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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 29 – September 5, 2022 182 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 248 Get it by email ↓
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Yoga group allegedly forced members into sexual exploitation as "geishas"

The group, which did not offer yoga classes, is accused of trying to lure powerful and wealthy men like opera star Placido Domingo.

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Business 7 stories

  1. Want to found a startup? Work at one first

  2. Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms

  3. Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

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  1. Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit

  2. $250k for your AI-first product startup

  3. Fed expects to launch long-awaited Faster Payments System by 2023

  4. Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading

Sports 2 stories

  1. Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final

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  1. AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans

Technology 148 stories

  1. Stable Diffusion animation

  2. After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

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  1. The Big [Censored] Theory

  2. 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything

  3. Blocking Kiwifarms

  4. Mikhail Gorbachev has died

  5. Peter Eckersley has died

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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  1. Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)

  2. Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

  3. Show HN: Zelda Breath of The Wild Street View

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