Every now and then a really good horror story helps concentrate the mind. Remember, Nature is a Mother!

https://thenextweb.com/news/arge-solar-storm-knock-out-power-grid-internet

One large solar storm could knock out the power grid and internet

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as Colombia. Typically, these lights are only visible at higher latitudes, in northern Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia.

Antitrust lawsuits becomes much easier to win when you also write the laws.

https://www.theverge.com/22981261/margrethe-vestager-decoder-antitrust-eu-apple-facebook-google-jedi-blue?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

HOW THE EU IS FIGHTING TECH GIANTS WITH MARGRETHE VESTAGER

… The DMA designates a category of tech “gatekeepers,” then outlines rules against behaviors like giving preference to their own services or gaining an unfair advantage with analytics data. Vestager hopes it can address systemic problems that individual enforcement actions can’t, and that it will streamline cases the EU does bring against companies. But when I caught up with her at the SXSW conference in Austin, where she was speaking about disinformation and democracy, she said there’s still work left to do before it passes.

Looking at where yesterday’s readers came from, apparently I’m a big influencer in Russia. (I have no idea why)

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