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I can ’t help but think when I read these stories on the road conditions that, if you can’t ride according to the conditions and are not able to avoid a couple of potholes, you probably shouldn’t be riding at all...
#motorcycle

"The Zero Emissions Truck and Van grants and the Depot Charging Scheme (DCS) aim to tackle two of the biggest barriers to businesses making the switch - upfront costs and access to charging."
£1 billion (up to 40% of the vehicle cost) £170 million (up to 70% of depot charging infrastructure cost)

£1 billion to cut costs for businesses, drive growth and clean up UK roads
The Zero Emissions Truck and Van grants and the Depot Charging Scheme aim to help businesses make the switch to electric vans and trucks.

Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
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Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

Tying up loose ends on the STM32MP2 PCIe board.
It's fully routed and I'm trying to fine tune the layer 3 power (and some ground) plane to provide good return current paths for the FPGA transceivers.
Left to right the pairs are two refclks (one from an LVDS oscillator and one from the SoC), SFP RX, and PCIe RX.
The actually-fast signals (PCIe and SFP) are fully ground referenced their entire length and have return path vias between L2 and L3 when they jump up to L1…

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture "We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. That we need to extract these polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the sea so we can create electric batteries to run automobiles without using carbon fuels. But deep-sea mining is such a destructive process." …

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. Th…

I am completely fascinated by this small two-minute animation by eco feminist and punk rock musician(!) Catherine Weir.
It inhabits the same space as the work of Olga Tokarczuk. The sound is uplifting!
All my life I've felt that surrealism is one of the few art forms that can reveal the hidden relationships between nature and humanity.

Sure, Peter Drucker, sure.
The lady doth protest too much (he goes on to write several pages about how there were successful women leaders in business during that time period)

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200 sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/fbi-subpoenaed-x-to-get-grok-prompts-used-…

FBI Subpoenaed X to Get Grok Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn
The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.