Sol Cesto is a banger. Listen to @notquitereal.bsky.social and I talk about it in the back half of this ep of Side Story from last year. sidestory.show/12-the-succu...

The five boroughs are home to at least 47 varieties of cherry and cherry-esque blossoms, 15 varieties of magnolias and 26 varieties of crabapples, according to Parks Department data.

Here's where you can find them:

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

A tree-covered hillside bathed in low sunset light. There is a golden glow where the sun hits the leafless trees on the mountain. The sky is partly cloudy, showing patches of pale blue sky.

Moss and lichen cover a rock face

A view looking out over an overlook. In the foreground are a path through some trees. The path terminates at rock, beyond which nothing is visible except for a bank of clouds covering the valley below.

Spent last weekend in the woods. Saw many lovely things like trees, moss and lichen-covered rocks, the valley shrouded in clouds from above. Freshly full of gratitude for the planet we live on here.

Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.

I've been getting by on second hand ThinkPads off of ebay running linux for the past 5 years. It has worked out great, and I have saved a lot of money compared with buying Apple.

It has really shifted my whole relationship to technology as product and to consumerism etc. Highly recommend.

The Blue Marble, at Night Earth from space at night from NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon.

Maybe we can call it the Black & Blue Marble? In any case, I wrote about the first picture of Earth from Artemis II:

creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

#space #moon #earth #NASA

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

I can envision at least three separate businesses bigger than substack (in terms of actual value created) built on top of standard.site each with their own value props.

When you go from moats to roads you stop building castles and start building cities and *everybody* gets a whole lot richer.

Artemis 2: Fliegen Sie mit uns zum Mond Zum ersten Mal seit 1972 brechen Menschen wieder zum Mond auf. Unsere 3D-Animation zeigt die komplette Strecke der Mission Artemis 2 – und was dabei schiefgehen kann.

If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Let’s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Against the dark forest The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

Required reading for everyone following @kissane.myatproto.social’s awesome #AtmosphereConf keynote.

Come check out our #dataviz gallery in the NYC subway! We officially open next weekend but the exterior mural is up 24/7 for the next YEAR!!

Anisota for Bluesky & the Atmosphere A new, more peaceful kind of social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky and the Atmosphere.

Welcome to the new era of Anisota — featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more.

This is Anisota senatoria...

A new, more peaceful kind of social interface that helps you be offline more and oneline better.

Enter the forest: anisota.net

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.

But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

Happy Birthday NORCO

Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

I think all coding agents need remote multiplayer support for collaborative sessions in the terminal built in.

Hop on a call, go back and forth, watch a prototype come into view.

Multiple people per agent, not multiple agents per person.

Congrats Jacque! Excited to see what you get up to in this new era

EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Mamdani ends the NYPD's criminal crackdown on cycling, a controversial anti-bike policy that the Adams administration admitted was based on community chatter, not actual data. buff.ly/4cIn2i3

Sound on.

Aether OS Alpha is online.

aetheros.computer

#atproto #atdev

Perfect day in Brooklyn for a bike ride and sitting outside. After all these freezing cold weeks, a breath of warm fresh air.

Extra Stars, by Gregory Uhlmann 14 track album

Here's my Bandcamp Friday pick:
Extra Stars, by Gregory Uhlmann

intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-...

Today is Bandcamp Friday.

Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.

Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.

🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

One brillant idea here is to combine the inputs and outputs in the middle instead of trying to connect precisely the sources and destinations, creating an unreadable spaghetti.

Love that @puzzmo.com is getting in on the Atproto action

You have to mainline info all the time because our information tools make you do so. Infinite scroll timelines, group chats with no beginning or end, recommender algorithms with no sense of place — all of them require constant vigilance to make sense of. We can do better.

In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest: International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right. There are some categories of capabilities — like nuclear weapons — that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea. To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons — or beyond — is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military. Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality. Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however — and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei — then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary: Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President. Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...

The cruelty and violence of this is monstrous.

announcing our €3,8M seed round and more on what's next

today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.

read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

Happy BirdCast Day!

The very first brave migrants are starting to make their way North.

Tonight has 17 million birds predicted. By the height of migration in may we'll see as many as 1.3 BILLION birds on the move.

It's one of nature's great spectacles!

birdcast.org/migration-to...