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Ukraine deserved better from Nato | Letters (www.theguardian.com)

The Vilnius summit could have achieved much more, if only the political willpower had allowed it

Xiaomi Pad 6 Review: The Best Value in Android Space (www.gizmochina.com)

cross-posted from !xiaomi:...

TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump (www.pcgamer.com)

Roald Dahl museum condemns author's 'undeniable' racism (www.bbc.com)

The Roald Dahl Museum has condemned the racism of the author in a new statement.

Google Chrome rolls out new ad privacy controls as it (slowly) bids farewell to cookies (adguard.com)

Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return (www.msn.com)

Putin Won’t Attend BRICS Summit in Person, South Africa Says (www.bloomberg.com)

By S’thembile Cele July 19, 2023 at 6:57 AM EDT...

I might be on a list now... most likely several more lists... (sh.itjust.works)

French woman hit by apparent meteorite while relaxing on her terrace (gizmodo.com)

Evergrande: Crisis-hit Chinese property giant reveals $81bn loss (www.bbc.co.uk)

San Antonio police kill Melissa Perez in her own home during mental health crisis - Liberation News (www.liberationnews.org)

West Bank ‘not occupied’ territory, says Ron DeSantis (www.aljazeera.com)

Speaking to Christian Zionist group, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate pledges support for Israel....

Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. ‘Yes, We’re All Worse Off.’ (archive.is)

An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation. Then came Covid-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine....

The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (techcrunch.com)

A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)

When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....

Scientists leave Japan for China, wooed by better teamwork, jobs (archive.is)

New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)

New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed::Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”