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the problem with public policies to build tech hubs in cities like Barcelona is they don't so much create jobs as incentivize multinationals to relocate existing high-salary employees there. like tourism, this is good for the hospitality sector, but kind of a destructive dead end in most other respects.
Excess deaths during the recent and continuing European heatwave have been highest in France https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
LE VRAI ÉCO-TERRORISME, C'EST ÇA
Le désert avance et la vie recule. La sécheresse extrême qui frappe la France est visible depuis l'espace. Un satellite de la NASA a capturé une image de l'ouest de l'Europe le 24 mai et le 9 juillet. Seulement 46 jours séparent les deux photos, mais aussi 4 canicules sans la moindre précipitation.
Notre article à lire ici : https://contre-attaque.net/2026/07/12/le-vrai-eco-terrorisme-cest-ca/
Rappel qu'il fait probablement plus frais aujourd'hui que certains jours de l'année 2027 (sans parler des suivantes).
So the #FediverseChickCountdown was really a bust, only 7 chicks hatched (and I didn't post much because of fucking Reflect Orbital)
But those 7 chicks are SO CUTE. I reloaded the incubator, turned the temperature down slightly, didn't keep eggs for quite as long, and we'll try this experiment again. Tune in in 3 weeks to find out if I picked the right variables to mess with
(Farming is HARD. Biology is HARD. Orbital dynamics is so easy compared to this!)
Oh yes!
William Cape Gardens charged my dad a couple of hundred $$ to "Test and Tag"¹ everything in his room, including USB cables 🤯, then did it again (and billed him again 😡) when I complained the first time.
Luckily, I was contracting to WorkCover at the time, so had lots of access to the Test & Tag legislation, as well as site inspectors, so I was able to get WorkCover officially involved to shut that scam down.
Anyone who goes into aged care needs to have an advocate, a loud, persistent, dogmatic, prepared-to-be-an-a55hole advocate, to fight the aged care system constantly on their behalf.
¹Test and Tag is intended for harsh working environments like mines or building sites, and excludes low voltage cables, and brand new equipment.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett, Diggers
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group became Japan's most valuable company by market capitalization for the first time Monday, thanks to an improved business environment resulting from the Bank of Japan's interest rate hikes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/13/companies/mfug-most-valuable-firm-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #banks #tse #stocks
@Elizafox Yes, for sure. LLMs may be the proximal cause of death of the geek trade I loved, but the underlying illness has been going on for over two decades.
Washington Is Looking to Keep China From Training Its AI on US Models
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/anthropic-openai-warnings-prompt-distillation-debate-in-dc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Businessweek @bloomberg-businessweek-bloomberg
Protest wirkt. Aber wer verhandelt sowas auf Regierungsebene für die SPD und warum klang Lars Klingbeil letzte Woche noch sehr überzeugt von der Einigung?
@markus_netzpolitik
Jetzt ist wohl aufgeflogen, das Lars ja lieber CDU-Mitglied wäre. Aber dann müsste er den Vizekanzler-Posten räumen. Und dazu ist er zu Macht****!
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@Kierkegaanks He’s a fat phobic, ableist, right winger. I’ve lost every respect for him
@farah nobody measures up, and i watch him cook without being influenced by his behavioral quirks
"Existing within a tightly controlled cabal of sycophantic fellow travellers, Nige has entered his Fat Elvis period. Credited as the architect of Brexit, which is rather like applauding Oppenheimer for the urban renewal of Hiroshima, he has nobody to tell him when he’s getting things wrong."
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