tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

The Russian Embassy account trolling on X about not being hit with tariffs. What a time to be alive.

Nearly 1,000 Israeli retired and reservist fighter pilots called in an open letter on Thursday for the government to prioritise freeing remaining hostages held in Gaza, even if that meant halting the war against Hamas. The IDF said signatories who are on active duty would be dismissed over the letter, which said the war "mainly serves personal and political interests, rather than genuine security needs". FRANCE 24's Laurent Berstescher reports.
#Israel #war #Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW9L0Ccy9CQ

"An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name"

House passes SAVE Act that could make it harder for married women to vote https://19thnews.org/2025/04/save-act-house-voting/

Media reports say FBI Director Kash Patel has been abruptly removed as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after not showing up for work there for weeks.

SCOTUS chief justice temporarily halts lower court orders that had reinstated NLRB and MSPB members who had been fired by the president.

News wires getting more surreal by the day....

#Trump #TradeWar #China #economics #trade

Trump issues order to block state climate change policies.

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change. #ClimateChange

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trump-issues-order-block-state-climate-change-policies-2025-04-09/

arXiv is freshly hiring for 3 positions:

- Software Engineer
- DevOps Software Engineer
- Software Engineer Scientist

US-only, NYC-based, hybrid/remote possible.

Share and help us build a backbone of Open Science.

https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html

#openscience #arxiv #hiring

(Reuters) - Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to the president and his agenda. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

President Trump orders a second national security review of Nippon Steel’s proposed purchase of US Steel. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/review-of-proposed-united-states-steel-corporation-acquisition/

As Trump ramps up his trade war, two economists outline how Europe could finally turn the euro into a global currency.

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arbbd7567a

China and the EU have resumed talks aimed at ending Brussels’ extra tariffs on electric vehicles — as part of efforts to improve EU-Sino relations as both face the economic pain of new US tariffs.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arddd0eb84

Trump administration makes emergency appeal to SCOTUS after a Maryland judge ordered to have a man who was removed to El Salvador returned to the US. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf

The day the US died. A message to America, from Europe.

Performed by Charlie Baker for the Last Leg comedy show.

Brilliant

President Trump "won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, Florida, and advances to the championship round tomorrow," according to a White House official.

If you have two identical cubes, you can cut a hole in one such that the other fits through the hole.

The 4 other platonic solids also have this property (the "Rupert Property"), as do 10 of the 13 archimedean solids and 11 of the 13 catalan solids.

It is unknown whether all convex polyhedra have the Rupert Property!

With some code from @tom7 and some visual design advice from @lea, I made an animation to visualize known solutions:

https://youtu.be/evKFok65t_E

I also think it just goes to show what I've learned with my family here, that in the real actual world of doing this work it's not about the point scoring and pundit ranking of issues. It is genuinely mind boggling to me that the science stuff doesn't reach here but a supposedly very "left" issue went completely to my dad's heart and human empathy. You just never ever know and we have to try everything