Mastodawn

I don't think #Trump intended this: "Edmunds data shows electrified vehicle consideration hit 23.8% of all shopper research activity for the week of March 9-15 — the highest weekly level of 2026. Online car shoppers were 17% more likely to research an #EV than the week before, with most of the increase driven by battery #ElectricVehicles specifically, not just hybrids." https://electrek.co/2026/03/26/car-owners-turn-to-evs-gulf-energy-infrastructure-destroyed/

Car owners turn to EVs as 30-40% of Gulf energy capacity is destroyed

France confirms 30-40% of Gulf refining capacity destroyed by Iran strikes, creating an 11M barrel/day shortage. EV searches spike 20% as gas nears $4.

Electrek

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Tim Bray 1d ago

Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.

#GenAI

Rhyme Repartee 2d ago

Canada's National Observer 3d ago

Ottawa floats new rule to keep vessels one kilometre from southern resident orcas
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/24/news/ottawa-floats-new-rule-keep-vessels-one-kilometre-southern-resident-orcas?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Canada's National Observer @canada-s-national-observer-NatObserver

Ottawa floats new rule to keep vessels one kilometre from southern resident orcas

Vessels will have to steer one kilometre clear of endangered southern resident orcas under newly proposed federal regulations that are being applauded by commercial whale watchers.

Canada's National Observer

Rhyme Repartee 4d ago

ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan 5d ago

Sums up my experience growing up

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JuneSim63 💚4d ago

"I am here to state emphatically that bond market traders are not the problem, and they are not the threat. .. Instead let us salute the bond markets for warning the British public of the real threat posed to the British economy by the enormously powerful and unaccountable neoliberals governing the Bank of England"
Ann Pettifor

#BankOfEngland #BondMarkets #UKPolitics

Blame the Bank of England for Bond Market Turmoil
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/blame-the-bank-of-england-for-bond

Blame the Bank of England for Bond Market Turmoil

… not 'Bond Market Vigilantes'

System Change

Rhyme Repartee Mar 20

~/.DecentraSphere Mar 20

BIG NEWS: #Germany has just made the standard #OpenDocumentFormat (#ODF) mandatory

» Germany is the #EuropeanUnion’s largest economy, and its decisions have the power to influence the market. Suppliers serving the German public sector will be required to support the ODF standard, and this could serve as an incentive for all other #EU Member States that are building compatible infrastructure to follow suit. «

#DigitalSovereignty #UnplugTrump #DeutschlandStack

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/

BIG NEWS: Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory - TDF Community Blog

The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but highly significant line. Under the technological pillar “Semantic technologies and real-time analysis”, the document mandates the use of just two document formats: ODF and PDF/UA. That is all. Two open, vendor-neutral formats, defined by international standardisation bodies. OOXML, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary format, is not on the list. What is the Deutschland-Stack? The Deutschland-Stack is the German federal government’s project for a sovereign, interoperable digital infrastructure that complies with European standards. It is neither a pilot project nor a policy discussion paper, but the result of a coordinated decision between the Digital Minister, the Federal Chancellery and the Chancellor, backed by the coalition agreement. The document sets out the standards that will govern how all federal public administrations, at all levels, build, procure and manage their digital systems, and envisages concrete implementation by 2028. It is worth reading its architectural principles carefully. “Made in the EU first.” Reduction of lock-in effects.

TDF Community Blog

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Avi Lewis Mar 11

Today, the Carney government joined the Conservatives and the Bloc to defeat Jenny Kwan’s No More Loopholes Bill — legislation that would have stopped Canadian weapons sent to the U.S. from being used to fuel the genocide in Gaza.

It’s a deeply shameful vote that suggests they would rather appease Trump than protect vulnerable civilians. 

But this moment also shows why voices like Jenny Kwan and her colleagues in the NDP caucus matter so much. They continue to champion human rights, peace, and international justice with courage and persistence, even when few others in Parliament will.

Millions of Canadians share that vision. They want Canada to be a force for peace, not a junior arms dealer.

This is exactly why our country needs the NDP.

#cdnpoli #gaza #NDP

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Brad Mar 8

In Australia

Chippy = Carpenter
Sparky = Electrician
Firey = Firefighter

Proposed additions to the lexicon

Buggy = Software developer
Sloppy = Vibe coder

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Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)Mar 8

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JA Westenberg Mar 6

Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

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