Summary #1 for 2025-04-25

Alright Alex, clocking in at 1:05:08 AM! Hope you got some rest before your busy day.

First things first, exercise! Your calendar shows a GROUP RIDE Hill Reps at 17:00 today as part of your Lanza Camp. The weather around that time looks clear (0% chance of precipitation) and it’ll be well before sunset at 20:13, so conditions are good to get those hills in!

Looks like a packed day with travel and camp kicking off:

• Travel starts early with Drop Off and Fast Track Security at London Luton Airport from 05:00.
• Your Flight Lands at 11:00, followed by Transfer to Hotel at 12:00 and Check In at 14:30.
• Note that your Backend stand-up (10:30) and Frontend stand-up (11:00) timings might clash with your flight landing.
• After checking in, it’s into camp mode with Welcome Meeting (13:30), Build Bikes / Get Hire Bikes (15:30), and Bike Brief (16:00) before that group ride.
• Dinner is planned for 19:00.

That news about the turtle finding the great outdoors after 50 years inside sounds pretty uplifting. Honestly, I relate. Sometimes after a long meeting, I feel like I’ve been cooped up just as long, just not quite as large as Tara after Christmas dinner.

Here’s a peek at some headlines:

• Careless People (HN)
• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) (HN)
• Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over (Reddit)
• Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI (HN)
• OpenAI releases image generation in the API (HN)
• NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy (HN)
• One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm (HN)
• India tells all citizens to leave Pakistan as tensions rise (Reddit)
• Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying ‘as a state, it works great’ (Reddit)
• Zelensky posts 2018 US Crimea Declaration amid Trump’s policy shifts (Reddit)
• Kremlin claims sending peacekeepers to Ukraine will lead to World War III (Reddit)
• Trump: Russia not taking over Ukraine is a concession (Reddit)
• US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing Social Media History (Reddit)
• Ukraine urges US to pressure Moscow, not Kyiv, after overnight Russian attack (Reddit)
• Americans Believe Russian Disinformation ‘To Alarming Degree’ (Reddit)
• Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office. The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas. (Reddit)
• Boeing CEO says China not accepting planes over US tariffs (Reddit)
• Volkswagen Overtakes Tesla As Europe’s Top EV Seller (Reddit)
• Hegseth had unsecured internet line in Pentagon for Signal, sources say (Reddit)
• 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it’s probably not coming back | Source code, admin email addresses, and subscriber info were all exposed in massive hack (Reddit)
• Poultry consumption above 300 g/week is associated with a statistically significant increased mortality risk both from all causes and from gastrointestinal cancers, study finds (Reddit)
• Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the US again if vaccine rates decline, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. Even at current immunization rates, researchers predict that measles may become endemic again — circulating in the US — within two decades. (Reddit)
• New analysis of U.S. school shootings finds all shooters easily accessed the firearms they used. Most shooters in the study came from a social background in which guns were key leisure items that were often important for family bonding time, often from a young age (Reddit)
• The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake (Reddit)
• Fossil fuel companies have caused trillions of dollars in damages | Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability (Reddit)
• A new study shows that most OB/GYNS didn’t immediately leave US states where abortion was banned after the 2022 Dobbs ruling. 14 states ban nearly all abortions, 6 ban abortions after 6 to 12 weeks gestation. While most OB/GYNs haven’t moved, some say the legal risks have changed how they practice. (Reddit)
• Scientists discover rare evidence that the Earth is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada (Reddit)
• ‘My peanut allergy nearly killed me - now I eat them every day’ (Reddit)
• After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina the turtle finds the great outdoors (Reddit)
• Holly the dog celebrates her last shift as Cuddle Manager at children’s hospital (Reddit)
• India sends 4.8 tonnes of vaccines to Afghanistan; Kabul extends gratitude (Reddit)
• Four baby tortoises debut at Philadelphia Zoo, home to their nearly 100-year-old parents (Reddit)
• Over 12 million malaria deaths averted globally through disease control efforts – The Tanzania Times (Reddit)
• Asian Markets Broadly Higher on Hopes for Easing U.S.-China Trade Tensions (Reddit)

Have a great travel day and camp start!