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Strong winds topple Brazil's
Statue of Liberty replica
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-16/Strong-winds-topple-Statue-of-Liberty-replica-in-Brazil--1J9N9EgK8ve/p.html

Strong winds topple Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil
A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed during a powerful storm in Guaiba, Brazil, on Monday. The replica, nearly 24 meters tall, was installed in 2020 as a promotional symbol for a Brazilian retail store chain called Havan. No injuries were reported,

Forschende der Universität #Stuttgart haben ein „optisches Sieb“ zur Detektion von #Nanoplastik entwickelt.
Der Teststreifen macht winzige Partikel durch Farbveränderungen unter dem Lichtmikroskop sichtbar. So lassen sich Anzahl, Größe und Größenverteilung bestimmen. Das Verfahren ist k…

Neues, einfaches Nachweisverfahren für Nanoplastik | News | 08.09.2025 | Universität Stuttgart
Forschende der Universität Stuttgart haben ein „optisches Sieb“ zur Detektion winziger Nanopartikel entwickelt. Es funktioniert wie ein Teststreifen und soll als neues Analysewerkzeug in der Umwelt- und Gesundheitsforschung dienen.

Valve says 5,863 games made $100K on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valve-says-5…

Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025
The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago.

Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/trump-voting-machines-2020-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.KeLF.EZk3YjdwPJ3h
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p85#a260111p85

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 9815 nodes and 318298 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23) - Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku -

Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23)
Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku

"Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Pollution

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds
When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the black residue-coated debris to a 2019 oil slick along Brazil's coastline. Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, the team explains in Environmental Science & Technology how some of the oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 kilometers) by clinging to debris.

»Ein Bauernhof ist ein normales industrielles Unternehmen geworden, der Landmann ein Betriebswirt. Nur die Folklore und die für Produktion entfremdeten urbanen Eliten, für die man Werbung und Marketing macht, glauben noch an die Idylle, die es nie gab.«
Aus: @… – Zusammenhänge (2020)

After reading Matt Shumer's warning about what AI will do to knowledge workers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/something-big-happening-matt-shumer-so5he/ I thought: Is anyone demanding a "just transition" for them, or is that only for the energy tr…

Something Big Is Happening
Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.

As one might expect El Cheato appointed judges rule in favor of trump far more often than do judges appointed by prior presidents.
But the amount of that imbalance is beyond astounding.
From the NY Times:
"Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor"
Which causes me to repeat my suggestions, from year 2020, about how we can remove power from those judges by using a technique well practiced elsewhere - redefining jobs and "rubb…

Aaron Rodgers achieves Pittsburgh's 'vision', bringing Steelers first division title since 2020 https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-achieves-pittsburgh-s-vision-bringing-steelers-first-division-title-since-2020

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/tear-gas-tuesday-in-downtown-portland
Interesting visualizations of 2020 teargas exposure in portland.

'tear Gas Tuesday' In Downtown Portland
Over the summer of 2020, Portland's police force deployed large amounts of tear gas to suppress local demonstrations against racialised police violence. Focusing on a single representative day—2 June 2020—we simulated the path of the toxic tear gas clouds as they spread widely across the city centre, demonstrating that the concentration levels were in serious excess of recognised safe thresholds.

An observational study of rotation and binarity of Galactic O-type #runaway stars: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56646-25/aa56646-25.html -> ICCUB astronomers lead the most ambitious study of runaway massive stars in the Milky Way: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114466

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/flutterwave-buys-nige…

Flutterwave buys Nigeria's Mono in rare African fintech exit | TechCrunch
Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal.

Cat Flowbee! @… https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115839544124655751

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Bob Dylan:
🎵 Hurricane
#BobDylan
https://theboldcorsicanflame.bandcamp.com/track/boldcorsicanflames-cover-bob-dylan-hurricane-2020-09-06-12h12
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqMLr9Wj7SM2F9AikGcxN

from my link log —
libfirm/cparser: C99 parser and frontend.
https://github.com/libfirm/cparser
saved 2020-05-25 https://dotat.at/:/4YCCB.html…

GitHub - libfirm/cparser: C99 parser and frontend for libfirm
C99 parser and frontend for libfirm. Contribute to libfirm/cparser development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft: Aktienkurs wegen des schwächeren Cloud-Ausblicks abgeschmiert
Während die Aktien von Meta eine regelrechte Rallye hingelegt haben, war Donnerstag für Microsoft der schwärzeste Börsentag seit 2020. Schuld hat die Cloud.

