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China added a Germany-sized electricity grid last year— (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and Pablo Rosado.) We’ll often see headlines quoting how many gigawatts of new solar farms or coal plants China is building. But it’s hard to get a meaningful sense of scale for how electricity generation in China is changing. The chart puts it in perspective. In 2025 alone, China’s electricity generation increased by almost 500 terawatt-hours (TWh). This is compared here to the total amount of electricity that whole countries generate each year. Germany generates almost exactly that amount. That means China effectively added a Germany-sized grid to its electricity system in just one year. What’s also quite staggering is that almost all of this new generation came from solar and wind. China generated 340 TWh more electricity from solar than the year before. That’s more than our two home countries, the UK and Spain, generate from all sources each year. Low-carbon sources grew so much that coal power in China actually fell slightly.

principles beat propaganda

ENSv2 is coming. A new foundation for names, built for integrations and subnames at scale. What will you build?

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Stairs inside the Château de La Rochefoucauld in France, designed by Leonardo da Vinci

the git extension (Source Control) is also reallly slow

vscode git extension is soooo buggy. i just want to look at diffs. might actually be a vscode ui bug😭

new thaiboy digital x swedm album is fyee 🔥

A massive brown bear was spotted navigating the high-altitude peaks of Alaska.

The NSA spent billions trying to break encryption. One German programmer beat them. He earned only $25k a year. 🤯 Meet Werner Koch 🇩🇪 > German free software developer. Born 1961 in Düsseldorf. > 1997 ~ Richard Stallman called for a free encryption tool. > Only option then: closed-source, US-restricted PGP. > Werner answered. He built GnuPG (GPG) alone — free software to encrypt files, sign software, and verify identity. > 1999 ~ Released GPG 1.0. Fully open source. No restrictions. > Today his code verifies every Linux server update, every Debian package, every Tor Browser download on Earth. > Every signed Linux release depends on it. > Used by activists, dissidents, and security pros worldwide to stay untracked. > Edward Snowden used GPG in 2013 to leak NSA documents. It held up against the world’s most powerful spy agency. 🚀 > 2001 ~ Founded g10code with his brother to work full-time on GPG. > Earned $25,000/year for 14 years while supporting his wife and daughter. > 2012 ~ Funding ended. He had to let go of his only programmer. > 2013 ~ He was the sole maintainer and nearly quit. > 2015 ~ ProPublica story dropped. Internet donated $137k in 24 hours. > Facebook + Stripe pledged $50k/year each. Linux Foundation gave $60k. > Won FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. > Today he still maintains GPG from his home in Erkrath, Germany. One man kept the internet’s secrets, secret. The world almost lost him in 2013. His code still protects yours. Privacy GOAT. 🐐

music.youtube.com/watch?v=18VRVV… i gotta hunnid rack in my bookbag 💸🎒🎶

music.youtube.com/watch?v=FewUrs… death is beautiful

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GitHub outages since Microsoft acquisition 🤣