I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

This year's April Fool's Day science papers are coming online.

First, from our favorite astrophysicist @sundogplanets

1. Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era

... is launching more satellites into LEO every year.
This could intersect with NZ’s famously large population of livestock. We predict this will be an udder disaster for any cows that are hit, as they are squishy and moo-ve much more slowly than space debris.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29324
1/n

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands.

Refuse to work-->no parole
Join a union-->no parole
Go on strike-->no parole
Ask for wages-->no parole

Frosted Flakes
Ball Park hot dogs
Gold Medal flour
Coca-Cola
Dominos Pizza
Burger King
Kroger
Target
Whole Foods
Cosco
Walmart
McDonalds
Cargill
Tyson
Louis Dreyfus
Archer Daniels Midland

Much of this constitutionally protected slave labor occurs on former slave plantations, like Louisiana's Angola Prison.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

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