Minute Cryptic - 23 June, 2026
“Get a vocal group vocalising” (7)
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🤝 3 hints – matched the community par (31,158 solvers so far).
Currently reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure by Matt Dinniman 📚
Enjoying a morning coffee with balcony views in Parga 🇬🇷
Location check in — Taverna Perivoli, Parga 🇬🇷
🗺 Map of area
🔎 Zoom in
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Stavros Lantsias (14 plays), Sivert Høyem (8), Alfred Brendel (5), Yiorgos Kaloudis (5), Fruit Bats (2)
Brazil 🇧🇷 v 🇭🇹 Haiti 🏆⚽️
Neither side in home colours, even though yellow-blue wouldn’t clash. Weird and disappointing 🤷♂️
Watched: Is This Thing On?, 2025 - ★★★★ 🎥
A few older photos coming through to my Microblog timeline at the moment - I’m trying to add and update some Photo Series on Glass. The latest few are from Venice in 2019. It would be nicer if a Series link came through from Glass rather than each photo as its own post but I know that would be difficult to implement as part of automatic crossposting.
View towards Le Zitelle (Santa Maria della Presentazione)
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta detta I Gesuiti
Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco
View towards San Giorgio Maggiore
And it finishes Spain 🇪🇸 0-0 🇨🇻 Cape Verde. That was a tense finish, excellent for Cape Verde 👏⚽️
Half-time. Spain 🇪🇸 0-0 🇨🇻 Cape Verde 😮
Cape Verde keeper Vozinha has made that so!
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🔗 Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers
UN researchers are urging people to be less polite to artificial intelligences after a report found that cutting words from prompts could reduce ChatGPT’s energy consumption by up to 25 per cent.
Removing “please”, “thank you” and other unnecessary words from AI prompts could save 87 to 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, the report from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) found. That is the equivalent of the annual residential electricity use of up to 760,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa.
