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I'd forgotten Slow Streets used to have not just the "local traffic only" sign, but "road closed to through traffic" as well. Both gone now. Slow Streets got so watered down. (2022 photo)

The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

Donald Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight
and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it,
according to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week.

The Justice Department shared those findings, detailed in a January 2023 briefing document written by then-special counsel Jack Smith’s team,
with lawmakers as they conduct a …

Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says
The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.

The EU is looking for short fixes to reduce gas demand and has failed to find any.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/23/eu-pushes-early-gas-refills-while-easing-storage-targets-on-iran-war
China is ex…

EU pushes early gas refills while easing storage targets on Iran war
Goal is to avoid panic buying while ensuring that EU countries' gas storage is replenished by next winter. The European Commission also told member states to refill below the 90% level set by law in 2022. #EuropeNews

The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

On Website Technicals (2022-01) - Tech updates: sitemap timestamp changes, power system tweaks, RE Utils V1.1.12, Christmas dip, desktop page experience, not indexed. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-56.html

On Website Technicals (2022-01)
Tech updates: sitemap timestamp changes, power system tweaks, RE Utils V1.1.12, Christmas dip, desktop page experience, not indexed.

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

"‘Europe learned the wrong lesson’ by doubling down on fossil fuels while India and China went green"
#Europe #FossilFuels #Energy

‘Europe learned the wrong lesson’ on energy from Russia-Ukraine war
Countries that invested in renewable energy in 2022 are better able to withstand the current fuel crisis, experts say.

My water bill came in recently, which is kind of appropriate considering all the pond talk.
Since building it, the front yard #pandemicPond very very rarely is topped up on its own from tap water. Generally we keep it full from rain water, the rain barrel, or as part of the general low-flow spray/water system for the yard in the summer. So our water consumption really is dependant on how much garden watering we are doing. I'm not surprised we were high last year as we watered the new green-driveway and young trees.
The #PoolPond might, or might not, be different given the sheer volume *and* surface area (ie. evaporation). We have a 1000L rainwater barrel in the back yard, but that would only be useful for replacing evaporation losses at best in the poolpond.
I'll have to fill it once or twice in the coming weeks and possibly once a year if I do an annual cleaning at the end of the summer. We'll see. This year will also feature a return of vegetation to the back yard, so we'll likely be watering it more than when it is established in a year or two.
The city splits our bill into 3 periods per year, which is a little weird but ok...
Our household consumption has varied quite a bit since the pandemic due to changes in household composition (kids moving to uni etc) or us being more or less active in the garden.
I am happy that we used very little water this winter/spring, the least since 2022. I expect it to spike in the current April-August period as both kids have returned and I'll be doing all this pond stuff. But if I can keep it under 150,000L ($150) on the August bill, I'll be happy.
In the coming years, if I can use less in the Fall, Winter and Spring to "save up" for Summer, that would be nice but minimizing all seasons will always be the goal. That's why more trees are going to happen in the backyard at some point. Shade=Less watering!
In all, I'm happy with the only modest rise in our water consumption over the past few years.
#Home #PortAlberni #Water #Bills

wish there was a "fuck this guy and never allow them to report anything again” option
(c.f. https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/12/28/ReDoS-vulnerabilities-and-misaligned-incentives)

The recent #Artemis flight made me laugh when I recalled this 2022 episode off @… radio with its reference to #accordion spaceflight
“Then comes the unfurlin…

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New S…

"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/

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 …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,275,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study
The world’s nations committed to halving overall threats to biodiversity from pesticides and other highly hazardous chemicals by 2030 at the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2022. But new research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the U.N.’s global risk reduction target […]

Are there other countries in the world, apart from the US, where legislative disputes actually shut down public functions and hold pay hostage, not just theoretically?
(They changed the law in the UK in September 2011 that would make a shudown possible, but repealed it in March 2022.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Portishead:
🎵 Wandering Star
#Portishead
https://andrewcolohan.bandcamp.com/track/portishead-wandering-star-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/7h14W1uQK7sjpVI1oVTobt

Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those 18-49, or about 5.34M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/oscars-2026-tv-rating…

TV Ratings: Oscars Fall to 17.9 Million Viewers, Lowest Since 2022
ABC and Hulu’s telecast was off by about 9 percent from the 2025 awards.

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026…

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust
It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

Raiders sign LB Segun Olubi https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-linebacker-segun-olubi-nfl-2026-free-agency-transactions

On Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html

On Website Technicals (2022-08)
Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL.

A look at the meteorologists leaving broadcast news to become independent streamers; 19 meteorologists have joined the Digital Weather Network, founded in 2022 (Elizabeth Hewitt/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/meteorologists

Meet the meteorologists leaving broadcast behind.
In an era of extreme weather, indie weathermen are streaming coverage 24-7—and banding together.

In drei Tagen Krieg gegen den Iran hätten die USA mehr Patriot-Raketen abgefeuert, als die Ukraine seit 2022 erhalten habe, sagt Wolodymyr Selenskyj.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ukraine-bietet-usa-guenstige-drohnenabwehr-gegen-iran-an-395593535168

Fernando Mendoza won't be attending NFL Draft in Pittsburgh: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7178471/2026/04/07/fernando-mendoza-nfl-draft-attendance/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLYQgzGLy8duSSdTJa1ik

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 …

Los Raiders firman al Centro Tyler Linderbaum https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-centro-tyler-linderbaum

Time says revenue from events is on pace to make up over 50% of total revenue, up from 28% in 2023; it hosted 11 events in 2022 and plans to host 40 this year (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/time-events-revenue-driver/

How Time Turned Events Into Its Biggest Revenue Driver
The business is on pace to generate more than 50% of its total revenue in 2026