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  1. Prototype Architectural Battery Turns Public Space Into Urban Energy Storage in Ontario, Canada

    Jack Self and Josh Harskamp’s architectural battery in Cannington, Ontario, 2026. Image © Jon Laytner Published on August…
    #Canada #Architecture #energy #energyefficiency #energytechnology #Environmentalimpact #infrastructure #ontario #publicinfrastructure #PublicSpace #streetfurniture #UrbanAcupuncture #urbanplanning
    europesays.com/canada/164985/

  2. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  3. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  4. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  5. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  6. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  7. Opinion: A Billion-Dollar Fine Isn’t a Punishment. It’s a Warning That We Waited Too Long.

    By Cliff Potts | WPS News Opinion

    BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, Philippines, July 29, 2026 — 0005 PhST

    There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where a corporation can be fined nearly US$1 billion for violating competition rules—and investors barely blink.

    That is not a sign of successful regulation.

    It is evidence that regulators waited far too long.

    The modern internet did not spring from Silicon Valley. It was built upon decades of publicly funded research beginning in the 1960s through the work of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, public universities, and countless scientists and engineers whose work was financed by American taxpayers.

    Our parents paid for it.

    Our grandparents paid for it.

    We paid for it.

    The protocols, the backbone, the research, and many of the technologies that made today’s internet possible were developed with public money because governments believed global computer networking would benefit society as a whole.

    They were right.

    What they failed to anticipate was that the roads they helped build would eventually be dominated by a handful of private gatekeepers.

    Today, a small number of corporations influence what news people discover, what applications succeed, which businesses customers find, whose music gets heard, whose videos appear in recommendations, and increasingly, whose original work is absorbed into artificial intelligence systems.

    That is an extraordinary concentration of power.

    The European Union’s decision to fine Google approximately €890 million should not be viewed simply as another corporate penalty.

    It should be viewed as a confession.

    A confession that governments allowed a communications system built upon public investment to become so concentrated that one company can violate competition rules, write a check approaching a billion dollars, and continue operating almost as though nothing happened.

    When a billion-dollar penalty becomes another quarterly expense, the problem is no longer the fine.

    The problem is the market structure.

    This is not about punishing success.

    Successful businesses should succeed.

    Innovation should be rewarded.

    Investment should be rewarded.

    Competition should be rewarded.

    Gatekeeping should not.

    No private corporation should possess the practical ability to determine whether thousands of independent publishers, software developers, musicians, researchers, educators, and small businesses can realistically reach an audience.

    The internet functions as essential public infrastructure.

    Societies regulate highways.

    They regulate railroads.

    They regulate electrical grids.

    They regulate radio spectrum.

    They regulate banking.

    Yet somehow we have accepted the idea that the gateways controlling access to information for billions of people should largely regulate themselves.

    That assumption deserves to be challenged.

    The internet has become too important to modern civic life, commerce, education, journalism, and democratic participation to be governed primarily by the commercial interests of a few extraordinarily wealthy companies.

    The European Union has at least begun asking difficult questions.

    Other democratic governments—including the United States—should be asking them as well.

    There is another number worth considering. Google can absorb nearly a billion dollars in regulatory penalties without threatening its existence. Independent publishers routinely make decisions about whether they can afford domain registrations, web hosting, software subscriptions, or even a public means of contact. That is not merely an economic disparity. It demonstrates how concentrated the digital marketplace has become. The companies controlling access to the internet possess resources beyond the imagination of the independent voices trying to reach the public.

    The question is no longer whether Google, or any other technology giant, has become too powerful.

    A company capable of treating a billion-dollar regulatory penalty as a manageable business expense has already answered that question.

    The real question is whether elected governments are finally prepared to reclaim meaningful oversight over the digital public square that taxpayers helped create more than half a century ago.

    If they are not, then today’s gatekeepers will become tomorrow’s permanent rulers of the internet.

    That should concern everyone—regardless of which search engine, social network, or smartphone they happen to use.

    Contact Cliff Potts

    Cliff Potts
    Founder, Publisher & Editor
    WPS News
    Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines

    WPS News
    WPS.News

    Bluesky — Preferred Public Contact
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    Cliff Potts
    CliffPotts.org

    Cliff Potts is also the creator of Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion, with music available on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TIDAL, Pandora, and most major streaming platforms worldwide.

