Gottlieb Freudenreich 🦇🔊 | 🔴

Environmental and Digital Engineer.

Data Scientist and technology enthusiast.

Slaying Moloch

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

So much for supposed "media freedom":

The EU already banned Russian media outlets like RT, forcing social media websites to censor their accounts.

Now Europe is prosecuting 3 people because they shared RT videos on their personal websites.

In the "democratic" EU, you now risk going to prison if you share a Russian media video. This is not an exaggeration.

Source: https://t.co/Oh4CUAstrX

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

NEW RESEARCH: One German tabloid coined one word. "Heizungshammer" spread to 1,100+ articles and helped to effectively kill Germany's heating law.

We analysed 333 BILD articles to trace how tabloid framing became legislation.

Out today, open access:
https://t.co/Hcq0ZoUAjf

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

From the tropics to the boreal north, forests store carbon, regulate rainfall & shield us from floods, droughts & deadly heat.

To limit global temperature rise, we must end deforestation & restore degraded land – protecting nature, reducing disaster risks & creating green jobs.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1987, Costa Rica was 21% forest. Today it's 57%.

In the 1990s, Costa Rica passed a law that pays landowners directly for the ecosystem services their forest provides: carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity, soil stability. The payments are funded by a tax on fossil fuels.

Keep your trees standing and the government cuts you a check. Clear them and you lose the income.

Nearly a million hectares have been protected or restored under the program. Species that had retreated or disappeared from large parts of the country are recovering. The forest came back because the incentive structure changed, not because people were told to care more.

But it crashed the economy, right? Not at all.

Costa Rica became the top per capita agricultural exporter in Latin America. Tourism built around its forests and biodiversity became one of its largest industries. The economy didn't absorb the cost of keeping the forest. The forest became part of what grows their economy.

This is the version of the story most people never hear, the one where protecting nature and economic growth pointed in the same direction because we humans designed it that way.

It's not forests or the economy and it never had to be.

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

📣Meet Qwen3.7-Max — our latest flagship, made for the Agent Era.

A versatile foundation for agents that actually get things done:
🧑‍💻 Coding agent, end to end. Frontend prototypes, multi-file refactors, real debugging — nails it.
🗂️ A reliable office and productivity assistant. Get your work done through MCP integrations and multi-agent orchestration.
⏱️ Long-horizon autonomy. 35 hours straight on a kernel optimization task — 1,000+ tool calls, zero hand-holding.
🔌 Scaffold-agnostic. Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, or your own stack. Consistent reliability everywhere.

API's up on Alibaba Model Studio. You can also take it for a spin on Qwen Studio.

Go build something wild!🏃🏃‍♂️

📖 Blog: https://t.co/y3AupX3Pa0
✅ Qwen Studio: https://t.co/qpTnrCBjWt
⚡️ API：https://t.co/0sys00osKn

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Nym @nym]

In the last few weeks:
🛑Google flagged privacy phones as fraudulent
🇫🇷France criminally charged Elon
🇪🇺 Meta faces $12B fine for not knowing who you are
🇪🇺EU proposed behavior profiling ID for every login
🇬🇧 Palantir UK contract: your data kept 2 years after exit
🇬🇧UK passed facial recognition nationwide
🇬🇧PlayStation mandated face scans to talk to friends
🇩🇪 Germany pushing IP retention with no judicial review
🇷🇺 Russia confirmed the internet has an off switch

➡️Time to take your privacy seriously

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold.

Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away.

Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other.

One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018.

By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie.

Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold.

This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050.

The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead.

The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Hilariously, when you actually read this FT article 👇 one of the main "national security problems for Europe" that could be "posed by Chinese green technology" is, quote: "that the US could demand Europe remove Chinese technology from its energy systems — or face tariffs, sanctions or reduced security commitments."

In other words, a risk that has literally nothing to do with China but everything to do with the US's chokehold on European sovereignty.

