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Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

Broncos LB Nik Bonitto: Breakout 2024 season has 'made me hungrier' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-lb-nik-bonitto-breakout-2024-season-has-made-me-hungrier

Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music
#MusicTherapy
https://muz4now.com/2024/creative-courage-addiction-recovery-through-art-an…

Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

This is so weird, I literally had to look this up.
✅ Emmys 2024: Why Is ‘The Bear’ Counted As A Comedy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2024/09/15/emmys-2024-why-is-the-bear-counted-as-a-comedy/

Emmys 2024: Why Is ‘The Bear’ Counted As A Comedy?
The 2023 Emmy winner for Best Comedy is up for that category again at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. But why is a show with so many dramatic moments called a comedy?

Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2024 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Brent W. Barbee, Matthew A. Vavrina, Rylie Bull, Adrienne Rudolph, Davide Farnocchia, Russell TerBeek, Justin Atchison, Joshua Lyzhoft, Jessie Dotson, Patrick King, Paul W. Chodas, Dawn Graninger, Ronald G. Mink, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Jason M. Pearl, Mary Burkey, Isaiah Santistevan, Catherine S. Plesko, Wendy K. Caldwell, Megan Harwell

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 2024-12-27 and its probability of Earth impact in December 2032 peaked at about 3% on 2025-02-18. Additional observations ruled out Earth impact by 2025-02-23. However, the probability of lunar impact in December 2032 then rose, reaching about 4% by the end of the apparition in May 2025. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations on 2025-03-26 estimated the asteroid's diameter at 60 +/- 7 m. Studies of 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact effects …

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Sadness As a Gift
#AdrianneLenker
https://drowninginsecondperson.bandcamp.com/track/sadness-as-a-gift-adrianne-lenker-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UpXhetX1s5OXTY5fRjWvu

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Byeong-Gon Park, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron, Rados{\l}aw Poleski, Igor Soszy\'nski, Pawe{\l} Pietrukowicz, Szymon Koz{\l}ows…

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through this analysis, we found that the light curves of three events including OGLE-2024-BLG-0657, KMT-2024-BLG-2017, and KMT-2024-BLG-2480 cannot be readily interpreted using standard three-body lensing models such as a binary lens with a single source (2L1S) or a single lens with a binary source (1L2S). In this work we pre…

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Fine-Tuned DWFormer:A Study on Track 1 of the IERPChallenge 2024
Honghong Wang, Xupeng Jia, Jing Deng, Rong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11371

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Fine-Tuned DWFormer:A Study on Track 1 of the IERPChallenge 2024
The field of artificial intelligence has a strong interest in the topic of emotion recognition. The majority of extant emotion recognition models are oriented towards enhancing the precision of discrete emotion label prediction. Given the direct relationship between human personality and emotion, as well as the significant inter-individual differences in subjective emotional expression, the IERP Challenge 2024 incorporates personality traits into emotion recognition research. This paper present…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Eddie Palmieri:
🎵 Comparsa de los locos
#EddiePalmieri
https://fania.bandcamp.com/track/comparsa-de-los-locos-remastered-2024-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rZ5GjrObnRNsDxC2zrFMx

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
Lachlan McGinness, Peter Baumgartner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12645 https://arxiv.org/…

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
We present a longitudinal study which evaluates the reasoning capability of frontier Large Language Models over an eighteen month period. We measured the accuracy of three leading models from December 2023, September 2024 and June 2025 on true or false questions from the PrOntoQA dataset and their faithfulness to reasoning strategies provided through in-context learning. The improvement in performance from 2023 to 2024 can be attributed to hidden Chain of Thought prompting. The introduction of …

California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year, state report says
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/california-2024-groundwater-report
🆓

California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year
California's aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of water during the last water year. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has been promoting efforts to replenish groundwater.

Ward, McMillan and others primed to follow path of 2024 breakouts https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45746739/fantasy-football-2025-version-2024-breakouts-nfl-sleeper

Russian oppositioner Navalny killed 'by poisoning' in 2024, widow cites Western labs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/russian-oppositioner-navalny-killed-by.html

I just dropped in on my BlueSty account for a visit, and discovered that those bastard online hooker accounts that "like" your posts for attention have now migrated there from Elonland. It's soooo tedious.

