Mari Donkers

Agentic coding on a laptop with Pi and a local LLM Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read · On my laptop, which has unified memory, I switched fully to using a local LLM for development, replacing the cloud models I'd normally reach for. #AI #LLM #AgenticCoding photonsphere.org/post/2026-10...

NEW: The EPA is quietly killing its web archive. Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

This Sunday the clocks will be turned back again, even though the EU Parliament set abolition in motion at the end of 2019. Why? #EuropeNews

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 17, 2026 ~ Don't cry for me, Antarctica! "Reality: The doomsday glacier has crossed stability thresholds where internal momentum sustains ice discharge for generations, regardless of cooling interventions." cristinaiglesias.com/newsday/anta...

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Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it.

Er is maar één planeet en daar moeten we het mee doen. Grote vervuilers verdienen € 3.000 per seconde. Terwijl Europa brandt, harken Shell, BP en Total miljarden binnen. KOM NU IN ACTIE om ze eerlijk te laten betalen 🔥 #MakePollutersPay action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...

Wederom een schrikbarend bericht over de staat van onze bruggen. Al een aantal weken verzoek ik de minister om maandelijks te rapporteren over bruggen met veiligheidsrisico’s, maar kabinet en coalitie blokkeren dit nog altijd. Erg onverantwoord. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/mi...

Plastic-Degrading Potential across the Global Microbiome Correlates with Recent Pollution Trends #Plastic #Pollution #Environment journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Kazakhstan is allowing crypto miners to use excess associated gas from oil fields to generate their own electricity, in a bid to reduce gas flaring and increase oil output while attracting miners back to the country.

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The robot uses electrostatic repulsion to remove dust from #solarpanel surfaces. It requires no water, but can clean a panel in under a minute. This boosts energy output by 15%, as dust reduces panel efficiency. The robot is autonomous and solar-powered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdN... #ActOnClimate

Portuguese scientists studied options for storing energy as compressed air in deep porous rock. In the best case, one reservoir could power a small town.

France is requiring many large outdoor parking lots to install solar canopies or green roofs covering at least 50% of their area. The rule applies to parking areas larger than 1,500 m², with phased deadlines based on size. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

#Starlink’s Signal Leakage Is Threatening Radio Astronomy’s Most Critical Frequencies Curtin University study finds SpaceX hardware leakage up to 10,000 times stronger than the cosmic signals SKA-Low must detect. #ElonMusk #Astronomy #ITU www.gadgetreview.com/starlinks-si...

China’s electric vehicle adoption has hit an all-time high, as the Iran war drives motorists to shift away from petrol cars despite a sluggish automotive market. A record 65.2% of the 1.54 million cars sold in China last month were pure electric or plug-in www.scmp.com/business/chi... #ActOnClimate

Iceland’s government will submit a bill in ​February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling.

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Ratatui just crossed 50 MILLION downloads on crates.io! 🐀🎉 Nearly 6k dependent crates, hundreds of apps and 22k+ stars... Thank you for cooking TUIs with us! ♥️ @ratatui.rs / github.com/ratatui/rata... #rustlang #ratatui

🔬🌕 The next breakthrough in SETI may come not from a radio telescope, but from a microscope. Researchers propose searching lunar soil for microscopic engineered particles—potential traces of technologies that could have existed billions of years ago. 🧪 🔭

Spain pushes for EU #oilandgas tax to pay for climate change response after drought and wildfires ravaged western Europe during the region’s hottest summer on record www.ft.com/content/86da... via @FT #PedroSanchez #ClimateEmergency #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

South-east Asia choked as Indonesian #wildfires and volcanic ash spread. Forest and land fires have serious impacts on ecological aspects and more than 50,000 cases of respiratory infection across seven provinces between July and August . www.ft.com/content/0f3b... via @FT #ClimateEmergency

Today, the #YaraSluiskil plant, the largest commercial carbon capture and storage project in Europe started its operations in the NL-Zeeland province. The CO2 will be permanently stored under the Norwegian North Sea at the Northern Lights facility ec.europa.eu/commission/p... #CCS #ActOnClimate

Strong economic case for tackling #airpollution and climate change together, UN finds - They share many of the same drivers, including the burning of fossil fuels as well as some agricultural practices and industrial processes. www.ft.com/content/3aec... via @FT #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate

Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, is hiring a firm to collect “publicly available voter registration files & voter history files” for the agency’s “fraud detection & data segmentation activities,” according to solicitation details for the contract, which were just published.

‘Disgusting’: Donald Trump faces backlash for posting AI image of him and Dolly Parton

Is Twitter back? Ex-employee fights to revive the blue bird

Iceland is one of the only countries that still allows commercial whaling. Norway and Japan are the others. #EuropeNews

"Europe's booming solar fleet has saved €20 billion in gas imports since Iran war, finds new analysis" As oil and gas prices remain high due to the Iran war - solar power is cushioning the impact across Europe, investment needs to continue though. www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/s...

Australia to legally require large-scale data centers to secure new clean energy supplies Legally binding large-scale data centres to supply their own new clean energy sources of power www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/16/l...

“Thanks to the rise of #renewableenergy, Spanish households and businesses have access to some of the cheapest electricity in Europe" as many other countries continue to struggle with high energy prices. www.euronews.com/2026/07/10/w... #renewables are cheaper than #oilandgas #ActOnClimate

Data centres don’t just use large amounts of water and electricity, they’re heating the environment too, study finds. #AI #Energy #DataCenter #ExcessHeat www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

This is interesting, Sodium batteries are now hitting Tesla lithium cell benchmarks, still some work to be done re cold weather and density, but for reducing battery prices, its fantastic! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A much cleaner alternative to lithium batteries is on the way Sodium-ion uses sodium to carry the charge inside the battery, rather than lithium. “It’s the same raw material that goes into table salt,” Dales said. “It’s an abundant element.” www.motherjones.com/environment/...

#ClimateChange stings beekeepers “In the past, there were big #climate differences between southern and central regions, so it was very good for producing #honey. But now, because of global warming, flowers seem to bloom all at once nationwide,” he said. #bees www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/as...

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The UAE is storing solar electricity as heat inside molten salt at 565 degrees — generating power through the night without burning a single molecule of gas. Photovoltaic for daytime baseload, concentrated solar thermal for evening and night dispatch, battery storage for rapid response #ActOnClimate