Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanation after U.S. officials die assisting in Chihuahua operation
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada’s strong economic ties to the U.S. were once a strength but are now a weakness that must be corrected. Carney spoke in a video address released Sunday about his government’s efforts to strengthen the Canadian economy by attracting new investments and signing trade deals with other countries. He said the world is more “dangerous and divided” and noted the U.S. has changed its approach to trade by raising tariffs to levels last seen in the Great Depression. Carney said tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump have impacted workers in such major industries as auto and steel and prompted businesses to hold back investments.
On this day in 2016, sister Voyager 1 turned off her Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS), saving 2.5 W.
The UVS determined the scattering properties of lower planetary atmospheres, the distribution of constituents w height (including the hydrogen corona), observed airglow & auroras, and to looked at rings in the UV.
The UVS was one of the few differences between V1 & V2: the gratings used to scatter light were slightly different between the two spacecraft. The V1 grating covered 53.5 to 170.2 nm, while V2's grating covered 51.3 to 168.0 nm.
Two very different modes were used for this instrument: one while looking directly at an object (emission lines), and an occultation mode while the Sun was passing through/behind the object (absorption lines). The occultation mode allowed data collection through increasing depths of the occulting body's atmosphere. To avoid having all the instruments on the arm pointed at the Sun, an offset mirror was used for the UVS in this mode.
'Dear America': HUD workers say they're being blocked from doing their jobs
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780859/hud-employees-trump-policy-protest-letters-website?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Yeah... No thanks and fuck all the way off! It's bad enough that I have to fund these asshats off my labor. I definitely don't want anything with that name on it associated with me or my family. I'm not enabling any future grift intentionally.
I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.
Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.