Screenshot, made on Ubuntu. A first-person view from the video game Doom (2016), showing a dark, sci-fi laboratory or industrial environment. The player character holds a futuristic weapon with glowing blue lights. Robotic arms hang from the ceiling above a blood-stained operating table surrounded by lit candles. Sparks fly from a damaged wall on the left, and various control panels and screens are visible throughout the scene. The overall atmosphere is grim and ominous, with a mix of advanced technology and ritualistic elements.

A while ago I added Ubuntu as a dual boot to my Aurora R16, to play with it, see how it feels. And what's interesting - I never booted Windows since, not even once. Ubuntu does everything Windows does, often a lot better.

It's even a perfect gaming OS ffs.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

I travelled 27 hrs, fought endless visa issues to give this talk for our award-winning paper at #CHI2026.

Your turn to show up 📍 P1, Room 112, Apr 15 (Wed), 12 noon. But why?

I wish the didn't impact every knowledge worker. Sadly, it does, and we need to talk about it.

1/n

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space

A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.

And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

A mostly dark screen with the NASA logo in the upper right and a bit of hazy light peeking out from an entirely dark Moon in the lower right

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

so much of what is expensive in cities is buying your way out of public systems: private schools, gated communities, private transportation

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.

For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210.

$210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace.  We are here at Gethesamne

Wow.

So...having been denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, it appears that the Latin Patriarch held services outdoors.

At Gethsemane.

10/10 use of symbolism, no notes.

www.lpj.org/en/news/medi...

I signed and wrote (1/2):

This is not a question of “how do we train students to use AI?”, but how we train students for a life of learning. Gen AI encourages behaviors such as cognitive offloading and, frankly, lying, while reinforcing harmful stereotypes embedded in the models’ training datasets.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom is released from ICE detention His parents, asylum-seekers from Colombia, said their son’s physical and emotional health deteriorated during the weeks they were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

At this point, it’s pretty obvious that the Venezuelan vice president basically had the US do a coup for her

Afghan Veteran and Father Dies Less Than 24 Hours After Being Taken into ICE Custody in Texas The former sole provider for his family, Paktiawal leaves behind his wife, three daughters, and three sons.

"Paktiawal was surrounded by ICE agents who drove up in two unmarked Black SUVs and poured out to detain him."

"[H]e did not report any prior medical history."

"[H]e was pronounced dead" the next morning.
#Texas #USA #Afghanistan #Military #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Michael B. Jordan as Wallace: “so how do you get to be the king?”

What’s Poppin’ Issue #079 Deferred No More: Advancing Reparations in Maryland, Lovely Lane Church, 2200 Saint Paul Street, March 11, 7 p.m. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe There’s a lot of spinelessness among our political class, but…

As our technology gets worse, wonkier, more addictive, more invasive, and downright dumber, the idea of analog and “obsolete technologies” sounds better every day. baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency A mom says a suburban school district is erroneously denying her daughter's enrollment because of data from a license plate reader company.

The school district has a contract with Thomson Reuters Clear and uses the system for residency verification. The school flagged this woman even though she lives in the district.

Tell me again how license plate readers will only be used for serious crimes.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Maryland Rep. Mfume just now: "What we need is a team united against the ridiculous."

This follows Senator Alsobrooks' earlier revelation that 255 people are being held in rooms designed for 50 at Baltimore's Fallon Building.