fast-fashion segment grew 30-40% in the year through March

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
🎵 Hey Joe
#TheJimiHendrixExperience
https://stevenrubio.bandcamp.com/track/jimi-hendrix-experience-hey-joe
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OQcEcs36ckWOB1nywhmBV

Source: X is piloting a program to use Community Notes to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/x-elon-musk-community-notes

Exclusive: X piloting new program to elevate content users agree on
The goal is to build momentum around opinions that are widely shared.

A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4nC87SA

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Gemini referencing real-life moments when prompted to write a birthday letter shows how effectively Google is leveraging user data to craft personalized content (Lila Shroff/The Atlantic)

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown
“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/tru

Trump scraps Biden software security, AI, post-quantum encryption efforts in new executive order
The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”