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Been enjoying apps.gnome.org/Shortwave/, a GNOME app for listening to internet radio. I just noticed it has a download song button 🤯
While I'm posting about the bicycling business...racing is also a minefield. This article peaks behind the curtain: inrng.com/2024/08/exit-team-founders/
"Ag2r La Mondiale told Lavenu they’d buy the team off him for €8,000: not eight million, just eight thousand Euros but with this they’d keep sponsoring the team. Faced with this ultimatum Lavenu had no options...The transaction went through in June 2022"
"this week L’Equipe reported [Lavenu] was given notice of his dismissal at the end of July"
"The new activation fee is characteristic of a company desperate for more revenue"
"Peloton achieved its first revenue growth (0.2 percent YoY) since its fiscal quarter that ended on December 21, 2021. The company still reported a loss of $30.5 million; although, that's an improvement from a year ago, when it lost $241.8 million."
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/peloton-announces-95-used-equipment-activation-fee/
"By using a machine learning method called physical reservoir computing, we have successfully shown that future behaviors can be accurately predicted by directly measuring the jellyfish's body shape when the stimuli align with the animal's natural dynamics. Our findings also reveal significant advancements in motion control and real-time prediction capabilities of jellyfish cyborgs."
"According to Thiel, America has "a lot of problems," and the fact that Thiel has to pay his taxes like the rest of us is one of them."
"It is true that many Dallas residents won’t stop talking about how LA is better... These residents are California transplants who either moved here because their tech job transferred them or are mad that Texas isn’t the tax haven they heard it was and they’re still on the hook for their property taxes."
dallasobserver.com/arts/dallas-has-an-inferiority-complex-peter-thiel-tells-joe-rogan-20268588
