‘Britain is back’: Keir Starmer promises UK will be at the heart of Europe - With both Germany and France in disarray politically, thd UK is stepping up efforts to strengthen relations with Europe around defense. Seems like a good strategy that could lead to other deals. theguardian.com #

‘A galvanising sense of unity’: a football team that is multiracial and distinctively English - As I write this the match will have finished a few hours ago. I need to get to the internet place so I can see the result. What a way to start a new government for England it would be. I find this whole thing about englishness fascinating. I wonder how it will trickle into other non-football parts of society. theguardian.com #

The return of crypto venture capital - Investments from VCs rose from $2.5bn in Q1 to $3.2bn in Q2, median deal size rose from $3mn to $3.2mn. ft.com #

Webvm - A serverless vitual linux OS running in your browser using HTML5 and Web Assembly. Pretty darn cool. It’s entirely running in your webvm.io #

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