Astoundingly terrible sales data for Tesla in the UK last month. Compare just about any other manufacturer with Tesla. This is against a backdrop of surging EV sales. BYD doubled their sales and sold ten times as many as Tesla. #TeslaTakedown

Elon projecting one launch of starship *per day* by next year lmao

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'

Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.

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I hate that WhatsApp continually tries to trick you into granting full contact access. This is such an ugly dark pattern

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.

Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME

Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...

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2nd time in Brittany, France and I can report: surviving as a vegetarian is still v.hard & unhealthy. Not even talking vegan here. Unless you love goats cheese, in which case you can have goats cheese galettes and goats cheese baguettes all day long. I despise goats cheese and would rather starve

⚠️ It's been the driest July on record. ❓️ But have you heard Andy Burnham say anything about the #ClimateCrisis? 🛢 Instead, he says he is "open-minded" about new North Sea oil and gas. 🟢 Only the Green Party will tackle the climate crisis with the urgency it demands.

I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.

I'm looking for local information while on holiday. I was not however looking for this.

This is a great story. I expect there's a lot of this going on, around the world. It reads almost as the tech version of an Onion headline, doesn't it? Exactly what @doctorow.pluralistic.net means when he rants about "process knowledge" walking out the door.

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects

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Maximum irony? Oil refinery in Russia apparently using/also generating electricity with solar PV. Is this a thing, refineries powering themselves with solar? 😡

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2d ago

Satellite imagery shows the aftermath of the July 31 strike on LUKOIL's Volgograd refinery. The ELOU-AVT-1 crude processing unit, the ELOU-AVT-3 unit, pipelines, pipe racks and part of the site's solar power infrastructure were damaged. Damage to the ELOU-AVT-5 unit was also reported. #Ukraine

Ah yes this is right - I mixed it up with Google’s investment in anthropic which was at a lower valuation than the latest! It’s more likely that this was to make sure Amazon actually got paid lol bsky.app/profile/toro...

Toronto Will@torontowill.bsky.social · 4d ago

What makes it an equity gain for Amazon? It seems like they bought in at the high point of OpenAI's valuation.

This was meant to be due when OpenAI ipo’d or hit AGI, neither of which happened. Suggests OpenAI is burning way too much money and Amazon is trying to post another net equity gain in Q3, likely to try and paper over what was weak revenue guidance

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5d ago

Amazon completes $50bn investment in OpenAI ft.trib.al/RbiJ1qC

📌 ICYMI — Andy Burnham Faces ‘First Test’ Over Palestine Action Ban This Week — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Defend Our Juries is urging supporters to escalate from simple placard offences to charges carrying up to 14 years in prison, in a direct challenge to Andy Burnham's new Government

Andy Burnham Faces ‘First Test’ Over Palestine Action Ban This Week

Defend Our Juries is urging supporters to escalate from simple placard offences to charges carrying up to 14 years in prison, in a direct challenge to Andy Burnham's new Government

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Evidence of the great benefits of AI: it used to take a huge amount of time and effort to make yourself look this stupid; now AI allows you to humiliate yourself almost instantly.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Half the country officially in drought - the 3rd in 5 years. Fires raging across Europe. Battles being fought over AI data centres, New episode of *When Nature Becomes A Security Threat*,my podcast series for @therestpolitics.bsky.social, out now. It couldn’t be more timely. Pls do give a listen

Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min

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In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.

The result in the UK is a country that now keeps hundreds of political prisoners, a country in which you can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the street. Protest here is acceptable as long as it’s useless. Let the people have their say, but only if we can’t hear them.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Climate change is rendering Europe more flammable, vastly increasing the odds of the tinderbox conditions that fueled this week’s megafires in France and Spain, researchers say.

Climate change made Spanish wildfires 20 times more likely

Global warming also doubled the likelihood of this year’s tinderbox conditions in France, says snap scientific analysis.

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As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com

The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

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This looks v. positive 👏 But to be meaningful it has to lead to immediate ruling out of *any* new fossil fuel drilling, including Rosebank & Jackdaw & the urgent reinstatement of international climate finance. For more on climate as a security threat, see my podcast for @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

All together now: 🎵The hills are alive, with…

This is amazing, but seemingly not new: 1. I screenshot my contact card on iPhone 2. AirDrop it to my Mac 3. Finder shows the file "Jason Rudolph.heic". I once knew a Jason Rudolph, but it's not me, and he's not mentioned in my card / screenshot. So… WTAF? (iOS 26.5.2 -> macOS Tahoe 26.5.2).

Absolute fucking banger.

Riddle me this: Why the hell is Apple not building in "Open in Apple Music" when people send you tracks or playlists from Spotify? The perfect way to drain Spotify's moat somewhat. Yes it can't be perfect, I imagine anon Spotify access won't include ISRC codes but…

Fitch is now warning that an AI Market Correction is emerging as a major credit risk, with “the the medium- and long-term potential of [AI] being highly uncertain” www.fitchratings.com/research/ban...

Hey @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy re: ATP 702 and pasting into Finder: I recently converted my app from Catalyst to AppKit SwiftUI and getting Paste to work in Finder with filenames (pre-27) is just a case of setting NSItemProvider.suggestedName - modern Transferable APIs didn't seem to work

Russians in occupied Crimea bought fake QR codes for fuel, unaware that the scheme had been turned against them. The SBU ensured that the money they paid was directed to support Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade. #Ukraine