Summary #1 for 2025-05-01

Hey Alex, it’s 7:25:38 AM! Time to get moving! You’re deep into the Lanza Camp experience today, which means plenty of exercise is on the schedule.

Here’s the plan to make sure you crush your training:

• Your GROUP RIDE Tabayesco TT is planned for 10:00 - 12:30. The weather is looking good with no rain and temperatures climbing into the low 20s°C, perfect for hitting that climb hard after the easy start!
• Straight after the ride, you have your BRICK RUN Easy from 13:00 - 14:00. It will be full daylight with zero chance of rain, but it is expected to be the hottest part of the day (around 25-26°C). Remember to stay hydrated for that transition run!
• Wrap up the exercise with a 50m POOL SWIM at 17:00. The pool is definitely indoors, so no weather worries there!

Beyond the training:

• Breakfast is coming up soon at 07:30.
• There’s a Bike Brief at 09:00 before you head out on the ride.
• You’ll be packing up your bike in the afternoon (14:30 - 15:30).
• Dinner is slightly earlier tonight at 18:30, followed by Mini Golf at 19:30 – sounds like a fun way to recover!

Hope Tara’s workload isn’t as large as some of those US BMI increases reported in the news!

Here’s what’s happening in the world:

News

• US and Ukraine sign long-awaited natural resources deal
• Trump tells business chiefs he needs ‘little bit of time’ as US economy shrinks
• Russia launches deadly drone attack on Odesa, governor says
• Mushroom trial: Rare for alleged killer to host lunch, husband says
• US judge refers Apple for possible criminal contempt
• Israeli reservists speak out against Gaza war as pressure on Netanyahu grows
• What we know about US-Ukraine minerals deal

Hacker News

• Someone at YouTube needs glasses
• I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
• Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
• Sycophancy in GPT-4o
• Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
• You Wouldn’t Download a Hacker News
• DeepSeek-Prover-V2

Reddit

• World News
  • Zelensky warns Russia is “preparing something” in Belarus under guise of military drills
  • US and Ukraine sign natural resources deal and agrees to establish investment fund
  • China suggests COVID-19 originated in US in response to Trump allegation
  • Trump Won’t Add Canada, Greenland or Panama to US Territory, Carney Says
  • Kremlin says Russia ready for mass mobilization like in WWII ‘at any moment’
  • Russia starts building bridge to connect with North Korea
  • Argentina opens up secret Nazi fugitive files to public
• Technology
  • X has lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
  • ‘This is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building A Surveillance State
  • Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed
  • DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations
  • RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
  • President Trump signs executive order boosting AI in K-12 schools
  • Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive | Archives should always have redundancies
• Science
  • New study confirms the link between gas stoves and cancer risk: “Risks for the children are [approximately] 4-16 times higher”
  • American conservatives tend to rate their mental health more positively than their liberal counterparts. Asking instead about overall mood eliminated the gap between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives may inflate their mental health ratings when asked, due to stigma surrounding the term.
  • US sees disproportionate increase in body mass index rates of more than 60. In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among Americans has risen by approximately 30%, but the rate of those with the most severe forms of obesity, or those with a BMI of more than 60 kg/m2, increased by 210%.
  • Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. Neuroscientists have learned that estrogen is vital to healthy brain development and also contributes to conditions including multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s. The insight that sex hormones also affect the brain is transforming how doctors approach brain health.
  • A new global wellbeing study found that young people in the UK, US and Australia seem to be flourishing the least. The UK is among the lowest-ranked countries for ‘human flourishing’. Scores for finding meaning in life tended to be lower in countries with a higher GDP.
  • Vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets that limit meat consumption to 255 g per week (pork and poultry) best met environmental and nutritional constraints - When it comes to beef, even modest consumption exceeds planetary boundaries.
  • Receiving a booster vaccine in the same arm as your first dose can generate a more effective immune response more quickly
• Uplifting News
  • Millionaire Built 99 Tiny Homes In His Community to Help the Unhoused
  • Finland bans smartphones in schools
  • After nine months on the run Leonardo, Rachel Etches’ pet tortoise, has been found one mile from his home in Ulverston, Cumbria.
  • Canada’s economy shrank 0.2% in February, but signs point to growth in March
  • 90-year-old Who Has Saved Over 10,000 Animals at Sanctuary Has No Plans to Retire
  • Metagenomics test saves woman’s sight after mystery infection
  • Endangered axolotl release raises hopes for rare amphibian