PBS News: Copenhagen’s famed Noma restaurant prepares to reopen without chef Redzepi at helm PBS reports that Copenhagen’s famed Noma reopens on August 5 without René Redzepi, who stepped away in March after former employees’ allegations of abuse and assault. Its three Michelin stars are gone as well. The kitchen is now led by Pablo Soto, the menu […]
links: 15.06.2026
TechCrunch: The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg Last month the tech sector cut more jobs than in any month in two years — nearly 40,000 — and for the third month running AI was the most-cited reason. Yet a growing chorus argues AI is merely a convenient excuse, and the real cause is pandemic-era overhiring […]
links: 14.06.2026
LSM: President Čakste’s daughter who feigned insanity in Siberia for her children’s sake. The story of Maiga Šīrone’s self-sacrifice Pianist Maiga Šīrone, a daughter of Latvia’s first president Jānis Čakste, was deported to Siberia with her two children in 1941. Realising that her children could only be sent home if she herself were declared legally incapacitated, she deliberately […]