"A major Ipsos Is Life Getting Better? poll of November last year (conducted across Europe) showed 52 per cent of British respondents would rather have been born in 1975 than 2025; 63 per cent said Britain was happier then too. The 1970s were also preferred to the 2020s on quality of the environment, safe streets and — significantly — a lower risk of war."
Why Burnham replacing Starmer opens opportunities for the left | Morning Star
Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, a new study has found.
The research, based on computer modelling, suggests that about
⭐️93 per cent of the pre-European population was removed in under 80 years
following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
And this population, researchers at Flinders Universityestimated, was
⭐️up to seven times larger than previously thought.
“Understan…
“If all projects that have signed connection agreements were implemented in full over the coming years, they would increase Finland’s electricity consumption by nearly 40 per cent compared with the 2025 level.”
https://www.fingrid.fi/en…
Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables.
In 2003, renewables’ share of electricity generation was about 15 per cent, nearly all of which was produced by hydropower. By 2025, this had increased to 37 per cent.
getting there. have a sunny day.
from https://www.ft.com/…
Kennt ihr diesen Moment, in dem das DIY-Projekt zu 98 % fertig ist, ihr innerlich schon den Feierabend einläutet und nur noch die letzte Schraube reindrehen wollt?
Genau dann stellt ihr fest:
* Sie fehlt.
* Sie wurde gar nicht erst mitgeliefert.
* Die Lieferzeit für ein 20-Cent-Teil beträgt plötzlich zwei Monate.
Mein unfertiges Meisterwerk steht jetzt bis auf Weiteres als Mahnmal des Scheiterns auf dem Schreibtisch. 🫠🔨
Data from German vehicle insurer HUK-COBURG (which holds a quarter of the market) shows that Germans have been choosing EVs almost twice as often since the latest oil price crisis in March: 12 per cent of car insurance policy switches in Q2 2026 were to an EV
Second-hand EVs are also becoming increasingly popular amongst frequent drivers, for whom the cost savings are even greater. Volkswagen EVs are popular as second-hand cars, whilst new German EVs are less so.
Counterpoint: China's YMTC accounted for 14% of NAND flash shipments in Q2, behind Samsung's 25% and SK Hynix's 22%, but ahead of Micron and Kioxia (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti…
Ok, ihr könnt jetzt Eure Elektroautos anstecken und mit dem Laden beginnen!
Auch wenn ihr keinen dynamischen Tarif habt, bringt ihr damit die Energiewende voran.
Weak cool core, weak turbulence: XRISM, XMM-Newton and Chandra spectroscopy of the core of Abell 1413
Egemen Gormez, Murat Hudaverdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08778 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08778
arXiv:2609.08778v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present the first XRISM spectroscopy of the core of Abell 1413 (z = 0.143), combining 104.7 ks of Resolve with archival XMM-Newton and Chandra spectra of a matched sky region. A1413 is hot, massive and relaxed but lacks a strong cool core (t_cool = 6.4 Gyr), a regime in which the low turbulence reported to date has been tested only once, in A3571. The Resolve spectrum requires a single velocity-broadened component with kT = 7.06 ( 0.33, -0.43) keV and a line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_v = 170 ( 25, -24) km/s (M_3D = 0.217). The bulk velocity relative to the brightest cluster galaxy, v_bulk = -24 /- 26 (z_ICM) /- 71 (z_BCG) km/s, is limited by the optical redshift rather than by Resolve, and disfavours coherent line-of-sight sloshing. The non-thermal pressure fraction, 2.5 /- 0.7 per cent, implies a hydrostatic mass bias b < 2.5 per cent, comparable to the strong cool-core cluster A2029 (2.6 /- 0.3 per cent) and, at matched sampling scale, if anything below it. With A3571 (1.3 /- 0.3 per cent), to which A1413 rescales within 0.2 sigma, two weak cool cores now show that this quiescence does not require central cooling. The resolved Fe-K He-alpha complex gives Fe = 0.38 /- 0.03 (stat) /- 0.04 (sys) solar; Ni/Fe, separated from Fe K-beta for the first time, is solar, as is the pattern as a whole. The Ne, Mg and Si lines that set Ne/Fe, Mg/Fe and Si/Fe lie below 2 keV, where our instruments disagree by 10-20 per cent; we therefore do not regard the SNIa fraction as constrained.
