Nouvelle Aquitaine cancelling ALL TER trains 10:00-18:00 due to the heat https://bahnblogstelle.com/256787/sncf-zugverkehr-in-westfrankreich-wird-wegen-hitze-teils-eingestellt/ First, given heatwaves are more and more common, why aren’t railways adjusting? Second, within reason people need to […]

"While El Niño’s impact can be severe, disruption is mainly felt in the tropics. Climate experts predict that at the end of this year, and into 2027, the world will likely see very high temperatures – but this isn’t contributing to the intense heat already gripping much of Western Europe." […]

"A study of fires in ice-free regions of western Greenland [detected no wildfires] from 1995 to 2007. It then recorded 21 separate events between 2008 and 2020. Though Greenland wildfires are small by global standards, Diaz’s research suggests the carbon released per square metre is much higher […]

Judging from comments around and about, it's probably time to post this again. We will shortly be changing out our roof and installing solar panels and aircon for use in summer in Copenhagen. Climate is changing - it's time to adapt. How did air conditioning become a heated debate? - […]

If you want to live a Copenhagen lifestyle without the Copenhagen weather, might I suggest Rimini, Italy?

Welcome to my neighbourhood, little one 🤩 Please multiply!

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116799199251172675 "It's beyond farce. After all, whatever harms you believe the internet is inflicting on kids – and there's absolutely some kids who are being harmed by their internet use – those harms all start with surveillance. Your kids can't be targeted […]

RE: https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/116798038528869495 Yes, we are now seeing weather patterns which the early climate models predicted for the 2040's, because back at the turn of the century scientists mistakenly believed that people would take notice and change their behaviour. Sadly […]

If you want to do something climate-friendly with your parking lot, don't cover it in solar panels, *get rid of the parking lot*.

Religious exemption from using the AI at work Become a Unitarian Universalist! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB4zFlEDjw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260622-religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work - podcast time: 3 min 57 sec

Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes. According to Vänttinen, the most borrowed items after books in Helsinki libraries are spaces: rooms that can be pre-booked […]

The US needs to talk about gun control like the EU needs to talk about AC.

Always look on the bright side of life

Fortunately, smart charging isn’t difficult, and there’s an effective solution in Finland, by a Finnish startup company, too

This is the thing I find so frustrating about #markcarney. He talks like he's a hard-nosed realist positioning Canada to revolutionize the world order, but what he actually does is just status quo neoliberal nonsense. He's going to protect our #digitalsovereignty by replacing the civil service […]

"Buying whatever vehicle we like, and driving it wherever and whenever we please without having to think about the consequences for other people, has become normalised and ingrained across our society over decades." “As such, it’s not surprising there’s a growing body of evidence that says […]

'Google vil ikke længere være internettets bibliotekar. Selskabet vil være SELVE internettet. Den nye funktion AI-overview viser et kort sammendrag af andres indhold, men du kan glemme alt om, at nogen sendes videre til din hjemmeside, webbutik eller medie. Oven i det træner Google glædeligt i […]

and no coding of value was lost

A new (hopefully temporary) problem in Denmark: Current regulation was meant to allow municipalities to dedicate public parking spaces w/ EV chargers to people charging. But what if charging stops for technical issues or due to V2G smart charging? A judge has now confirmed a fake for no charging.

Gavelink til interview med Cory Doctorow i the Atlantic om hans nye bog. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/06/how-to-think-about-ai-before-its-too-late/687644/?gift=MH7sHYYu4UGYZ5KTi89lY-g9GqM8l35FkvsNgemaC7w

Only a man with an unparalleled ignorance of history such as Donald Trump would have signed America’s peace treaty with Iran at Versailles, the byword for national humiliation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"Three young Canadians have united with health and environmental organizations to launch a legal challenge against the federal government, arguing that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration no longer has a credible plan to meet Canada’s legally binding 2030 climate target." […]

Flurry of articles, including in the Guardian on the very well funded but seriously misguided efforts to geoengineer the Arctic by growing sea ice, reminds me that it is probably time to report our critical article on the subject […]