@… guten morgen! re flameshot (https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2024/11/30/screenshot-tools-mein-aha-moment-mit-fla…

2027 gibt's wieder eine #Airpower:
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3322122/
WIe sagt man, dass man mit anderen Worten, wie sehr man auf die

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
Yi Zeng, Enmeng Lu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cunqing Huangfu, Jiawei Xie, Yu Chen, Zhengqi Wang, Dongqi Liang, Gongce Cao, Jin Wang, Zizhe Ruan, Xin Guan, Ammar Younas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11546

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
The year 2024 witnessed accelerated global AI governance advancements, marked by strengthened multilateral frameworks and proliferating national regulatory initiatives. This acceleration underscores an unprecedented need to systematically track governance progress--an imperative that drove the launch of the AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) project since 2023. The inaugural AGILE Index, released in February 2024 after assessing 14 countries, established an operational a…

In 2024-25, 50 on-air BBC journalists earned above £178K, up from 46 in 2023-24; Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce were the top-paid following Huw Edwards' exit (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/nick-r

Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are top-paid BBC journalists after Huw Edwards exit
Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are the highest-paid journalists at the BBC after the departure of Huw Edwards - BBC annual report for 2024/25.

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye #BCI

Der #Marmolata-Gletscher in den #Dolomiten zieht sich weiter zurück.
Aktuelle Messungen zeigen einen durchschnittlichen Schwund von sieben Metern seit 2024 sowie eine deutliche #Ausdünnung

Dolomiten: Marmolata-Gletscher verschwindet
Italienische Glaziologinnen und Glaziologen sehen für den Marmolata-Gletscher in den Dolomiten schwarz. Im Vergleich zu 2024 hat er sich im Durchschnitt um sieben Meter zurückgezogen – begleitet von einer allgemeinen Ausdünnung der Gletscherfronten.

#TrumpVotersDidThis
Farm Bankruptcies in 2025 Already Exceed 2024 Levels | Hoosier Ag Today
https://www.hoosieragtoday.com/2025/07/15/farm-bankruptcies-2/

The PhD Prize at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting went to Jonah Wagenveld and a current cosmology mystery - described in ample detail in the paper Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50291-24/aa50291-24.html

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
A. Wargnier, P. N. Simon, S. Fornasier, N. El-Bez-Sebastien, D. Tirsch, K. -D. Matz, T. Gautier, A. Doressoundiram, M. A. Barucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12804

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
The goal of this study is to analyze the photometric properties of Deimos using Mars Express (MEX) observations, to improve the photometric properties and provide new insights into the texture and composition of the surface of Deimos, in preparation for the MMX mission. We analyzed the data obtained by the HRSC and the SRC cameras onboard MEX. The HRSC data, obtained through the use of four filters (blue, green, red, IR), provides 390 to 800 m/px resolution, while the SRC data reach 85 to 300 m…

POL-BO: Tag ohne Verkehrstote
„Die Polizei appelliert daher:
- Beachten Sie die Regeln der Straßenverkehrsordnung.
- Halten Sie sich an die zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit.
- Lassen Sie sich nicht ablenken
- das Handy bleibt in der Tasche.
- Fahren Sie nicht unter Alkohol- oder Drogeneinfluss.
- Nehmen Sie Rücksicht auf andere Menschen.“

POL-BO: Polizei für Bochum, Herne und Witten beteiligt sich am Tag ohne Verkehrstote
Bochum, Herne, Witten (ots) - Neun Menschen haben 2024 in Bochum, Herne und Witten bei Verkehrsunfällen ihr Leben verloren - um auf die Gefahren des Straßenverkehrs aufmerksam...

Your daily reminder NOT to give any money at all to Amazon.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114868402992391963

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

"Ernsthafte Zweifel am Überleben": Cowboy veröffentlicht Finanzbericht für 2024
Die Zukunft des belgischen E-Bike-Startups scheint alles andere als sicher. Eine neue Strategie soll das Unternehmen auf die Füße zurückbringen.

🧵 https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/114864376228330562

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

Good Morning #Canada
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, as of January 2025, only 38 countries recognize same-sex marriage, out of 195 recognized nations. Canada has been a leader in LGTBQ rights and, in a recent ranking, places us 5th worldwide in protecting same sex and gender affirmation. The USA ranks 23rd but is likely to drop further as the report was based on 2024 data before the MAGA morons took office.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LGTBQI
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lgbt-rights-by-country

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Kohou Wang, Huan Hu, Xiang Liu, Zezhou Chen, Ping Chen, Zhaoxiang Liu, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13107

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
The proliferation of sophisticated deepfake technology poses significant challenges to digital security and authenticity. Detecting these forgeries, especially across a wide spectrum of manipulation techniques, requires robust and generalized models. This paper introduces the Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework (HDFF), an ensemble-based deep learning architecture designed for high-performance facial forgery detection. Our framework integrates four diverse pre-trained sub-models, Swin-MLP, CoAtNe…

