Just learning about how Talc is tied to Asbestos

How is it that presenters on NPR's Marketplace don't know how to correctly read numbers? #NPR

" All member countries of the European Union except Hungary voted Wednesday in favor of proposals that would impose tariffs on specific U.S. products sold into Europe, starting next week. "

#news #tariffs #eu #npr

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59187/european-union-tariffs

I love it that local bakeries and pizza companies donate food to Jefferson Public Radio, our #NPR station here in southern Oregon and northern California, during their annual spring fund drive. Not to mention the army of volunteers that join the hosts and management to staff the drive, answer phones, and run errands. JPR, based on the campus of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, has the largest geographical reach of any NPR station in the country. Using a system of translators paired with its purchase of a number of low-power regional radio stations, the station’s signal reaches to the Oregon and California coasts, to eastern Oregon’s Lake County, down to Mendocino, California. I had the pleasure and privilege of serving on the station’s board of directors for a term. Learned a lot.

#NPR #1A #Broadband #RuralAmerica #TFGMusk #Starlink #BEAD

The part that caught my ear is the guy in charge (Lutnick) of putting this Broadband Equity Access deployment program forward (most states are shovel ready) might not do that or cut it somehow, leaving wired and fiber internet broadband out for many people.

So it'll cost more and be more expensive for most people.

But they could use Starlink, right?

Who does that benefit?

Hmmm. Wanna bet Mush has met with Lutnick?

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/536890695/why-the-internet-fast-lane-has-bypassed-rural-america

You're Saying It Wrong #pocast #npr - We're looking to the past https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-looking-to-the-past/id1434115608?i=1000700386801

#blender3d has a new stylized NPR system coming in version 5.0, lots of new features and workflows.

I'll post some of the test renders I made with the new system.

There is a preview release here: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/eevee-npr-prototype-feedback/37098

And, there are a lot of other artists sharing renders, node setups, blends etc in that thread, as well.

“Bitches Brew” makes the Library of Congress archive of influential recordings along with Tracy Chapman’s eponymous recording, the Chicago Transit Authority eponymous recording, and Elton’s “Goodby Yellow Brick Road” recording. And more.

Miles is a giant. He set the direction of jazz 5 times in his career with Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, and Bitches Brew at top of mind. “Brew” was so radical in ‘69. Today, mainstream fusion. Miles Runs the VooDoo Down … #NPR #music
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5352774/national-recording-registry-tracy-chapman-elton-john-hamilton-minecraft

#MusicWomenWednesday NPR just published this Tiny Desk Concert with Nubya Garcia, performing five songs from her latest album (Odyssey, released in 2024)

youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh4u8Da0F7A

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order delay due to new import tax ( tariff ) ?

"preorders for the hotly anticipated console will be delayed due to President Trump's new global tariffs"

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5349650/trump-tariffs-nintendo-switch-2-doug-bowser?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

More linked from NPR story - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/not-just-switch-2-esa-warns-trumps-tariffs-will-hurt-the-entire-game-industry/

El Tiny Desk Concert de #BadBunny estuvo nítido.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58060/bad-bunny-tiny-desk-concert

#npr after being bad on AI lets be bad in “AGI”.

Pro tip: if you have multiple definitions it means they are some conflicts and you should check that…

#JamesComer is a MORON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TH-9AoQgY

#DOGE subcommittee hearing led by a moron #MajorieTaylorGreene, #Kentucky Rep Comer fucked up miserably to land a 'gotcha' line on #NPR CEO #KatherineMaher, offering a prefect contrast to Rep. GregCasar's humorous, concise and sensible testimony later in the hearing.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, if NPR only gets 1 or 2 percent of its funding from the Federal Government, it would be in their best interest to walk away. That can be made up elsewhere and it would remove any talking points. In the long term they would be better off.

３３１話「再発見！エスパーニャ」（小澤一郎さん）
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/85977/episodes/ep-e3171uo
#podcasters_spotify_pod_show_85 #podcast_hosting #free_podcast_hosting #make_apodcast #making_apodcast #create_apodcast #creating_apodcast #podcast_sponsorships #sponsor_apodcast #free #audio #recording #audio_clip #anchor #podcasts #voice #microphone #podcast #podcast_creation #record #conversation #discussion #talk #talking #radio #public_radio #npr #startup #talk_radio

Some of the Taiwanese musicians at the Megaport Festival in Kaohsiung used the stage to send a political message

[They do this every year. For some indie bands in Taiwan music and politics are inseparable.]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5352444/musicians-protest-through-song-at-festival-in-taiwan