* A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *
On Aug 6, the Argentine Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill,
the Private Property Inviolability Law.
If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia
-- By F. Gomez, 7/31/26
(h/t. Jenny Cohn)
"39 Chicks Strengthen Darwin’s Rhea Rewilding in Patagonia"
#Patagonia #Animals
https://happyeconews.…
Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-needs-twice-a-week-patching-…
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Over the last few years, my lawyer and I have tried to find someone to do the Fairchild Semiconductor story but nothing.
I really feel it could be a brilliant true-life drama series because, as you know, the story has sooo many fantastic characters and plot points.
Ahh, maybe one day, a lavish Apple series with
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987936/anker-eufy-mindba…
> It is very interesting, your pop cultural references, which are sparse and few...
> Thank you.
— James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski on the "Little Fish: Moss Moss Mossmoss Moss" episode of No Such Thing As A Fish
“In ‘The Last of Us’ universe, rising temperatures cause Cordyceps to evolve and adapt to human body temperatures. Concerningly, this somewhat parallels real life. Climate change is another risk factor for fungal diseases that has given rise to a worrisome pathogen. ‘What does concern me as an infectious disease physician is a relatively new fungus called Candida auris,’ says Roberts. ‘This fungus spreads person-to-person, which hasn’t really been reported before.’ First identified in 2009, …