Notices by Frank Sonderborg (fsonder@mastodon.ie)

Country Joe and his Fish got screwed;-O

At the peak of the crisis, Denmark sent blood bags to Greenland and planned to destroy airstrips in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to slow a potential adversary’s advance as much as possible and around 300 professional soldiers are now stationed there.
(Sign of the bully. Stab countries like Canada & Denmark in the back, that are so friendly they cannot strike back. Trust has gone from these wonderful countries and will never come back;-)
https://www.euractiv.com/news/denmark-deploys-first-conscripts-to-greenland/

At Titan’s surface, atmospheric density is roughly 4.5 times the value near sea level on Earth, while surface gravity is about one-seventh of Earth’s. Those two numbers do different jobs. Dense air gives a rotor more mass to push downward. Low gravity means a spacecraft of a given mass has much less weight for the rotors to support.
https://spacedaily.com/t-dragonfly-titan-40-times-less-hover-power/

And what does our ai panel think of this?

Part of this discrepancy likely stems from the fact that many countries don’t have the resources for precise data collection, and difficulty traveling to far flung rural areas only exacerbates census-counting discrepancies. A widespread underrepresentation of rural populations across the world could have profound impacts on those communities, as censuses are central to figuring out how to divvy up resources.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a71546207/human-population-miscalculated-research

You can take a horse to the water.
But a pencil has to be lead
https://www.techradar.com/pro/us-marine-corps-gets-six-blind-f-35b-stealth-fighters-loaded-with-lead-ballast-instead-of-advanced-radars-new-apg-38-radar-wont-be-available-till-2028-and-cant-even-be-used-at-full-capacity-till-2031

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀
Go Spain! Go Spain!

Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes.
According to Vänttinen, the most borrowed items after books in Helsinki libraries are spaces: rooms that can be pre-booked, free of charge, to meet, study, hold political discussions or make music. Among portable items, board games and console games top the list.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland

Honey, were home;-)

He had failed to tell them about the many aborted dives and hundreds of technical issues that had plagued the Titan during its two short seasons in the North Atlantic. Or that in July 2022, while ascending, passengers had heard an explosive noise that shook the submersible, which Rush had never investigated. Or that the sub was operating under the radar, that he had refused to have it inspected or classified by any maritime authority
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/25/my-husband-and-son-titan-submersible-christine-dawood-what-happened

The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

That 430,000-year cycle stayed intact in Kane’s simulations, regardless of whether Mars was present. But when Mars was removed, two other major cycles, one that takes 100,000 years to complete, and another stretching 2.3 million years, disappeared entirely.
“When you remove Mars, those cycles vanish,” Kane said. “And if you increase the mass of Mars, they get shorter and shorter because Mars is having a bigger effect.”
https://scitechdaily.com/an-unexpected-planetary-neighbor-may-play-a-surprising-role-in-earths-climate-cycles/

Moltbook was created using a tool called OpenClaw, an AI agent that acts as a personal digital assistant on a user's computer to carry out tasks like writing emails, managing appointments and building apps.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1x788dreo

Even when HTTPS is in place, an attacker can still intercept domain look-up traffic and use DNS cache poisoning to corrupt tables stored by the target’s operating system. The AirSnitch MitM also puts the attacker in the position to wage attacks against vulnerabilities that may not be patched. Attackers can also see the external IP addresses hosting webpages being visited and often correlate them with the precise URL.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/

Recent events have shown the “rules-based international order” is effectively dead, Carney said, which means Canada and other countries have no choice but to create new alliances to oppose pressure tactics and intimidation by the world’s great powers.
“Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu,” the prime minister told the summit.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/01/20/greenland-trump-tariffs-eu-live-updates/

Hours later, the board put out a fresh statement, apologising to Abdel-Fattah for "how the decision was represented" and announcing that the Writers' Week could "no longer go ahead".
"We recognise and deeply regret the distress this decision has caused," it wrote.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4jkwz2z8o

A study this week found that approximately six thousand child sex abuse and sexual harassment images are now being generated (and published online) every hour by the X Internet Unlimited Company.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-factory/

Many defence ministries in Europe now favour providing military training to young adults as a way of bulking up their reserve forces in the long term.
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/1214/1548788-europe-conscription-incentivised-military-service/

The cosmonaut allegedly photographed SpaceX documentation and then 'used his phone' to export classified information," The Insider wrote (in Russian; translation by Google), citing the work of launch analyst Gregory Trishkin.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/cosmonaut-removed-from-spacexs-crew-12-mission-for-violating-national-security-rules-report

Berlin's open-ended nightlife laws (clubs can stay open for days) and its cultural support for the arts have made it a global capital of creativity, and nowhere is that more visible than in the electronic music scene. But Berlin's reputation for cool has never been about looking good; it's about freedom.
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/travel/2025/1111/1543302-finding-the-beat-of-berlin-from-berghein-to-hackescher-markt/