Israel has bombed the centre of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. More than 1,000 Lebanese dead in two weeks snd a million left homekess. Meanwhile at the Tory Party conference, navels are being gazed at.
Musk has climbed into bed with Donald Trump, both men focused on self-enrichment and the gratification of their overweening vanity By the end of this book, you can’t help feel that Mars may well be the right place for this strange & obscenely wealthy character www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac paint a damning portrait of the billionaire who turned the social media platform into a smaller business and a larger cesspool
Who, as a child, used to go to bed when the shipping forecast came on? The BBC has combined it with soothing music to help you sleep. 8 hours of it! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Escape to an oasis of calm with eight hours of The Shipping Forecast set to gentle music.
The next cover of The New Yorker, in which the magazine endorses Vice President Harris. — And I just overheard someone say “I’m not voting for Kamala because she’s a woman, I’m voting for Kamala because she wants me to have as many rights as a man”. This needs to be said more.
Peer Sayeeda Warsi has resigned the Conservative whip. She says: “My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities.”
Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
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