🔗 Articles: Sunday 23.Jun.2024


Good to the last drop.


NYT: Michelle Cottle: Lauren Boebert Is Feeling the Heat in Colorado

These are rocky political times for Ms. Boebert. She rode into office in 2020 on the give-’em-the-finger, burn-the-place-down attitude that defines Trumpism, promptly getting lumped in with other outrage artists, such as Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. But over the next two years, she behaved so outrageously that she turned off many of the folks back home.

In 2022, she came within around 500 votes of losing her Republican district to a Democrat no one had ever heard of. Then, last September, things went totally off the rails. Ms. Boebert, in the midst of a rough divorce, got tossed out of a Denver theater after vaping and getting handsy with her date during a performance of “Beetlejuice.”


WashPo: Tech firms look for a miracle solution as AI exhausts the power grid

As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.

Left unmentioned are the heavily polluting fossil fuel plants that become necessary to stabilize the power grid overall because of these purchases, making sure everyone has enough electricity.


iPhone in Canada: SpaceX Launches Starlink Mini: Ultra Portable Antenna

SpaceX has recently introduced a compact version of its Starlink antennas, aimed at providing a portable satellite internet solution for users.

The “Starlink Mini,” as described in a customer email obtained by _CNBC (via Tesla North)_, is a lightweight and easily portable device designed to offer high-speed, low-latency internet access on the go.

The Starlink Mini antennas are available for early access at a price of $599 USD each, which is $100 more than the standard “Residential” antenna. SpaceX has plans to reduce this cost in the future.


Guardian: Nearly 19,000 NHS patients left waiting for three days in A&E over 12 months

Almost 19,000 NHS patients were left waiting in A&E for three days over a 12-month period, an investigation has revealed.

Between April 2023 and March 2024, nearly 400,000 people were left waiting more than 24 hours across A&E departments, a 5% rise on the previous year. Channel 4’s Dispatches programme also found that 54,000 people had to wait more than two days, a freedom of information request to NHS England found.


Guardian: ‘100% penalty’: Clarke criticises referee after Scotland crash out of Euro 2024

“It was 100% a penalty,” Clarke said. “Somebody, somewhere has to explain to me why that is not a penalty. It was, 100%. It was a one-goal game; if we get the penalty it can be a different night. I have other words but I am not going to use them.”

Clarke was pressed on the rare use of a referee from another continent. This has happened before in the European Championship but is unusual. “European competition, might have been better to have a European ­referee,” the manager said. “But we had European VAR [Video Assistant Referee]. Maybe the referee didn’t see the challenge clearly on the pitch so what’s the purpose of VAR if they are not going to come in on something like that? It was a penalty.”


Last Updated: 23.Jun.2024 23:36 EDT

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