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An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-ceo-of-allbirds-new-a…

The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees | TechCrunch
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Paul and Linda McCartney:
🎵 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
#PaulandLindaMcCartney
https://outdoorvelour.bandcamp.com/track/uncle-albert-admiral-halsey-paul-linda-mccartney
https://open.spotify.com/track/728gYW8s0Vsuq9IgqaCDjZ

Alberta will do away with twice-a-year time change: Premier Smith
https://flip.it/lkLK.o

Looks like the Alberta Government under Danielle Smith is going to try to have a referendum on separating or remaining in Canada.
(the pipeline deal really worked, eh Carney!?)
Make no mistake. Regardless of the fact that the *vast* majority (70% ) of Albertans don't want to have a referendum because they have never wanted to separate from Canada, this is an effort, supported by a foreign country, namely the United States of America and traitorous sycophants in Alberta, to weaken, and break up Canada.
It won't be successful.
Albertans don't want it.
First Nations oppose it.
Canadians support Albertans and Albertans support Canada.
Premier Smith is going to have a news conference tonight. I'm sure it'll be sickening.🤮
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Separatism

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

Den här värmeböljan riskerar bli lika allvarlig som den i augusti 2003, varnar franska myndigheter. ”Svåra dagar väntar”, säger Macron. Men på G7-mötet strök han allt tal om klimatförändringarna ur programmet. https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-regue

Erik de la Reguera: Klimatförändringarna osynliggörs vid G7-mötet – för att gå Trump till mötes
Erik de la Reguera: Klimatförändringarna osynliggörs vid G7-mötet i Èvian– för att gå Trump till mötes

Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Al Brown and Inner Force:
🎵 Dub of Books
#AlBrownandInnerForce
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rGUrC3pYRfefHv6ry5sGO

Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting sanctions, imposed in April, on a major Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of shortages (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Ali Farahani:
🎵 Younan (Zone & Usif Remix)
#AliFarahani
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AgmGgtc24tcBwK4eSNTlx