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Imagine:
The bottom half of the world’s population has increased its wealth to 30 per cent from two per cent — a 15-fold increase.
The wealth share of the billionaire class has fallen from six per cent to 0.05 per cent
Instead of living in a culture where status depends on endless consumption, people are content with enough.
The idea sounds like science fiction.
But it is a very serious proposalput forward by French economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleague…
2/2
Elevator replacement work starts at Royal Oak Station on July 28. The elevator closure at this station is expected to last less than four months:
Customers who require elevator access can take the #148 Edmonds Station/Royal Oak Station bus.
Customers should plan for roughly 30 minutes of extra travel time.
The ongoing Expo Line Elevator Replacement Program is upgrading 21 original elevators across 15 stations with modern replacements that have 20 per cent mor…
"In 1948, after an immensely costly war but also trade union and socialist mobilisation, the share of national income going to capital was 35 per cent, much lower than it had been the 1930s. Today it is back at 45 per cent. 35 per cent today would mean another £1.4 trillion for those who work, our services and communities."
Burnham’s got a long road ahead, and the left must keep up the pressure along the way | Morning Star
RE: https://social.magnificent.nz/@magnificent/117215715739510295
If digitally sovereign (in Aotearoa NZ) and fascist-free are important to you... this is a good option.
Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of
Bei Volkswagen wird jetzt über alle möglichen Ideen zur Nutzung der "frei" werdenden Werke diskutiert. Vorschlag: E-Modelle des chinesischen Marktes hier produzieren und 5 Jahre lang jeweils KEINE 9 Mrd. Dividende an die Aktionäre auszahlen, sondern jeden Cent in die Forschung und Fertigung von PV und Batterien stecken.
China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and targets 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3
433 Millionen Dollar sind laut Fortune-Analyse (Autorin: Sydney Lake) bereits in die US-Midterms 2026 geflossen – 80 Cent von jedem Dollar an die Republikaner. Elon Musk allein: 90 Millionen. George Soros und Sohn Alex dagegen rund 103 Millionen für die Demokraten. Ungleichgewicht mit System, nicht Zufall.
#Wahlkampf
"Fatih Birol said that Europe’s low electrification rate — electricity’s share of the energy consumed in the EU — of around 23 per cent is holding back the bloc’s competitiveness and economic “sovereignty”.
[..]
In a joint interview with Europe’s energy commissioner Dan JŸrgensen, both leaders said that Europe needed to electrify its economy faster after facing two energy crises in less than five years."
Triaxiality of the Milky Way dark matter halo and the microlensing optical depth towards the Large Magellanic Cloud
J. Garc\'ia-Bellido, M. R. S. Hawkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08988 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08988 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08988
arXiv:2609.08988v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The microlensing optical depth towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), $\tau_{\rm LMC}$, bounds the compact-object fraction of the Galactic dark matter halo, but is almost always evaluated for a spherical halo. We compute it for triaxial haloes and show that the shape dependence is carried entirely by the projection of the line of sight onto the halo principal axes: for a scale-free halo $\rho\propto R^{-\alpha}$ at fixed local density it factorises exactly as $\tau/\tau_{\rm sph}=S_\odot^{\alpha}\langle S^{-\alpha}\rangle_w$, with $S(\Omega)$ the ellipsoidal shape function. The LMC lies only $0\fdg78$ from perpendicular to the Sun-Galactic Centre line, making it a near-optimal probe of in-plane elongation and a poor probe of vertical flattening. For the halo shapes favoured by \textit{Gaia} we find $\tau_{\rm LMC}/\tau_{\rm sph}=0.95$--$1.15$ at fixed local density, $1.57$ for the Law-Majewski logarithmic potential, and $0.67$--$1.54$ when the major-axis azimuth is left free. For the Einasto halo required by the declining \textit{Gaia} DR3 rotation curve, truncation near $25\kpc$ is offset by the larger local density it implies and $\tau$ falls by only $7$--$15$ per cent; but the median lens distance moves inwards from $13.4$ to $8.5\kpc$, where the logarithmic slope is steep and rising, amplifying the shape sensitivity: the \textit{Gaia} RR~Lyrae enhancement grows from $15$ to $23$ per cent and the orientation-free range widens to $0.62$--$1.62$. The systematic on the inferred MACHO or primordial-black-hole fraction is two-sided, of order $\pm15$ per cent for the measured shapes and a factor $2.6$ under full orientation freedom, exceeding the statistical errors of the EROS-2 and OGLE bounds.
