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European dependence on russian fossil fuels is almost fully ended. The whole EU buts less than Turkey or South-Korea. Finanl nail in January (then only Greek shipping remains)

Jeg tenker mitt når Leo Rundgren Olsen, Junior Portfolio Manager i DNB Disruptive Opportunities, i NRK Nyhetsmorgen bruker konkursen i Kodak som eksempel på det han analyserer og sier at den kom fordi de ikke takla internettboomen. Det skjedde fordi de ikke takla overgangen til digital fotografi.

Det er så snålt, så fremmed, når forfatterkolleger snakker om at de bruker KI. Jeg hører bare: Ja visst bruker vi anabole steroider, bloddoping og EPO! Ødelegger tilliten til sporten? Sikkert ikke. Se så raske vi blir! Og for et resultat, det står vi inne for! www.morgenbladet.no/boker/for-ku...

Counterpoint: CEOs should look at their companies as if they needed to provide a service for every citizen, constantly renew their social licence to operate, and plan for the long term wellbeing of the whole country. www.ft.com/content/8255...

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

"electrified" her omfattar dessverre hybridbilar, som jo ikkje er el-bilar. Faktiske el-bilar er på 22% - som òg er bra.

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

Andel som ikkje stemte, gjekk frå 21,1% til 19,2%, blanke stemmer frå 1,8% til 1,1%, annullerte stemmer frå 2,9% til 2,1%. elpais.com/america/2026...

The Bolsonarists didn't change their minds, they didn't suddenly stop believing that their man could do no wrong and that Lula was an existential threat to Brazil. They were simply outvoted by those who refused to risk a return to fascism, and decided not to sit this election out.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

Congratulations to my friend Lula on his electoral victory. Democracy and multilateralism have won in Brazil. Europe’s partnership with Brazil is thriving. We will remain by your side for the years to come.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Hah, jammen skulle du ha sett! #Brasil

Landet utanfor Brasil med flest brasilianarar med stemmerett i dag er, overraskande for meg, Japan. Der vann Bolsonaro i dag med 80%. I Europa vann stort sett Lula, 68% i Spania, 83% i Frankrike. Kven er brasilianarane i Japan?

I do not at foreclose the possibility of various sorts of political shenanigans even after Vucic’s concession but this extraordinary result in Serbia is what happens when people show up: in the streets, at the ballot box. That’s the lesson. If you care about democracy, show up.

Wow!

Lesverdig www.nrk.no/artikkel/nor...

Op 22 oktober 2026 zijn in Den Haag 31 nieuwe stolpersteine geplaatst. Foto stolperstein voor Meijer Turfreijer in de Koningstraat in Den Haag (foto Michel Koppe) www.joodserfgoeddenhaag.nl/22-oktober-2... Overzicht van alle 772 stolpersteine in Den Haag: www.joodserfgoeddenhaag.nl/stolperstein...

Looking at this 2019 article with hindsight is wild. It’s a great reminder that despite Zelenskyy taking a milder stance toward russia than Poroshenko, Putin still launched a full-scale invasion regardless. Appeasement to russia dosent work.

What is happening to the BBC?! Pride pins edited out of University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move www.leicester.news/bbc-edits-ou...

Noe sier meg at det ikke _egentlig_ er snakk om bombekastere

But more to the point I think the ease with which that can be explained is an indictment of this kind of piece - which The Atlantic loves - staring in incomprehension at the easily comprehensible and then trying to make some broader cultural point about it. Instead of just talking to people.

Mange er glad for at det ikkje går an å bli stevna for retten for dette lenger. Har eg høyrd.

LOL, read this thread

Denne var veldig, veldig bra.

www.quora.com/What-is-the-... still one of my favourite explaination on it

Elbiler er i flyten, bortsett fra i USA.

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

Chai-te, nan-brød, salsa-saus, og no: forms-skjema!

Spot on:

Russiske aktørers forsøk på å stoppe Barents Observer kommer i mange ulike varianter. Dette svekker på ingen måte vår motivasjon til å styrke fri og uavhengig journalistikk i det norsk-russiske grenselandet her i nord.

I 22 år har etikk gitt god butikk for Oljefondet. Nå vil Gjedrem-utvalget åpne opp for å ta mer kortsiktige finansielle hensyn enn den gode langsiktige og ansvarlige strategien som har vært suksess-formelen til fondet. Ikke en god dag for våre framtidige generasjoner

”Vad heter banan på norska?”

This looks awesome. Really excited to see what Gerwig does with it:

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ja og amen! Tråd:

likewise far-right discourse online has not magically disappeared all of a sudden. everybody come back down to earth please, as awful as earth may be sometimes