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Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

Ethics panel orders AOC to pay additional $3,000 for 2021 Met Gala (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/ethics-panel-orders-aoc-to-pay-additional-3000-for-2021-met-gala
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p128#a250725p128

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

Jon Gruden vs. NFL lawsuit: Nevada Supreme Court rejects league's petition in latest legal win for ex-coach

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jon-gru…

Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28) - Omicron, a rant about bad people, and more shy Eurasian footwear... #podcast #lockdown - https://www.…

Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28)
Omicron, a rant about bad people, and more shy Eurasian footwear... #podcast #lockdown

Surely the US government's statements indicating the FBI was corrupt - and likely fabricating evidence - between January 2021 and January 2025, will result in *many* appeals from anyone convicted on evidence produced during that period?