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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

🔴 Melody, representante de España en Eurovisión, abrirá las fiestas patronales de Las Gabias 2025 ⏩ Mojinos Escozíos y las orquestas La Mundial, Maxims y La Tentación forman también parte del cartel de actuaciones en el recinto ferial del 1 al 5 de agosto 📻 cadenaser.com/andalucia/20...

Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...

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🇯🇵🇪🇺 Japan and the EU plan to create their own satellite network and cooperate in the defense industry to reduce dependence on the US, - Nikkei.

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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

This old Mad TV skit is relevant again. Wait til the end. 👀 youtu.be/rw2nkoGLhrE?...

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

Surprise surprise – the myth of the “millionaire exodus” has been conclusively debunked as misinformation spread by those who don’t want to see wealth taxed fairly (because they’ve got a lot of it!) Time for the govt to stop hiding behind this excuse and bring in a wealth tax

Well this is awkward

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

The Pentagon confirms that the Trump regime's deployment of National Guard members and Marines to intimidate US citizens in an attempt to deny citizens of their First Amendment and peaceful protests over ICE ethnic cleansing operations in LA will cost tax payers $134 million.

Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube

Breaking news: The Trump administration is planning a major increase of deportations to Guantánamo, including citizens of Britain, France and other allies. Officials said they are unlikely to inform the foreigners’ home governments about the transfers.

The LAPD whenever they think no one can see

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Crowds of brave people have surrounded the ICE detention centre in Los Angeles. They are trying to liberate victims kidnapped by Trump’s regime forces. Victims were abducted and thrown into the basement of the building without due process. #3E

Good Morning my Lovelies.☕️ Have a fantastic weekend!🌞

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill that would block private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices. The resolution would create the nation’s strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine. It now heads to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk. www.wsj.com/articles/ore...

This is what that chiptune theme I wrote is gonna sound like coming out of NES hardware!

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

I'm experimenting with a way to show how DOS games render themselves. Basically I'm recording a lossless video of the game running on a very slow (virtual) CPU, then removing all the frames where nothing happens, and I'm playing it back sped up a lot.

Buggy Boy. Elite, 1987. #C64 #Commodore

10 PRINT "C64 cubby organising and tidying" 20 GOTO 10 RUN

After similar reports from the US, Danish solar power importers have done a teardown on imported inverters and have also found puzzling communications devices. www.berlingske.dk/indland/efte...

So what Trump calls a "gift" from the Qatari royal family to Trump turns out not to be a "gift" at all, but rather the assumption of a White Elephant contract that the Qataris have been trying to unload for five years... they finally found a chump who would take it.

“This no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career“ We spoke to five US-based researchers who are seeking, or moving to, jobs abroad because of the drastic changes imposed on US science by the Trump administration https://go.nature.com/4mwfevl

"Simplex" for(float i,z,d;i++<5e1;){vec3 v,p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.z-=t;z+=d=.5*length(max(v=cos(p)-sin(p).yzx,v.yzx*.2));o.rgb+=(cos(p)+1.2)/d;}o/=o+1e3;

Muistaakseni on ihan säännöllisesti niin, että vasemmistolaisempien hallitusten aikana keskimääräiset suomalaisetKIN vaurastuvat, työllistyvät, jne., ja oikeistolaisempien aikana… eivät. Mutta toisin ne asiat koetaan.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Commodore cat strikes again with another #C64 banger!🔉🎶

Commodore cat comin' atcha with another #C64 banger!🔉🎶

I think we need to bring back the sea shanty craze but this time for union songs. I want 500 TikTok covers of Process Man

If I fall off the grid soonish, this is the reason: elpais.com/economia/202...

Good morning! 👋 What's everyone up to and playing this weekend?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081