Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials who reportedly worked for the CIA in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua.

Something Onion-worthy from Finland

Executives from three social media companies have denied their platforms are inherently addictive to children and young people, in a combative appearance before MPs in Westminster.

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents ‌that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.

This is a man who said (in 2019) that he hasn’t washed his hands for 10 years and germs aren’t real since you can’t see them with the naked eye:

And I don’t blame them one bit.

Its getting to a point where It’s getting just depressing.

The letter, signed by over 1,000 artists, calls for Israel to be banned from next month’s contest in Vienna

NHS is the UK National Health Service

Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

April 21, 2026

The United Arab Emirates apparently dropped a hint the dollar’s dominance isn’t assured in the global oil trade if fallout from the Iran war gets worse.

Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, have been killed in an attack involving Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.

A woman who was tortured in one of China’s notorious Uyghur detention camps has launched a blistering attack on [UK Prime Minister} Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him of “disrespecting human rights” by approving plans for a Chinese mega-embassy in London.

In 2013, Russia adopted the BTR-82A as the future of its mechanized infantry. A modern 8x8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier with a stabilized 30mm autocannon, thermal optics, satellite navigation, and a diesel engine that could start in minus forty degrees Celsius. It was supposed to lead the sweep into Kyiv in February 2022. Within three years, over 1,000 of them had been destroyed, captured, or abandoned across Ukraine. Russian soldiers started calling it meat delivery. The factory kept building them anyway.

The landslide victory of ex-President Rumen Radev’s party in Bulgaria’s April 19 parliamentary election is seen by many as a boost to Russia-friendly, Ukraine-skeptic voices within the European Union.

The tourists lining the steep embankment buzzed with excitement, phones out, snapping away in the twilight as a wild Indian rhinoceros grazed below the Nepali village of Sauraha. Climbing to the main street, the rhino ambled down the middle of the road.

The EU, together with Ukraine and Canada, will co-host a high-level meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children on 11 May in Brussels.

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

’New momentum’ after Hungary vote means €90bn should see ‘positive decision’ in next 24 hours, EU’s Kallas says.

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, when asked to explain the apparent about-face that led him to advocate the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, quoted a beloved Israeli pop ballad. “What you can see from there, you can’t see from here,” he said, referring to the shift in perspective he had supposedly undergone since coming to power.

A follow-up to my previous post. The last post got a decent amount of feedback — some might call it small, but every response genuinely matters and it was great to see people’s reactions to the project.

This is Palantir’s corp manifesto. You should read it.

Wonder how this would get around someone who has an updated birth certificate before they’re arrested. Issuance of identification documents like that are a power reserved to the states and must be given full faith and credit.

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