Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2051523855286776034
People in Greater Manchester, remember, a person can "vote for their favoured candidate and a second candidate, thus ensuring that the winning candidate was elected under a majority vote and not by a minority of the people."
So we'll vote 1) Green and 2) [insurance vote] Labour.
Greater Manchester Mayoral Election – the candidates
Packers' Micah Parsons reveals he also had meniscus procedure, will miss start of season https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-micah-parsons-reveals-he-also-had-meniscus-procedure-will-miss-start-of-season
Picked up at our Indian store this weekend:
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-will-do-anything-to-get-indian-mangoes-3a711ce8?mod=e2tw
ICYMI, my 'forensic' examination of 'Manchesterism', from the privileged position of observing from ... Manchester.
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’ | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2026/07/01/some-notes-on-manchesterism/…
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’
by Mark Burton (with input from the SSM collective) Britain’s probable next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has used the word ‘Manchesterism’ for his alternative governmental programme. Since we have been observing and constructively criticising the Manchester developmental model for nearly one and a half decades, we can offer a few observations about it. Burnham set out the basic concept of Manchesterism in a…
And we were naïve enough to think, from the headline, that this was the end to the EVERYDAY chaos and mayhem on the roads.
But the car is inviolate.
The scenes of mayhem in Greater Manchester that has sparked new police powers - Manchester Evening News
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The underside of the US independence struggle.
There was a "growing conviction among American colonists that as a British colony they would eventually be compelled to emancipate enslaved people – and that this prospect became one of the drivers behind the American war of independence."
Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England | Manchester | The Guardian
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’
by Mark Burton (with input from the SSM collective) Britain’s probable next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has used the word ‘Manchesterism’ for his alternative governmental programme. Since we have been observing and constructively criticising the Manchester developmental model for nearly one and a half decades, we can offer a few observations about it. Burnham set out the basic concept of Manchesterism in a…
'Manchesterism', the new government ideology.
Is it any good? My new piece dissects and appraises it.
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’ | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2026/07/01/some-notes-on-manchesterism/