[GP Q @argosaki]

🚨 German Scientists Just Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Amazon Secret That Could Feed the World : Ancient Amazonians created Terra Preta — “dark earth” so fertile it stays productive for centuries without fertilizer.
(Videos & Sources below 👇)
German researchers at the University of Bayreuth finally decoded the full recipe in 2025 using isotope analysis + ancient DNA:
• Biochar skeleton from slow-burn organic matter
• Nutrient-rich waste (bones, feces, food scraps)
• Specific microbes (fungi + bacteria) that lock nutrients permanently
Result? Barren soil becomes incredibly fertile forever. Crops outperform modern fertilized fields. And it sequesters massive carbon.
This could restore 2 billion hectares of degraded farmland while pulling billions of tons of CO₂ out of the air.
The ancients knew something we’re only now fully understanding.
✅videos discussing Terra Preta / Amazonian Dark Earth, its fertility secrets, microbial role, and modern applications (including recent studies on replication)
1. “This 5000 Year-Old ‘Soil Secret’ Was Hidden From You (Amazon Terra Preta)”
Fresh discussion on the ancient soil miracle, biochar + microbes, and why it stays fertile permanently.
Live link: https://t.co/NWKnMwQqQ9
2. “The Mysteries of Terra Preta - REVEALED?”
In-depth exploration of Terra Preta formation, the role of organic waste and microbes, and modern recreation attempts.
Live link: https://t.co/lgLYuCc9gJ
3. “Amazon’s black earth. A miracle cure?”
Covers Brazilian and international research on what makes Terra Preta special, lab replication, and reforestation potential.
Live link: https://t.co/vMSjtJoeat
4. “Unveiling Terra Preta: The Amazon’s Ancient Soil Revolution” (Short but engaging)
Quick breakdown of Indigenous creation of dark earth and its lasting fertility.
Live link: https://t.co/LgH8ivOKdU

📚 Full Sources & Further Reading on Terra Preta Breakthrough (2026)
• Scientific background on Amazonian Dark Earths (anthropogenic origin, fertility, and microbial aspects):
Nature Communications & Science Advances papers on Terra Preta formation (ongoing research building into 2025 studies)
https://t.co/JOTQrn0HC8
https://t.co/lrb3ctUXa8
• University of Bayreuth historical contributions (Bruno Glaser and team on biochar/microbes in Terra Preta):
Classic and recent work from Bayreuth researchers on soil biogeochemistry.
• BBC Future overview: “The ‘dark earth’ revealing the Amazon’s secrets”
https://t.co/C5s59nHsn7
• Wikipedia summary with references (great starting point for deeper dives):
https://t.co/yNNBXEvzaW
Note: The specific 2025 Nature Sustainability paper cited in some posts builds on long-running Bayreuth research into microbial communities and permanent nutrient locking. No single new “final decode” paper dominates headlines yet, but the microbial + biochar + waste recipe is the current scientific consensus. If you want the latest peer-reviewed updates, search “Terra Preta microbial community Bayreuth” or “Amazonian Dark Earth 2025”.
#TerraPreta #SoilScience

Time to scale it? 🌱🔬

[Faktencheck_jetzt @Faktencheck2030]

Katherina Reiche, selbst Diplom-Chemikerin, betreibt einen Fossil-Lobbyismus, der so schamlos ist, dass dabei sogar physikalische Grundlagen und offensichtliche Fakten beiseitegeschoben werden. Das ist in seiner Realitätsverweigerung kaum noch von Corona-Leugnung zu unterscheiden. Unserem Land und seiner Zukunft wird auf diese Weise aktiv schwerer Schaden zugefügt.

Meine Verachtung dafür reicht inzwischen tiefer als die für Jens Spahn.
https://t.co/Ff96luYtjG

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Rico Grimm @gri_mm]

Die Energiewende wird leichter, als viele denken.

Das liegt an einem weitverbreiteten Missverständnis, das Skeptiker ausnutzen, um Angst zu schüren.

Denn: Nein, wir müssen das fossile System nicht 1:1 ersetzen. Wir brauchen nicht alle Primärenergie von heute.

„Primärenergie“ ist die Energie, die den natürlichen Quellen entnommen wird. Ein Liter Heizöl enthält 10 Kilowattstunden (kWh), ein Kilogramm Steinkohle 8 kWh usw.

Zurzeit verbraucht die Menschheit global 180.000 TWh Primärenergie. Erneuerbare stellen davon deutlich weniger als zehn Prozent. Um die fünf Prozent.

Das ist ein Fakt, aber komplett irreführend.

Denn Primärenergie ist ein bedeutungsloses Konzept in einer elektrifizierten Welt. Es sagt uns, wie viel Energie in Energiequellen steckt, bevor wir sie umwandeln. Aber nicht diese Energie ist für uns wichtig, sondern die erzeugte Energie.

