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Yesterday — 25 June 2024Main stream

Labour silence could lead to re-election of disgraced Keith Vaz, mayor says

✇The Guardian
By: Rajeev Syal
25 June 2024 at 14:37

Peter Soulsby says party should be reminding Leicester East voters about sex and drug allegations against former MP

Keith Vaz could be re-elected as an MP because Labour is failing to highlight that he was disgraced in office amid drug and sex allegations, the Labour mayor of Leicester has said.

Peter Soulsby said he was “disappointed and frustrated” by his party’s complacency, which could allow the former Europe minister to win back his former seat of Leicester East.

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You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.

✇MetaFilter
By: hydropsyche
20 June 2024 at 07:35
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history.

Just a little something for the nostalgic among us, as well as an invitation to explore all the amazing stuff available in interactive fiction today from Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, Inkle Studios, and Twine. Cool recent Previously

Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Sydney Ember
17 June 2024 at 05:03
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.

© Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times

Allison Giddens, a co-president at Win-Tech, an aerospace manufacturing company in Kennesaw, Ga., keeps a note on her computer monitor to remind her to make use of ChatGPT more often.

What goes up...

✇MetaFilter
By: hydropsyche
11 June 2024 at 20:47
Large pieces of the trunk structure of SpaceX's Dragon capsule have been crashing to earth following re-entry, including in NSW, Australia, Saskatchawan, Canada, and NC, US. Prof Sam Lawler is the astronomy professor at the University of Regina, so when a farmer in Saskatchawan found a piece in a field, she got the call. She has been chronicling what has happened next on Mastodon (all links should be viewable without a Mastodon account), with today's amazing chapter in which SpaceX representatives arrived in a Uhaul to pick up the pieces found by two local farmers.

It turns out there are all kinds of interesting legal issues involved: Space junk is raining from the sky. Who's responsible when it hits the Earth? (CBC) (brief mention Previously but that was before the guys showed up with a Uhaul)

Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

✇NYT: Technology
By: Michael Forsythe and Gabriel J.X. Dance
13 May 2024 at 21:23
An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon.

© Stephen Speranza for The New York Times

The bitcoin mine in Cheyenne, Wyo., has been ordered to cease operations immediately.

What the world can learn from Ukraine's fight for democracy | Olesya Khromeychuk

✇TEDTalks (video)
By: contact@ted.com (TED) Olesya Khromeychuk
16 February 2024 at 10:30
"A flourishing democracy next door is a scary thing for an autocrat," says Ukrainian historian Olesya Khromeychuk. Detailing the history of Ukraine's long struggle for sovereignty and freedom — against Russian tsars, communist dictators and now the Kremlin's army — she shares three lessons anybody can use to join the global fight for democracy.

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What if advertising was honest? | Sylvester Chauke

✇TEDTalks (video)
By: contact@ted.com (TED) Sylvester Chauke
17 January 2024 at 10:48
After years of brand building, marketing veteran Sylvester Chauke realized that his industry had sold the world on overconsumption, with devastating consequences. He shares how marketers could instead promote sustainability with "honest ads" that do right by the planet and encourage people to think twice before buying.

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