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Veckans podd gästas av @mansjonasson.se från @internetstiftelsen.se. En ny undersökning visar att svenskar är positivt inställda till både åldersbegränsningar och ID-krav på sociala medier. Frågan är: inser allmänheten vilka konsekvenser det medför? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGYj... #BliSäker

Researchers have demonstrated they can make coffee comparable to conventional espresso using ultrasonic waves. Because the process doesn’t need hot water, it consumes 75 percent less energy. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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European allies have increased pledges for NATO crisis forces, Rutte says reut.rs/4a77xqH

The Kremlin frames Moldova as a victim of external manipulation.   An unusual argument from a country that spends considerable time trying to influence Moldova’s political choices, information space, and strategic direction.

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

i’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund

RFK Jr demanded the *retraction* of a 20 yr Danish study that showed aluminums in vaccines do not cause health issues. The journal REFUSED saying the study has been peer-reviewed and found to have no significant flaws. Imagine asking science to un-science itself.

I built a SQL trainer that runs entirely in the browser: DuckDB-WASM, no backend. Nine lessons from SELECT to window functions and EXPLAIN, each with exercises graded against a reference solution. Static site on GitHub Pages oluies.github.io/sql-concepts...

Ukraina håller på att vinna kriget, ge mer pengar till dem nu! www.svd.se/a/k0Q3qv/ukr...

US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May amid Middle East energy shock ft.trib.al/XSiVaNz

When Batteries Eat Themselves: What California Teaches Europe (and Spain, in particular) About Grid-Scale Storage andreagiusepperagno.substack.com/p/when-batte...

A SQL database running inside a browser tab does Fourier analysis in a few milliseconds. DuckDB-Wasm demo: a square wave projected onto {sin(kx)}, every number computed in SQL, no server. Watch the Gibbs overshoot refuse to shrink as K grows. oluies.github.io/duckdb-fouri...

The crystal chandelier hanging in the Svindersvik Tegelpaviljongen ballroom was crafted in 1786 by Olof Westerberg the Younger, a renowned master glassmaker and artisan.

SpaceX won’t make the S&P 500 ft.trib.al/bLT5UjV

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope. www.wired.com/story/jeff-b...

Saab har släppt en film från rollouten av Gripen F i tisdags. youtu.be/LTEuM1DNJiM?...

Fortum undersöker möjligheterna till ny pumpkraft. Fortum tittar just nu på tre områden som potentiella alternativ för ny pumpkraft: Lekstjärnen vid Trängslet i Dalarna, Bastvålen och Höljessjön i Värmland. www.fortum.com/se/om-oss/el...

VEDERVÄRDIGT att EU fortfarande exporterar gigantiska mängder kritisk råvara till den ryska krigsindustrin. Råvaran använder ryssland för att tillverka de missiler och drönare som terroriserar ukrainska städer och dödar civila. Stoppa exporten. Nu! 👊🏻🇺🇦 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Åtta Gamla stan, eller noll www.di.se/debatt/atta-...

How Trump supercharged the EU’s tech independence push The U.S. president’s weaponization of European dependence on U.S. firms has changed the conversation in Brussels. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Wall paintings by Johan Bartsch in the Burmeisterska house, Visby, Gotland Sweden

Researchers looked at people’s positions on specific issues, rather than just whether they identified as conservative or liberal. They found 43% of self-identified conservatives supported mostly left-leaning policies on topics like spending, climate action, immigration, and vaccine mandates.

Created an example trading-calendar data pipeline The goal: a clean, reusable date dimension + holiday & exchange calendar (the kind every trading/settlement system needs), sourced from public data and landed in SQL Server using the Duck DB mssql plugin   #dbt #DuckDB #SQLServer

"How does an AI agent securely prove its identity to an MCP server it has never connected with before?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/fixing-the...

Mer omega-6 korrelerar med lägre inflammation traningslara.se/mer-omega-6-...

In all seriousness, this talk really pulls you in. Thanks a lot, I went to bed way after midnight 😬 youtu.be/AXzRkx9P7p4

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Läget i kriget får ses på tre nivåer: fronten (positivt för UA), bombkampanjen (svårt med luftförsvar för UA), och Ukrainas djupattacker (ökar i omfattning och precision). Om det, och lärdomarna för Sverige i @kvartalet’s nya satsning ”Den stora lärdomen”, länk till podd nedan.

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

Vibrant and rare White Auroras appearing over Norway 🇳🇴

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Kingfishers can turn their heads almost completely around, allowing them to rotate it nearly 360 degrees. Nature never ceases to amaze 💙 📽: Jennie Smith

Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (Extended) - PA Bernstein scholar.google.com/scholar_shar...

Det är tydligen bråttom nu. 12 nya beslut på 30 dagar i riksdagen. Många av dem kan försämra villkoren för personer med funktionsnedsättningar. Alla innan sommaren. Riksdagen förväntas godkänna alla. hejaolika.se/artikel/riks...

Interactive cards for critical thinking in the tech space. Use them in your next workshop. cards.axbom.com

Erin Brockovich is now helping stop the expansion of data centers brockovichdatacenter.com?fbclid=duh_y...

Other people have already posted about it here, but I have now released the Virtual OS Museum. Sorry for the issues with downloads before; the server I was hosting it on had a failing drive. I now have torrents and direct downloads from archive.org linked on the site virtualosmuseum.org

DuckDB MSSQL Extension v0.2.0 is out — Integrated Authentication/Kerberos added duckdb.org/community_ex...

Paul Krugman: Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free Repost I do not think that word “productivity” means what people think it means paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challengin...

Making Scala Scripting Actually Good with Mill mill-build.org/blog/20-maki...

Mount Fuji from space.

As the Emmy Awards approach, watch this investigation into Instacart’s AI pricing led by AI Now Senior Fellow @katiejwells.bsky.social with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. The video is nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Investigative Coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr...

Bra köp av franska Amiral Ronarch-klassen som svenska Luleå-fregatter – Sverige tar Natomedlemskapet på allvar

Skokloster Castle's: the "Sick Chandelier." Hanging in the King’s Hall since 1672, this unique glass chandelier suffers from permanent "glass disease"—an irreversible chemical imbalance from its 17th-century manufacturing that causes it to continuously degrade. 🇸🇪🏰

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

@bcherny.bsky.social I submitted three ultrareviews and all failed and I can't revover them, AI agent support says I can't get refund or reissu them ? "For ultrareview specifically, a run counts once the remote session starts, so a review that fails to complete still uses credits.[1]

Europe’s few AI plays soar as US tech frenzy goes global ft.trib.al/cIOOSdN