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It was not a phone call. It was not a meeting. For thousands of Oracle employees across the globe, Tuesday morning began with a single email landing in their inboxes just after 6 a.m. EST — and by the time they finished reading it, their careers at one of the world’s largest technology companies were over.

Oracle has launched what analysts believe could be the most extensive layoff in the company’s history, with estimates suggesting the cuts will affect between 20,000 and 30,000 employees — roughly 18% of its global workforce of approximately 162,000 people. Workers in the United States, India, and other regions all reported receiving the same termination notice at nearly the same hour, sent under the name “Oracle Leadership.

I've come to really hate April Fool's Day. I never used to care. As a kid, April Fools pranks were annoying things like locking doors, tying shoe laces together, and nonsense like that. Things that might be annoying, or even amounting to physical assault, but ultimately nothing that toyed with my feelings.

In the age of the Internet, though, all April Fools Day pranks are are people just very lazily trying to get me excited for things, and that feels so, so, so much more malicious than anything the schoolyard bullies ever did.People and vectors I rely upon for information just become really sloppily unreliable for a full day out of the year, while they smugly pat themselves on their own backs for engaging in some social ritual I (apparently mistakenly) thought we'd all outgrown by the time we were 10.

The Met Police said two teenagers were in custody following reports groups of young people were causing disruption in Clapham.

https://news.sky.com/story/two-arrested-after-crowds-of-young-people-swarm-london-high-street-in-social-media-flash-mob-13526755

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May I ask, why do you highlight/suggest your customers that they are incapable to develop without AI, and you force it everywhere, even with the very first setting, and first ChangeLog items, too, instead of improving IDE for a human and their mind?

And... I am sorry, but... are you JetBrains or Antrophic, or?

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran hit a tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait International Airport early Wednesday as Tehran remained unrelenting in its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors, while acknowledging for the first time that Washington had been in direct contact about a possible ceasefire.

Israel sounded warnings of incoming fire from both Yemen and Iran, while launching its own attacks in Lebanon that killed at least five people.

An airstrike on Tehran appeared to have hit the former U.S. Embassy compound, which has been controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard since the 1979 hostage crisis. Witnesses said buildings outside the massive compound had their windows blown out and that it appears the strike happened inside the walled facility.

Hello everyone - I hope you enjoyed the first season of The Button! I certainly did 😀

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The Button — Season 1 Final Stats

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 1, 2026

This seems like an April Fool’s Day story, and I did always used to write those. But it isn’t. And it’s going to be a growing list. I’m going to add to it here on future days, I hope. You can help add to it in the comments below.

The story is that some governments are finally, finally, finally, doing one or two things right. They are also doing hundreds of things wrong — the very same governments. This is not a monument to deified hero governments. Allowing the United States military to have a base in your country and then not allowing it to use that base for a particular war is at best a glass-half-full move, and — painfully obviously — you still need to close that and all other military bases permanently. It’s war or survival, not both. Blocking “offensive” weapons while sending “defensive” weapons to gulf dictatorships, er, excuse me, key allies, is insulting to everyone you’re selling it to. But baby steps in the right direction are still in the right direction.

These acts of doing things right amount to standing up to the horrific crimes and atrocities of the U.S. and Israeli governments. If the U.S. and Israeli publics don’t like the fact that this is now what it takes to do the right thing, they do have the option of preventing the single individuals running their nations into the ground from continuing, or even of changing their governments so that they are not run by a single individual — a state of affairs that sounds fantastical and yet already exists in those nations’ laws.

According to social media, this list should be a lot bigger, but a lot of the “news” is phony. There seems to be desire out there for more such actions to happen in the real world.

These governments have not acted on their own. They’ve acted in rough proportion to the level of public activism demanding that they act. Some countries have seen a lot more activism than the list reflects, though; we can hope that that means additions are coming.

Without further ado, the envelopes please . . .

SPAIN

Spain has denied the U.S. the use of bases in Spain for the war on Iran, and denied the U.S. the use of its airspace for the war on Iran, and publicly denounced the war on Iran as the crime that all wars are. It has also denounced the war on Gaza (having already taken numerous steps to avoid supporting that war, and having cut off diplomatic relations with Israel) and denounced the war on Lebanon, and refused to spend the amount of money demanded by Trump on its military. Spain’s government is receiving gratitude from around the world for these simple acts of refraining from complete hypocrisy when talking about the rule of law or democracy.

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland has stopped weapons shipments to the United States over the war on Iran. Switzerland has denied use of its airspace for the war on Iran.

ITALY

Italy has finally denied the U.S. the use of a base for the war on Iran.

POLAND

Poland has refused to send some of its weapons to the Middle East (though they may contribute more to starting WWIII right where they are).

GERMANY

Germany has said a few good things while doing the opposite. That’s progress for Germany, which is ahead of the UK.

CANADA

Canada’s prime minister finally found a war he opposes in the war on Lebanon.

BRAZIL

The president of Brazil has demanded that the United Nations reform itself, i.e. get rid of the veto.

FRANCE

While Trump said France denied use of its airspace for the slaughter in Iran, France has denied that it had done so. Shame on France!

UNITED NATIONS

Yeah, this is the April Fool’s bit.

Here is where this could and should be heading: BDS the U.S.

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May I ask, why do you highlight/suggest your customers that they are incapable to develop without AI, and you force it everywhere, even with the very first setting, and first ChangeLog items, too, instead of improving IDE for a human and their mind?

And... I am sorry, but... are you JetBrains or Antrophic, or?

Source: youtrack.jetbrains.com/...

Pros: Still does everything I want it to. Has great battery life still. Pretty accurate for a wrist measure, when measuring heart rate. Also has built in GPS, and even Garmin Pay although I never got it to work. Screen is perfectly visible in sunlight

Cons: Proprietary charger. I've had to switch the watch band 2 times.

On April 1st 1649, a small group of men and women moved onto wasteland at St George’s Hill, near Weybridge, in the parish of Walton-on-Thames in north Surrey, and began to dig over the land and plant vegetables.

These "Diggers", led by radical Christian visionary Gerard Winstanley, could be described as "roughly egalitarian agrarian communists". Protesting the proto-capitalist privatization of common land through the Enclosure Acts, the extortionate rents charged by landlords, and the concept of private land ownership in general, the "True Levellers", as they called themselves, called for "the taking over of waste lands of the manors, by the poor, to be worked collectively, to grow food and raise animals, to feed all, for need, not profit."

Winstanley declared private property the true Original Sin of humanity, and thought it a sin either to rent property or to pay rent for property, both to work for wages and to offer work for wages, and called for the abolishment of labor for hire, believing that the wealthy and powerful would lose their wealth and power if the poor laborers they depended on simply refused to labor:

“This Declares likewise to all Laborers, or such as are called Poor people, that they shall not dare to work for Hire, for any Landlord, or for any that is lifted up above others; for by their labours, they have lifted up Tyrants and Tyranny; and by denying to labor for Hire, they shall pull them down again. He that works for another, either for Wages, or to pay him Rent, works unrighteously, and still lifts up the Curse; but they that are resolved to work and eat together, making the Earth a Common Treasury, doth joyn hands with Christ, to lift up the Creation from Bondage, and restores all things from the Curse.”

The applicability of this to the 21st century economy is left as an exercise to the reader.

The landlords, of course, seeing a threat to both the rents they charged and the labor they extorted from their tenants, beat them, killed them, and burned their huts. Eventually the English government forbade the Diggers to occupy vacant land on pain of death. And so the noble experiment ended.

So it goes.