Tootfinder

WeTravel, whose travel payments software is used by group travel operators, raised a $92M Series C at a ~$450M valuation, up from ~$100M in 2022 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/24/wetravel-92m-series-c

Exclusive: WeTravel raises $92M in Series C
Higher-income consumers are still traveling.

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 22. Dezember 2022 beschließt die Regierung in Tokio, 11 Jahre nach der #Atomkatastrophe in #Fukushima, den Ausstieg vom AKW-Ausstieg. Alte Mailer sollen länger am Netz bleiben, neue Reaktoren gebaut werden.

Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f…

Fox to Air More Than Twice as Many FIFA World Cup Matches as It Did in 2022
The Fox broadcast network will air 69 matches, compared to 34 in 2022, with the remaining 35 running on FS1.

"Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’"
#Africa #Guinea #Environment

Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected 20,000 […]

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,188,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Good overview of hybrid warfare by Russia.
#AP

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#PetsHolidaySongs

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

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Damn, Curt Smith's STILL got it. Sure, I generally root for anyone named "Curt/Kurt" but Tears for Fears is the simply best. 😜
▶️ Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Live) 2022
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-o1N2swMw&si=dsABDhNG6S1MdtHi…

ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS.html
It's a …

855/day avg.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,187,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-1-187-780-troops-in-ukraine-since-feb-24-2022/

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Progressive candidate Nida Allam has launched a primary challenge to a House Democrat from North Carolina,
seeking a redo of the 2022 contest that saw significant interference by the pro-Israel lobby and corporate interests.
Nida Allam announced her campaignon Thursday,
with backing from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and a slate of progressive groups on launch.
She’s running on a platform supporting issues like Medicare for All and affordable housing,
and has …

Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#GiftsForNarcissists

A fantastic folk duo from Nova Scotia with one of their more powerful tunes for #MusicWomenWednesday this week.
Mama's Broke, "The Ones That I Love" (2022)
https://mamasbroke.bandcamp.com/tra…

A profile of Ivan Urgant, a popular Russian late-night TV host who became a pariah after his suspension in February 2022 for opposing the invasion of Ukraine (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/wo…

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“…TSMC announced they have a spintronic memory chip with an access time of 1ns and a storage time of a decade. This means faster mistakes with longer regrets, basically the epitome of progress.”-Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist, author of science books, and host of a science YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder
As simple as possible, but not any simpler! Science and technology updates and summaries. No hype, no spin, no tip-toeing around inconvenient truths. Currently 5 videos a week (Tue-Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun). Early access for channel members. Sabine Hossenfelder has a PhD in physics. She is author of the books "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" (Basic Books, 2018) and "Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions" (Viking, 2022). Views are my own and do not repr…

Last time in Sweden was midsommmar 2022, in Umeå. And it actually did not get dark. But also I wasn’t really sleepy during those days
This time, it's almost winter solstice and I'm way more north in Luleå. Sunrise at 9:37, sundown at 13:11 😲 We will see how that goes
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön

Only one way to go here, always forward... just as in life!
(This is the equally stunning & adventurous ridge between Feigenkopf and Große Klammspitze, the summit ahead, almost touching the clouds — if you zoom in, you can just about make out the summit cross... One of my fave hikes ever. Picture is from early May 2022)
#SilentSunday

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 …

https://truthout.org/articles/progressive-launches-primary-challenge-to-democrat-who-once-got-2m-from-aipac/

Progressive Launches Primary Challenge to Democrat Who Once Got $2M From AIPAC
AIPAC spent $2 million to oppose progressive Nida Allam from being elected in North Carolina in 2022.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

Steelers, Giants among teams who attempted to trade for Matthew Stafford with 'value deals' in 2022

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matthew-stafford-trade-rams-st…

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

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-pinterest-to-acquire-ctv-ad-co…

Exclusive: Pinterest to acquire CTV ad company tvScientific
It's Pinterest's first acquisition since 2022.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#ScandalousFoods

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
Xiaxia Guan, Xian'an Jin, Weiling Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11046 https://arxiv.org/p…

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
The Tutte polynomial is a significant invariant of graphs and matroids. It is well-known that it has three equivalent definitions: bases expansion, rank generating function, and deletion-contraction formula. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathscr{T}_{P}$ generalizes the Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids $P$. In \emph{[Adv. Math. 402 (2022) 108355.]} and \emph{[J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 188 (2022) 105584]}, the authors provided bases expansion and rank generating function constru…

Just fixed an issue where our calendaring server was having issues, which I tracked down to a bunch of old events in the timezone "Europe/Kiev" which now doesn't exist.
Ugh.
(Timezone was renamed Europe/Kyiv in Aug 2022, so now I have to add "tzdata-legacy" to my build scripts.)

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2w0pvg4wko

Tank interview: A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC
One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.

Hardware is weird sometimes
Julien's random thoughts: Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
https://blog.madbrain.com/2022/12/corsair-cmk32gx4m2d3600-ram-micron.…

Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
In November 2021, I upgraded my main desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU, an Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard, and a Corsair CMK32GX...

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

LION: from 2022-2024, local independent online news organizations with dedicated staff for revenue generation had median revenue 700% higher than those without (Eric Rynston-Lobel/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Paths to sustainability
News organizations with staff focused on revenue generation had a median revenue 700% higher than news outlets without it, according to a report released by Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers on Wednesday.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Nabokov (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/nabokov
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ady96jE1eszfh4kwYIbFy

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to give Ukraine the approximately $300 billion in Russian state assets frozen by Western countries after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now endorsed the idea, removing a long-standing obstacle.
But another one remains:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to retaliate by confiscating the remaining Western investment in Russia.

Western countries are no…

Putin is eyeing Western business assets. Here’s how to stop him.
When Fidel Castro tried the same thing in the 1990s, Congress answered with the Libertad Act.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…

How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content hours they represent.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Big Shot (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/big-shot
https://open.spotify.com/track/0lZDud7crMjAppinCIGgOM

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa: 'I'm not playing up to the standard that I've played in years past' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-qb-tua-tagovailoa-not-playing-up-to-standard

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 2022 warnte Russland vor der Senkung der "nuklearen Schwelle" durch die #Stationierung modernisierter US-#Atomwaffen #B61 auf NATO-Stützpunkten in Europ…

YouTube says it paid out $8B to the music industry in the 12 months to June 2025, up from $6B in 2022 and $4B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/

YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months | TechCrunch
The milestone marks a new record for the platform, as YouTube’s annual music industry payout increased by $2 billion since 2022.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Too Real (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/album/too-real
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vI2WYHfSUUNvXv2OdmhFs

Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

What Aidan Hutchinson's extension means, and which pass rushers are getting paid next https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46771114/aidan-hutchinson-contract-extension-detroit-lions-nfl-pass-rushers

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Sha Sha Sha (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/sha-sha-sha
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SGdJZrIF1lu5K3Pr11lQo

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Televised Mind (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://eliezer2.bandcamp.com/track/fontaines-d-c-televised-mind-eliezer-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jiz2yeS6GIdtufviCphqD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Roman Holiday (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/roman-holiday
https://open.spotify.com/track/4GKJALTXTwhZgLPp0usd5C

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 A Lucid Dream (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/a-lucid-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DG5axwIXYBFnr8TUsBeCF

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 The Couple Across The Way (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/the-couple-across-the-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Eef5wnkwxg8d6sYJc5FQD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 In šr gCroíthe go deo (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/in-r-gcro-the-go-deo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4SrJ7S8Zz9LShbeY7MXpZk

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