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Nostalgia, continued
I was thinking more today, about that feeling of nostalgia that I wrote about recently (#nostalgia #hiking

The news abut needing new gas plants in the UK a couple of days ago, mostly missed the actual documents, linked below; they're pretty thorough - but more importantly the need for the replacement gas plants is the least interesting thing in them; failing to kill off marginal pricing is a bigger pain; but it does seem like they tried and found everything they tried failed; the best idea they have is a split pricing system that should make the marginal pricing better:

Review of electricity market arrangements (REMA): second consultation
This second consultation is an opportunity to provide feedback to government on the ongoing review of electricity market arrangements (REMA).

“Simply, there is no way to be cool,” [Pissed Jeans singer] Korvette concludes, “especially when you’ve hit a sixth album. We’re clearly not new; we’re old, we don’t care. It feels cool to not want to be cool. It’s the best. It’s the beauty of not feeling inclined to impress anyone, no need to show that you deserve anything, that you are punk or edgy. It’s embarrassing to try too hard. We're more comfortable in our own skin.”

Pissed Jeans Don’t Try Too Hard and Do Music For Fun | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH
During our 33-minute conversation, Matt Korvette, the 42-year-old vocalist of Pissed Jeans, says “fun” eleven times and “fan” six times. The Sub Pop mainstays out of Philadelphia dropped their sixth album, Half Divorced , and Korvette has it on repeat. Approaching two decades as a band, Pissed Jean

Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000 employees (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Scaled startups could drive venture capital investment activity in 2024: report
During 2023, growth and late-stage startups chose to defer fundraising, and investors took their foot off the gas pedal owing to rising interest rates, leading to the number of mega rounds (those over $100 million) falling to only 15, compared to 48 in 2022.

“The countries and companies that have continued to supply oil to the Israeli military since the decision of the international court of justice are contributing to horrible human rights violations and may be complicit in genocide”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m…

Hey, seasoned international travelers, have a moment to give advice? I’m wondering whether this “provide all your passport details” web form from KLM is worth filling out.
It promises to “speed up the check-in process at the airport.” As a software person, the offer I hear is “make your sensitive data pass through even •more• systems with heaven knows what security characteristics.”
If doing it at the airport is 5 min, I’d prefer that. If that’s asking for a headache, then OK, f…

The news abut needing new gas plants in the UK a couple of days ago, mostly missed the actual documents, linked below; they're pretty thorough - but more importantly the need for the replacement gas plants is the least interesting thing in them; failing to kill off marginal pricing is a bigger pain; but it does seem like they tried and found everything they tried failed; the best idea they have is a split pricing system that should make the marginal pricing better:

Review of electricity market arrangements (REMA): second consultation
This second consultation is an opportunity to provide feedback to government on the ongoing review of electricity market arrangements (REMA).

I’m a sucker for procedural #journalism films (The Post, She Said, and Spotlight, which won the Oscar Best Picture in 2016) so I watched Netflix’s Scoop, which is about the infamous BBC Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. I had the fortune (?) of not having seen this interview so it was interesting seeing how it all came about. The film wasn’t as good …

Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.

Hey, seasoned international travelers, have a moment to give advice? I’m wondering whether this “provide all your passport details” web form from KLM is worth filling out.
It promises to “speed up the check-in process at the airport.” As a software person, the offer I hear is “make your sensitive data pass through even •more• systems with heaven knows what security characteristics.”
If doing it at the airport is 5 min, I’d prefer that. If that’s asking for a headache, then OK, f…