If your dream job is to work in a chocolate shop, and if Harvard Square is a place you'd like to be: a friend of a friend is opening this pop-up shop, and is eager to hire someone good to work there #Chocolate #HarvardSquare https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d25bd5a301f47149
Marc Abrahams
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editor of Annals of Improbable Research, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. I write about research (and other stuff) that makes people LAUGH then THINK. https://improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/
Zach EversonGood morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
If you are head of a large country, and you buried your first wife in a golf course that you own, which of your other golf courses should you choose the next time you bury a wife? Asking for a friend who lives in a country that has an ambitious head person. "Trump Posts Graphic Video of Woman Being Killed With Hammer In Florida" #Hammer #Golf #Leadership #Planning https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-posts-graphic-video-woman-killed-hammer-attack-florida-rolbert-joachin-11809258
FearlessLeader-ship: "the president’s social media account posted a graphic video of a man killing a woman with a hammer. The screed that accompanied the video attacked Haitian immigrants, former president Joe Biden, and [all Democrats] The post echoed the usual vicious racism to which Trump turns to feed his base. But it is hard to miss that hours after his wife gave an unexpected press conference about Jeffrey Epstein, Trump posted a video of a woman’s murder." https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-9-2026
Carl MalamudVery happy with wonderful opinion from the 3rd Circuit. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/another-court-rules-copyright-cant-stop-people-reading-and-speaking-law Philadelphia incorporated by reference the ICC code, in it's entirety, which in turn incorporated by reference 10 ASTM standards in their entirety. Incorporation by law is recursive.
Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties who claim copyright in them. The court followed the suggestions EFF and others presented in an amicus brief, and joined a growing list of courts that have placed public access to the law over private copyright holders’ desire for control.
kottke.orgFarmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
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Kit Yates“Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary RFK Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season’s COVID-19 vaccines”
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/cdc-study-shows-covid-shot-benefits-trump-official-blocks-release/
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/cdc-study-shows-covid-shot-benefits-trump-official-blocks-release/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/116376508489137849
AI-unassisted possible summary: “All news reports you have ever seen about us are fiction, and I have no knowledge why or how it came to be that I am having this press conference.”
mhoyeIt's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.