Mirjam de Rijk is met stip de scherpste duider van sociaal-economisch beleid. @DeGroene

Largest U.S. power grid operator PJM ​said on Friday ​it was ​under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as ⁠it ‌battled generator outages, massive overloading ⁠on its transmission lines and a surge in air conditioning use from prolonged sweltering ‌heat.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/03/power-grid-independence-day-weekend.html

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський 𝕏💬 @MinPres@twitter.com:

I had a very substantive conversation with the Prime Minister @MinPres@twitter.com. I am grateful for the readiness to continue supporting our country.

I briefed the Prime Minister on the aftermath of Russia’s latest attacks. Today, the rubble clearance operation after the attack overnight into Thursday was completed in Kyiv. That terrorist strike alone claimed the lives of 30 people. My condolences to all the families and loved ones of the victims. It is important that our friends – Ukraine’s friends – are ready to take action to protect lives, and air defense remains one of the key areas of our cooperation with the Netherlands.

Today, I also want to thank the Netherlands for its historic decision to host the fully-fledged Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. This decision will make it possible to hold Russia’s highest political and military leadership accountable for the crime of aggression itself, not only for its consequences.

We also agreed on the schedule of our next meetings. I thank the Netherlands for its solidarity and support.

https://nitter.net/zelenskyyua/status/2073119726499172690

🇺🇦🇳🇱 Zelensky: Had a very substantive conversation with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

I also want to thank you today for the historic decision of the Netherlands to host a full-fledged Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

Pensioenfonds ABP trekt zich nog verder terug uit de VS https://nos.nl/l/2621495
#abp Gaat in totaal om zo’n 25 miljard waarvan ook een groot deel aandelen in Amerikaanse techbedrijven.

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

Werk aan de winkel voor veel organisaties binnen de Rijksoverheid, https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2026/07/03/strengere-regels-voor-het-gebruik-van-clouddiensten-door-de-rijksoverheid
#cloud #rijksoverheid

Saying this again cos it's so important.

There is an eclipse this summer. And because this came up in a conversation, something I didn't realise needed to be said.

DO NOT TRY TO MAKE YOUR OWN ECLIPSE GLASSES.

Your eyesight is more important than that. A pair of iso standards certified eclipse glasses are about €3.

Seriously, do not risk your eyesight.

Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01965-z
Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

And last but certainly not least, we have a DOUBLE CORG situation!

#dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi #corgwn

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/

Pensioenfonds ABP trekt zich nog verder terug uit de VS

Opnieuw haalt pensioenfonds ABP geld weg uit de Verenigde Staten. Dat blijkt uit de nieuwste beleggingslijsten van het ambtenarenfonds.
ABP, met 531 miljard euro aan belegd vermogen het grootste pensioenfonds van Nederland, is al langer bezig met het verkopen van Amerikaans schuldpapier, oftewel obligaties. Ook verkoopt ABP voor miljarden aan aandelen in Amerikaanse techbedrijven.
ABP b...

https://nos.nl/l/2621495 #nieuws #nos #economie

@ellendebruin Hier hebben natuurkundigen een mop over:

Heisenberg rijdt met grote snelheid op de snelweg en wordt door de politie aan de kant gezet.
Agent: “Meneer, weet u wel hoe hard u rijdt?”
Heisenberg: “Nee, maar ik weet wel precies waar ik ben!”

"Schrems III richt de pijlen op het ongeldig verklaren van het EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Dit framework is basis voor de doorgifte van persoonsgegevens aan de Verenigde Staten, maar het is juridisch onhoudbaar geworden." https://communities.surf.nl/privacy/artikel/schrems-iii-zit-in-de-pen

Verstandige mensen! 👇

Pensioenfonds ABP trekt zich nog verder terug uit de VS
https://nos.nl/l/2621495

HE. IS. AWESOME.

Now if only that started a whole wave....courage is contagious.

In 2026, you cannot freely edit your own posts on neither Bluesky, Threads, or X.

But you can on Mastodon.

Spread the word! ♥️🐘

Kabinet wil cloudgebruik overheid weer meer in eigen hand krijgen https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/07/03/kabinet-wil-cloudgebruik-overheid-weer-meer-in-eigen-hand-krijgen-a4931751?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20260703

Happy birthday to Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) who, with her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays, was the first person to observe mesons. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.

Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually encouraged the education of girls. 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4433739199

#womenInSTEM #histsci #particlePhysics #physics #cosmicRays #mastoArt

Over 30 years ago we were one of the first in our area to obtain a small PV panel. It cost a months wages and produced 45W.
Now, for a similar amount of inflation adjusted money, we have just installed 4KW of panels and 10Kw/h of battery storage and have been independent of the mains since installation in early April.
Yesterday we passed 1MWh of electricity production!

#solar #solarpower #solarenergy #pv #photovoltaic #selfsufficiency