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New York City is to end horse carriage rides through Central Park following the "tragic and preventable" death of a teenager earlier this year.
The City Council is expected to approve a bill next week that would end the rides - which have been going for more than 150 years - by 2028.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed the news on X on Wednesday, saying, "The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City."
Romanch Mahajan died after jumping from…

[OT] With IPOs coming up, "AI doomsday" talk distracts us from lack of revenue growth https://mindmatters.ai/2026/09/ai-doomsday-talk-distracts-us-from-lack-of-revenue-growth-for-hyperscalers/ on the

“AI Doomsday” Talk Distracts Us From Lack of Revenue Growth
Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.

Electricity grid fees in the Netherlands up by 19% next year!
This was to be expected given the very high investments in increasing the grid capacity, and it will be followed by further increases in coming years. Cost reduction in the system should be a priority now.
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Energierekening gaat 140 euro per jaar omhoog door sprong in nettarieven
De energierekening van een gemiddeld Nederlands huishouden gaat volgend jaar weer flink omhoog. De nettarieven die iedereen betaalt voor toegang tot het stroom- en gasnet stijgen snel, vooral door de investeringen in uitbreiding van het stroomnet.

3 Fearless Dallas Cowboys Predictions for the 2026 NFL Season You Didn’t See Coming https://insidethestar.com/3-fearless-dallas-cowboys-predictions-for-the-2026-nfl-season-you-didnt-see-coming

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Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
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I've been at The Firs, Elgar's birth place. As well as hearing Nimrod played on a 1927 wind-up gramophone (see @…'s post if you want to hear it) I learnt a lot about Elgar as a man and a polymath, and as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. The odds were stacked against him but now he's a national treasure. My friend's gre…

Colts QB Daniel Jones 'feeling good' coming off Achilles tear, full-go for training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-daniel-jones-feeling-good-coming-off-achilles-tear-full-go-for-training-camp

"The wheels are coming off."
"The IRS and Social Security are now run by the same person, which I think is a red flag, right?" Don Moynihan says.
"These are like two huge, complicated federal agencies, and one guy is running both of them."
Moynihan notes that a recent Inspector General report found that the agency is collecting much less revenue than it should from its audits.
Elon Musk's DOGE fired scores of tax audit specialists, …

The federal government is falling apart
Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

The EU is not on track to achieve the necessary filling level of its natural gas storages, making it vulnerable to timely delivery of LNG from Trump's US and the Persian Gulf this coming winter.
Germany and the Netherlands are to blame. Together, they have over 1/3 of the storage capacity.
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