@… Zwischen 2012-2020 hatte sich auf dem Laptopmarkt imho wirklich sehr wenig getan. Wir krepelten alle mit den gleichen Intel "10nm " Schrott-CPUs rum, die Akkus waren nach 3h leer und alles war gleich und doof.
In den letzten Jahren mit Apple, AMD und Qualcomm bewegt sich (zumindest im oberen Preissegment) mal wieder was.
Die Billo-Laptops…

1997-2016 Instruction ⚖️
2016 : premier procès.
2017 : Spatz condamné Š 4 ans avec sursis. Les cadres sont déclarés « sous emprise ».
2020 : deuxième procès, 8 mois d’audiences. Verdict : Spatz coupable d’emprise, violences et abus sur mineurs, mais seulement 5 ans avec sursis.

“Federal prosecutors said the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to ‘speak up’ for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen.”
“Cole said he was disillusioned by the election outcome and sympathetic to claims by President Donald Trump and allies that it had been stolen.”
#RightWing

DC pipe bomb suspect says someone needed to 'speak up' about stolen election claims
Man accused of Jan. 6 pipe bombs allegedly confessed he felt compelled to "speak up" for those who believed 2020 election was stolen, prosecutors say.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Plastik ist klimafreundlich“.
#Kunststoffe lassen sich durchaus als

Die größten Mythen über Plastikmüll - oft nur Ausreden
Was ist dran an den Mythen rund um Plastikmüll? Erfahre, warum viele Aussagen zum Thema Plastik täuschen.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 17845 nodes and 789779 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

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

A phoenix rises from the ashes - WOH G64 is still a red #supergiant, for now: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/2/stag012/8416424?login=false -> Keele-led team reveals massive star WOH G64 is still a red supergiant: https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2026/january/cosmic-mystery/keele-led-team-reveals-massive-star-woh-g64-is-still-a-red-supergiant-.php

Kollegin A., die 2020 pandemiebedingt einige Monate in Indien gestrandet war, ist erneut in Indien. Ihr für gestern geplanter Rückflug nach Wien über Dubai, nun ja. Sie wird versuchen, über Japan (woher sie kommt) nach Europa zurückzukehren.

Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/25/palantir-retail-investors-valuation-karp.html<…

Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough
The stock, which made its market debut in 2020, is an indisputable star of the retail investing world.

#Steady #Klimacrew
Nach #KI-Entlassungen: Unternehmen stellen heimlich wieder ein
Nach #Personlabbau

Nach KI-Entlassungen: Unternehmen stellen heimlich wieder ein
Unternehmen stellen nach KI-Entlassungen wieder heimlich Personal ein – oft schlechter bezahlt oder im Ausland.

from my link log —
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-dive-review-5950x-5900x-5800x-and-5700x-tested
saved 2020-11-06

Ahhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer.
When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (a latitude 5410 which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to non-soldered ram in their t14 laptops.

Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-georgia-big-lie-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p18#a251226p18

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

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").

Steelers Clinch N.F.L. Playoffs Behind Aaron Rodgers’s Late Rally https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010624217/steelers-clinch-nfl-playoffs-behind-aaron-rodgerss-late-rally.html

We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

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 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

#Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern nach Marktakteur in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „akti…

Browns fire head coach Kevin Stefanski following six seasons in Cleveland https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-fire-head-coach-kevin-stefanski-following-six-seasons-in-cleveland

from my link log —
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-handshake-tls-compression-certificates-extension-study
saved 2020-05-19

Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast? | Fastly
QUIC promises a built-in, low-latency handshake. But can it achieve its promise alone? Let’s look at the value of handshake compression in helping QUIC achieve fast startup performance.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Anzahl der #Batteriespeicher je #Batterietechnologien in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
2561 nicht aktive und 0 Batteriespeicher ohne Inbetriebnahmedatum wurden a…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

from my link log —
The case of the missing DNS packets.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-support-engineer-solves-a-tough-dns-case
saved 2020-05-13

A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case | Google Cloud Blog
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets

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 …

Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.

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 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 3705 nodes and 15167 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted