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Jonas #Vingegaard has revealed he came close to walking away from cycling last winter.
Now, Team Visma | Lease a Bike are preparing for fresh talks over his future after the Tour de France.
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I predict he retires
#TDF2026

Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

TourdeFrance is feitelijk voorbij, spanning is weg, na etappe 6 van de 21. Geen sportliefhebber kan hier blij mee zijn. Al kun je Pogacar niets verwijten.
#wielrennen #tourdefrance

Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI)
https://www.unite.ai/pathway-raises-new-funding-at-500m-valuation…

Pathway Raises New Funding at $500M Valuation to Scale Post-Transformer AI
AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million as it prepares to scale a new generation of models built around its post-Transforme...

@…, isn't creating extrinsic motivation the whole raison d'être of the management class? Intrinsically motivated people need no management. So managers are enormously motivated to prevent people from developing intrinsic motivation, because when their workers do, they're redundant.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Design for the Ineffable: Cr…

The cyclists should have to carry their own repair kits and do their own repairs. #TourDeFrance

@… (I think we agree on this but) if we view capitalism and the market economy as inherently toxic (as I do), is work to make it less unequal not counter productive? We need to be building the new structures, not trying to shore up the wanton excess of the old.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Log…

"Foundry is a proprietary product. Some #NHS data analysts told us that all their work on the FDP would be lost if they no longer had access to #Palantir’s platform. This raises concerns over what many experts call “vendor lock in”. Once you start using a Silicon Valley tech company’s product, it can …

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, asks Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale