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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

So the White House story is now:

“We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.”

The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens

Collaborative Programming: Body Doubling for Developers Collaborative work sessions help ADHD developers stay engaged, avoid distractions, and manage complex tasks more effectively

Part four in my series on developing with ADHD -
Collaborative Programming: Body Doubling for Developers: softwareascraft.com/adhd/collabo...

To be clear, I truly don't GAF that some wealthy and/or famous women were passengers on a Bezos rocket. It is not in any way inspiring, especially at a time when NASA budgets are being slashed and women engineers & scientists are being pushed out of their careers and having their legacies erased 🧪

ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now He's in El Salvador's Mega-Prison. Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.

“The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’” www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/14/b...

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thích Nhất Hạnh 20 million people use Insight Timer to sleep better, reduce anxiety, improve their happiness and learn to meditate. With more than 120,000 free titles, Insight Timer has the largest free library of…

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thích Nhất Hạnh

Beginners Sketch Tutorial - Simple, Loose, Easy Learn how to create a loose and effortless mountain village scene using ink and watercolour! 🏔️🎨 Follow along as I sketch with simple lines and fluid washe...

Politics break: chill watercolor and ink content.

Beginners Sketch Tutorial - Simple, Loose, Easy https://buff.ly/40KymeO

99-Year-Old STILL Works Out | Pumped Ever since World War II, Nat Hines has kept moving and refuses to miss a workout. He's a 99-year-old with a drive that stuns those around him. With a smile...

#Fitness #Aging #Goals
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Completed jigsaw puzzle of Renoir's painting "Bal du moulin de la Galette."

The annual jigsaw puzzle is complete! One of my few holiday-time traditions. Thank you Renoir for the challenge and the pleasure.

'It's awesome': Drivers road-test new peanut-shaped roundabout in North Ridgeville The peanut-shaped roundabout is the first of its kind in Northeast Ohio. It opened Friday morning after several months of construction.

This is brilliant. First time I've seen a "peanut" roundabout. https://buff.ly/4gOLuWK

(Video thumbnail image is an aerial view of a new peanut roundabout in Lorain County, Ohio.)

I offer "Thank you." For your concern. For sitting with me in my sadness. For listening to my frustration. Hearing my anger. Not judging me. Not offering advice I didn't ask for. (Assuming we're not talking about the passive-aggressive non-apology from someone who really has wronged or hurt us.)

Ilona Maher's and Danny Amendola's dances this week bright me to tears.

Also loved the moment with Dwight Howard and his kids, and watching Stephen Nedoroscik being the intensity this week.

The athletes are the main reason I watch this show tbh.

#DWTS

Life with AI Machines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all tools, they can be used for good or evil. How can we design artificial inte...

MIT Media Lab's person-centric vision for #AI. Here's a taste of the sub-3-minute video: "We build systems that work with you rather than for you, that engage you in the process, where the goal is not for the machine to be right, but for it to be inspiring."

MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group at the Media Lab have developed MemPal, a wearable memory assistant for older adults to support safe and independen...

Here's something that seems like a worthwhile use of AI This is what can happen when we put people first instead of profit first. MemPal could become a profitable product - but first and foremost it will help people compensate for memory loss as we age. From MIT MediaLab.

Healing For Liberation and Connection | Insight Timer To heal yourself is to heal your lineage. This simple breathing practice with affirmations is an invitation to contemplate and nourish the parts of yourself that feel broken, fogotten, or othered. A…

I don't know who if this is for you, but it might be if you want 7 minutes of gentle, reassuring, personal-transformation-affirming meditation.

5 ways to paint greener
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Quote from Jason Hickel: "The 'economy' is ultimately our material relationship with each other and the living world. We have to decide whether we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploration, or on reciprocity and care."

Slow Art Day is today (Saturday Apr 13) with museums and galleries in major—and not so major—cities across the US and around the world. (Chicago folks could make a day trip to Bloomington - see La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute.) Info at slowartday.com