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Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

Afzet gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met PFAS neemt enorm toe
De afzet van PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is flink gestegen. In de periode 2010-2020 lag dit rond de 150.000 kilo, in 2023 was dit ruim 250.000 kilo. Fungiciden hebben het grootste aandeel. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van adviesbureau CLM.

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12) - Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile -

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12)
Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

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How NAT traversal works.
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
saved 2020-08-21 https://dot…

How NAT traversal works
Learn how NAT traversal works, how Tailscale can get through and securely connect your devices directly to each other.

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

@… *me, 1000 years later, hooked up to a life-extension machine, still responding to GitHub issues opened in 2020*

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How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/11/gitlab-pg-upgrade/
saved 2020-09-12 https:…

How we upgraded PostgreSQL at GitLab.com
We explain the precise maintenance process to execute a major version upgrade of PostgreSQL.

None of the 25 dramas and comedies in N. American theaters in the last three months had $50M in sales; October had the lowest box office on record, except 2020 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/box-office-co…

Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

Judge officially drops 3 charges in Georgia's Trump 2020 election interference case (Dan Raby/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-officially-drops-charges-georgia-trump-2020-election-interference-case/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p125#a251114p125

Yesterday, Trump gave passes to all his convicted cronies who are now scott free.
Trump voters & people who didn't vote: This is your fault.
✅ Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani and others in fake elector plot - The Independent
https://www.

Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and others involved in 2020 fake elector scheme
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon

Seeing photos of people huddling at conferences and also reading about how on average people had COVID 5 times since 2020
Fascinating stuff

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.
(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)
#BigTech #Apple #poisoning

Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD (@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "Former Apple employee Ashley Gjøvik moved into one of the adjacent apartments in 2020 only to fall badly ill with indications of chemical poisoning, she told SFGATE. She didn't know what was happening at first, she said, but after she arrived she started suddenly having chest pains, strange rashes, arrhythmia and numbness. She regularly fainted. When she got her blood and urine tested that September, she said, the results showed arsenic, mercury, toluene and xylene." https:…

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Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
https://siguza.github.io/PAN/
saved 2020-01-07 https://dotat.at/:/CBAC3.h…

Im Geiste der aktuellen Bestrebungen, sich von ausbeuterischen Großkonzernen frei zu machen (#DID, #DUD), möchte ich auf meinen Artikel hinweisen, wo ich erkläre, weshalb man bei der Auswahl, wo man sich im Internet einbringt, genauer hinschauen soll.
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Longtime NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue dies at 84, leaving behind legacy of reshaping the game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/paul-tagliabue-dies-nfl-commissioner/

Die #Wassertemperaturen in Nord- und #Ostsee haben 2025 neue Höchstwerte erreicht.
Die #Nordsee war mit durchschnittlich 11,6 Grad Celsius so warm wie nie zuvor. Auch die Ostsee lag mit …

Nord- und Ostsee immer wärmer - höchster und zweithöchster Messwert
Rekordwerte an deutschen Küsten: Die Nordsee war 2025 so warm wie nie, die Ostsee war nur 2020 noch wärmer. Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie warnt in Folge der Erderwärmung vor dem steigenden Meeresspiegel.

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

I'm thinking about this Urban Dictionary definition again

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Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #Pollution

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

• Posted in Nov 2012: #FuckCancer

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

LB Logan Wilson Sends Strong Message to Cowboys Fans After Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-reaction/?adt_ei=[email]

@… Awww. So sorry.
As you requested, here's Izzy. We adopted her in 2020. She had been taken to a high kill shelter in South Carolina with four very young puppies. She had to raise them in the shelter for about 10 weeks, then was spayed and had heartworm treatment. When she came to us, she was terrified of everything. In 5 1/2 years, she's come …

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dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
https://github.com/dmachard/dnstap-receiver
saved 2020-11-09 https://

GitHub - dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver: Dnstap streams receiver in Python
Dnstap streams receiver in Python. Contribute to dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver development by creating an account on GitHub.

Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13) - Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawn mowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus - h…

Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13)
Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawn mowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus

Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending court approval (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

US races to train tech workers for manufacturing, but will AI get the jobs first?
Immigration issues and China competition further complicate Trump's vision of an industrial revival

this is my favorite review ever

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #AirPollution

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
saved 2020-11-28 https://

GitHub - grafana/k6: A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - grafana/k6

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…

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The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML.
https://techblog.topdesk.com/security/developers-need-know-reverse-tabnabbing/
saved 2020-10-28

What all Developers need to know about: Reverse Tabnabbing - TOPdesk Tech Blog
Reverse tabnabbing is a vulnerability in which the browser allows a linked page to control the page that opened it. This may lead to phishing attacks.

Druckfrisch: ein verspielter Drache ziert die neueste Edition für meine Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Ab heute bei den Klextras dabei. Wie immer kann meine Kunstpostkarten keiner kaufen, sondern nur nach meinem Gutdünken handverlesen zur Bestellung geschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf #art #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots

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Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15

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Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS.
https://www.digeex.de/blog/tinytinyrss/
saved 2020-09-24 https://dotat.at/:/V7GPF.html

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Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
https://learnbyexample.github.io/substitution-with-ripgrep/
saved 2020-09-17 ht…

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libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
saved 2020-04-14 https://dotat.a…

GitHub - libcpu/libcpu: "libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures
"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures - libcpu/libcpu

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What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometry-reveals-how-the-world-is-assembled-from-cubes-20201119/
saved 2020-11-22

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Raytracing in one weekend.
https://raytracing.github.io/
saved 2020-11-28 https://dotat.at/:/986L7.html<…