Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #Mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

the Guardian

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a ...

#China has installed more #solar panels in the past 6 months than #Germany did in the past 25 years. (via @npub1m2j8...yzxt)

(S+) China schafft in sechs Monaten doppelt so viel Solarkraft wie Deutschland in 25 Jahren

Die Volksrepublik bricht beim Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien diverse Rekorde. Eine gute Nachricht für das Weltklima. Und eine schlechte Nachrich...

#renewables #energytransition #greentransition

#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @European Commission – a request that the EU executive denied. After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential. The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism

Watchdog slams EU executive for hiding user risks on Elon Musk’s X

Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism

I just heard another renown professor argue #Mastodon is too hard, even they failed. Choosing a server is simply too difficult. And I'm wondering: how the heck does everybody have an email address? #decentralisation #federation