Wir müssen alle Energiequellen umwandeln, damit sie nützlich werden. Schließlich kippt niemand ein Fass Öl (159 Liter) in seinem Wohnzimmer aus und erwartet, dass es wärmer wird.

Und bei der Umwandlung sind elektrische Systeme deutlich effizienter als fossile. Jede kWh Energie, die wir in ein elektrisches System stecken, kommt mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit dort an, wo wir es verbrauchen wollen: am Rad, im Ofen, in der Wärmepumpe.

Der Motor eines E-Autos ist 2-4 mal effizienter als ein Verbrenner, weil er weniger Abwärme erzeugt. Eine Wärmepumpe kann aus 1 kWh Strom bis zu 4 kWh Wärme erzeugen, da sie mit der Umgebungstemperatur arbeitet.

Ein Gasboiler wiederum verheizt das Gas und das war’s. Verbrenner-Autos sind eigentlich Heizungen auf Rädern. (AKWs sind gigantische Wasserkocher.)

Wer also mit Grafiken vom Primärenergiebedarf herumwedelt und die Energiewende damit kritisieren will, sitzt einem Trugschluss auf. Es ist, als hätten sich die Leute in den 1920ern vor die ersten Autos gestellt und gefragt: „Und? Wie viel Hafer frisst das Ding jeden Tag?“

In Deutschland schmeißen wir wegen der Umwandlungsverluste jedes Jahr mehr als 30 Prozent unserer Primärenergie weg. Weltweit waren es vor der großen Elektrifizierung mehr als 50 Prozent.

Mal eine Frage: Gehst du in den Supermarkt, öffnest die Packung mit zehn Eiern, siehst darin drei kaputte Eier und zahlst zufrieden?

Du bist ja nicht blöd. Wir als Gesellschaft sind es schon. Wir haben 30 Prozent Verschwendung in unserem System eingebaut und hielten das so lange für normal, wie es keine Alternative gab.

Aber jetzt gibt es eine.

Wer mit Primärenergie-Charts herumwedelt oder Technologieoffenheit in Deutschland fordert, sagt eigentlich: „Lasst uns weiter verschwenden!“

[Claudio Zanetti @zac1967]

Dahinter stecken die gleichen Leute, die im Internet Klarnamen verlangen...

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is just one trick media use to manufacture consent for war.

[HighKwollity @lowercosts]

Wisst ihr noch?

Als überall woanders Glasfaser installiert & nur in 🇩🇪 unter unionsgeführter Regierung "die Optimierung von Kupferkabel" durchgezogen wurde?

So um die Dimensionen geht's hier⬇️

Da werden WIR Jahrzehnte lang für draufzahlen & auch noch abgehängt werden

Glatte 6

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

Absolute privacy nightmare.

Governments pushing AML/KYC on the app layer - they think its a good idea to have citizens submit biometrics and IDs to every third party who requests it.

Can they at least mandate zk solutions where the user can prove identity without submitting it to every corporation on the planet?

Bureaucrats "accidentally" legislating a surveillance state and broken security for their citizens.

We need a digital civil rights act now.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

⏰ 1988 — NASA warns climate change will bring more droughts, floods, and extreme storms.

1990s — Fossil fuel industry funds campaigns to undermine climate science.

2015 — Paris Climate Agreement sets 1.5°C as the danger threshold.

2018 — David Attenborough warns collapse of human civilisation is a real risk.

2023 — Scientists say exceeding 1.5°C is now likely within the next decade.

2024 — Hottest year ever recorded on Earth.

2016–2024 — Donald Trump and Reform UK, backed by fossil-fuel interests, deny or downplay the human cause of climate change despite overwhelming scientific consensus.

2025 — Global carbon emissions still at record highs.

2026 — Social media continues to be flooded by fake bots telling the public climate science isn’t true, Media continues to refuses to inform the public of the magnitude of the threat.
Extreme weather events continue to increase.

https://t.co/pAyRlJSu0X

[Gottlieb Freudenreich 🦇🔊 | 🔴 @knollmann1]

@IndiCannArabica

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.

These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.

To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:

BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus

Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated*

Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth

The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains.

This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: https://t.co/Fa0jKFgObW , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here.

Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out:

* In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node
* In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe
* In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network

A third piece of this is distributed block building.

A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that.

Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness.

Onward.