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Kalmar is building – and selling! – these massive electric reach stackers in China

Kalmar began building its 45-ton ERG450 electric reach stackers at a Shanghai manufacturing plant back in 2023, aiming to bring heavy-duty cargo handler closer to potential customers across the Asian market. That investment appears to be paying off, with the company announcing four new orders from to close out Q2.

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I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time sharing company with its ...

@altnps.bsky.social - Alt National Park Service
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It’s sad that Trump is spending today attacking Senator Jon Ossoff on social media. Every holiday over the past few years has been filled with angry, divisive, and inflammatory posts instead of messages meant to bring Americans together. We miss having a leader who showed dignity, class, and grace!

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In the case of twitter-like systems the limits of the technology basically lost us the web, something most people are just now coming to grips with.

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Happy 250th, America.

As we celebrate, let's honor those who built this country, defended it, and never stopped pushing America to live up to its promise.

The fight for freedom isn't over. And the next 250 years will depend on what we do now.

We've got work to do.

smays.com
Text • Steve Mays

AI has hacked the code of human civilization (Yuval Noah Harari)

“The job that was once performed by Lenin and Mussolini is now performed by AI.” Yuval Noah Harari lecture at Oxford University (YouTube description): “Human domination relies on large-scale cooperation among strangers, which is sustained by bureaucratic systems – such … Continue reading →

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Text • Steve Mays

How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi

From an article in The Atlantic (that is behind a paywall): “The (British) health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care. Many Brits can neither obtain an appointment with … Continue reading →

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Text • Steve Schmidt

Frederick Douglass: "What does the 4th of July mean to a slave?”

Frederick Douglass: "What does the 4th of July mean to a slave?”

Here is the fourteenth installment of my series called “The Cause.” Here are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth installments.

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Good story on NPR about Born in the USA:

The 1984 hit by Bruce Springsteen describes a Vietnam War veteran who returns home to desperate circumstances and few options. Listen only to its surging refrain, though, and you could mistake it for an uncomplicated celebration of patriotism.

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WIRED
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Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

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Happy Fourth of July

As the US celebrates a quarter millennium, may we reclaim the promise that made America what it is.

The post Happy Fourth of July appeared first on emptywheel.

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Audio • Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition

With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel

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Text • Jo Borrás

CATL is building more than 200 battery swap stations EVERY MONTH

The CATL-backed Choco-SEB battery swap network deployed its 2,000th swapping station June 30th, wrapping up another month of incredibly rapid growth that’s seen the company average more than 200 deployments in each and every month of 2026. (!)

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This country has a lot of problems. But think how people in 1776 would view today’s society. Now imagine 2276. What will it take to build the kind of future that everyone can be proud of? 🇺🇸

Also: screenshot of me searching for previous July 4th blog posts in Micro.blog.

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A message about the importance of the free press

Eugene C. Patterson fought Nazis as a tank platoon leader in World War II. He fought for civil rights as a crusading editor at The Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s. […]

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Sacha Chua
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Semaine du 22 au 28 juin

lundi 22 L'école avait encore un remplaçant. J'ai dit à ma fille que j'avais besoin de temps pour la paperasse aujourd'hui, donc elle a participé à l'école virtuelle, quoique grincheuse. Après l'école, j'ai emmené ma fille à son dernier cours de gymnastique pour cette...

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Why cheaper models alone won’t save your AI budget

Piggy bank on top of gold coins

Finding the most capable model at the lowest cost has always been the goal. But as agentic AI evolves, a

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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY MAGAZINE

clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_26/

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Cliff's Girl by Fiona Moore

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GM is flooding dealers with Bolt EVs – is that part of the plan?

GM raised plenty of eyebrows when it announced that its resurrected 2027 Chevrolet Bolt – one of the lowest-priced, most capable new EVs in North America – would only be built for a single model year. Despite the limited-time offer and solid sales, dealers are still sitting on 118 days’ of inventory, far more than the 60-day supply the industry considers healthy. That begs the question: did GM overestimate demand, or is this all part of the plan?

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The square-ish phone that I wanted to love

theverge.com/tech/960509/ikko-mindone-pro-hands-on

I’m begging literally any company to make the iPhone Mini again.