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Went to go get my 2010 VW Tiguan inspected. Have a cracked spring that will cost me $300.
The poor bastard in front of me had a 2022 Jeep. Needs an entire engine rebuild/new at $20K.
I don't think I'm ever buying a newer car. 2010 or lower for me from now on.

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

"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 […]

Schülertablets in Niedersachsen: Mehr als nur eine Geräteausgabe geplant
Die SPD in Niedersachsen will endlich ihr Wahlversprechen von 2022 einlösen: Tablets für Schüler. Diese sollen in Schulen größere Veränderungen anschieben.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,256,910 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

Pittsburgh journalists vote to end country's longest strike and notify the PG they are returning to work - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings — with the arrival of a half dozen boxes of pizza. Pepperoni, plain and a vegetarian option. Strikes run on pizza. Turns out […]

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alice in Chains:
🎵 Them Bones
#AliceinChains
https://sixdust.bandcamp.com/track/alice-in-chains-them-bones-2022-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A065x9kJt955eGVqf813g

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.

📢 Freisprüche nach Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen mit fünf Toten
Im Prozess um das Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen im Juni 2022 mit fünf Toten hat das Landgericht München II die beiden Angeklagten freigesprochen. Zwei Bahnmitarbeiter waren unter anderem wegen fahrlässiger Tötung angeklagt.
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Freisprüche nach Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Vor dreieinhalb Jahren starben fünf Menschen bei einem schweren Zugunglück in Oberbayern. Die Justiz hat den Fall aufgearbeitet - nun hat das Landgericht München II die beiden Angeklagten freigesprochen.

Old article, but I just came across it. Wonderful surrealist photographs.
A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/g

„It’s a path puzzle. You draw a path that enters the grid at the top and exits at the bottom. Along the way, there are 50 sections, each following a different ruleset. Consecutive sections overlap by a few rows, creating short hybrid sections in between.”
This is amazing! The printable PDF-version is 17 pages! 🤯
https://

Tatort: Mord unter Misteln - #ARD #WDR #BR
#crimi #krimi

3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Texans defense dominant https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-texans-defense-dominant-3597901/

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

In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/nomad_ftc_settlement/

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack
: Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings

So far in Russia's hybrid war in Europe, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage
— nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.
But officials say each act
— from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires
— sucks up valuable security resources.
The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’…

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.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

FTC orders crypto platform Nomad to distribute $37.5 million after 2022 theft https://therecord.media/ftc-settlement-nomad-platform-return-customers-cryptocurrency

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,187,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

»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.

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

#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates
Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.

Gives the tragedy of the Russian aggression of Ukraine its full depth. :-(

from my link log —
Report ITU-R TF.2511-0 (10/2022): Content and structure of time signals to be disseminated by radiocommunication systems and various aspects of current and potential future reference time scales, including their impacts and applications in radiocommunication.
https://www.itu…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

*kneels down to small autistic child with a wide gentle smile on my face* not literally a million times! i know its hard to understand, but its an expression, exaggerating to convey that i saw it so much on reddit in 2022 that it became permanently uninteresting and "reddit" in my mind, and-
*agiant flying saucer swoops by the building, blowing out the windows into teeny little glass specks and giving the place some much needed light these bitches vampires* MY NAME ITH OVERWO…

"Literature in Context evolved from two independent projects, one by John O’Brien at The University of Virginia, and one by Tonya Howe, at Marymount University. O’Brien and Howe joined forces in 2017 and successfully applied for a Level II Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities in collaboration with Christine Ruotolo, Director of Research in the Arts and Humanities at The University of Virginia Libraries (HAA-258768-18). In 2022, the project was awarded a second grant from the NEH ODH (HAA-290349-23), as well as an Open Course Grant from VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium. In April 2025, the second federal grant was terminated, along with many others, by DOGE."

Watzmann ermittelt: Folge 33: Bienenstich (S03/E11) - #ARD #BR
#crimi #krimi

New Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…

Afronding winddeel actie
Begin 2022 was ik kandidaat-raadslid voor GroenLinks en heb ik het initiatief genomen om samen met een aantal andere kandidaat-raadsleden meerdere winddelen bij De Windcentrale aan te schaffen. De opbrengst van de winddelen was bedoeld voor de Energiebank Schiedam. Zij zijn inmiddels gestopt, waardoor ik voor de opbrengst van 2023 grotendeels aan een vergelijkbaar doel geschonken. Want de afspraak met…
http://krispijnbeek.nl/2026/01/08/afronding-winddeel-actie/

#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….

A most unexpected spin-off.

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 25 Dezember 2022 bestätigte ein hochrangiger Beamter des belarussischen Verteidigungsministeriums die vollständige Einsatzfähigkeit der taktischen #Iskander-Raketensysteme und S-400-Luftverteidigungssysteme die Russland dort stationiert hat.

„Kein One-Hit-Wonder“ - Nach Schlaganfall träumt Kati von Olympiamedaillen #News #Nachrichten <…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,201,230 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Not the coldest I’ve ever seen (that remains December 2022 in Reykjavík when it was -19°C), but it is no joke!

If you:
🔸create an entangled pair of particles,
🔸and then separate them by a very large distance,
🔸and then measure the quantum state of one of them,
🔹the quantum state of the other one is all-of-a-sudden determined,
-- not at the speed of light, but rather instantaneously.
This has now been demonstrated across distances of hundreds of kilometers over time intervals of under 100 nanoseconds.
If information is being transmitted between these two entangled…

Quantum entanglement wins 2022's Nobel Prize in physics
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
In-place construction for Rust.
https://y86-dev.github.io/blog/safe-pinned-initialization/in-place.html
saved 2022-10-06

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

"More than 100,000 applications for UK heat pump subsidy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

More than 100,000 applications for UK heat pump subsidy
Latest boiler upgrade scheme (BUS) data reveals more than 100,000 applications for heat pump grants have been made since support scheme launched in May 2022. Demand has significantly increased in 2025, and the scheme was expanded in early November to include an air-to-air heat pump grant.

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