Happy 26th b’day to @JamiroquaiHQ’s “Virtual Insanity” — a warning about the insidious effects of technology and genetic engineering.
It debuted, songwriter Jason Kay said, “the day before Dolly the sheep [was] on the front of every newspaper."
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The terminal total difficulty has been set to 58750000000000000000000.
This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine.
https://t.co/3um744WkxZ predicts the merge will happen around Sep 15, though the exact date depends on hashrate.
HHDL looking out at the view in the early morning from his residence in the remote Himalayan village of Lingshed, Ladakh, UT, India on August 11, 2022. (Photo by Tenzin Choejor)
We're deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Raymond Briggs, creator of pioneering picture book The Snowman, the hilariously grumpy Father Christmas series and (much, much) more. All of us who had the privilege of working with him will miss him.
Bletchley Park was run by historians (Hinsley, Briggs), classicists (Knox, Adcock), musicologists, papyrologists, pure mathematicians (Turing, of course) — people whose degrees would fail Sunak’s test, yet who did more for this country than any number of well-paid City analysts
When I landed on Mars 10 years ago, I aimed to answer an important question: Could Mars have supported ancient life? After some careful analysis, the scientists on my team say yes! So, what does that mean? Hear more about that from my Deputy Project Scientist Abigail Fraeman.
When I see the Commonwealth Games I'm always reminded of @mrrobnewman's great joke about the basic idea being "So Britain goes into loads of other countries, nicks all their resources, gives them VD and malnutrition - and then we see if we can beat them at athletics!"
‼️PM Viktor Orbán's long-time adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigns, telling his boss in a letter that "I don't know how you didn't notice that you were turning your earlier anti-migrant and anti-Europeanism into a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels". @hvg_hu:
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Increasingly powerful #Myanmar#ethnic#ArakanArmy says #military has destroyed any potential good political prospects by executing the 4 political prisoners. #AA has consistently rejected military's invite for peace talks & is in conflict with army #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar 1/2