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Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that cl…

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks (Brave)
https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/

Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers | Brave
AI browsers remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks via screenshots and hidden content, allowing attackers to exploit users' authenticated sessions.

At the #GlobalGatewayForum in Brussels this month, key milestones were marked for the EU-Africa-India Digital Corridor, a trusted, secure, high-capacity data link between continents, centred around the #BlueRaman cable system.
The event saw collaboration formalised between the European …

»Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source:
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.«
Ja aber was nichts kostet hat ja auch nichts an Wert!?!! Ne im Ernst, wird nun mittlerweile wirklich im breiten Rahmen Open-Source befürwortet? Ich hoffe es auf jeden Fall.
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Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.

X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/x-is-testing-a-new-way-of…

X is testing a new way of opening links in posts to improve engagement
The new link popups will allow the reaction buttons to remain visible so users can interact with the post while reading.

I first heard this (live) a few months ago and I remain quite impressed. (I was sitting almost on the stage between the keyboards and trumpet.)
#jazz…

X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/x-is-testing-a-new-way-of…

X is testing a new way of opening links in posts to improve engagement
The new link popups will allow the reaction buttons to remain visible so users can interact with the post while reading.

Kyler Murray done as Cardinals QB? Steelers, Jets among possible landing spots along with Kingsbury reunion

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kyler-murr…

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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism