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Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 24. Januar 2023 stellte das "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" die #Weltuntergangsuhr auf 90 Sekunden vor 12 - nach 2020 neuer Spitzenwert. Die Gründe sind die russische Invasion in der Ukraine und dadurch schwindendes Interesse für den Klimawandel.

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes steps down from her role but will remain on staff as editor-at-large; she joined the paper as the first female editor in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/business/nanc…

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes to step down
In a note to the Globe newsroom, Barnes said she is stepping down at the end of next week and will stay on staff as an editor-at-large.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…

Kentucky Supreme Court rules charter school funding unconstitutional
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional. The high court ruled that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.” The Republican-backed measure was struck down by a lower court in 2023. In an opinion released Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court wrote that the Constitution "does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system.” In 2024, Kentucky voters rejected a…

from my link log —
Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
saved 2023-11-03 https://…

New China-linked hacker group spies on governments in Southeast Asia, Japan https://therecord.media/china-linked-hacker-group-spied-on-asian-govs

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Boston Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 BBC Proms
Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the eminent orchestra for Gershwin's Piano Concerto plus music by Stravinsky, Ravel & Carlos Simon. John Shea presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4fn

Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu<…

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:

Funny how AI writing continues to sound basically the same now vs 2023 and across individuals.
This is despite a bazillion new models coming out, multiple competitor orgs building their own models, and thousands upon thousands of people spending hundreds of hours customizing their prompts, inputs, building personalized agents and flows….
Has anyone made a taxonomy of AI / LLM writing styles yet? I feel like I see about 3-4 distinct versions of “style”.
#writing #AI #LLM

#Anarchism

“NPR’s board members were excited in the fall of 2023 when they found Ms. Maher. She had worked for the World Bank and HSBC. As the chief executive of the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, she oversaw a sprawling, complicated community of volunteer editors. And she was prepared.”
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Katherine Maher of NPR Has Come Out on Top Despite Battles With Trump and the CPB
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.

the other day I was saying cat cafés exist but I wish there was a cat pub
WELL I HAVE INCREDIBLE NEWS
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/11/enjoy-a-pint-in-britains-first-ever-cat-pub/

Enjoy a pint in Britain’s first ever cat pub
The Bag of Nails in Bristol has been named Britain’s first cat pub, with resident felines propping up the bar alongside drinkers.

Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
https://

On Sep 10, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 1x1 “𝗣𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁” 30 Sept 95 #DavidHasselhoff #GregoryAlanWilliams #AngieHarmon

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Max Richter's Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Britten Sinfonia perform a programme at the BBC Proms in 2023 with a theme of musical reimagining, including Max Richter's recomposed version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8b5

🇺🇦 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

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:

A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/milli…

Organisiert vom Chaos Computer Club (CCC) #Hamburg
Der Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) vom 27.12.-30.12.2025 im CCH statt.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/

Der Chaos Communication Congress
Der Chaos Computer Club veranstaltet jährlich zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr den Chaos Communication Congress. Ursprünglich in Hamburg beheimatet, traf man sich über viele Jahre in Berlin, dann wieder 5 Jahre in Hamburg. Nachdem der Congress für die folgenden 3 Jahre in Leipzig stattgefunden hat, fand der Congress zweimal remote als „rC3“ statt und kehrte 2023 wieder nach Hamburg zurück. Im Laufe der Jahre hat sich der Congress zu einer europaweit renommierten Veranstaltung mit über…

Insider Predicts What It Will Cost For Cowboys To Re-Sign Brandon Aubrey https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandon-aubrey-contract-george-pickens/

I noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…

Lagardère Travel Retail builds on its strategic partnership with Costa Coffee to become the brand’s master franchise partner in Poland - Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe
Lagardère Travel Retail and British coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, a Coca-Cola owned company, announce that their long-term partnership has further developed with the transfer of control of the brand’s 142 stores in Poland and Latvia to Lagardère Travel Retail, as master franchisee. This confirms Lagardère Travel Retail’s strategic ambition to become a global leader in Foodservice and to cover travelers’ needs holistically. The transfer of control of Costa Coffee’s network of stores…

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

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'`,…

🔊 #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

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

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/european-fintech-st…

European fintech start-up Duna raises another €30m
European business identity start-up Duna has raised more than €40m since its foundation in 2023, following today's raise of €30m.

from my link log —
Open Props: sub-atomic CSS.
https://open-props.style/
saved 2023-10-14 https://dotat.at/:/IXDBZ.html<…

Open Props: sub-atomic styles
Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.

just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

Das #Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat entschieden, dass das #Klimaschutzprogramm der #Bundesregierung aus dem Jahr 2023 nicht ausreicht, um die gesetzlichen Ziele bis 20…

Klimaklage gegen Bundesregierung erfolgreich
Die Bundesregierung muss das Klimaschutzprogramm nachbessern. Das 2023 beschlossene Programm reiche nicht aus, um die Klimaziele zu erreichen, urteilte das Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Geklagt hatte die Umwelthilfe.