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#HappyNewYear I just went through the refrigerator and pantry and threw out the remaining Christmas candy that I was eating “because it’s Christmas”, and anything that was never going to be eaten (why do I have a bottle of “black and raspberry” vinegar?) or well past its best by date. The trash bin now smells like 2022 pickles….

Peter Chernin sells North Road to France's Mediawan; sources: the agreement, paid mostly in stock, values the independent film and TV studio at ~$900M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/north-road-mediawan-deal.html

Hollywood’s North Road Studio Acquired by a European Production Giant
Peter Chernin, an industry veteran who founded North Road in 2022, said his deal with Mediawan met a need to get bigger in an era of consolidation.

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#FreeThinkersShows

(2022) Percepts evoked by multi-electrode stimulation of human visual cortex https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(22)00185-1/fulltext
"Discussions with our subjects revealed that they did not perceive coherent shapes or easily identifiable for…

Es ist interessant, wie ein Song aus dem Jahr 2022, den ich erst 2025 zum ersten Mal bewusst gehört habe, mich jedes Mal aufs neue fasziniert: "Fahr mit mir (4x4)" von Kraftklub und Tokio Hotel.
Diese Fahrzeug-Huldigung der Backing Vocals ist phänomenal!

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

Bears assistant general manager Ian Cunningham tabbed as new Falcons GM https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-assistant-general-manager-ian-cunningham-tabbed-as-new-falcons-gm

Want to ride your bicycle? Study highlights rise of Canada's bike network #Canada

Want to ride your bicycle? Study highlights rise of Canada's bike network
A new Simon Fraser University study has found that Canada's cycling network is growing, but not everyone is benefiting. Between 2022 and 2024, nearly 3,600 kilometers of high-quality cycling infrastructure was added across the country, with the largest proportional increases seen in small- to medium-sized cities. But one consistent finding across Canadian cities is that areas with more children and older adults tend to have less cycling infrastructure.

Drei Jahre nach Drama - Tod nach Fettabsaugung: Späte Anklage im Fall Caro #News #Nachrichten <…

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

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#WoreOutWeekendASong

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2006065989511750010

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
A New York judge today denied Fox's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of the Ukrainian journalist killed while working for the network (in 2022) despite the fact that her father signed a release to receive benefits. Judge: "When the Kuvshynovs signed the waiver

from my link log —
Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders.
https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
saved 2022-11-30

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

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#FakeAwardsAndPrizes

Good news for Dean Gillispie in Ohio. He was #wrongfullyconvicted of 3 1991 rapes & exonerated in 2017. He sued the township and won a $45 million verdict in 2022. The township has been fighting it ever since, and SCOTUS just denied its appeal.

US Supreme Court denies request from Ohio township facing $45M settlement
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an Ohio township's last-ditch effort to avoid paying a $45 million settlement to Dean Gillispie.

Today I have learnt about the deliriant history of the ultra-far right ex professor Enoch Burke.
The summary of the history is that while this guy was professor he refused to call by her new name a trans student, was finally fired, but keeps going to the school he was fired from in *2022*, and he has been arrested a number of times.
You can learn more about this case in this article from The Irish Times:
Without paywall:

Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage
Die Zahlen zum Krankenstand werden seit 2022 genauer erfasst, wodurch die Zahlen ansteigen. Merz macht jedoch die telefonische Krankschreibung verantwortlich.

"Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal"
#Oceans #Environment

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal
In December 2022, nearly 200 nations committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up […]

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,210,630 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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#RecipesAfterDark

#OTD 2022 Vanishing point

Cowboys’ offensive line needs lots of attention https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-offensive-line-needs-lots-of-attention

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570 people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/big-tech-google-microsoft-energy-hiring-ai.html…

Big Tech is poaching energy talent to fuel its AI ambitions
Hires of energy-related talent by Big Tech was 30% higher in 2025 than pre-AI levels.

»Die verstärkten Cyberangriffe während der COVID-19-Pandemie haben gezeigt, wie anfällig zunehmend interdependente Gesellschaften für Risiken mit geringer Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit sind.«
Ich lese in "Richtlinie (EU) 2022/2555 über Maßnahmen für ein hohes gemeinsames Cybersicherheitsniveau in der Union". Den meisten hier wahrscheinlich besser bekannt als NIS-2.

Je présume que c’est exactement pourquoi on a ajouté cette alinéa dans la révision de la Loi sur les constructions:
«L’autorité compétente n’est pas responsable des dommages causés par la violation par les maîtres de l’ouvrage et leurs représentants des prescriptions de la présente loi.» (art. 5, al. 37 LC VS)
Comme disait Goethe: «So fühlt man absicht, und man ist verstimmt.»

„Wages not Weapons“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10243

from my link log —
Laura Kuenssberg’s time as BBC Political Editor has been a catastrophic, systemic failure.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/laura-kuenssberg-bbc-political-editor-was-a-catastrophic-systemic-failure/

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure
Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

Just updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/

Police raid homes of alleged Black Basta hackers, hunt suspected Russian ringleader https://therecord.media/police-raid-homes-of-alleged-black-basta-hackers

Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission
December 2025
SAPEA (2025). Artificial intelligence in emergency and crisis management: Rapid evidence review report.
Downloadable from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17737962

A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai…

My fediversary is also November 2022, not sure what day. But these three years have been excellent- here's to many more. And it's all you cool folks who make it so great to be here, so thank you all for that. 💥
#fediverse #fediversary

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,158,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…

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#WaitingForSanta

MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalMultiCellularSymbiosisStruggle
(Selected stills from my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project, 2022 - made with #MonochromeMonday

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …