Media reports on the former power plant in Rheinsberg illustrate the reality of nuclear energy. The plant
* opened 1966, was small at only 60 MW
* shut down in 1990 after 24 yrs due to risk
* deconstruction began in 1995
* demolition costs to date: 0.85 bn euros (estimate had been: 0.42 bn)
* full removal not before mid-2040ies, over 50 yrs needed
* removal cost to reach 1.5 bn
* Germany still lacks ultra-long-term nuclear waste storage

Wikipedia, or here w/o paywall:
https://lomazoma.com/der-rueckbau-dauert-ueber-50-jahre-und-kostet-milliarden-euro/

Copilot is a colossal failure. That button on PC keyboards is a tombstone.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html

"Within the refusal of tech, we can find alternative imaginations of the future. Not anti-progress, only refusing a particular, narrow idea of what “progress” should look like."

https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/

@restofworld

I'm super hyped to announce that Bluesky Socal PBC has given me a grant to work on the Federated Credential Management (or FedCM) standards to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

This is why I stepped up to be an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group earlier in the year. The missing part at that time was "how do I fund this work?" so I'm super happy that Bluesky Social PBC really came through with a grant to fund this work.

A really interesting thing that Bluesky Social PBC did here was they could have said "just make this work for AT Protocol" but instead they said "make this work for the entire decentralized web", and the contract explicitly states I should be working with the IndieAuth, Solid and other communities interested in federated and decentralized identity to make this happen.

https://decentralizing-fedcm.leaflet.pub/3mggfw4gdx22w

The US/Israel led illegal war on Iran has so far killed:

•7 US soldiers
•13 Israelis
•1200 Iranians (mostly civilians)

Iran is targeting military bases. USA & Israel are targeting civilians. This start is a repeat of the mass collective punishment on Palestinians.

Congress must shut this down NOW.

if you're one of the many people i've heard say "i used to have a website for my art and prose but bots and ai scrapers stomped all over it so i gave up and shut it down"

then please please have a look at this!

the creator of iocaine, a tool designed to poison those bots, is offering it as a free hosted service. the bots get poison and you receive only legitimate visitors

Only Junk Fans announcement