Keyboard.io makes high-end angled and "split" keyboards they wrote a letter to customers explaining how Trump's new tariffs will affect them it's bad news for them -- prices have already shot up, and new tariffs Trump is threatening would *double* prices their description of "why building something as complex as a keyboard is an inherently cross-border enterprise" is really interesting they have to ship wood to China! that sort of wood isn't readily available there

Keyboardio

An open letter to U.S. customers

Updated 2025-04-09 10:02 PDT to reflect new tariff rates and add a note about de minimis rates for HK Post. Updated 2025-04-09 20:02 PDT to reflect...

A very good and unsettling interview with the lawyer for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident that the Trump administration grabbed and sent to El Salvador -- and later admitted they did so in error as the lawyer notes, he has dealt several times in the past with administrations that wrongly deported residents ... ... and in those previous cases, even during Trump's first term, they got them back immediately upon realizing their error no longer https://archive.is/gfVty

I can confirm this – I was there today and the streets were absolutely packed … tons of people all fired up and excited to be in each other’s company

Bluesky Social

Mor Naaman (@informor.bsky.social)

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding ...

"Technocracy" was a movement in the early 20th century ... ... that insisted that democracy was terrible ... ... and society should be run by elite engineers, scientists and businesspeople A major figure in that movement? step forward, Joshua Haldeman ... .... grandfather of Elon Musk When you read the list of stuff that Technocracy folks believed and wanted, you can see a *direct* line to Musk and DOGE gift link:

Opinion | The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk

His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.

"Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where the Cabinet texting about war plans on a nongovernmental messaging app is “not a big deal,” but an op-ed in a school paper is a threat to national security." this nails: it

The Atlantic

Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine.

All Americans should defend campus protesters.

unpaywalled: https://archive.is/TnnfT

who could have seen *this* coming

Futurism

23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History

As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data.

So it turns out that Michael "Reply All" Waltz, Trump's national-security advisor -- the guy who accidentally invited the editor of The Atlantic into a Signal chat to reveal top-secret military plans in realtime ... ... also had left his Venmo "friends" list comppletely public Wired discovered this and reported it, whereupon the account went instantly private:

WIRED

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive informati...

(in other news, Wired continues to kill it)

WIRED

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive informati...

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/G68KW

I need your recommendations, Mastodon folks! I like following posts about the clean-energy transition -- the good, the bad, and the ugly energy generation, transmission, policy, mobility/transportation, engineering, housing, industry, financing, its politics and sociology ... all facets of it who should I be following? open to all suggestions!

This story is *wild* Michael Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, was using Signal to chat with high-up Trump officials like defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Stephen Mille, a CIA operative, and JD Vance ... ... to co-ordinate the Mar 15 bombing of Houthi targets Waltz added -- apparently by mistake -- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, to the group a wild, clownishly self-own of a leak

The Atlantic

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bo...

(sorry, no unpaywalled link is available yet)