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"'…war is hitting…global economy in cumulative waves: 1st through higher energy prices, then higher food prices, & finally, higher inflation, which will push up interest rates & make debt even more expensive,' said Indermit Gill…World Bank Group's Chief Economist '…poorest people, who spend…highest share of their income on food & fuels, will be hit…hardest…All of this is a reminder of…stark truth: war is development in reverse.'"

Middle East War to Spark Biggest Energy Price Surge in Four Years
Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group's latest Commodity Markets Outlook.

Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/business-insider-subscription-decline-data
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Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral
Internal figures obtained by Status show that the digital publication’s subscription business is not only failing to grow, but contracting at a jarring rate—raising questions about the company’s trajectory.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,265,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Falcons fire LaTroy Lewis amid investigation into sexual assault allegations while at Michigan https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7075964/2026/02/27/latroy-lewis-fired-falcons-sexual-assault-allegations/

I remember watching the 2022 documentary
"Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm"
(Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya
with awe and shame at how much I had not known.
The film looks at the difficult lives of Turkish workers in Germany through the music they produced.
One widely popular song, sung by Yüksel Özkasap, included the lines:
“Germany, everything about you is a lie. You have stolen my life and taken my love.”
The language textbook
"Türk…

#Requiescat For Jesse Jackson.

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

Unity confirms plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30; the two merged in 2022 in a $4.4B all-stock deal (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjezb14o11g

Unity shuts down ironSource ad network, selling Supersonic three-and-a-half years after $4.4 billion merger
The moves leave little of the Israeli ad-tech firm within Unity, marking a quiet unwind of one of the sector’s most high-profile mergers. 

@… Der @… hatte die Geschichte 2022 zum ersten Mal gebracht. Im Jahr 2025 veröffentlichte er dann einen Leserbrief einer Atomlobbyistin. Sie hatte vorgeschlagen, dass man Hautkrebs durch Sonneneinstrahlung verhindert, indem man …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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