Alright, the chance that Musk will imminently destroy Twitter is now significant enough that I'm dusting off my old, little-used Mastodon account. It's here, follow me if you care to:
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This also means I will be paying a lot more attention to the European tech scene from now on. It's been a while!
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I'm happy to announce I've returned to the tech journalism fold, and will now be regularly writing Fortune's Data Sheet essay!
Here's today's edition: fortune.com/2023/02/06/bot and you can sign up to receive Data Sheet in your inbox here: mynewsletters.fortune.com/data-sheet
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FfS. Don’t wake them!
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South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater has received environmental approval for a lithium mine and processing plant in Finland.
Construction will start on the lithium refinery in the next few weeks.
Will be the first European producer of battery-grade lithium from own ore.
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Everything I know about oil rigs, I learned in the last week from Amazon Prime’s “The Rig”
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Jupiter's moon Io in true color | NASA
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In 2020, when it was on the brink of its own energy crisis, Vietnam added 8.3GW of rooftop solar capacity in just SIX MONTHS.
The Vietnamese government offered incentives to households, including generous feed-in tariffs.
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Just in case the #OnlineSafetyBill fails, the Government are lining up consultations to criminalise possession of "sophisticated and bespoke encrypted communication devices".
So, no new apps, then.
Suella Braverman on Home Office, at TheyWorkForYou theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2023-0
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"Gross, entitled men" seems to be this week's theme:
1) "She friend-zoned him. He’s suing her for $2.3 million over it" washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/
2) "Effective altruism" sexual harassment time.com/6252617/effect
3) "Domestic abusers have guns rights too"
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Ich bin mit voller Kraft Bundesinnenministerin. Künftig werde ich hier aber auch über meine Arbeit als SPD-Spitzenkandidatin für die Landtagswahl in Hessen informieren, daher wird dieser Kanal nicht mehr von meinem Ministerium betreut.
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Many people are asking why I’d want a selfie with George Santos, to which I say who *wouldn’t* want a picture with the lead singer of Queen, father of Texas BBQ, Purple Heart Iraq war hero, and three-time Super Bowl champion?
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Congressman George Santos enjoying a night out at Hill Country… @KaitlynFrancis7
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Whoa. "We have completely got rid of our dependency on Russian fossil fuels. It went much faster than we expected... So we have the possibility to redirect or reorient the additional funding of REPowerEU – ≈€250 billion – to our net-zero industries."
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Feel free to add on with your favorite Twitter bots.
Next week we will watch a fun part of the internet be killed. Who will remember them? They’ll go inactive and one day Twitter will claw back the accounts…it will be like they never existed.
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A eulogy for my favorite bots as they live out their final days on this hellsite.
Goodbye SF Quakebot, not sure how I’ll get my earthquake news in the future… but you were my first stop whenever I felt a small shake or jolt. twitter.com/earthquakesSF/…
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Next week, there won't be a free Twitter API anymore. As a result, I will stop any work on non-commercial projects that use the API and will have to re-evaluate which commercial projects are still feasible.
This change will destroy research, activism and commercial projects.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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Very sad to see the Pope delete this nugget of wisdom for some reason
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wow his visit to philly really stuck with him huh twitter.com/Pontifex/statu
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US chipmaker Wolfspeed plans to spend €3B to build a factory in west Germany on the site of a decommissioned coal plant, producing chips for EVs and industry ( / Financial Times)
on.ft.com/3DxN9il
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For now, I’m not too worried about being replaced by AI.
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Superb piece of work here, showing basically that there are more than enough minerals to power to world entirely with renewables. See also technologyreview.com/2023/01/31/106
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How many tons of minerals might new clean power generation require over the next 30 yrs? In producing those minerals, how much CO2 may be emitted?
Our new @Joule_CP paper is out today! [THREAD]
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Meta has been paying to scrape other sites for years while suing companies that scrape Facebook and Instagram
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Big thanks to and colleagues in Kyiv for all their help verifying the photos, videos and locations!
BBC exclusive: Russian army officer says he witnessed war crimes in Ukraine
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If your cat sits on your computer keyboard half way through an online shop, always check the basket when checking out.
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Even if you don’t plan to use Mastodon currently, I recommend you use some following discovery tool (twitodon.com) now because after February 9th you will no longer be able to leave this closed platform.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead
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Just a reminder that authoritarianism doesn’t succeed by crushing everyone violently. It relies on people caving to pressures and others simply capitulating out of fear.
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College Board caves on AP African American history course nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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The two tweets after this in the thread are total non-sequiturs. But this is quite a major shift with a very short notice period.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead
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How do you introduce electric cars in a country suffering unprecedented rolling blackouts? South Africa is finding out
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amazing things are happening on twitter dot com
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Wow. Celsius used investor/customer funds to prop up the price of its own CEL token, helping employees including CEO Alex Mashinsky sell, according to the Examiner.
Mashinsky cashed out $68.7mn.
Employees said what they were doing was “very ponzi like”.
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NEW: EU solar and wind beat fossil gas for the first time in 2022 - and coal failed to make a comeback. “Europe is hurtling towards a clean, electrified economy, and this will be on full display in 2023,” says @ember's
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Whole Foods is out here tearing families apart
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the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet
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This. Is. Art.
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This sounds like some interview.
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Taken in Simonstown this morn.
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⏰Big decision on 🇪🇺🇺🇸 transfers from the EDPB due in c. 1 month if the DPAs can agree on a two-thirds basis (or c. 10 weeks, if they can't). This will likely unravel quicker than the EU can adopt its US adequacy decision...
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Breaking: The Irish data regulator has triggered a dispute resolution mechanism for the Meta data transfers case after failing to resolve objections with other EU regulators.
Reminder: Meta has said it might have to shutter its services if the order is confirmed.
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German police have detained a 2nd man suspected of passing classified material from the BND foreign intelligence service to Russia. He is accused of receiving information from a senior BND analyst & traveling to Russia to deliver it to an intel service.
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