EU elections: populist right makes gains but pro-European centre holds - Pretty good round up of the elections. I'm finding all these parties with similar sounding names, and parties within parties, and the trans-national nature of the whole thing very confusing. Quite an exiting event this time around. I feel someone should make something like a Ven diagram of all the parties. theguardian.com #

EU elections: Macron to dissolve French parliament after crushing loss to far right - France seems to be somewhat at the centre of much of the election drama. It's kind of shocking that Le Penn has done so well, getting twice the support as Macron did. In what has been described as a poker move Macron has called a snap national election in response. Exciting stuff. Interesting that it will happen only a few days after the UK's snap election, which was called last week by Sunak. So much happening in Europe at the minute. Plus it's the first time 16+ year olds have gotten the vote in several countries. theguardian.com #

Hundreds of millions head to polls on final day of European elections - Great sunmary piece, this one has just the right amount of detail and breadth across the entire region. Seems like the final results will be known by the end of today. I'm interested to see the participation rates in the various countries. theguardian.com #

Centre-right on course to strengthen majority in EU election, as far-right makes gains - Some coverage from the Beeb, several bite sized summaries from various reporters across the continent, focusing in on hard facts rather than over analyse, quite successfully I think cutting through much of the confusing system of coalitions. I'm still kind of confused, but maybe I'll at least recognise some of the names over the next few years. bbc.com #

India outpacing Asian rivals in data center capacity, report says - In non EU election news, turns out data centre growth is a pretty intetesting metric, a proxy for economic growth? India has been doing relatively well recently as a country. asia.nikkei.com #

Solana saw nearly half a million tokens launched last month - It's become the most popular chain for launching new tokens recently, very popular especially with memecoins. Are there any open source software projects that have launched coins? I wonder if I could create a coin and attach it in some way to the development of my static site generator. I'd have next to no clue how one would actually run a coin. Probably a far too outlandish an idea. On the other hand might be kind of fun. theblock.co #