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Die Amerikaner machen es in den verschiedenen Zwischenligen vor. Bei kreativen Schnitten, cleveren Zooms und ein bisschen Sound sind die Zuschauer für eine TV-Verwertung doch zweitrangig, wenn nicht lästig. Wir haben uns von den europäischen Ligen im #AmericanFootball vollständig abgekoppelt.
Keinen Cent oder Tropfen Fan-Herzblut werden wir mehr in diese zweifelhaften Ligen investi…
Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom,
providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence.
Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers,
which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos that dominated its trade for decades.
Mexico is the second-largest provider of enterprise servers to the US so far this year…
The organization behind LibreOffice, The Document Foundation (aka TDF), has 18 employees.
Activities cover six applications, dozens of file formats and 120 languages.
The Foundation is funded almost entirely by private individuals who contribute small sums according to their means. Less than 10 per cent of the donations come from public bodies and companies.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Albin de la Simone:
🎵 Les cent prochaines années
#NowPlaying #AlbindelaSimone
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150% since its January Hong Kong IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
He did the same as Mayor.
I also see that Bev Craig has got her white teeshirt.
Andy Burnham says he will give 15% of his MP’s pay to local causes | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/2…
RE: https://social.magnificent.nz/@magnificent/117012520877084702
Here's a little libre digital sovereign tech project a couple of us have been working on for a while...
Interessante figuur over omzettingsverliezen met bidirectioneel laden (of 🔋) gebaseerd op praktijktest: de geteste omvormer werkt steeds minder efficiënt verder af van de maximale capaciteit. Overigens ook dan nog meer opbrengst uit zon dan lage terugleverprijs.
https://www.nelectra.be/stream/ev-02-2026…
Die Amerikaner machen es in den verschiedenen Zwischenligen vor. Bei kreativen Schnitten, cleveren Zooms und ein bisschen Sound sind die Zuschauer für eine TV-Verwertung doch zweitrangig, wenn nicht lästig. Wir haben uns von den europäischen Ligen im #AmericanFootball vollständig abgekoppelt.
Keinen Cent oder Tropfen Fan-Herzblut werden wir mehr in diese zweifelhaften Ligen investi…
Tatsächlich flasht es mich immer noch, dass ich in Beijing für eine U-Bahn-Fahrt von ca. 7 km den Gegenwert von 40 Euro-Cent bezahle (wofür ich in Wien mehr als das Fünffache bezahlen würde), und mir ist völlig klar, dass Systemvergleiche hinken, aber flashen tut's halt dennoch.
