Summary #1 for 2025-05-02

Hey Alex, it’s 6:57:31 AM!

Welcome back from Lanza Camp! Today is a Travel Day, so the main event is getting you home after a week of hard work.

Exercise Focus:

• Training Peaks suggests a Light Run (easy 30 mins) if you have time before the travel madness begins. Sunrise was around 05:30, so it’s already light if you want to squeeze it in before your transfer.

Today’s Schedule:

• Your Transfer to Airport is at 09:00.
• The Flight Departs at 10:00.
• Looks like you’ll be missing the morning Backend stand-up (10:30) and Frontend stand-up (11:00) while you’re airborne.
• You’re scheduled for Pick Up - Priority Parking at London Luton Airport between 17:00 - 18:00. Expect the weather back home to be a rather cloudy 23°C with a light breeze, a bit different from the 24°C, sunny, and windy conditions you’ve had this week!
• You have a Meeting for Senior Frontend Product Developer job at Whimsical at 20:00.

Hope the flight is smooth!

Speaking of things gaining ground, Reform gains a 5th MP in the news today. Let’s just hope Tara doesn’t try to claim a whole constituency when she gets hungry – not sure the House of Commons has reinforced floors for that kind of gain.

A quick look at the headlines:

• News
  • Reform gains a 5th MP after close by-election win
  • What happened in the elections overnight and what’s still to come?
  • War in Ukraine not ending ‘any time soon’, Vance says
  • Shein and Temu prices rise as Trump closes postage loophole
  • Trump ousts Waltz as national security adviser and nominates him for UN post
  • Who won the local election in my area?
  • Talks or no talks: who blinks first in US-China trade war?
• Hacker News
  • Redis is open source again
  • Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
  • Claude Integrations
  • Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
  • Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages
  • Third party cookies must be removed
  • Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
• Reddit
  • World News
    • Trump says any country that buys oil from Iran will not be allowed to do business with U.S.
    • EU will not recognize Crimea as part of Russia, Kallas says
    • Trump approves first $50 million U.S. arms sale to Ukraine — media
    • Russia ignores the ceasefire proposal, attacking Ukraine with 170 drones – Zelenskyy
    • Ukrainian soldiers who film their kills of Russian soldiers or tanks can earn points to purchase weapons from a military tech ‘Amazon’
    • Russia’s Foreign Ministry states it will not allow Ukraine to be restored within 1991 borders
    • First Jewish woman minister in German cabinet since Holocaust
  • Technology
    • Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
    • House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035
    • DOGE Recruits College Kid to Help Rewrite Housing Regulations with AI
    • Texas House passes bill that bans people under 18 from using social media
    • Apple’s design for the 20th-anniversary iPhone is apparently so ‘extraordinarily complex’ it must be made in China, report says
    • Nobody’s Asking for Unnecessarily Skinny iPhones or Samsung Galaxy Phones
    • Xbox Hikes Consoles Prices More Than 25% Amid Trump Tariffs
  • Science
    • People with higher intelligence tend to reproduce later and have fewer children, even though they show signs of better reproductive health. They tend to undergo puberty earlier, but they also delay starting families and end up with fewer children overall.
    • Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles | Study finds washing machine biofilms may harbor potential pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, which could have an impact on domestic laundering of healthcare workers uniforms
    • People who express negative attitudes toward atheists are perceived as more religious and may use these attitudes to signal their religious identity, according to new US research. Although religion is often linked to prosocial behavior, it can also fuel prejudice, particularly against atheists.
    • Corn-based pads could cut 220,000 tons of plastic waste dumped in oceans yearly | Researchers suggest cornstarch-based products could replace plastic sanitary products, reducing environmental impact while remaining scalable and cost-effective.
    • Human Evolution Traded Fur for Sweat Glands—and Now, Our Wounds Take Longer to Heal Than Those of Other Mammals | Human scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice as long, new research suggests
    • Being hit by an SUV increases the likelihood of death or serious injury: Likelihood of pedestrian or cyclist being fatally injured is 44% higher if hit by an SUV or light truck vehicle (LTV). For children the effect is larger, with a child hit by a SUV or LTV being 82% more likely to be killed.
    • An increase in physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Even people who did less physical activity than recommended had greater cortical thickness than sedentary people, suggesting that any amount of exercise, no matter how minimal, has health benefits
  • Uplifting News
    • Diabetes deaths fall to lowest levels in years, in early CDC figures
    • NHS offers super-jab for 15 cancers
    • Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows
    • ‘I do what I like’: British woman, 115, claims world’s oldest living person title
    • Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin wins $150K Carol Shields literary prize
    • Toronto dad sets world record for pushing son in stroller
    • ‘Manjummel girl’ drives her way to ‘Kerala Savaari’ brand ambassador role