kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

#MH17 court trial in Netherlands continues with very interesting parts today - looking into alternatives theories of how the Boeing was shot down, including Su-25, "Buk" at Ambrosievka, "Buk" at Zaroschenskoe etc. All three have been proposed by Russian Ministry of Defence, Almaz-Antey or Russian media at different stages.

https://www.courtmh17.com/en/livestream/broadcast.html

In a surprising turn of events, Peskov says Minsk should clarify Protasevich claim that Nexta was funded by a Russian (!) oligarch Mazepin.

Lukashenka is frequently playing both sides - and just as EU was always pissed off with him flirting with Russia, the latter was always just as pissed off for him flirting with EU.

And Russian oligarchs buying out all the national industry is a frequent scare in political circles in Belarus.

So you actually can not pay ransom... if you only have backups 🤔
https://www.verdict.co.uk/fujifilm-ransom-demand/
#ransomware

There are now 31 billion-dollar fintechs in Europe — with ten new 'unicorns' materialising so far in 2021.

Welcome to centralized Internet 🤷 A number of high profile websites are down right now, apparently due to a failure at Fastly (?)

Inny pomysł na demokrację - Więź

Prezentację dokumentu z wypowiedzią Jakuba Wygnańskiego można obejrzeć pod tym adresem: Projekt Oczyszczalnia: Inny pomysł na demokrację. Więcej informacji

https://wiez.pl/2021/06/01/inny-pomysl-na-demokracje/

Sadly, nobody asked why Google still keeps these videos in spite of clearly violating their own terms of service...

"Someone is paying YouTube tens of thousands of euros to attack the critics of the Belarusian regime, advertise a pro-government Telegram channel, show that everything is in order in #Belarus and that the president is a trustworthy person."

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-dirty-side-of-advertising-forced-confessions-from-belarus-on-youtube/

"much as the sun’s nuclear fusion reactions provide energy to the surface world, a different kind of nuclear process — radioactive decay — can sustain life deep below the surface"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/radioactivity-may-fuel-life-deep-underground-and-inside-other-worlds-20210524/

"Uniper’s coal power unit Heyden 4, which was slated for decommissioning as a result of the first round of German hard coal exit tenders, has to remain online in reserve to help secure supply (...) in time for the shutdown of nuclear power plant Grohnde by the end of 2021, it must remain on standby for a while longer. The grid regulator said after Grohnde’s shutdown, there could be “critical load conditions” in spring 2022, when there is less power from wind"

🤷

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/supply-security-uniper-coal-plant-needs-stay-reserve-while-longer

What research & IEA was telling long ago, now in more accessible language

> The UK, for instance, wants all new cars to go electric from 2030. But to switch Britain's 31.5 million petrol and diesel vehicles over to a battery-electric fleet would take an estimated 207,900 tonnes of cobalt, 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate, 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, and 2,362,500 tonnes of copper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57234610

The argument for a carbon price - a very comprehensive economic and political analysis of #co2 tax options

https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price