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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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NVIDIA and Starcloud have just taken a big step toward moving power-hungry, polluting data centers from Earth to space. Starcloud think they can have a commercial scale data center in orbit in the early 2030s. It does seem to make sense. What do you think? spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-...
NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space
Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Attacks on healthcare facilities in #Gaza across 2024 (play gif).
“I’ve not seen anything like it... In my work on human rights and healthcare attacks over decades, I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals.”

More: buff.ly/u02hKUp (free to access)
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...
December 3, 2024 at 10:51 AM