    For news, commentary, music, and ongoing projects, begin with WPS.News or contact Cliff publicly through Bluesky at WTFM.LOL.

    #antitrust #ARPANET #bigTech #CliffPotts #CliffPottsTheAIRebellion #competitionPolicy #digitalGatekeepers #DigitalMarketsAct #EuropeanUnion #Google #independentPublishers #internetGovernance #NSFNET #Occupy25 #publicInfrastructure #technologyRegulation #WPSNewsOpinion #WPSNews
  8. Artistic Transformation of a Dutch Power Substation into a Turquoise Wall

    📰 Original title: Studio RAP Turns a Dutch Power Substation Into a Rippling Turquoise Wall

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/artistic-trans

    #art #ceramicart #publicinfrastructure #urbandesign

  9. Artistic Transformation of a Dutch Power Substation into a Turquoise Wall

    📰 Original title: Studio RAP Turns a Dutch Power Substation Into a Rippling Turquoise Wall

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/artistic-trans

    #art #ceramicart #publicinfrastructure #urbandesign

  10. Artistic Transformation of a Dutch Power Substation into a Turquoise Wall

    📰 Original title: Studio RAP Turns a Dutch Power Substation Into a Rippling Turquoise Wall

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/artistic-trans

    #art #ceramicart #publicinfrastructure #urbandesign

  11. Artistic Transformation of a Dutch Power Substation into a Turquoise Wall

    📰 Original title: Studio RAP Turns a Dutch Power Substation Into a Rippling Turquoise Wall

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/artistic-trans

    #art #ceramicart #publicinfrastructure #urbandesign

  12. Trump Reflecting Pool Blame Turns a Failed Renovation Into Another Culture War

    Trump Reflecting Pool Blame shows how a botched National Mall renovation became another loyalty test instead of basic accountability.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  13. Ottawa needs so much money for its infrastructure backlog | Opinion

    In 2003, I published a book on public infrastructure in Canada, called Down the Road Never Travelled. It…
    #Canada #Ottawa #publicinfrastructure
    europesays.com/canada/77289/

  14. 'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

    #publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

    zdnet.com/article/euro-office-

  15. 'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

    #publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

    zdnet.com/article/euro-office-

  16. 'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

    #publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

    zdnet.com/article/euro-office-

  17. 'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

    #publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

    zdnet.com/article/euro-office-

  18. 'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

    #publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

    zdnet.com/article/euro-office-

  19. Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

    A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

    Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

    Maybe it is about better systems.

    open.substack.com/pub/associat

    #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

  20. Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

    A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

    Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

    Maybe it is about better systems.

    open.substack.com/pub/associat

    #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

  21. Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

    A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

    Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

    Maybe it is about better systems.

    open.substack.com/pub/associat

    #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

  22. Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

    A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

    Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

    Maybe it is about better systems.

    open.substack.com/pub/associat

    #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

  23. Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

    A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

    Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

    Maybe it is about better systems.

    open.substack.com/pub/associat

    #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

  24. RE: mastodon.au/@RenewEconomyRSSFe

    The real issue here is the possibility to excise all #ProfitMaking #PowerGeneration from the Australian Grid. And the concerted efforts of #corporations to maintain their #RevenueChannels come what may with the help of current govt(s) support (legislative, regulatory, Tax and Funding support).

    Full #HomePV penetration backed by #CommunityBatteries and #PublicInfrastructure (Transmission and control systems) could provide #FreeElectricity to all Homes in Australia. #ProfitMaking providers would be restricted to commercial consumption and exports (suitably taxed for a healthy and equitable economy). None of this is beyond the realms of possibility, political will is the only thing lacking to make the #3HoursFreeElectricity a 24 hour reality.

    #AusPol #renewables

  25. RE: eupolicy.social/@openfuture/11

    "The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."

    #digitalinfrastructure

  26. RE: eupolicy.social/@openfuture/11

    "The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."

    #digitalinfrastructure

  27. RE: eupolicy.social/@openfuture/11

    "The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."

    #digitalinfrastructure

  28. RE: eupolicy.social/@openfuture/11

    "The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."

