Shell Recharge UK is introducing cheaper charging rates for electric cars around midday during the summer months and at night all year round.
Available only via their app – not for roaming users or adhoc users – unfortunately!
https://www.shell.co.uk/electric-vehicle-c
A Russian ship sank in mysterious circumstances. It may have been carrying submarine nuclear reactors to North Korea
The ship set sail just two months after Kim Jong Un had sent troops to assist with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, end 2024.
https://…
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY (MJ Franklin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/books/odyssey-book-editions.html
Enjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net
There is a global energy revolution underway, and Trump’s efforts to slow it down are destined to fall short.
Something historic happened in May:
For the first time in American history, more electricity was generated in the United States with solar power than with coal.
While natural gas remains our largest electricity source, the crossing of the lines between solar and coal
— one representing the future and one the past
— is something we may look back on as o…
JWST Reveals How #BlackHoles are Fed - Kiloparsec-scale Multiphase Filaments Feed Subkiloparsec Circumnuclear Disks: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae81ae -> UK researcher helps solve longstanding black hole mystery / How do supermassive black holes 'feed' themselves? https://research.uky.edu/news/uk-researcher-helps-solve-longstanding-black-hole-mystery / https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/07/09/how-do-supermassive-black-holes-feed-themselves
Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, "soul-crushing" work, more (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/
Retired Eagles star says new Cowboys defensive coordinator hurt his feelings by crossing NFC East lines https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/darius-slay-reacts-christian-parker-cow…
Kids are back from school and the news about the #youtube ban has obviously spread like wildfire. They are already asking me about how it could be circumnavigated.
"Despite the war, Ukrainians continue actively purchasing battery electric vehicles. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, BEV fleet has increased 5-fold while the total public charging power - almost tripled."
https://www.transportenvir…