Interesting Links for 01-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite

(tags:USA trade doom china )

2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it

(tags:politics tax uk )

3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow)

(tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )

4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan

(tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )

5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store

(tags:apple law usa )

6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US

(tags:usa ukraine trade mining )

7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK

(tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )

8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

(tags:Labour corruption )

9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard)

(tags:robots clothing video impressive )

Comments

[cmcmck]

9.

As I know from doing and folding a bunch of ironing this morning! :o)

[mtbc]

2. Yes, properties need revaluing more routinely, we're looking at moving to an older property partly because we need to reduce expenses and our council tax is considerably higher than that for comparable older flats locally (our building's old but the flat conversion wasn't).

[calimac]

8) Wow, that's disturbing.

9) I couldn't get this page to display correctly, but if the robot can fold fitted sheets, that's impressive.

[andrewducker]

Does a link direct to the video work?
https://dnrjl01ydafck.cloudfront.net/v2/upload/PhysicalIntelligence_2min_v2_out.mp4