🇫🇷 Frankreich macht Ernst: Die Digitalbehörde DINUM wechselt von Windows zu Linux, 80.000 Beschäftigte der Krankenversicherung migrieren auf eigene Kollaborationstools. Bis Herbst 2026 muss jedes Ministerium einen Abfahrtsplan vorlegen. So geht digitale Souveränität! 💪🇪🇺

#DigitaleSouveränität #Linux #OpenSource #Datenschutz

https://www.heise.de/news/Frankreichs-Plan-Weg-von-Windows-hin-zu-Linux-11251566.html

This brilliant cartoon by Tunisian cartoonist Z inspired me to write a short piece for @cartoonmovement about the unchanging nature of political cartoons through time.

In lectures, I often say it's the 'least innovating profession in the world'. But I also explain why that's a good thing: https://cartoonmovement.substack.com/p/the-least-innovating-profession-in

#PoliticalCartoons

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:

- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

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https://www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/electrification-les-mesures-annoncees-par-le-gouvernement

Political history seldom repeats, but it often rhymes - so here is Patrick Wintour laying out an argument that the US/Israeli attack(s) on Iran are looking like becoming the Tangerine Tyrant's Suez.... the parallels may not be exact, but there's a certain plausibility to the argument about how this might be the beginning of the end of US hegemony.

As I have pointed out before its compounding already existing drivers towards a global pivot away form the US.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/iran-trump-suez-crisis-strait-of-hormuz