Why leadership changes at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are raising big concerns
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5333343/why-leadership-changes-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-are-raising-big-concerns?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Where else to see cherry blossom trees in the U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5339812/where-else-to-see-cherry-blossom-trees-in-the-u-s?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Yale professor describes why he is leaving the U.S. to teach in Canada
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345769/yale-professor-describes-why-he-is-leaving-the-u-s-to-teach-in-canada?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Featurecide: the slow killing of a product’s soul in pursuit of every trend that moves the needle on engagement metrics, no matter how disconnected it is from the original mission.

joanwestenberg.com/this-is-pea…

This is Peak Featurecide

TechCrunch: Substack continues to double down on video amid TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it’s rolling out a scrollable video feed in its app, making it the latest platform to introduce a TikTok-like feed…

^{Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)}

Investors brace for new Trump tariffs coming Wednesday
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345943/investors-brace-for-new-trump-tariffs-coming-wednesday?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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1 April 1939 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Rene Melzer, was born in Antwerp.

He arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport from Mechelen on 18 January 1943.
He was murdered after selection in a gas chamber.

Oh no, my Linux computer is asking for a license key! 😱 ☠️

#linux

Hybrid Mechanical Clock Shows it Both Ways

hackaday.com/2025/04/01/hybrid…

Hybrid Mechanical Clock Shows It Both Ways

After seeing some of the interesting clock builds we’ve featured recently, [shiura] decided to throw their hat in the ring and sent us word about their incredible 3D printed hybrid clock that…

^Hackaday

GameDev MEGA Bundle ⚡️ 32 Items ⚡️ 90% OFF !!
Get here > itch.io/b/2949

Now includes a 5000 Retro SFX pack
and SpriteMancer by @codemanu ‼️

DRM FREE & UP to 4 Steam Keys.
32 items: Games, Tools, SFX, Textures...
#GameAssets #Gamedev #Indiedev

Big banks are scheming about how to profit from catastrophic climate change. 🥲

eenews.net/articles/big-banks-…

Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential - E&E News by POLITICO

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

^{Corbin Hiar (E&E News by POLITICO)}

Migration and integration in Denmark has been remarkably successful. But you wouldn't think it reading the headlines.

zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114261144…
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us - While across Europe & especially in the UK general social attitudes to (inward) migration remain broadly positive, the Far Right has been successful in moving the dial towards anti-migrant attitudes.

The tragedy is that politicians could have used this base acceptance & valuing of migrants to fight the viscousness of the Far Right on the issue but rather have colluded & accepted the anti-migrant rhetoric (causing attitudes to begin to shift).

#migrants #politics

theconversation.com/what-brito…

What Britons and Europeans really think about immigration – new analysis

Compared to 20 years ago, more Europeans (in many, but not all countries) feel immigration makes their country a better place to live.

^{The Conversation}

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing “recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts.”

Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks.

eenews.net/articles/big-banks-…

American tourists are angry that Canadian businesses in Canada are refusing American currency.

One American Redditor asks, “Is this legal?”—believing that Canadians are obliged to accept American money.

Of course, we’re not.

“The Guardian has neither a self-interested billionaire owner nor profit-seeking corporate henchmen pressuring us to appease the rich and powerful.“

nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…

BREAKING: Judge Myron Thompson declares Alabama A.G. Steve Marshall's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional.

Yellowhammer Fund and healthcare providers sued; Thompson ruled that Marshall violated the right to travel and the First Amendment with his threats.

Tonight, at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/alabama-yellowha…

Breaking: Fed court rules Alabama AG's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional

Alabama A.G. Steve Marshall had threatened to prosecute those who help Alabamians get abortions in states where they would be legal.

^{Chris Geidner (Law Dork)}

I read a report recently that confirmed that straight PCB traces, right angle, and orthogonally placed components can actually make electrons sad and slow them down. They much prefer the excitement of whizzing along curvy traces, particularly if they end up going in to a chip at a random angle. And bright colours really make them want to work harder.

So I will be updating all #RC2014 kits with design philosophy. The first to be done is the RC2014 Mini II Picasso. You can pick one up now at #z80kits
z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-i…

Major funding cuts to the vaccine pipeline announced in the US, but important advances for mucosal Covid vaccines globally:

- 10th mucosal vax reaches phase 2 (in Canada)
- Another human challenge trial as prep for mucosal trials started in Singapore
- Trial results, including one for intranasal vax in kids in China

And lots more in my latest next generation Covid vaccine update now online @PLOS

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/…

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

Mucosal Covid Vaccine Trials Progress; US R&D Funding Cuts (NextGen Update 27) - Absolutely Maybe

This month, there are results from 3 clinical trials of next generation vaccines, including an early safety study of an intranasal vaccine…

^{Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)}

And when they do this to a citizen, they will say the same thing.

"But in Monday’s court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported accidentally. “Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody."

"Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family."

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

^{Nick Miroff (The Atlantic)}

I'm here. And so are you.

Happy #TDOV2025! Hope you all had a good one, all things considered!

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Baerbock erneut in die Ukraine gereist ++

Bundesaußenministerin Baerbock ist erneut in die Ukraine gereist. China hat sich bei den laufenden Gesprächen über eine Beendigung des Krieges in der Ukraine als Vermittler angeboten.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Baerbock erneut in die Ukraine gereist ++

^{tagesschau.de}

Here's another photo from yesterday's LBM visit, with Reno from FF VII. This one was taken in the glass hall, where a lot of cosplayers meet. It's a weird location. It has the best photo spots, but it's also much louder and much warmer than the other exhibition halls. You can tell how much sun gets in there by my glasses, which started to turn dark because of the UV light.

#cosplay #FinalFantasy #LBM #MCC #LBM25 #MCC25