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Snap says its direct revenue business has reached a $1B ARR, driven primarily by Snapchat surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/snapchat-tops-25m-subscribers-driv…

Snapchat+ tops 25M subscribers, driving company's direct revenue ARR to $1B | TechCrunch
The revenue milestone comes as Snap has added additional paid offerings outside of its core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to diversify its revenue streams.

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/tech-inves…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,253,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

#Requiescat For Jesse Jackson.

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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.

from my link log —
The missing call-assign operator.
https://kevincox.ca/2022/06/25/call-assign-operator/
saved 2026-02-13 https://

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
https://

Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

Already 6 years old, so not even taking into account post-2022 hyperscaling, this is a sobering, very rational and well argued 20 min presentation for some cold flush reality check of the hot fever dreams of AI proponents (and all YOLO energy/resource guzzlers of any walk/standing):
Blip (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd…

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

Milestone
2022

Dolphins to release veteran pass rusher Bradley Chubb, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-bradley-chubb/

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 […]

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

Das #MumAndDad am Kieler Ziegelteich ist der HotSpots für schöne Fahrräder. Das Publikum ist bunt.
Am 5. November 2022 kam es dort zu einem Messerangriff. Gegen drei Tatverdächtige wurde wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung und gefährlicher Körperverletzung in Tateinheit mit versuchtem Totschlag ermittelt. Homophobie soll eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Nun hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Anklage…

Mutmaßlich homophobe Messerattacke in Kiel: Hauptverdächtiger war erst 15 Jahre alt
Mehr als drei Jahre nach der mutmaßlich homophoben Messerattacke vor der Bar „Mum&Dad“ in Kiel hat die Staatsanwaltschaft drei Beschuldigte angeklagt. Alle waren zum Tatzeitpunkt noch minderjährig. Einen 23-Jährigen hatte das Trio damals lebensgefährlich verletzt. Die Einzelheiten.

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/10

Blockchain.com wins UK registration nearly four years after abandoning FCA process
The London-based company elected to withdraw its application for FCA licensing in March 2022 having not won approval ahead of an impending deadline.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,249,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Grocery prices see biggest spike since 2022 in December (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/inflation-cpi-grocery-prices
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p170#a260113p170

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

#GrindayFriday this week is 2022 self titled LP by Seattle grind/powerviolence trio NURSER. They kinda remind me of Mastiff or Napalm or something like that. No frills, just grinding and violence: https://nurserdeath.bandcamp.com/album

📢 Razzia und Festnahmen wegen russischer Embargoverstößen
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat fünf Männer festnehmen lassen, denen sie die Ausfuhr von Material zur Rüstungsproduktion nach Russland in großem Stil vorwirft. Im Zentrum der Ermittlungen steht demnach eine Firma in Lübeck. Es soll um Tausende Lieferungen nach Russland seit Anfang 2022 gehen.
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Festnahmen nach Verstoß gegen Russland-Sanktionen
Im Auftrag der Bundesanwaltschaft sind fünf Männer festgenommen worden, die gegen Russland-Sanktionen verstoßen haben sollen. Über Scheinfirmen sollen seit 2022 Tausende Lieferungen nach Russland gegangen sein - unter anderem aus Lübeck.

Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/candle-media-sells-attn

Exclusive: Candle Media sells ATTN: back to its co-founders
ATTN:'s co-founders Matthew Segal and Jarrett Moreno said they plan to incubate new digital brands.

A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).

from my link log —
Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra
saved 2022-09-18 https://

RE: https://famichiki.jp/@FlockOfCats/116001323560772533
Meanwhile a single PL paper I started in 2022 might potentially hopefully maybe get accepted in February 2026 after being under review for 18 months and going through two rejections, a major revisio…

On its own, it’s pretty big —but compared to the 2022 Galaxy Explorer, it’s positively tiny.
#Lego

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…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Mein Vater war (guter) Kunde im Mitarbeiter-Shop des Unternehmens, bei dem er 2004 nach 35 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit in Rente ging. Zuletzt hat er dort 2018 oder 2019 eingekauft, im Januar 2023 ist er verstorben. Ich habe den Shop mehrfach darüber informiert. Kurz vor Weihnachten erneut Werbepost an die Adresse des im Frühjahr 2022 verkauften Elternhauses. Ich überlege jetzt, mal den Datenschutzzuständigen ausfindig zu machen und anzufragen, ob das da alles DSGVO-konform abläuft.

An internal email indicates the BBC plans to shut down its central regional investigations unit, launched in 2022, as part of new cuts to BBC Local (Kevin Stanley/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/…

BBC proposes to close central regional investigations unit
BBC Local is proposing to close a unit dedicated to investigative journalism in the English regions less than four years after it was set up.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,209,880 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

Inside the 3 traits that make the Seattle Seahawks' Jaxon Smith-Njigba a nightmare for defenses

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/inside-

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

"Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years"
#Malaysia #CoralReef #Environment #Oceans

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years
Malaysia’s coral reefs are shrinking at a pace that is hard to ignore. According to the latest national survey by Reef Check Malaysia, about one-fifth of the country’s coral cover has been lost since 2022, a decline compressed into just three years. What had been gradual erosion now looks more like a slide. The 2025 […]

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:

For #BlackMetalMonday, the brutal, crushing war metal of Chicago's HELLFIRE DEATHCULT. All of theirs is some great, nasty, blasphemous stuff, and this is their LP from 2022, 'Al nombre de la muerte': https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Good Morning #Canada
My morning routine includes #CBCRadio with my coffee and this morning they had an interesting segment on Canadian youth returning to church. According #StatsCan 2022 data, 22% of Canadians ages 15-24 attended religious services at least once a month. That's a significant increase compared to ages 25 to 64. Angus Reid found that positive views of religion by #GenZ adults grew from 35 to 40% between 2023 to 2025, while views from every other generation significantly decreased.
This led me to read several news articles from late last year that reported on these studies, one of which is linked below. It appears the trend became noticeable during and after COVID lockdowns. The words of multiple interviewees tells me that young people's were looking for community and human interaction with something grounded with a sense of morality. That's positive even if you don't believe in her holiness above.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hallelujah
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/return-to-faith-church-attendance-increasing-for-first-time-in-decades/

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:

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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