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Interesting background on Spain’s grid blackout. A series of small issues and manual fixes that made it worse…. Recovery in a few hours was impressive. Overall that sounds like a fairly typical outage to me. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
The Iberian blackout was a consequence of grid management, not any power source.

Hat tip to John Kemp for admitting that he was wrong to blame Spain's blackout on excessive reliance on inverter-based renewables and insufficient inertia, and 👏 for his very decent explainer on what actually happened. https://jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/spa

Spain’s blackout blamed on poor voltage control
19 June 2025 Spain’s massive blackout was caused by overvoltage on the transmission system and the failure of the country’s generators to compensate by absorbing more reactive power, according to t…

The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

I’m dubious that BlueSky is pleased that JD Vance joined.
Meanwhile, their moderation tools are holding up damned well.
The account was initially banned, as an impersonation. Then it was verified.
Most people are reporting it was already blocked because they were using one of the many shared “MAGA” block lists.
And he’s in second place as the most blocked person on the site in less than 24h.

„Sie haben eine JavaScript Library erfunden mit so vielen dependencies das sie ein Bewusstsein entwickelt hat.”
— @…

Just for the record: In Berufen mit hoher Belastung lebt man drei Jahre kürzer, mit prekären Einkommen sinkt die Lebenserwartung deutlich. Konkret leben Ärmere fünf Jahre (!) kürzer. Das bedeutet, dass viele lange in die Rentenkasse einzahlen und unter Strich nichts davon haben. Nicht nur, weil es eine Rente ist, von der sie nicht leben können, sondern weil sie früher sterben - und damit für besserverdienende Menschen zahlen, die weniger Belastungen ausgesetzt waren.

Elektronische Patientenakte & E-Rezept: Störungen belasten Ärzte und Apotheker
Ab Oktober sind Praxen verpflichtet, die elektronische Patientenakte zu befüllen. Vielen Praxen fehlt aber noch das ePA-Modul. TI-Störungen belasten ebenfalls.

Ein Bericht zur #Netzstörung in #Spanien und #Portugal im April zeigt, dass die Ursache ein Zusammenspiel technischer Fehler bei der Netzstabilisierung war.

Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
The Iberian blackout was a consequence of grid management, not any power source.

Blockade der Unions-Fraktion:
Sie gefährden das Verfassungs­gericht.
https://taz.de/Blockade-der-Unions-Fraktion/!6099842/

Bo Burnham once said:
“Why do you rich fucking white people Insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization? This isn't about you. So either get with it, or get out of the fucking way”