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Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/dragoneer-vc-fund

Scoop: Dragoneer raises $4.3 billion for new VC fund
It's an outlier in what has been an exceptionally slow year for VC fundraising.

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

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 …

> The upshot is that, whereas it used to take upwards of 12 minutes to join Matrix HQ […] now down to about 30 seconds
In #matrix , room joins occur after you start to enjoy the loading spinner.
https://

Why Christian McCaffrey trade helped 49ers, not the Panthers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47010772/nfl-carolina-panthers-christian-mccaffrey-bryce-young-trade

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 17 nodes and 146 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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

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

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.

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

"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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,180,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

»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.

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

#OTD 2022 Vanishing point

Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…

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:

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

The Business of Care ... PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE -- EARLY MORNING, MAY 26, 2022 (ProPublica)
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p18#a251207p18

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.

On the UK CPO Consultation (2022) - UK central government consulted on the operation of Compulsory Purchase Orders in England and Wales as will affect 16WW. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-2022-CPO-consultation.html

On the UK CPO Consultation (2022)
UK central government consulted on the operation of Compulsory Purchase Orders in England and Wales as will affect 16WW.

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.»

"die neue außenpolitische Positionierung der #USA sei eine "zweite Zeitenwende". Die erste Zeitenwende hatte der damalige Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz 2022 nach dem Überfall #Russland|s auf die Ukraine ausgerufen und eine massive Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr angekündigt. " sagt

Deutsche Politiker besorgt wegen US-Sicherheitsstrategie
Mehrere deutsche Politiker haben besorgt auf die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie reagiert. Sie werten sie als deutliches Zeichen einer Abkehr von Europa. Der CDU-Politiker Röttgen spricht von einer "zweiten Zeitenwende".

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.

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

"An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system."
https://www.cbs.…

Ever more gas-free homes
An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system. This means they do not require a gas-fired boiler. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of newly released figures.

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…

(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…

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:

Voor wie niet slapen kan...
Da hilft nur beten! • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2022
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/691f3408ee10b78c435ef11c (2022, 90min)
Nu* (03:00 - 04:30 ) bij de WDR.
Enjoy
* andere tijden regio slot

#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….

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,203,310 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Ugh, my personal git server uses a pre-2022 version of sshd - and now, when I do anything, I get a warning that I'm not using post-quantum keys.
We should be moving to PQ methods, yes, but I don't think anyone will convince me that mass "store now, decrypt later" quantum attacks will ever really be a thing - the opportunity cost will always be too high.
This is a VPN-advert level of unnecessary caution.
(You can set "LogLevel ERROR" in an ssh_con…

Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124

TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalates to WWIII followed by the surrender of the U.S. and Europe - sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801] > Originally Published in the Atlantic (March 2022) Article without paywall: > https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F [https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F] > > Put…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
https://art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…

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

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,202,070 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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.

This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

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.

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd

AfD-Boykott zu den Landtagswahlen 2026 in BW und Rheinland-Pfalz Keine Wahlpodien mit der AfD
In Belgien weigerten sich im Europawahlkampf 2024 die etablierten politischen Parteien im Rahmen des „Cordon sanitaire“, einer echten Brandmauer, mit der extremen Rechten zusammenzuarbeiten. Festzuhalten ist ein geringer Wahlerfolg der rechten Parteien in Belgien (vgl. (3) und (4)). Die Autoren der europäischen Cambridge-Studie von 2022 finden keine Hinweise dafür, dass Anpassungsstrategien die Unterstützung der radikalen Rechten verringern. Wenn überhaupt, deuten die Ergebnisse darauf …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,200,370 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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…

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

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

"Forecasters say 2025 ‘more likely than not’ to be UK’s hottest year on record"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

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.

"13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released"
#US #USA #America #Emissions

13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released
New research from Northern Arizona University shows detailed CO2 emissions for the United States from 2010 to 2022.

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

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

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