TGIF [DOT 24/4/26]

Site seems to be working better for me – hopefully that is the case for y’all!

Let’s see what else is going on around here:

Trump says Israel and Lebanon agree to extend ceasefire by three weeks – Middle East crisis live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/23/middle-east-crisis-live-news-us-iran-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-ships-latest-updates

Stonks?

U.S. soldier charged with suspected Polymarket insider trading over Maduro raid
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5797957/maduro-raid-charges-polymarket-insider

French police probe suspected weather device tampering after odd Polymarket bet
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5797876/polymarket-paris-weather-bet

Trump administration eases rules on some marijuana categories. Here’s what to know
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5797245/marijuana-rules-reschedule-medical-legalization

LOL

Have a great weekend!

SplinterRIP says:

24/4/26 at 07:08

…not to be a massive downer…yet again…but…the replies to this were interesting?

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:40:32.398Z

…there’s a good few that rattle off staggeringly awful points of comparison

more dead than the indonesian genocide; than cambodian genocide, than gaza genocide, than hiroshima and nasgasaki. just difficult to contemplate.

…or feature projections from a million dead that wouldn’t have been so far up to 14million as soon as 2030…but the atlantic tech guy also said this part

that's not a criticism of audience, tbh! there is a huge surplus of difficult news to contend with these days. a lot of feedback i've gotten on work in this administration boils down to: 'thank you for writing about this but i dunno if i can stare down yet another awful thing'

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:42:40.110Z

…& the chorus that followed demonstrated a few things, maybe?

this is broadly what im gettin at. and it makes a lot of sense. (it's also, for the press, a strange dynamic bc when people don't engage it sends a certain signal)

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:53:44.796Z

…anyway…as luck would have it I can’t sit here & blather about it all day…but…I…might think that’s a mechanism that is buttressing a lot of stuff that ought not to be able to support its own weight according to physics…so to speak?

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