James Crawshaw

Artemis II: Nasa targets early April for Moon mission Nasa says technical problems that have delayed the rocket are fixed and it is ready for launch.

These are the only rockets mankind should be firing
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Sly fox sneaks on to cargo ship in Southampton and arrives in New York The animal that stowed away on the vessel is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo with veterinary staff.

I wonder what ICE will make of this

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Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Nigel Farage takes another leaf out of Trump's playbook. Vote for this guy if you want economic chaos, armed militia on the streets and illegal warfare.
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Shield of the Americas excludes Latin America's two most important countries: Brazil and Mexico. God bless these countries and their leaders.

Is this what Tony Blair means by special relationship?

Epic Fury - think about those words. Teenagers use epic to describe a cool video game. Fury leads to violence, and malice. Experiencing anger is not inherently sinful, but acting on it with fury is.
These people should not be allowed to hold a gun, let alone control an army.

How Pedro Sánchez became Donald Trump’s nemesis in Europe Spain’s premier tells US president what no other European leader dares to say but some say he has miscalculated

Pedro Sánchez is one of the few world leaders with the cojones to stand up to bully-boy Trump - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Spring has sprung in England!
Too soon?

Oh bless him. I wish he could be there permanently

Buy now, pay never -> Klarna stock sinks 27% after bad loan costs soar
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How the UK accidentally shackled itself to Mastercard Instead of wresting power from a banking oligopoly, the UK’s payments regulator ended up strengthening a duopoly

In 2016 the UK payment regulator prevented UK banks from establishing a rival payments system to Mastercard and Visa.
Today the UK government rues that decision given the country's dependence on these two American companies for the majority of payments transactions.
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If you look very carefully, you can just make out a backbone
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Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
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Just adding the US to my list of places not to visit:
Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia ...
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The UK government still advises against all but essential travel to parts of Cambodia, 46 years after the Dead Kennedy's recorded their song.

A sovereign EU cloud stack is harder than you'd think but worth it. You still need AAPL GOOG if you want to reach consumers. NOK lost that battle 12 years ago.
There are options for European AI that the blog author missed: Mistral, Aleph Alpha, Stability AI ...

www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-i...

‘Here’s to a new home, new adventure, new memories.’ – Laura Ingalls Wilder