Hey British Press, plot twist?
You're not interested? How come?

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This is precisely correct.

"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive."

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html

Some good news for a Monday.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/woman-who-won-legal-case-over-greenhouse-emissions-awarded-top-environmental-prize

This is not the first, and certainly not the last, collaboration of this kind: a Dutch solar park developer and a developer of charging hubs for heavy-duty vehicles are set to join forces: synergy through improved remuneration and, above all, they will avoid many grid-related (cost) issues

https://www.novar.nl/nieuws/novar-en-entent-starten-gezamenlijke-onderneming/

https://www.france24.com/en/france-confirms-oil-crisis-says-30-40-gulf-energy-infrastructure-destroyed

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down.

Google has known about a bug that breaks VPN apps for 7 months, leaving users exposed with no warning or error, just a VPN app that stopped working in the background.

If you're using ANY VPN on Android, you can help us by getting Google's attention to fix it.

We first reported this bug to Google in September 2025.

Others like @mullvadnet and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

Google's response? "I don't see anything unusual."

Here's what's actually happening ⤵️