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Power failure in offshore gas field cuts Norwegian gas flows to EU and UK by 1/3.
Given the season it mainly affects the rate at which EU gas storages can be refilled.
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🚨🇳🇴Norwegian gas supplies to the🇪🇺EU are down as the largest gas… | Francesco Sassi | 22 comments
🚨🇳🇴Norwegian gas supplies to the🇪🇺EU are down as the largest gas field in the country's offshore suffers an widespread power failure ⚡️Maintenance is underway in many Norwegian assets, but this unplanned outage could last for days, complicating Monday's market opening and the refilling of gas storages Yesterday, the Norwegian offshore pipeline operator alerted markets that something was wrong at the Troll gas field, the largest operating gas production field in Europe and w…

One under-scrutinized federal agency has been crucial to the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport noncitizens who protested Israel’s war in Gaza (many of them students who are in the U.S. on visas or green cards):
Homeland Security Investigations
-- the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which markets itself as an elite force that targets human traffickers, drug smugglers, and war criminals).
As it built dossiers on Khalil and o…

Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom Despite the Best Efforts of ICE’s Intelligence Unit
Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.

I've made a summer quiz for EU energy policy nerds 🤓
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_acers-country-sheets-summer-quiz-acti…

Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. | Jaap Burger
Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. What are they doing well and where can they improve? Have they learned from the curriculum and have they acted on previous recommendations? How are they doing compared to their peers? EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does something similar for countries, their retail energy markets and the level of consumer participation. It's time for their annual …

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires https://jacobin.com/2025/07/billionaires-wealth-inequality-zohran-mamdani/
This is true in every country in the world. There is simply no justification for any individual to be «worth» a …

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires
The myths that billionaires earn, invent, or give their way to virtue don’t survive scrutiny. Billionaire wealth isn’t built on genius — it rests on public investment and ends with the power to shape law, labor, and markets.

Look, all I'm saying is, this Kennedy psychopath is trying to kill our children. I feel like self-defense rules apply. Isn't it time for a new HHS Secretary anyway?
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-tr…

New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots
Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy. Companies that want to market their vaccines to those Americans will need to conduct large, new studies, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. It’s a major shift in FDA’s approach to updating vaccines that protect against the virus. It comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees continue to scrutinize the use of vaccines for a numbe…

The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

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I've just found out that the nano text editor can sort lines by pressing Ctrl-T (execute any command on marked lines) and then entering "| sort" (like in a shell pipe).
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/717925

Turns out ‘Good, Fast, Cheap - pick two’ also applies to Power-to-X, such as hydrogen electrolysis. Flexibility, small scale, low-cost: you can’t have it combined.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-quiet-h

All Quiet on the HyFront
Twelve months ago, I joined Marble, a Paris-based cleantech incubator with the idea of founding a Power-to-x Company. The move was a culmination of an eight-year analyst career spanning market research, technology diligence, as well as policy and grant advisory.

An over $242M Polymarket bet on whether President Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July closed as "No" despite claims he did, raising governance concerns (Sebastian Sinclair/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/329210/polymarket-rules-no-237m-bet-zelenskyys

Polymarket Rules 'No' on $237M Controversial Bet Over Zelenskyy's Suit
Discontent over the market’s resolution has reignited scrutiny of UMA’s dispute system and the influence of large Polymarket stakeholders.