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PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Cell Broadcast: BBK führt Entwarnungen ein
Warnmeldungen über Cell Broadcast gibt es in Deutschland seit 2023. Jetzt hat das BBK auch Entwarnungen eingeführt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Cell-Broadcas…

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RT: https://ethernick.com/notes/305a274f-6a1d-46f0-bc08-cca8baf56163

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RT: https://ethernick.com/notes/305a274f-6a1d-46f0-bc08-cca8baf56163

Gestern die Doku "Oeconimia" aus 2023 gesehen. Da wird einem erst mal so richtig klar, wie abgrundtief krank unser Finanzsystem ist.
Jedem der sich über #kapitalismus #finanzsysteme

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

Der deutsche #Emissionshandel erzielte 2023 #Rekordeinnahmen von über 18 Milliarden Euro. 💶🌍 Diese Gelder fließen in den Klima- und #Transformationsfonds, der klimaneutrale …

Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

No foul found in GOP-drawn 2023 North Carolina congressional map | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/no-foul-found-in-gop-drawn-2023-north-carolina-congressional-map/

a dozen years ago, i wrote liner notes for a reissue of callender's 1972 album, "the way," nixed by a former label owner just before it went into (re)production.
https://social.lol/@thetonearm/115587988828492685

#vereinfachteSprache
Deutschland erlebte 2023 viel #Regen und hohe Temperaturen. Der Deutsche Wetterdienst sagt, dass 2023 das wärmste Jahr seit 1881 war. Es gab 20 Prozent mehr Regen als im Durchschnitt. Besonders stark betroffen war Nordwestdeutschland mit Überschwemmungen. Klimawan…

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Looks like you've got awesome customers! I'm a bit envious but also happy about it.

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…

from my link log —
That's FAR-out, man: a kernel infoleak in Mac OS xnu.
https://blog.dfsec.com/ios/2023/11/19/thats-far-out-man/
saved 2023-12-05

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Looks like you've got awesome customers! I'm a bit envious but also happy about it.

This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

Microstimulation in the primary visual cortex: activity patterns and their relation to visual responses and evoked saccades (2023) https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/33/9/5192/6774655?login=false "ICMS with voltage-sensitive dye imaging in V1" for &q…

Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) - The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - https://www.

So, wie Audiophile um Rock-Platten aus den späten 1990ern und den 2000ern einen großen Bogen machen (zu Sound-Matsch gemastert wegen Loudness-War), werden Bibliophile irgendwann mal bevorzugt Bücher kaufen, die vor 2023 erschienen sind. Weil man da weitgehend sicher sein kann, dass diese Bücher noch ohne AI-Unterstützung und ganz sicher nicht von einer AI alleine geschrieben wurden. #justthinkin

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…

‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/13/berlin-bicycle-and-pedestrian-car-friendly-transport?CMP=share_btn_url

Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende

"2025 ‘virtually certain’ to be second- or third-hottest year on record, EU data shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Heute habe ich zum ersten Mal von einem anlaufendem Bußgeldverfahren gehört, das durch eine Beschwerde mit meinem (mittlerweile schon lange nicht mehr aktualisierten) Beschwerdegenerator "Tracktor" ausgelöst wurde.
Für den Start dieses Bußgeldverfahrens hat die Berliner Behörde über fünf Jahre gebraucht 🥲
Audible.de hatte unter anderem die Adobe Experience Cloud, Google Cookie Matching und The Trade Desk ohne Einwilligung eingebunden. 2023 waren die Einbettungen bere…

Back in 2023, I made a Twitter thread on how to switch to a low-cost, open-source #FOSS platform for newsletters called #Listmonk following #Mailchimp's changes to their free plan:

Yet one more case of separating a child from his parent - because they crossed the border as refugees in 2023, where they followed the rules. (More details at the link below) You can send a letter protesting this horrific action, using the action network letter at https://act…

Dammit, I thought this was satire! 🤣
Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/us-state-department-reverts-times-new-roma…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 But Not Tonight
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://djpepusnik.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-but-not-tonight-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mOAeFylUraa4kUB1B9QW3

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Rachmaninov and Mahler at the 2023 BBC Proms
Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Plus Mahler's Titan Symphony and the world premiere of a new work by Grace Evangeline Mason.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mw4b

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 13. November 2021 nahmen 400 Menschen an der Stand Up For Nuclear 2021 Demonstration in Berlin teil, organisiert von Nuklearia e.V. Der Verein wird im Zusammenhang mit der #Atomlobby und einer vermeintlichen Nähe zur AfD wahrgenommen.

