Some cracking comments here suggesting that how they personally felt as a child reflected the national mood more than the newspaper headlines - tldr - lots of people died in 76 heatwave. Does anyone have any newspaper evidence of the temps and the length of it. And drumroll - I bet we have weeks of this heat this summer, maybe if no one has slept for a few weeks they might begin to wobble their heads a little.
Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’
Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….
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UK Tech has had the most insane month in its entire history:
> @IneffableLabs raised $1.1bn at a $5bn valuation
> Recursive Superintelligence raised $500m at a $4bn valuation
> @OpenAI announced its first permanent office in London
> @AnthropicAI is double downing on the UK, quadrupling its headcount here
> Jeff Bezos is looking to build an office here for his new AI startup
> Anthropic is looking to buy chips from Fractile
> @UKSovereignAI launched with £500m and invested in @CallosumAI
> @Revolut is targeting a $100bn secondary sale and $200bn IPO
> @ElevenLabs announced adding $100m of ARR in Q1
> @synthesiaIO announced huge international expansion plans
> @cusp_ai is in talks to raise at way above $1bn+
> @IsomorphicLabs, the @GoogleDeepMind spinout from @demishassabis, is preparing for human clinical trials
The rise of London as Europe's leading AI hub has been crazy to witness.
Major labs are either expanding or being set up here, chip companies are raising hundreds of millions here, and application level companies are flying.
2026 will be looked back on one of the ecosystem's defining years.
LETS GO
UK Tech has had the most insane month in its entire history:
> @IneffableLabs raised $1.1bn at a $5bn valuation
> Recursive Superintelligence raised $500m at a $4bn valuation
> @OpenAI announced its first permanent office in London
> @AnthropicAI is double downing on the UK, quadrupling its headcount here
> Jeff Bezos is looking to build an office here for his new AI startup
> Anthropic is looking to buy chips from Fractile
> @UKSovereignAI launched with £500m and invested in @CallosumAI
> @Revolut is targeting a $100bn secondary sale and $200bn IPO
> @ElevenLabs announced adding $100m of ARR in Q1
> @synthesiaIO announced huge international expansion plans
> @cusp_ai is in talks to raise at way above $1bn+
> @IsomorphicLabs, the @GoogleDeepMind spinout from @demishassabis, is preparing for human clinical trials
The rise of London as Europe's leading AI hub has been crazy to witness.
Major labs are either expanding or being set up here, chip companies are raising hundreds of millions here, and application level companies are flying.
2026 will be looked back on one of the ecosystem's defining years.
LETS GO
@ryancarson A few Directors and VPs of serious departments that were pretty young! Love to see young talent given the full reign, awesome! Big fan of your work too mate.
@Hosang@IanG94@_raphm Haha. Visionary mate! No, I’m a firm believer you are in a global competition as a city. You have one shot at going big or declining, you have to spin up the flywheel, that, inflation and growing brand/club value will take care of your debt.
@Hosang@IanG94@_raphm Not sure why you struggling with this position mate. Make it a continual high quality multi use venue, dramatically improves the balance sheet.
NEW: Two skiers save the life of a man who was suffocating under snow after getting stuck at Palisades Tahoe resort in California.
The skiers were seen stopping in the powder before noticing a ski sticking out of the snow.
“For whatever reason we stopped and happen to just see tips of the skis in the whiteout and luckily we did,” said Carson Schmidt.
“Just want it to be a reminder to ski safe and ski with a buddy. Doesn't have to be an avalanche or a tree well to get buried when it's that deep.”
Insane! Good job, boys.
Video: carson.schmidt10 / ig.
Ukraine starts exporting weapons to Europe.
Kateryna Mykhalko, who led Ukraine's Technological Forces for 2.5 years: "Cheap Shaheds cannot be shot down with multimillion-dollar missiles.
This is ineffective defense strategy. Europe needs asymmetric solutions" — Hromadske. 1/
@jcochranio@Hesamation It’s not a lot of data and the prog disclosure works well. What are you thinking - same thing but vectorised? I Think it’s a small amount of content that is more easily managed as md.
Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.
Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.
Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.
Now here's what you're "saving":
Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.
Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.
99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.
That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.
And the human cost of what you're "saving"?
460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)
All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.
USA USA - please don’t quote someone with a relevant point of view, it’s just a performance! We have reached the point where historical quotes are now shat on.
Mikaela Shiffrin has a First Amendment right to say this.
I have a First Amendment right to say she grew up the child of a rich anesthesiologist at ski resorts in this country that offer next-to-zero socioeconomic diversity. I don’t need her lectures.
SIR IAN MCKELLEN. He is doing so many things here at once: giving an acting lesson, giving a history lesson, emphasizing the power of arts, AND eloquently speaking against ICE & silencing anti-immigrant bigotry.
Wow…..
You will be very surprised how hard a visit to this website hits, for anyone, but especially those who really need to hear it! You will be taken aback by how intimate it feels. Wonderful, elegant, simple, humanistic and effective. Bravo!