#wsw2026

E-sailors ....

https://esailors.ut.ee/

#wsw26 #winter #satellite #workshop
#aalto #finland #solar #solarwinds

Sailing #space catching #solar breezes ...

E-Sailors – Home page for UT Tartu Observatory's E-Sailors project.
https://esailors.ut.ee/

#wsw26 #winter #satellite #workshop
#aalto #finland #cubesat

#wsw26 #winter #satellite #workshop
#aalto #finland #cubesat #earthobservation #greenlandforscience #Greenland

@cstross @bsdphk
One reason he has to get more and more greedy is
He fails in one thing after the other.
He kind of had to try as president, and now he shows the world you can fail even in that ultimate position of power.

@lavergnetho
Thank you!

On our way to the
Winter Satellite Workshop
in #Helsinki #Finland #Espoo #Aalto -
Jan 20-23

We will launch our next #DISCOSat student satellite in March.
Also, #WoodenSatellites.

pls make contact here (or there), if you are there!

#WSW2026 #Space #Satellite #Nordics #Europe #Arctics #Technology
#Cubesat #EarthObservation

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!

The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

Join for free: https://nosocss.org/join.html

The society is inspired by the International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS) and its sister Italian society (CS2Italy).

(via @lajello over on the wrong platform )

"Leadership within enterprise and government needs to skill up and grasp the digital realities, and not only parrot wisdom from a consulting industry that itself fully believes only in #US clouds. And secondly, with that newfound understanding, large scale IT operators should reengage with the generic IT capabilities that do exist in Europe, and that until a few years ago were able to run things like our tax agencies."

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/

#europeanAltermatives #insource #microslop #europe

Reachout:

are any #technology and #internet folks from

#zimbabwe

on the #fediverse?

#africa #tech #zim #callingZim #starlink <== #opportunisticHashtagging

#Bluesky now hosts and verified #ICE

who mainly seem to follow journalists critical of them

https://bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.social/follows

Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover

Trump has said Greenland is vital for US security - and Washington would get it "the easy way" or "the hard way" - an apparent reference to buying the island or taking it by force.

"I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security," Trump said at Friday's WH meeting on rural healthcare.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qpy952xvno

#greenland
#economics
#trump #bully

@kali @AndrzejWasowski
(depending on definition of trustworthy ... in any case, no direct statement or such from any high ranking EU figure)

https://www.ibtimes.com/eu-threatens-sanctions-google-microsoft-us-banks-over-trumps-greenland-claims-3794991

https://organiser.org/2026/01/12/334675/world/european-union-to-impose-sanctions-on-the-us-as-a-tool-to-fortify-greenland-reflects-severe-rift-among-nato-allies/

Keen on losing money? Go #AI

#Cory #Doctorov @pluralistic says sorry:

"No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies.

There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. "

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions

#ThereIsNoAI #slop

@kali @AndrzejWasowski

I can not find anything concrete on sanctions against #USTech that #europe might be discussing, beyond the "diplomatic sources", at least not in this context.

@kali @AndrzejWasowski
Which part?

@AndrzejWasowski
Media reports like this?

While closing the US military bases in Europe sounds a lot more powerfu than sanctioning their tech companies,
it will certainly be necessary for us to become independent of them - be it #Microsoft , #Google, #Meta or any other.

https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/European-Union-Draws-Up-Sanctions-Plan-Against-US-Firms-Over-Greenland-Dispute/

#greenland #nato #EU #europe #europeanUnion #europeanTech #europeanAltermatives

@AndrzejWasowski I can assure you we don't.
We are sleeping.

@AndrzejWasowski yes. I have moved my things to forgejo.
University-wide we need to wake up and work on our approach to IT.

I am so grateful for the way our IT systems support my work.

#microslop #MSExit