Le Dalaï-lama était informé dès 1997.
Il promettait de retirer sa lettre de légitimité si Spatz était condamné.
Spoiler : rien n’a bougé.
Il faudra attendre 2023, après des mois de lobbying et un documentaire ARTE, pour qu’une reconnaissance soit enfin suspendue.
temporairement.

from my link log —
C needs a new type qualifier: it’s time for null pointer safety.
https://itnext.io/why-c-needs-a-new-type-qualifier-61ad553cbe71
saved 2023-01-28

Wohnung eiskalt - Irrtum: Grazerin blecht Heizkosten für Landesbüro #News #Nachrichten

Saquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/

ICE : Patriot Protocol | Video Game Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv25r-RLyFE

ICE : Patriot Protocol | Video Game Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv25r-RLyFE

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.11.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1175419 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

A UK court finds three men guilty of harassing BBC journalist Catrin Nye, who presented the 2023 podcast and doc A Very British Cult on the Lighthouse group (Neil Henderson/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86vg999g1zo

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Bob Dylan:
🎵 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
#BobDylan
https://shaneb.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-inside-of-mobile-with-the-memphis-blues-again-bob-dylan-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NYTj6JEw3IOh4ggiBh82h

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

https://theoblivionchapel.bandcamp.com/track/1933

#TheOblivionChapel #1933

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Allegiance

Prime
Rile
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https://theoblivionchapel.bandcamp.com/track/1933

#TheOblivionChapel #1933

Line
File
Pledge
Allegiance

Prime
Rile
Feed
A grievance

Blind
Stares
Cross
Hairs

Twist
Right
Drag
Them out of sight
Day and night

Poin…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

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I'm decades younger, work in tech, have worked on the development of a mobile phone OS in the past and also think this is bullshit.
I've got perfectly functional phones I can't use any more because they stopped getting security updates.
The way I found to partially mitigate this is to use phones as little…

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😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im September 2025 über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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Fantastic! Really happy for you!
I want to leave LinkedIn too.

Leaving Facebook and Twitter was easy as I never relied on them for income. I just left in disgust.

I freelance, and unfortunately a majority of work opportunities comes from people finding me on LinkedIn.

I'm on Xing as well, but in the Nordic…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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I have no sympathy for Maduro or his regime, and would be happy for Venezuelans to replace it, but this looks very much like a takeover of a sovereign country for economic exploitation by force. And (yet another) terrible "might is right" precedent.

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

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Unfortunately I don't expect much. Some calls for restraint. Maybe some polite condemnation. The more likely the further west but nothing with teeth.

We are not getting independent (of the US) foreign policies until we have taken charge of our security and of critical financial and technology infrastructure.

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:

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I have no sympathy for Maduro or his regime, and would be happy for Venezuelans to replace it, but this looks very much like a takeover of a sovereign country for economic exploitation by force. And (yet another) terrible "might is right" precedent.

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Unfortunately I don't expect much. Some calls for restraint. Maybe some polite condemnation. The more likely the further west but nothing with teeth.

We are not getting independent (of the US) foreign policies until we have taken charge of our security and of critical financial and technology infrastructure.

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Yes, they are even bragging about it.

But - besides the environmental insanity and the theft - it's doubtful it will even work out economically. I doubt they can get a return on what they'd need to invest any more. They'll need to plunder more than oil.

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Yeah. It's even more sad for us living in the EU. We don't get to have a sovereign foreign policy until we have cut the dependency on the US for security, financial infra and tech platforms. Working discretely (and far too slowly) on it. Will it be better afterwards? Maybe, not sure.
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