Happy to see my tax money well-spent 😊🥳 Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Public money funding public code benefitting us all, regardless of where you live or your nationality. Awesome! #OpenSource […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jeg kommer til at tænke på Liberal Alliance der gerne vil indføre en lov imod bureaukrati, hvor der hvert år skal blive mindre bureaukrati. Og jeg tænker på hvad markedsgørelse af vores offentlige transport har tilført af bureaukratiske foranstaltninger. Rejsekortet betød i sig selv et stigende […]

I'm appalled to see the European Commission apparently embracing closed source, commercial, ID and age verification mandatory, social media today - in the very face of the technology sovereignty and online freedoms debates. I think they've just thrown away the greatest opportunity to be the […]

#mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280585278666 If @EUCommission wants to use atproto, they should be running their own (Personal Data Server) PDS

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116761317566825616 > In the observed case: 1.2M+ tokens consumed in ~30 minutes on a task that should have been git clone + find . -name '*.sol'. The recursive agent tree was still growing when observed. > > In another instance, this same pathological behavior […]

I really liked Jeff's thread, but as one of the early originators of the carbon footprint concept, I want to address this misconception because I've heard it often.

RE: https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/116760141947074250 Difficult to argue with this...

'Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return. The outcomes are so starkly divided across both buyers (enterprises, mid-market, SMBs) and builders (startups, vendors, consultancies) that […]

The joint working group of Finnish #Defence & #Environment ministries concluded there would be significant synergies in restoring and rewilding swamps and wetlands along Finland's eastern border to their natural state. It seems the "verdant wall" is going to proceed. ym.fi/-/tyoryhma-e...

Googles elendige, fejlproppede AI-oversigter dømt ulovlige i Tyskland www.information.dk/indland/lede...

Google og Bing er egenkagemelende løgnere vertikal.dk/artikler/soe...

“Currently the ETS covers only intra-EU flights…. EU officials argue it is time to extend the scheme to flights departing the bloc, as alternative efforts to cut airline emissions have not borne fruit.” 🤞🏻 www.ft.com/content/3f4a...

Oh, the audacity: The Danish aviation lobby is calling for temporary suspension of the passenger tax, due to high fuel costs. If anything, taxes should be raised, both for climate and energy independence reasons (ref also above thread) finans.dk/erhverv/ECE1... #dktrp #dkpol #dkgreen

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397 This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Skøn anmeldelse i Politiken i dag af Gæld: De første 5000 år. Jeg synes Mikkel Krauze Frantzen lykkes med både at skabe overblik, fremhæve nogle af de mest centrale pointer og også bygge videre på den ånd som Graeber skrev i. En god start på en dansksproget […] [Original post on radikal.social]

Frauen sollen sich so lange bei sexueller Belästigung "nicht so anstellen" und mit "ihrem Feminismus-Gelaber" aufhören, bis der Täter ein Migrant ist, dann müssen plötzlich "unsere Frauen beschützt" werden. Es sei denn, die Frau ist links, dann soll sie doch vergewaltigt werden.

Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/13/trees-store-less-carbon-than-thought-study A good reason to plant more […]

"The cost of all Amoc monitoring adds up to about €25m a year. Meaning that for five cents per person per year, the EU can maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems that impacts our everyday lives and improves resilience to the climate crisis. We therefore urge the […]

I don't think it works like that.

*If "preventing market fraud" is a market, then is "defrauding prevention of market fraud" an even more lucrative marker *And are the blackhats and whitehats the very same eager wannabe-oligarchs

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116744469324418976 > What if the function of shareholder supremacy was to absolve the cruelest people for indulging their most sociopathic instincts?

Hamburg train station would look so much better if instead of a giant ad, they had a fancy sign saying “Hamburg”.

Kan simpelthen ikke holder ud med at lytte til mig selv når jeg snakker dansk, men hvis i vil lytte til mig diskutere El Nino med klima journalisterne., så velbekomme... Det vi burde tale om: 33. Godzilla El Niño, efterkritik af Regeringen og en utopisk rapport Episode webpage […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/116737797002365462 "He transformed Exxon from a company that was itself a portfolio — that distinguished itself via managerial competence across business lines — into a ruthlessly focused oil and gas supermajor meant to sit inside other people’s portfolios […]