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Having baked feta filo with honey and a half litre of the house white at Taverna Byzantio in Nafplion with the friendly stay cats.
#food #greece #nafplion

How about non Europeans? Can they safely bath in EU's waters as well?
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-jJtjBPzBTfaTHp1LnzHMFQ:a:89340020-/0

Safe summer swimming: Europeans can confidently bathe in the majority of the EU's waters, report
Some 95 per cent of coastal waters in Greece and Cyprus are safe for swimming, a new report has found. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, …

I wish I knew how to read Linear A (writing system used in Ancient Greece, before the Greek language). I feel that this Linear A writer may have been trying to invent the spreadsheet.
https://mastodon.social/@lineara/114536979045278956

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

Greece declares emergency on Chios over wildfires #Greece

Greece declares emergency on Chios over wildfires
Greece put the Mediterranean island of Chios under a state of emergency on Monday because of major fires that have raged since the weekend.

Enhanced THz third-harmonic generation in graphene via hot-carriers in a topological cavity
Spyros Doukas (Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Ioannis Katsantonis (Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, 71110, Heraklion, Greece), Thomas Koschny (Ames National Laboratory and Department of Physics an…

Enhanced THz third-harmonic generation in graphene via hot-carriers in a topological cavity
Graphene is a promising material for nonlinear THz applications owing to its high third-order susceptibility and tunable optical properties. Its strong nonlinear response, driven by free-carrier thermodynamics, facilitates efficient third-harmonic generation (THG), which can be further enhanced using resonant metasurfaces and plasmonic structures. In this study, we use a platform that integrates graphene ribbons at the interface of topological photonic crystals designed to boost THG at low THz …

The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-pol…

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.

"‘Europe is becoming a solar powerhouse’: Solar tops EU electricity as coal sinks to new low"
#Europe #SolarPower #Energy

Solar becomes EU’s largest electricity source for the first time
The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.

Good.
> "Osborne to [permanently loan] Elgin Marbles to Greece"
https://thecritic.co.uk/exclusive-osborne-to-give-elgin-marbles-to-greece/

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its #Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Europe_s_first_deep-space_optical_communication_link

Auf der griechischen Insel #Chios wurden am 22. Juni 2025 wegen heftiger #Waldbrände der #Notstand ausgerufen.
Mehrere Dörfer mussten evakuiert werden. Stromausfälle,

Ted Cruz was sightseeing in Athens as first responders began launching search and rescue operations back home, The Daily Beast reports.
The senator reportedly landed in Greece on Thursday, July 3;
was spotted at the Parthenon on Saturday, July 5;
and is believed to have not caught a plane to San Antonio, Texas, until Sunday.
The Daily Beast’s report recalls the infamous February 2021 incident
in which the senator took a trip to Cancun, Mexico,
during a hi…

Ted Cruz Caught Vacationing as Texas Suffered Deadly Floods
“Twenty dead kids and you’re on vacation?” someone asked the Texas senator after spotting him abroad.

Starting today, I’ll share short logs of my gaming sessions to track fun moments and progress. I’ll use #sharanlog for all posts. Yesterday, I bought the Greece DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 during a great Steam Sale. Instead of Greece, I drove from Dresden to Valencia, entering Spain for the first time. I also started listening to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller while driving.

"The Daily Beast’s newsletter The Swamp revealed Monday how Cruz was caught touring the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks, sweeping away dozens of lives in an unspeakable horror whose full effects are still unfolding."
Ted Cruz’s Claim He Returned to Texas as ‘Fast as Humanly Possible’ Crumbles
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vacationing-ted-cruzs-as-fast-as-humanly-possible-return-claim-crumbles/

Here's today's Human Meme podcast episode:
https://humanmeme.com/deus-ex-machina-complete-3000-year-history-from-ancient-greece-to-future-philosophy

A tiny bit worried about @…, on holiday (well-earned) in Greece, which is having a ridiculous heatwave.
Dear Mike, please don't go rock climbing!

@… Yup! My favourite karaoke memory is from a metal bar in Greece, singing Run To The Hills with the bartender of the place I’d been sitting in all day.

Fault based recurrence models and occurrence probabilities of large earthquakes (M6.0) in the Corinth Rift, Greece
C. Kourouklas, P. Bonatis, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04382

Fault based recurrence models and occurrence probabilities of large earthquakes (M6.0) in the Corinth Rift, Greece
The M6.0 earthquakes recurrence times, Tr, exhibit high variability from 40 to 1500 years, with the southern Corinth Rift fault segments reaching values up to 350 years and their antithetic ones ranging from 400 to 1500 years. The fault segments in the Corinth Rift can be divided into three groups, according to their recurrence behaviour, with some of them exhibiting significantly lower renewal model probabilities than the Poisson model, others showing nearly equal probabilities, and one segmen…

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Paralia Arvantias, Nafplio
#greece #nafplio #beach

Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/europe-on-alert-as-first-major-heatwave-of-2025-pushes-temperatures-to-42c
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Um petroleiro chamado... Vilamoura?! 🤪
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114777787333496781

Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image A tanker that called at the Russian ports suffered an explosion while near Libya The Vilamoura, hauling 1 million barrels of oil, is being towed to Greece, where damage will be assessed upon arrival. The cause of the blast is unclear, but it caused water intake and the vessel's engine room is flooded. Four other vessels have suffered explosions this year, all had recently docked at Russian ports #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

Ukraine needs to be part of the EU 🇪🇺 and NATO to guarantee its security and prosperity.
So say Bosnia Herzegovina 🇧🇦 Croatia 🇭🇷 Albania 🇦🇱 Greece 🇬🇷 Moldova 🇲🇩 North Macedonia 🇲🇰 Romania 🇷🇴 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Montenegro 🇲🇪 and of course Ukraine 🇺🇦.
As a proud citizen of Canada🇨🇦 and Spain 🇪🇸 I agree.
The full statement is interesting. It is here (I used Safari’s translate function to read it in English)
#russiaUkraineWar #Russia #Ukraine #Peace #War #NATO #EU

Now in Delphi, watching the sun set over the "sea of olives" and the Ionian sea beyond.
#greece #delphi

A new 1D $V_p$ and $V_s$ velocity model of the western Rift of Corinth, Greece, using a fully non-linear tomography algorithm
Mark S. Noble (GEOSCIENCES), Alexandrine Gesret (GEOAZUR 7329), H\'el\`ene Lyon-Caen (GEOAZUR 7329), Anne Deschamps (GEOAZUR 7329)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16222

A new 1D $V_p$ and $V_s$ velocity model of the western Rift of Corinth, Greece, using a fully non-linear tomography algorithm
The objective of this study is to propose a new updated accurate 1-D $V_p$ and $V_s$ velocity model of the western Rift of Corinth for precise absolute earthquake locations. The methodology used to obtain this new model associates two fully non-linear algorithms, a complete exploration of the $V_p$ and $V_s$ model space combined with a grid search method for earthquake locations to minimize the P and S arrival time residuals. We calculated the misfit function for approximately 2.10 6 velocity m…

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