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Green space along the pavement. #Leiden #BloomScrolling

I completely agree, Caithyn… or should I say… Claude!
#ai #bots #fediverse

Trump is 'not protecting Americans'
Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said Democrats were right to remain seated when Trump called on the crowd to stand if they believed in protecting US citizens over undocumented immigrants,
a line that Republicans are now using to call out Democrats.
“Bottom line is very simple,
we agree we need to protect Americans.
He’s not,”
Schumer told CNN this morning.
“By his reckless ICE agency in Minnesota,

"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment

Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One
A Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

The European film industry opposes the EU's plans to change its Creative Europe funding program by combining culture and media under the AgoraEU initiative (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/euro…

European Film Industry Speaks Out Against MEDIA Program Overhaul
European film industry organizations are up in arms over plans to overhaul the Creative Europe MEDIA program.

Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

There is no such thing as ethically sourced (animal specie) in animal agri/aquaculture.
MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Collective Electronic Polarization Drives Charge Asymmetry at Oil-Water Interfaces
Gabriele Amante, Klaudia Mrazikova, Gabriele Centi, Sylvie Roke, Ali Hassanali, Giuseppe Cassone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24142
arXiv:2603.24142v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Why kinetically stable oil droplets in water spontaneously acquire a negative charge remains one of the most vigorously debated questions in interfacial science. Here, we combine neural-network based deep potential molecular dynamics with a data-driven and information theory approach to probe the real-space electron density at an extended decane-water interface. While decane-water clusters show nearly symmetric forward and backward charge transfer (CT) and thus negligible net CT, the extended interface displays a systematic electronic asymmetry, yielding a net CT from water to the hydrocarbon phase producing an average surface charge density of $\sim0.006~e^{-}\,\mathrm{nm}^{-2}$ on the oil phase. This imbalance is accompanied by much larger intra-phase self-polarization, particularly within the hydrocarbon phase, demonstrating that collective many-body polarization dominates the interfacial electronic response. Structural analysis reveals an asymmetry between forward C--H$\cdots$O and backward O--H$\cdots$C motifs, providing a microscopic origin for a net CT from one phase to the other. Curiously, both the water O--H and decane C--H covalent bonds incur subtle contractions which originate from a response to the charge-separation layers at the interface. These features are fully consistent with the weak improper hydrogen-bonds forming at the oil-water interface that results in blue-shifts of the C-H modes.
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Nations agree to release oil reserves as war in Iran hits global economy
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday announced that it would carry out its largest-ever release of oil reserves
— 400 million barrels
— in a bid to control spiking energy prices caused by the United States-Israel war against Iran.

The plan, aimed at stabilizing oil prices that have soared since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, would deplete roughly one-third of glob…

Nations agree to release oil reserves as war in Iran hits global economy
The International Energy Agency announced that it would carry out its largest-ever release of oil reserves — 400 million barrels.