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Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

Sensation: im #Enzkreis gibt es womöglich bald einen badisch-württembergischen kooperativen Kirchenbezirk. So die hier anwesenden Presseleute.
Man sagt ja immer:
"Einen Zusammenschluss mit den Württembergern werde es frühestens am jüngsten Tag 'und dann auch erst am Nachmittag' geben"
Ein klares Zeichen, dass wir in der

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

„Frieden wird es erst geben wenn Araber ihre Kinder mehr lieben als sie uns hassen. [...] Wer Israel angreift, bekommt es mit Deutschland zu tun.”
— Cem Özdemir, 20.05.2021 auf einer Pro-Israel Demo, anfangs zitierend Golda Meir, ehemalige Ministerpräsidentin Israels.

Alles in einen Topf
Angesichts der Lage im Gazastreifen wurde auch hierzulande protestiert – und in dem Zusammenhang wieder heftig über Antisemitismus diskutiert. Dabei lohnt es sich, genauer hinzusehen.

Kleiner #Winterspaziergang im #Stadtwald im Februar 2021. Für wenige Tage gab es #Schnee. 😊
Für eine

Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources #privacy #recommendations

Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-to-shut-down-instagram-end-to-end.html?m=1

Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026
Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging oversight.

Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson is out after 40 years at the publisher; Embracer Group, which bought Dark Horse in 2021, names Jay Komas interim CEO (Chris Arrant/Popverse)
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dark-horse-media-mike-richardson-exit-j…

Dark Horse CEO/Founder Mike Richardson exits after 40 years as new owners bring in new boss from gaming & Lord of the Rings
Embracer replaces Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson with Middle-earth Enterprises exec in leadership shakeup.

from my link log —
The tao of Unicode sparklines.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/
saved 2021-08-07

The Tao of Unicode Sparklines
I’ve long been enamored of the sparkline, a graphical device which its inventor Edward Tufte defines thusly: A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolu…

Heute vor 5 Jahren: Am 5. März 2021 veröffenticht das Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists einen Text über das #Kernkraftwerk #Mezamor in #Armenien. Es zählt zu den unsichersten u. somit gefährlichs…

From The Conversation
Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?
Israel’s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet, the double standard associated with this is hardly sustainable in the long run.
The worst-kept secret in the world of nuclear politics is that Israel possesses a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Irgendwie sind es immer wieder Mitglieder der gleichen Partei, bei denen sowas passiert. Aber das ist sicher nur Zufall 🤡
'In Friesoythe haben #CDU-Mitglieder im Stadtrat jahrelang mehr Sitzungsgelder abgerechnet als die Vertreter der SPD. Der Vorsitzende der Ratsfraktion sieht darin kein Fehlverhalten. [...] Seit Herbst 2021 gab es laut der Stadtverwaltung 20 Abende, an denen die CDU/FDP-Fr…

Kommunalpolitik im Oldenburger Münsterland: CDU-Stadträte kassierten doppelt
Im niedersächsischen Friesoythe haben CDU-Mitglieder im Stadtrat jahrelang mehr Sitzungsgelder abgerechnet als die Vertreter der SPD. Der Vorsitzende der Ratsfraktion sieht darin kein Fehlverhalten.

Zugegeben - ein kleines bisschen stolz sind wir #Hessen schon auf unsere inzwischen sieben #UNESCO-#Welterbestätten.
2021 kam die Darmstädter

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/
saved 2021-03-05

I'm going to talk about my work today... to 4 year old kids at my daughter's school :)))
I hope my wet lab skills are good enough to isolate a DNA from banana!
#science #dissemination

me in 2021 considering Drew to be too much of a free software purist but deciding to use sourcehut anyways
me now and where sourcehut and codeberg are the two best slop-free git hosters

Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

😿 Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/

Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
The vote, the first since the 2021 coup, has been almost universally dismissed as political playacting.

from my link log —
Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/01/22/cranelift-isel-2/
saved 2021-02-19

Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-begins-trading-on-the-tsx-and-nasdaq/

Xanadu begins trading on the TSX and Nasdaq | BetaKit
The debut makes the quantum company the first new Canadian tech firm to list on the TSX since 2021.

Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg didn't lose $80 billion on the metaverse
In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money into metaverse-y things.

Le oui pour l’imposition individuelle a chuté de 24 Š 8 entre le premier et deuxième sondage GfS. Le projet risque de suivre le même sort que la loi CO2 en 2021 et d’être refusé Š l’urne. Tous les partis qui sont pour le projet doivent revenir vers leurs partisans.
Le Centre spécule avec le non pour mettre en avant leur solution avec les impôts Š option. Mais c’est un jeu Š haut risque: leur initiative coûterait tellement cher qu’elle n’arrivera pas Š réunir une majorité. #chvote