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European electricity prices and costs | Ember This data tool compares European electricity prices, carbon prices and the cost of generating electricity using fossil fuels and renewables. Where possible, data is provided by country.

Have some free electricity, in Spain ember-energy.org/data/europea...

A poster for the public lecture. The background is a man (Tadashi Tokieda) flying a white kite over a sunny beach

'A world from a sheet of paper' - SMRI's #InternationalDayOfMathematics public lecture by Tadashi Tokieda will be on Fri 13 March

Starting from a sheet of paper, explore magic tricks and geometry in this lecture filled with table-top demonstrations

🔗 events.humanitix.com/internationa...

#MathSky🧮

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.

When EU leaders meet tomorrow to discuss the EU’s competitiveness agenda, they should stop chasing ghosts and confront the real problem Europe‘s economy is facing.

Our latest for @politico.eu with @nilsredeker.bsky.social and @sandertordoir.bsky.social 👇

Mehr Nachhaltigkeit durch Verzicht: Ich sage nein, weil ich es kann Wer seinen Konsum einschränkt, hat nicht weniger, sondern mehr: mehr Zeit, Gesundheit, Lebensqualität. Man kann immer damit anfangen, zu verzichten.

“Maßlosigkeit ist keine Freiheit, sondern eine Form der Unmündigkeit.”
Lesenswerte Gedanken.
Ich hätte da noch das Wort Genügsamkeit verwendet statt Verzicht. Zufriedenheit mit dem, was man hat.
The best things in life are free.
www.taz.de/!6152558

TIL Es gab den griechischen Volksstamm der Magneten.

Pencil marked cards (same format as punched), magnetic card, both on an HP9820A, then cassette tape on various home computers. www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/hp9820a.html

The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, by Yo La Tengo 8 track album

Now listening yolatengo.bandcamp.com/album/the-so...

Layoffs at the Washington Post

Credit: Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com / CTNewsJunkie via Cagle Cartoons / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Geplante Lockerungen der EU: Emissionshandel hat als Klimaschutzinstrument versagt Ökonomen schwärmten immer vom Emissionshandel als kapitalismusfreundliche Lösung für den Klimawandel. Nun ist klar: Das hat nicht funktioniert.

Der Emissionshandel sollte die marktwirtschaftliche Lösung der Klimakrise sein - und sie funktioniert. Nun soll Lobbydruck all die Firmen bestrafen, die entsprechend investiert haben, und die Versager belohnen.
Das darf nicht wahr sein 🤯!
www.taz.de/!6151799

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Title text: "The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3203#Transcript

The Cave Paintings of the Cosquer Cave in France The Cosquer Cave in Marseille, France lies deep under the sea where many prehistoric rock art paintings and rock art engravings are preserved. The discovery of the Cosquer Cave is an important rock ar...

Fascinating
www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/

If you turn it by 90 degrees you get a second list, which would make things more interesting. With one list you can always use a vertical left edge, and the width is easy to find (half the difference).

Groundhog Day reminds me of the story of the time I played a long con on my children for a comedic payoff. When they were in elementary school they got their first alarm clock. I set it to play "I've Got You Babe" every morning. Actual YEARS later, we watched Groundhog Day and they realized my joke.

"transfer the election information system to the US company Amazon's cloud service" 🤯

He has a nice german-sounding name dict.leo.org/german-engli...

Rust's primal crate does something like that. docs.rs/crate/primal...

In case you want to know how MEPs voted www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

The Economist, April 8th 1933.

(The territorial dispute between Norway and Denmark over parts of #Greenland was decided in Denmark's favour by the International Court.)

Projective plane - Wikipedia

Here you go (I think they leave out some cards for manufacturing reasons, 55 is a standard deck of 52 cards plus 3 jokers):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

“In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting.”

Things I did not know. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

Screenshot of Off-The-Wall (Commodore PET/CBM, 1978) - MobyGames Placed several pieces

Off-the-Wall from 1979, on a Commodore PET 2001. www.mobygames.com/game/127505/...

German producers call their fake Feta "Hirtenkäse", herder's cheese (made from cow milk, inferior taste).

Für mehr Details: ruhrkohlenrevier.de/ob3316.html

Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us

"We are somehow going the opposite way, creating the gods that could destroy us while housing them in the most nondescript, generic buildings imaginable." www.ft.com/content/7692...