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"Portugal’s burned land triples compared to last year amid intensifying wildfires"
#Portugal #Environment #Climate

Wildfires in Portugal burn three times more land than last year
By 15 July, more than 3,000 fires had burnt a total of 10,768 hectares in Portugal, three times more than in the same period last year. And these figures still don't include this week's fires.

Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

LATENTRED main board layout progress: got most of the GTYs and FPGA-MCU paths done, as well as the RGMII PHY.
Still lots more to do but I'm liking the floorplan, at least the parts that I've done.
I'm debating moving the RGMII PHY to the west a bit and adding a fan cutout directly behind the FPGA so that I can have it suck exhaust air right past the FPGA (possibly with a 3d printed air dam or something in the future). Will need to spend some time thinking about therma…

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
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A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

made a big pot of beefy beans (chilli-ish), we ate three portions and there are 11 more to go in the fridge — the kids both said it’s very tasty so i expect it won’t last long!

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
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had a magical time at the fully stacked outlaw music fest at jones beach last night & reported back for @…'s always crucial dylan newsletter. had my head spun by a mystical "blind willie mctell" & the new country-soul "gotta serve somebody"

Immer wieder kommt es in den letzten Wochen zwischen Kinzig und Main zu Snickers-Ereignissen. Hinweisen aus der Bevölkerung zufolge ist der Täter zwischen 30 und 70 Jahre alt, hat wehles Haar, eine muksche Figur und eine auffallende Formulierungsfraktur.