7. Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered (iucn.org)

Gland, Switzerland, 9 April 2026 (IUCN) – The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Climate change in Antarctica is leading to changes in sea-ice that are projected to cause the emperor penguin population to halve by the 2080s, while reduced food availability has already driven a 50% reduction in the Antarctic fur seal population since 2000. The southern elephant seal is also now at risk of extinction, due to disease.

14. Tree Calculus (treecalcul.us)

One operator. Trivial semantics. Turing complete. Intensional.

21. Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service (www.hatchmag.com)

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

25. Small Engines (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

One of the interesting things to contemplate is the scale of the internal combustion engine. It’s a very human scale device; pistons the size of fists, Valves about as wide as knuckles. It&#8…

27. Robots Eat Cars (telemetry.endeff.com)

Modern cars are starting to operate on robot architecture, and that foreshadows how such architecture will spread to every industry that moves physical things.

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