    #digitalinfrastructure

  29. लंदन की तर्ज पर दिल्ली की सड़कों का नया रूप: पैदल यात्रियों के लिए अलग लेन, पूरे इलाके रहेंगे गुलजार।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #DelhiRoads #PedestrianFriendly #NightEconomy #UrbanPlanning #LondonModel #SmartCity #PublicInfrastructure #SPA #MCD #Delhi #News

    Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

  30. लंदन की तर्ज पर दिल्ली की सड़कों का नया रूप: पैदल यात्रियों के लिए अलग लेन, पूरे इलाके रहेंगे गुलजार।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #DelhiRoads #PedestrianFriendly #NightEconomy #UrbanPlanning #LondonModel #SmartCity #PublicInfrastructure #SPA #MCD #Delhi #News

    Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

  31. लंदन की तर्ज पर दिल्ली की सड़कों का नया रूप: पैदल यात्रियों के लिए अलग लेन, पूरे इलाके रहेंगे गुलजार।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #DelhiRoads #PedestrianFriendly #NightEconomy #UrbanPlanning #LondonModel #SmartCity #PublicInfrastructure #SPA #MCD #Delhi #News

    Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

  32. alojapan.com/1457438/osaka-gif Osaka Gifted Gold Bars Worth $3.6 Million to Improve Water Pipes #AnonymousDonation #Japan #news #Osaka #OsakaNews #PublicInfrastructure #大阪 #大阪府 Photo: Zlaťáky.cz via Unsplash Osaka, Japan’s third-largest city, recently received an unexpected gift. Back in November, an anonymous donor presented the city with gold bars worth ¥560 million (about $3.6 million). But the 46-pound bars came with a specific stipulation: the money must be used to im

  33. alojapan.com/1457368/osaka-gif Osaka Gifted Gold Bars Worth $3.6 Million to Improve Water Pipes #AnonymousDonation #Japan #news #Osaka #OsakaNews #PublicInfrastructure #大阪 #大阪府 Photo: Zlaťáky.cz via Unsplash Osaka, Japan’s third-largest city, recently received an unexpected gift. Back in November, an anonymous donor presented the city with gold bars worth ¥560 million (about $3.6 million). But the 46-pound bars came with a specific stipulation: the money must be used to im

  34. democracynow.org/2026/2/9/head

    A federal judge has unfrozen $16 billion in funds withheld by Trump for rail infrastructure between NY & NJ. Friday’s court order c
    Trump told Schumer that he would release the funds if Schumer supported renaming Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him. #TrumpNaziRegimeGrifters #PublicInfrastructure

  35. democracynow.org/2026/2/9/head

    A federal judge has unfrozen $16 billion in funds withheld by Trump for rail infrastructure between NY & NJ. Friday’s court order c
    Trump told Schumer that he would release the funds if Schumer supported renaming Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him. #TrumpNaziRegimeGrifters #PublicInfrastructure

  36. democracynow.org/2026/2/9/head

    A federal judge has unfrozen $16 billion in funds withheld by Trump for rail infrastructure between NY & NJ. Friday’s court order c
    Trump told Schumer that he would release the funds if Schumer supported renaming Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him. #TrumpNaziRegimeGrifters #PublicInfrastructure

  37. democracynow.org/2026/2/9/head

    A federal judge has unfrozen $16 billion in funds withheld by Trump for rail infrastructure between NY & NJ. Friday’s court order c
    Trump told Schumer that he would release the funds if Schumer supported renaming Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him. #TrumpNaziRegimeGrifters #PublicInfrastructure

  38. The @EUCommission will be present across several sessions at #FOSDEM26 🇪🇺

    Topics include:
    👉 Open-source implementation of European Data Spaces (SIMPL)
    👉 Interoperability & the DMA
    👉 Cyber Resilience Act & engagement with FOSS
    👉 Sustaining Free & Open Source Software
    👉 Open source in railways & mobility

    A strong signal that #EU digital policy is increasingly built with the FOSS ecosystem, not just around it.

    #FOSDEM #FOSS #EUdigital #DigitalCommons #OpenSource #PublicInfrastructure

  39. The @EUCommission will be present across several sessions at #FOSDEM26 🇪🇺

    Topics include:
    👉 Open-source implementation of European Data Spaces (SIMPL)
    👉 Interoperability & the DMA
    👉 Cyber Resilience Act & engagement with FOSS
    👉 Sustaining Free & Open Source Software
    👉 Open source in railways & mobility

    A strong signal that #EU digital policy is increasingly built with the FOSS ecosystem, not just around it.

    #FOSDEM #FOSS #EUdigital #DigitalCommons #OpenSource #PublicInfrastructure