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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away. The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-br…

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.

This week's #ThursDeath is a recent find I've been listening a lot to this week, Belgium's DISCARNATION have re-released their 2023 demo as 'Mournful Incantations of Mortality'. This is a fantastic piece of gloomy, death-doom that's super growly and cavernous, just how I like it-- much like this year's Cave, Ovenhead or Annihilation Cult. Definitely one to try out, for fans o…

Importance of Non-Adiabatic Effects on Kohn Anomalies in 1D metals
Enrico Marazzi (IMCN Universit\'e catholique de Louvain Belgium), Samuel Ponc\'e (ETSF Universit\'e catholique de Louvain Belgium, WEL Research Institute Belgium), Jean-Christophe Charlier (IMCN Universit\'e catholique de Louvain Belgium), Gian-Marco Rignanese (ETSF Universit\'e catholique de Louvain Belgium, WEL Research Institute Belgium, School of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern Pol…

Importance of Non-Adiabatic Effects on Kohn Anomalies in 1D metals
Kohn anomalies are kinks or dips in phonon dispersions which are pronounced in low-dimensional materials. We investigate the effects of non-adiabatic phonon self-energy on Kohn anomalies in one-dimensional metals by developing a model that analyzes how the adiabatic phonon frequency, electron effective mass, and electron-phonon coupling strength influence phonon mode renormalization. We introduce an electron-phonon coupling strength threshold for low-temperature system instability, providing ex…

Media Pluralism Monitor 2025: results for Belgium
https://cmpf.eui.eu/mpm-interactive-results/

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/1800-year-old-roman-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-found-under-a-street-in-b…

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium
The wooden tree-trunk piping is just another method that Roman plumbers must have used to handle hydro-logistics in their settlements.

Heating demand side management is feasible (in Belgium) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003895 @…

Belgium is the third largest market for electric cars in Europe after Germany and France, which are much larger. The tax regime for company cars, which are a standard employee benefit alongside meal vouchers, has made this huge rise possible.
https://www.

"Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe"
#Ireland #FossilFuels #Coal

Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe
According to Beyond Fossil Fuels, Ireland joins Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, and the UK, who have already stopped using coal.

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

Same here.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pvmejqjts5j7vgkeohkv3woi/post/3lseduwh5v623

Stuff I found (@stuffifound.politicalmemes.org)
Sadly my country is not coloured green yet on this map. Let's hope it will soon! #freepalestine #uk #greatbritain #netherlands #belgium #luxembourg #germany #finland #estonia #latvia #lithuania #france #switzerland #austria #portugal #italy #kosovo #northmacedonia #greece #cyrpus #palestine

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/stop-the-export-of-toxic-pesticides-to-african-countries

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries - Online petition
! If you don't have a zip code, please use the code 1234xx Some pesticides are carcinogenic, hormone-disrupting or impair fertility. Others are harmful to aquatic organisms, bees and pollinators or hardly break down in nature. That is why the European Union decided to ban the use of these toxic pesticides. Yet they are still produced in Europe, and Belgium, for export, including to African countries. Africans and Europeans are together calling for a ban on these toxic exports. Because what is to

Seen David Attenborough's film Ocean? Track countries' progress in signing and ratifying the High Seas Treaty, needed to protect 30% of the oceans.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/map/
Here's Europe:
orange = signed only,

High Seas Treaty Ratification Map
At least 60 countries must sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty for it to become international law. Follow progress and see who has signed and ratify the treaty on the world map.

Next Total #SolarEclipse - 2027 in Spain again and a lot of North Africa: some aspects highlighted by Jay Anderson at the SEC in Belgium. 14/n

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

"EU on track to meet 2030 emissions goal thanks to strong progress on renewables"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Energy #Renewables

EU says it is ‘well on track’ to reach 2030 emissions target
Belgium, Estonia and Poland were also singled out for not submitting their NECPs and were urged to “do so without delay”.

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs
Sebasti\'an Z\'u\~niga-Fern\'andez (Astrobiology Research Unit, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, Li\`ege, Belgium), Michael Gillon (Astrobiology Research Unit, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, Li\`ege, Belgium), SPECULOOS consortium
https://arxiv.org/…

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs
The SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project aims to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs, including late M-dwarf stars and brown dwarfs, which are well-suited for atmospheric characterization using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and upcoming giant telescopes like the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Led by the University of Liège, SPECULOOS is conducted in partnership with the University of Cambridge, the Un…

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Stage 4 results
#Dauphiné #cycling

listening to some Eurovision songs with headphones and proper volume and:
- JJ - Wasted Love (Austria): this is still the obvious winner, since my first listen; it's like leagues above the other songs
- Klavia - Asteromšta (Greece): my second favorite and still hits hard
- Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights (Belgium): I still think it should have qualified for the finals, but maybe it's missing something
- Theo Evan - Shh (Cyprus): oh so good disco 90/2000 vibes

Very interesting talks at the #SolarEclipse Conference - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - in Belgium I am attending online: here is the key result by Luca Quaglia who had reported his work in great detail in the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac1279 (2021), https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2022_2.pdf#page=3 (2022) and https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_4.pdf#page=3 (2024) already. There seems to be NO way by now to escape the conclusion the the solar - i.e. photospheric - diameter used by many in the past (and various eclipse map calculations sites still today) is too small. So everyone should use Quaglia's free precision tools at https://www.besselianelements.com instead to get the real length of totality at one's observing spot. And when you are observing at the edges of the totality zone the tools will tell you where the actual border is: traditional maps can the off by some margin! 1/n