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"Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early"
#Greece #Wildfires #Environment

Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early | The Optimist Daily
Greece has deployed four nanosatellites that detect wildfires as small as four meters across, sending AI-powered alerts to firefighters in real time.

"Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early"
#Greece #Wildfires #Technology

Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early | The Optimist Daily
Greece has deployed four nanosatellites that detect wildfires as small as four meters across, sending AI-powered alerts to firefighters in real time.

Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/chr

Looks like the Greeks were feeling left out of the genocide party.
#israel

Israel and Greece sign multi-billion-dollar weapons deal
Israel has signed a major weapons deal with Greece, marking their largest agreement to date. The deal, coined Achilles Shield, is valued at nearly $3.5 billion and includes a multi-layered air defense system for Greece. Israel's Defense Ministry announced the agreement on Monday. Israeli arms exports reached a record high last year, exceeding $19 billion. Experts say Israel's battle-tested weapons are a key attraction. Greece is modernizing its armed forces amid regional tensions, particularly …

Greece braces for year's first heat wave #Greece

Greece braces for year's first heat wave
Greece, which was spared the record heat that ravaged most of Europe in June, is finally bracing for its first heat wave of the year.

Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes
and prompted officials to ban spectators from a stage of the Tour de France,
amid warnings of “powder keg” conditions after a record-breaking early summer heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters are tackling blazes that have burned through almost 20,000 hectares (49,500 acres)
in Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.
Strong winds are forecast to fan the flames and temperatures are expect…

Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes
Tour de France spectator ban as country along with Spain, Portugal and Greece faces ‘powder keg’ after heatwave

Bengals TE Erick All recounts being hit by truck in Greece in June https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7480884/2026/07/30/bengals-erick-all-greece-truck/

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A modern story of old times (all these facts are approximations):
Piano white keys play tones called "naturals". They play the original tones in Western music, back to Ancient Greece.
Tones played by the black piano keys were added piecemeal for various reasons. Those tones weren't used much for millenia, so keys to produ…

"Greece is leading the world in wildfire detection thanks to EU-funded satellites and AI"
#Greece #Environment #Wildfires

Greece using satellites and AI to detect wildfires earlier than ever
Four nanosatellites are now fully operational, sending instant alerts to firefighters.

TIL of the 'Smithsonian institution, Feather Identification lab' - run by the FAA (which seems doubly appropriate). I saw it referenced in the NTSB prelim report on the Ryanair/Mailta plane that got a cracked window in Greece the other month.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safet

Bookmarked: Greek New Testament Manuscripts on Mount Athos #Athos

Greek New Testament Manuscripts on Mount Athos
For more than a millennium, daily prayers have been offered on Mount Athos. Described as “the spiritual heart of Orthodoxy,” this secluded peninsula in northeastern Greece is regarded by many as on…

Irregular boat arrivals 2021-2026
Italy: 478.600
Balkans: 340.600.
Greece: 259.800
Spain: 234.760
UK in same period a little more than 200,000 so far as I can see.
Source for EU data: Frontex via
https://mailchi.mp/f2b749e11555/poltic

“European values” are euros and cents. @… https://syzito.xyz/@MiaMarkTwo/116877596110201487

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Attached: 1 image Wow. As far as I know Greece is the first country to offer desperate people money to deport themselves. Or to try to, at least. Hurrah for Greek lawyers ✊ Apparently a human life is worth the princely sum of 250 euros. https://www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/news-in-english/597950/greek-lawyers-refuse-to-implement-decree-offering-250-payments-for-asylum-seekers-voluntary-departures #RefugeesWelcome #MigrationIsNotACrime #Politics

When archaeologists with the National Museum of Denmark excavated a burial mound called GuldhŸj (Gold Hill) in southern Jutland in 1891,
they were surprised to find a well-preserved wooden folding chair
similar to those known from ancient Egypt and Greece.
But the GuldhŸj folding chair was made in Denmark around 3,400 years ago
and is the only completely preserved chair from the Bronze Age in Europe,
according to the National Museum of Denmark.
The chair …

Guldhøj folding chair: The only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe
The remarkably preserved wooden folding chair was likely a status symbol and was found in the grave of a Bronze Age chieftain.

Note that spelling and notation are correct: 😁
https://www.forth.gr/en/home/

Home | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) was founded in 1983. It is one of the largest research centers in Greece with well-organized facilities, highly qualified personnel and a reputation as a top-level research institution worldwide.

Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but "other forces" opposed it (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/406554/bina…

I finally got to see the odyssey.
Yes, ear plugs helped.
There is something to the "historical inaccuracy" complaints: There's no way both Batman and Spiderman would appear together in ancient Greece.

Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1765ad5-022c-4bc3-9295-ef80791a2977

"How the World Made the West".
The West, so the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance.
Josephine Quinn shows in a fascinating longread that this is an oversimplification.
A connect-the-dots history lesson well worth reading.
#book #goodread

Disgraced former Gov. Blagojevich wants Trump to pardon a politician on the lam in Greece (Erik Ortiz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blagojevich-trump-pardon-politician-greece-corruption-vote-buying-rcna588715
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p61#a260723p61

Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/binance-vows-stay-europe-despi…

Reminder that when I take trips like this one, I post postcard thoughts in a big Mastodon Thread. And then I unroll them in a nice web page. Click through for some cool photos from Malta!