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Meta is on trial in DC today. The FTC is advancing a blockbuster antitrust case, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg's company illegally built a "social networking monopoly" through years of "anticompetitive conduct." But there is a big if: Whether President Trump will intervene. Here's my full story >>>

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@marklemley.bsky.social: “Once Trump discovered that many big law firms were cowards & that he could extort free legal services from them by illegally threatening them, I think he decided, why limit himself to firms that had actually done things to piss him off” news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

To quote Homer Simpson "So far!"

aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

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Since Musk is already coming for everything else I value (education, truth, the rule of law), sure, why not IP too techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/j...

This may be the most truly, unspeakably evil thing they have done. And that's saying quite a lot

Harlan County USA (1977) is streaming on Max, if anyone wants a preview of our new mining-based economy

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At 3C of global warming: “No more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable.” Pretty sobering, and the threshold may be lower than 3C.

Daily painting of #sunflowers in support of #Ukraine. We must stop Russia's war crimes and aggression. #art #flowers #Ukraina Albert Neuenschander - Sonneblumen

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At this point, we need to ban US pressure groups entirely in other countries, in particular US evangelical Christian groups trying to lobby governments across the world. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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US President Donald Trump said he would be announcing the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, adding that there would be flexibility with some companies in the sector reut.rs/4jbnuyG

Updates to the NWS Upper Air Network: As of April 3, Bethel, AK, moved to once-per-day (12 UTC) balloon launches. I'm told that McGrath, AK, could suspend flights in May, while Yakutat, King Salmon, and Annette Island, AK, could go to one flight per day in the next couple months.

A Palate Cleanser. I have a small home about a mile up the beach from this location: www.locogringo.com/akumal-beach...

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Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

Daily painting of #sunflowers in support of #Ukraine W. Richter - Bouquet of Sunflowers #art #flowers #Ukraina

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