Most respondents charge their vehicles both at home and in public: three-quarters can charge at home, yet this accounts for only 56 per cent of the total number of charging sessions. (NB: this does not necessarily say anything about the amount of energy)
DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…
The White House wanted to make money from 2 chip companies. Nearly a year later, it hasn't gotten a cent. (Daniel Desrochers/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/private-sector-profit-sharing-00972696
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p43#a260624p43
Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article…
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic #JodrellBank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/mass-cuts-and-potential-jodrell-closure-devastating-astronomy - other casualties in the long list of funding cuts include UK withdrawal from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) located in Hawaii, 20 per cent cuts for the UK's Square Kilometre Array Regional Centre and activities at the Vera Rubin Telescope in Chile, while the BISON solar observing network will suffer cuts of 40 per cent; see also https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/27/jodrell-bank-observatory-facing-closure-uk and https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo
Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports, stark new figures show,
piling further pressure on Andy Burnham to rejoin the EU’s single market and customs union.
The damning findings by Logistics UK, which represents freight companies and is one of the largest trade associations in the UK,
show that the loss in revenue compared with 2019 is worth £400 per household in the UK per year.
The organisation has called on the prime minister to push for greater alig…
Interessanterweise entlädt mein Speicher noch immer ins Netz. Wird vom Anbieter gesteuert. Vermutlich um gleich bei 0 Cent maximale Kapazität zu haben (aktuellnoch 27 Cent). Allerdings geht ja auch einiges im Prozess verloren.
Sounds like this is the story that is going to stick.
Trump is not a reliable partner in anything.
Carney: “last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal”
Ask Ukraine. Ask Iran. Ask NATO.
The American Century is over.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
The Dacia Spring electric car, which is the cheapest new car to buy (regardless of fuel or powertrain type) in many European countries, is getting a new version.
This time, it will be built in Europe to meet the 'Made in the EU' requirements for e.g. 🇫🇷 social leasing, and Europe's small EV bonus.
https://media.dacia.com/new-dacia-spring-100-per-cent-electric-100-per-cent-dacia/?lang=eng
“I mean, data centers don’t use water,” Lutnick said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down.”
Trump official instantly ridiculed over flip-flop on data centers: ‘Is this parody?’ - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/lutnick-data-centers/
DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
https://www.ms.now/opinion/doordash-dc-fee-home-rule
“The new regime cuts Canada’s marginal effective tax rate on new business investment by more than half, from 13 per cent to 6.4 per cent. The government says that is the lowest rate of any major advanced economy.”
Great! Less revenue! Less services! More taxes on the rest of us! Go Liberal Government of Canada!
Carney's really pulling out all the stops today. Selling the entire country -- to American investors -- down the Ottawa River because apparently this is how we make Canada Strong.🤪🤮
Gawd, I hate everything that is happening today. Everything. All of it.
#Carney #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA #TradeWar #Privatization #PublicGood
Die Diskussion über teuren #Diesel & #Benzin ist erneut unangemessen aufgeregt und daher Faktenfrei.
Rechnung hoher #Spritpreis:
Wer bspw. mit einem sparsamen Auto 40 Cent/Liter mehr zahlt, hat (bei 10t-km/Jahr) monatlich Mehrkosten von 20€. Das ist für Normalos keine extreme Belastung.
Das entspricht übrigens fast den Preissteigerungen für das #Deutschlandticket innerhalb von 2 Jahren (2024 auf 2027). Da hat niemand in der Politik Sonderzahlungen an Bus- und Bahnfahrer verschenken wollen.
Understanding how (and why) economical driving works in an electric car leads to an 11 per cent reduction in energy consumption
(In a nutshell: drive calmly, don’t brake too hard and let the car ‘glide’ as much as possible)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847826002913?via=ihub
Wow... a nearly 70% drop in Labour Day border crossing this year since 2024 from Metro Vancouver area to Washington State.
"Numbers for the Peace Arch, Pacific Highway, Lynden and Sumas ports of entry show a 49 per cent decline in the number of southbound vehicles with B.C. plates visiting Washington State during Labour Day this year, compared to 2025, and that becomes a drop of 67 per cent when compared to Labour Day 2024.
There were 1,465 trips this year, compared to 2,900 in 2025 and 4,385 in 2024.”
#ElbowsUp #USA #Canada #TradeWar #TheAmericanFascist
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/09/09/southbound-b-c-washington-border-crossings-fall-49/