Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quite a nugget from the most recent Eurostat press release: young Swedes, Danes, Finns leave home almost a decade (!) earlier than young Croats, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, Spanish. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/...

The $100,000 fee for H-1B visas will be a headache for tech firms. It could also accelerate the shift to expand operations overseas

Nepal is the third South Asian country in the past four years to stage a violent overthrow of its government. What will life after revolution look like?

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Two incursions in one day. And it’s no longer drones.

Blink and you'll miss it. The EV revolution is taking off. 🚗 Even high growth rates provide small increases early on. Then it happens all of a sudden, all at once.

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NEW: 77% of Americans say the US political system needs major changes or complete reform. Those who say the same about their country Nigeria 91% Brazil 87% S Korea 86% Greece 83% Kenya 80% France 74% UK 58% Germany 48% Canada 47% Sweden 29% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Vienna hosted the first ever Tram Driver World Championship on Saturday, with the city's skilled drivers emerging victorious out of 25 teams from across the world battling it out in a tense competition. u.afp.com/SPcP

If you saw regular patches of this peculiar sort of chemistry in sediments containing organic matter on Earth it would be natural to assume they had a biological origin. That makes them excitingly suggestive on Mars

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

The Deichman Library, Bjørvika, Oslo. Designed to resemble a pile of books 📚 🥰 and always full of life and activity. An inspirational space. #UrbanGaze #cityscape #architecture #citylife #Oslo #Norway #Libraries #books #photography

Here’s the statement from SHAPE - NATO:

“Poland’s military said there had been “an unprecedented violation of Polish airspace by drone-type objects” and said an operation was under way to identify and neutralise them.” on.ft.com/4pcpE4B Poland shoots down Russian drones

I know ppl say this a lot but I think it weirdly hasn't sunk in yet: once China's fossil fuel use starts to drop, our *entire species* usage of fossil fuels will mostly follow the same trajectory. Massive new @ember-energy.org report out today on China: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

‼️#Norway 🇳🇴 – EXIT POLL Verian TV2 🗳️: progressive victory 🔴 🔴 Ap: 28.0% (53) ⚫ FrP: 24.7% (49) 🔵 H: 14.4% (24) 🚜 Sp: 5.7% (9) ⭕ SV: 5.5% (9) 🔻 R: 5.4% (9) 🌻 MDG: 4.6% (7) 🟡 KrF: 4.1% (7) 🟢 V: 3.4% (2) 👇 electomania.es/noruega-exit...

Drought is climate change’s biggest threst. “Experts agree that Syria and the broader region appear headed toward worse climate shocks, which they aren't prepared to absorb.” www.independent.co.uk/news/syria-m...

Norway, Verian poll: Ap-S&D: 27% (-1) FrP~ECR: 21% H-EPP: 15% MDG-G/EFA: 6% Sp~RE: 6% SV~LEFT: 6% R~LEFT: 5% KrF-EPP: 5% (+1) V-RE: 4% +/- vs. 29 August - 05 September 2025 Fieldwork: 01-06 September 2025 Sample size: 3,500 ➤ europeelects.eu/norway

Xi Jinping’s big bash in China is full of disparate countries who disagree on many things. But that isn’t a sign of China’s weakness so much as evidence that it possesses the unique convening ability of a superpower

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Two solar storms have combined to produce spectacular auroras across parts of Europe and North America—and even more breathtaking views are forecast.

Ich denke man kann behaupten, die EU ist die größte Kompromisswerkstatt der Welt, in der aus unterschiedlichsten Interessen, die sonst zerstörerisch aneinander gekracht sind, etwas völlig Neues, Wunderbares entsteht. (vdb)

Today is Raoul Wallenberg Day in Sweden 🇸🇪. Each year, 27 August is the national day for equal rights and civil courage. rwi.lu.se/about/about-...

The first shipment of CO₂ captured a couple of months ago at a Norwegian cement plant has now been injected into the subsea storage site.

Phones in schools hinder growth for kids and create more work for adults, Gail Cornwall argues. Cornwall, a parent and former teacher, makes the case for banning them:

I am old enough to remember that in the mid 2000s several economists thought that China would need to take multiple decades to catch up to the level of tech development in the OECD. Time flies!

Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.

The Norwegian PM on the "coalition of the willing deployment" discussions: "I will not make any conclusions. This is a very serious topic" "Committing forces to an operation we don't know the character of is something we will not do" (Prob paywalled) www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/yEP...

"Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson also emphasized that his country was ready to play a role in the security guarantees...adding that Sweden could contribute with air surveillance and naval resources to enhance Ukraine's defenses."

Tropical nights in the Nordics – it’s even affecting the reindeer way up north 🦌 "The effects of the heatwave on reindeer threaten the livelihoods of Indigenous Sámi communities, which have herded them for more than 1,000 years."

There are conspiracy theories that Alaska was not sold but leased by Russia in 1867 or that Russia never received the money paid by the U.S. at the time. Against this backdrop, the choice of Alaska is surprising. @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social

Fascinating take on AI and its cultural alignment with Protestant European values (as classified by the world values survey). Great take by Tey Bannerman: buff.ly/xgdkP3q

A history of nuclear blasts since 1945. AFP Infographic charting known nuclear blasts around the world since 1945, according to data collated by the Arms Control Association, and checked with UN documentation

97 Prozent der Juli-Neuzulassungen in Norwegen sind E-Autos: www.electrive.net/2025/08/01/9...

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... www.ft.com/content/e517...

Huge explosions were seen in Damascus as Israel bombed Syria’s defence ministry during a live Al Jazeera broadcast nearby.

Intressant i Guardian om en trend jag missat men helt ställer mig bakom: It’s sexy! It’s Swedish! It’s everywhere! How princess cake conquered America www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

A much needed dose of good news: “It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”

I used Veo 3 to solve Shakespearean tragedies as pictured in classical art. (sound on)

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared antisemitic rhetoric on Tuesday, the day before his xAI company plans to release its latest model. www.ft.com/content/ea64...

In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village's board of trustees voted to buy it, in the hopes of creating a historic attraction.

An at least sometimes uncomfortably hard quiz about ai or not ai generated videos. Got seven right which is three too few. (Gift article.)

Es ist mal wieder soweit: während der kommenden Hitzewelle müssen Frankreichs AKW Ihre Produktion drosseln: das Kühlwasser droht die Flüsse weiter aufzuheizen. Atomenergie ist keine Energie für die Klimakrise… www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen...

Eine Stadt steht auf: Meine Reportage von der Budapester Pride und einem In jeder Hinsicht historischen Tag www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...