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In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").

OH: I have a Home Warranty. You pay them a monthly premium, then when something breaks, you pay them a flat fee. Then the technician diagnoses the problem, and the company finds a reason why your plan doesn't cover that. Feels like American insurance in a nutshell.
#uspol #insurance

From CBC in partnership with The Narwhal
Hundreds of animals killed by trains on B.C. railways, documents reveal. So, what’s being done to stop it?
CN reported 340 wildlife collisions between 2020 and 2023, These numbers include 202 collisions involving moose and 67 involving bears.
CPKC reported 182 animals were killed and injured by trains in the Kootenay region of B.C. in 2022 and 2023.

Förintelsens minnesdag! Lägger upp mina gamla läsanteckningar från 2020 (oredigerade!) på bokdraken från den mest intressanta Förintelsebok jag läst, Europa mot judarna 1880-1945.
https://bokdraken.se/user/laxsill/revi

laxsill's review of Europa mot judarna 1880-1945 - BokDraken
Ditt läsande, din data — den svenska Bookwyrm:en

Russia’s December oil and gas revenue set to drop to lowest level since 2020, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/russias-december-oil-and-gas.html

Qargo, which offers a cloud-based transport management service for carriers, freight forwarders, and third-party logistics, raised a $33M Series B led by Sofina (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/11/qargo-expands-ai-driven-transpor…

Qargo expands AI-driven transport management with $33M Series B
Qargo, an intelligent transport management system (TMS), has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by Sofina, with participation from existing investor Balderton Capital. The round follows Qargo’s rapid expansion across key European logistics hubs over the last 18 months. This latest investment brings Qargo’s total funding to $54 million.Founded in 2020, Qargo is a cloud-based transport management platform designed for carriers, freight forwarders, and 3PLs. It helps log…

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

Donald Trump is dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election,
raising tensions with administration officials who think their time is better spent examining voter lists for future elections.

In recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts,
Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted.
He recently hired at the White Ho…

Trump escalates demands for 2020 election investigations and prosecutions
The renewed focus on 2020 comes as Trump has begun to see results from his demands to prosecute his critics, including former FBI director James B. Comey.

It was approaching time to renew my Global Entry Membership. One of the questions required for renewal was to list the countries I’ve been to since 2020.
Each country visited had to be selected from a list. The UI was excellent. I could type a substring and the options would be limited to countries containing that substring ✅. I couldn’t find Turkey. Searched Tu, scrolled the unfiltered list no Turkey.
WHY?

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Druckereiwarm: höchste Zeit für die diesjährige Weihnachtedition meiner Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Jetzt neu bei den Klextras dabei - wie immer kann meine Kunstdruck-Postkarten niemand kaufen sondern nur von mir zur Bestellung dazugeschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf https://wandklex.art/klextras-10148)

"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @…

Browns fire head coach Kevin Stefanski after 6 seasons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6812748/2026/01/05/browns-fire-kevin-stefanski-nfl/

How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B in investments since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/how…

How Arizona is cultivating talent for a US chip revival
TSMC and Intel need talent and advanced programs are in place, but H-1B visas a hurdle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Big Youth & Brain Damage:
🎵 2020 I Pray Thee
#BigYouth #BrainDamage
https://braindamagedub.bandcamp.com/track/2020-i-pray-thee
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xSQvtNCyGXvCda2FDW052