Somewhere in Europe

Somewhere in Europe

“Beginning next week, Australia will actually have electricity cheap enough that they won’t be metering it, for three hours every afternoon. That should give us a clue or two about what the future holds in smart places.” - @billmckibben.bsky.social substack.com/@billmckibbe...

Move your Bluesky account to Eurosky. Super easy and no need to change apps. I moved to Eurosky and am posting this just like I did before, via the Bluesky app. Later, if you want, you can use your Eurosky login to get on mu.social, which gives you additional features like an edit button!

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · last mo.

Move to Eurosky today - hosted in Europe, governed by European law, open to everyone Use Bluesky as normal: your data & your connections all stay the same. Our commitment: we will never sell your content, your data, or profile you for advertising. move.eurosky.tech

#ShowYourStripes ShowYourStripes.info

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 2mo ago

As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info

This evening’s sunset in the Swiss Alps ⛰️🇨🇭

Thank Goodness. We’re *not* doing Swiss Brexit. The vote against should have been way higher than 55%. Feels like we dodged a bullet. Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

Provisional results of Sunday's polls show Swiss citizens have rejected the right-wing Swiss People's Party proposal to limit the population to ten million.

swissinfo.ch

Today in Montreux, Switzerland ⛰️🇨🇭

The world's first trillionaire did this

Posting from mu.social! Simply logged in with my Eurosky account. Just set up my news preferences on Mu. Unlike Bluesky, Mu also gives users the option of editing a post. Looking forward to seeing what other features get rolled out.

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 2mo ago

If you have a Bluesky account, you can use mu.social with the same account, with all your connections and content the same. Mu has additional functions like post editing and a configurable news section - and we'll be adding new features all the time.

Sunset in the Swiss Alps ⛰️🇨🇭 (If you turn the volume on, you’ll even hear a classic Swiss soundtrack: cowbells & bird : )

82 years ago today, American, British, Canadian & Commonwealth troops landed on the beaches of Normandie. In the air, were Polish, Czech & Norwegian airmen. The French resistance waited in occupied France. A truly global stand against Fascism.

"Weapons are one thing, but Europe’s best resource is its people." Spot on. The focus should be on civilian preparedness & resilience, coupled with lessons from nonviolent action. A people-centered approach is more powerful than a weapons-centered one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Weapons are one thing, but if war breaks out, Europe’s best resource is its people | Elisabeth Braw

In Scandinavia and the Baltic region, citizens are signing up to do their bit as non-combatants. Other Nato allies should take heed, says Elisabeth Braw of the Atlantic Council

theguardian.com

I think it is really worth reading this piece on RSI at Anthropic. There is a bit of navel-gazing, some marketing, and a lot of very sincere beliefs about what Anthropic thinks is likely in the near future of AI that you probably want to be aware of. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

When AI builds itself

Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

anthropic.com

You guys know that Elysium movie with Matt Damon? The one where all the rich live on a beautiful orbiting space station and leave everyone else rotting on the surface of a collapsing planet Earth? Pretty sure that’s now actively the goal of our ultra-rich and they’ll do anything to achieve it.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

This could be useful to journalists, authors, historians, etc: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social has released Weather Replay, which can show you what the weather was anywhere, anytime going back to 1940 climate.copernicus.eu/weather-repl...

Weather Replay: your time machine to revisit past weather

On 15 February 1941, at 11:00 AM the Iberian Peninsula was about to be hit by a catastrophic windstorm that ravaged Portugal dumping more than 50 mm of precipitation in a few hours and bringing wind g...

climate.copernicus.eu

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

No more billionaires. ZERO. Once you hit $999 million, every cent more goes to schools and healthcare. The End.

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

😮 Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries electrek.co/2026/05/13/d...

Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers...

electrek.co

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

See also Luminous Robotics in the US (www.luminousrobotics.com) and hundreds of other Climate Robotics startups: climaterobotics.network

Climate Robotics Network

We connect climate action to the leading edge of aerial, marine, and ground robotics.

climaterobotics.network

Chris Meder@evcurvefuturist.com · 3mo ago

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

Getting ready for this year’s Global Summit of beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship! We’re bringing together 150+ diverse, early stage founders. Why? To help accelerate the launch of their *locally* driven climate ventures. bevisioneers.world

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

I am a PhD who works outside academia and I approve this message.

Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Thank you, Hungary!! 👏 Turnout was nearly 78% of the electorate! ✊ Hungarians showing everyone how it’s done! 🇭🇺 Magyar has zeroed in on corruption and rule of law. His party also pledges to rebuild trust with EU & NATO and commits to joining the Eurozone by 2030.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

Yup, the European Space Agency (ESA) played an essential role in the successful flyby of the moon 🇪🇺 🌕 #Artemis #ESA

Komorebi (木漏れ日) is a Japanese term for the sun rays that filter through the leaves of trees.