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"Blue Flag beaches: Spain hits a new record with 794 sandy stretches awarded, followed by Greece"
#Greece #Spain #Environment

Blue flag beaches: All the newly awarded sandy stretches in Europe
Mediterranean beaches have swept the Blue Flag awards again this year.

"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.

Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/

Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that

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

"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.

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

Greece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/greece-birthplace-of-democracy-seeks-to-put-humanity-ahead-of-ai-in-updated-constitution/

Eurovision is spotty with the subtitles this year. We got a full translation for Albania, which made the song hit harder. Greece, I guess they had some words on the curtain, but I couldn't see them: I think he had a kind of message, but I only did one semester of Attic Greek 23 years ago, and I couldn't understand him at all. This disadvantages Greece and other such in the voting. #eurovision2026

Denmark, Norway, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, France, UK, Sweden, Romania. #esc2026

We liked our last cruise so much we're going on another! To Italy, Malta, and Greece with some time at the end in Paris.
I'll be sharing postcards in this thread. They will also be on a nicely formatted web page.

Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds #Greece

Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds
Snow cover in the mountains of Greece—an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months—has more than halved over the past four decades, a study has found.

@…
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…

Whenever I see these obvious offsets in #OpenStreetMap, I have this itch to move them so they align with each other. But since I am not a local, I won’t do so and will leave it to Greek OpenStreetMappers to reconcile. But yeah, the 100-meter offset looks bad.
Island of Skopelos, #Greece 🇬🇷:

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

MiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 (@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz)
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

"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.

Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members from job changes due to AI (Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

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…

Glocal Roots ist eine Organisation mit Sitz in Zürich. 'Solidarity with people on the move'
«Integration ist eine Investition in die Gesellschaft und nicht einfach nur Gutmenschentum.» Liska Bernet, Politikwissenschafterin, Aktivistin
#switzerland #Greece

Glocal Roots | Solidarität mit Menschen auf der Flucht
Wir bilden Netzwerke und Strukturen, die vertriebene Menschen darin unterstützen, resilient und wieder autonom zu werden!

"Greece increases the number of beaches where sunbeds are banned to protect the environment"
#Greece #Beaches #Environment

Greece has increased the number of beaches where sunbeds are banned
The ban means that you will not be able to hire umbrellas or sunbeds at some 251 beaches, many of which are marine NATURA 2000 sites.

Greece forgot to send a singer and a song. Cool videogame, though! #eurovision2026 #eurovision

"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

Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (Bret Devereaux/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-getting-antiquity-wrong-x-twitter-elon-musk-ancient-greece-roman-empire
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p71#a260604p71

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Insect Singers
The Essay revels in the musicality and din of Earth’s loudest insect singers. Cicada Summer Song. Celebrated in verse, sculpture and myth - from Japan and China to Ancient Greece.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vmxj

Newsmax is planning to expand to Germany, Italy, Greece, and other international markets this year through partnerships and licensing deals with other companies (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/newsmax-expands-germany-italy-other-countries/

SCOOP: Newsmax plots expansion to Germany, Italy and other countries
Newsmax says its international expansion effort, which includes broadcasting via partnerships and licensing deals, will generate $25 million in revenue by the end of the year.

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

Albania: 12 points to Italy
Cyprus: 12 points to Greece
Sweden: 12 points to Finland
Who on earth could have predicted any of that?
#Eurovision

I wanted to explore the topographic relief cartographic style that I did for Santorini, Greece, last year¹ and tried it on the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴.
One new thing is that I worked with @… terrain tiles instead of processing the raw NASADEM data.
Feedback and comments are requested! 🙏
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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…

I don't have the foggiest idea what's going on -- and I don't think I want to -- but Greece are definitely doing the business. They'd get my vote if I could vote. #Eurovision

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!