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Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world? https://phys.org/news/2025-06-greenland-iceland-world.html
Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world?
Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland 's temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.

"Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists"
#Greenland #Iceland #Climate

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists
In May, both Iceland and Greenland experienced record-breaking heat. A new rapid analysis has found that the heat wave in both regions was made worse and more likely in today’s warmer climate. The analysis was conducted by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers that evaluates the role of climate change in extreme […]

I came to Iceland to check out the volcanoes 🌋

World happiness rankings. Anybody care to explain?

Imagine you want to produce E-Fuels⚡⛽ but the power company does not want to sell you electricity⚡
That appears to be what potential E-Fuels producers faced in Iceland🇮🇸. The country uses 100% renewable electricity (hydro/geo) & could produce more.
Yet, Iceland's electricity producer Landsvirkjun does not have enough electricity⚡. Building new plants is delayed by slow permitting 📝. Landsvirkjun has therefore set out priorities.

Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy
Hydrogen and E-Fuels companies want to utilize Iceland's abundant renewable energy sources. But Iceland's largest energy company Landsvirkjun does not want to sell electricity to them. E-Fuels producers hope that European authorities will intervene, the EFTA Surveillane Authority investigates.

Hier mal was erfreuliches: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

The MRI at Iceland's biggest hospital Landspítalinn is broken at the moment.
A scrubber that cleaning personal brought into the room is now stuck inside. 😂
Repairs are under way
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2025/06

Skúringatæki festist á segulómtæki Landspítalans
Skúringatæki festist á segulómtæki Landspítalans við Hringbraut. Tækið er nú óvirkt en unnið er að því að losa skúringatækið af vélinni.

Iceland says hi. 👋
#Eldfell #Vestmannaeyjar #Heimaey

My favorite historical mystery is “what really happened in the 6th century???”
We have few clues. We know there were at least 2 big eruptions in the 530s, most likely in Iceland, Kamchatka, or Alaska: nowhere with a surviving writing culture. Then a wave of Plague. Then probably other shit no one bothered writing down. It shattered the recording of history for many decades. We will never have a comprehensive history of the “Dark Ages” because no one wrote the pieces.

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Das isländische #Skeiðarárjökull-#Gletscher zieht sich weiter zurück.
Das ist deutlich sichtbar im Vergleich der #Satellitenbilder von 2017 und 2025.
Als

The Oregon Highway Division could do the funniest thing here:
https://nyr.ruv.is/english/2025-07-11-dead-whale-stuck-on-the-ferry-norraena-still-floats-near-berufjordur-shore-448336/

Dead whale stuck on the ferry Norræna still floats near Berufjörður shore - RÚV.is
A dead whale that got stuck on the bow of the ferry Norræna three weeks ago is now floating near the shore of Berufjörður in eastern Iceland. Attempts to sink the carcass have failed, posing a hazard to navigation.

Weather report for Garðabær, Iceland, May 9 2025: 1 deg C, winds gusting to 6 m/s and snowing.

A friend of mine sent me Iceland (the UK supermarket)‘s official “fuck the management consultants” page, on their actual website.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
I love it.

Electrically reconfigurable extended lasing state in an organic liquid-crystal microcavity
Dmitriy Dovzhenko (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom), Luciano Siliano Ricco (Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland), Krzysztof Sawicki (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom), Marcin Muszy\'nski (Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Wa…

Electrically reconfigurable extended lasing state in an organic liquid-crystal microcavity
Small-footprint, low-power arrays of coupled coherent emitters with the capability of near- and far-field engineering and coherence control are highly sought after to meet modern nanophotonics evolving needs. Between existing solutions based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, phase masks in bulk traditional cavity-based systems, and lattices of exciton-polariton condensates, only the strongly light-matter coupled systems were shown to be capable of controlled on-chip interaction betwee…

#Iceland still zero points? How??
#ECS #Eurovision

Reykjavík Grapevine provides answers to questions you were too afraid to ask
https://grapevine.is/mag/2025/07/07/help-call-charlie-campsites-expensive-vegetables-beautiful-but-harmless-eruption-more/…

From Iceland — Help? Call Charlie! Campsites, Expensive Vegetables, Beautiful But Harmless Eruption & More
Unsolicited advice from an unreliable advisor Help is a four-letter verb meaning “to make it easier or possible for someone...

Someone captured the last 30 seconds of a piano improvisation I did here in Iceland. =)

#Iceland is reminding me, heavily, of _Everything is Awesome_ from The Lego Movie.
#Eurovision

If you're reading about Iceland's biometric abuse, it's not the country - it's the British supermarket chain.

https://newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/740/740abc92ab921e904479a782cadab7cebae78277.html

Switzerland currently has hazard warnings for
- heavy rain
- flash floods
- strong wind
- droughts
- forest fires
and *drumroll*
- avalanches
The only thing missing is an earthquake.
But it would probably feel to much like Iceland then 😄
#climatechange #meteoswiss

Whoever made reserved keywords escapable in #Swift: I owe you a drink of your choice if we're ever at the same table.
```swift
// …
case hu = "Hungary"
case `is` = "Iceland"
case `in` = "India"
case id = "Indonesia"
// …
```
This would have been a complete disaster of an API otherwise.

It’s 1 AM and still fairly bright outside in Iceland.

I finished reading Gísli Pšlsson’s “The Last Of Its Kind” recently, and if you want a great look at the Great Auk and the history of extinction, this book is fascinating, if a bit depressing in the end. Well worth reading, especially if you like to learn more about life in Iceland in the 1800s.

Back in Iceland for music stuff with John Grant. =)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Iceland S O, Edvard Grieg & Petri Sakari:
🎵 4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)
#IcelandSO #EdvardGrieg #PetriSakari
#Spotify

Happy Iceland day, friends! 🇮🇸
Looking forward to having some Icelandic food this evening!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Richard Wagner, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Eva Ollikainen:
🎵 Overture (The Flying Dutchman)
#RichardWagner #IcelandSymphonyOrchestra #EvaOllikainen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Richard Wagner, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Eva Ollikainen:
🎵 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude to Act 3)
#RichardWagner #IcelandSymphonyOrchestra #EvaOllikainen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Richard Wagner, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Eva Ollikainen:
🎵 Lohengrin (Prelude to Act 3)
#RichardWagner #IcelandSymphonyOrchestra #EvaOllikainen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Richard Wagner, œlafur Sigurðarson, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Eva Ollikainen:
🎵 Die Frist ist um (The Flying Dutchman)
#RichardWagner #ÓlafurSigurðarson #IcelandSymphonyOrchestra #EvaOllikainen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #FridayNightIsMusicNight
Edvard Grieg, BBC Concert Orchestra, Anna-Maria Helsing & Iceland Philharmonic Choir:
🎵 Give to all Gods a Grace-Cup of Gratitude (Olav Trygvason)
#EdvardGrieg #BBCConcertOrchestra #AnnaMariaHelsing

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #FridayNightIsMusicNight
Karin Rehnqvist, BBC Concert Orchestra, Anna-Maria Helsing & Iceland Philharmonic Choir:
🎵 Hymn
#KarinRehnqvist #BBCConcertOrchestra #AnnaMariaHelsing #IcelandPhilharmonicChoir