Brilliant European women powered progress, but the credit did not always go to them.

Melitta Bentz invented the coffee filter. History called her a ‘housewife’.
Marthe Gautier found Down Syndrome’s extra chromosome. Her boss took the spotlight.
Maria Anna Mozart composed masterpieces. Wolfgang Amadeus’ name survived, hers vanished.
Janet Sobel pioneered drip painting. Jackson Pollock was the genius.

This International Women’s Day, let’s restore their stories and give the credit they deserve!

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

While Trump travels the world calling wind turbines a “con job”, Germany and Denmark agrees on a massive wind park near the island of Bornholm.

The park will produce the power for 3 million households across both countries — the equivalent of delivering clean energy to all of Rome.

The US may control the operating systems in our phones, but it looks like Europe will control the future of green energy.

Source (in Danish):
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danmark-og-tyskland-er-endelig-enige-om-danmarkshistoriens-stoerste-energiprojekt

Why Trump retreated on Greenland: When small states deter larger ones

https://www.logicofwar.com/why-trump-retreated-on-greenland/

An elderly Florida woman had just finished her grocery shopping when she returned to the parking lot—and to her surprise, found four young men inside her car, apparently about to drive off.

Without hesitation, she dropped her bags, pulled a handgun from her purse, and shouted, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!”

The startled men didn’t wait for a second warning—they bolted from the vehicle and ran like their lives depended on it.

Still shaking from the adrenaline, the woman gathered her groceries, loaded them into the car, and got into the driver’s seat. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get the key into the ignition.

Puzzled, she looked around the interior… and noticed something odd: a football in the passenger seat, a Frisbee on the floor, and two cases of beer in the back. Slowly, it dawned on her.

She was in the wrong car.

Sure enough, her identical vehicle was parked just a few spaces away. Embarrassed but amused, she moved her bags to her actual car and drove straight to the police station to report the mix-up.

When she finished her story, the desk sergeant burst into laughter. Then he gestured to the other side of the room—where four very pale young men were nervously describing how they’d been carjacked by a “crazy old lady with curly white hair, glasses, under five feet tall, and packing heat.”