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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 17 – July 24, 2023 194 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 205 Get it by email ↓
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FedNow Is Live

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Business 10 stories

  1. FedNow Is Live

  2. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

  3. Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock

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  1. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

  2. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

  3. The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse

  4. Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

Sports 7 stories

  1. ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

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  1. Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity

  2. Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid

  3. A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery

Technology 161 stories

  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

  2. Llama 2

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  1. Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

  2. Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption

  3. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

  4. I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach

  5. Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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  1. How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)

  2. Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac

  3. Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey

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