Trey Hendrickson trade rumors: Breaking down whether 2024 NFL sack leader will play for Bengals in Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
Mauricio L\'opez-Reyes, Julio Eduardo Zamora-Salvador, Alma Delia Ort\'iz-Ba\~nuelos, Stephany Paulina Arellano-Ram\'irez, Carlos Rom\'an-Casta\~neda, Armando Gonz\'alez-Figueroa, Hector Hugo Ulloa-God\'inez, Mario E. Garc\'ia Guadalupe

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
This article analyzes the characteristics of the rainy season and extreme temperatures recorded in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, during 2024. Using ERA5 and CHIRPS reanalysis data and observations from thirteen meteorological stations, patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies were identified. The results show a late start and early end of the rainy season, with positive anomalies in the central and southern regions, and significant deficits in the coastal strip. Furthermore, 2024 sto…

The 2024 US State Department report on UK human rights has been published. Note that this is a 2024 report so doesn't have anything to say about the recent policing of support for proscribed groups.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-…

Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (Ramon Royandoyan/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean…

Philippine startups ride funding boom, but growing pains remain
Red tape and lack of big-ticket exits put brake on ecosystem momentum

#Schweiz Umfrage Finanzielle Verhältnisse
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/comparis-umfrage-finanzieller-druck-auf-schweizerinnen-und-schwe…

Comparis-Studie: Mieten und Krankenkassenprämien zehren am Budget
Jeder vierte Erwachsene rechnet in diesem Jahr mit einer Verschlechterung der eigenen Situation im Vergleich zu 2024.

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

Wurde 2024 gefeuert - Formel-1-Crash-Pilot gibt sein Motorsport-Comeback #News #Nachrichten

Why Cowboys' Osa Odighizuwa, who outproduced Jalen Carter in 2024, needs to be discussed among NFL's top DTs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-…

Interesting! The Swedes have found that if they add the enzyme endolysin to antibiotics, that they can work again against resistant bacteria.

'We are doubling the Ukraine Facility' — EU proposes 100 billion euros for Ukraine aid fund in 2028–2034 budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/we-are-doubling-the-ukraine.html

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies  #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/get-creative-

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies 
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

The battery-electric vehicle boom in 🇧🇪 Belgium:
“In one year, their number jumped by 55.4%, from 254,240 in 2024 to 395,188 in 2025.”
The changes to the company car taxation scheme appear to be the main driver:
“The vast majority of these vehicles (81.8%) are registered in the name of a company”
https://

Chiefs WR Rashee Rice sentenced to jail time, probation after 2024 hit-and-run with suspension from NFL likely

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chief…

from my link log —
Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
https://tweag.io/blog/2024-04-25-nix-protocol-in-rust/
saved 2024-05-06

Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
We re-implemented the nix remote protocol, declaratively

Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1yl6mlulx

Mapping Israel’s $20B GenAI boom: 342 startups and counting
New Remagine Ventures report charts explosive growth and the rise of agentic AI systems.

Marvin Harrison Jr. says lack of targets a 'silly conversation,' but Cardinals WR behind 2024 first-rounders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marv…

Read That Before You Trust Anything by Microsoft Once Again
#Microsoft

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

This "service" is thanks to the numbskulls the Tories hired when they were still in power. Utter incompetence.

(2018, free PDF download) Retinal prosthesis: A clinical guide to successful implementation (Essentials in ophthalmology) by Mark S. Humayun https://unitedvrg.com/2024/11/09/retinal-prosthesis-a-clini…

Cowboys season outlook: Dak Prescott is healthy, but is that enough for Dallas to rebound from forgetful 2024?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

The BBC's annual report for 2025 shows that the corporation took an average of 119 days to resolve bullying and harassment complaints, up from 101 days in 2024 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-bullying-complaints-samir-shah-1236459090/…

BBC Taking Longer Than Ever To Resolve Bullying Complaints Amid Misconduct Crackdown
The BBC is taking longer than ever to resolve bullying and harassment complaints amid a crackdown on abuses of power at the corporation.

#Deutschland und #Großbritannien sind seit heute übrigens nicht mehr verfeindet, sondern befreundet.
Jetzt planen sie die gemeinsame Vergangenheit. 🤭

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Soon, there will be no export market left for mass-market models of internal combustion engine vehicles. Some 'premium' car makers may continue to produce niche models for a while, but the mass market will be electrified (EU 2035 or not).
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outl

During lockdown I was contemplating a move to France or maybe Greece.
The part of France I was considering was Angoulême, which hit a windless 40ºC today, and meanwhile large swathes of Greece are covered in wildfires and are almost as hot.
Maybe life isn't so bad in the north of Scotland, currently about 15ºC and clear (it rained a bit early this morning).
Dodged that bullet!

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity https://muz4now.com/2024/have-a-plan-10-tips-for-boosting-productivity/

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B from crypto services, including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack, surpassing all of 2024 and up 17% on H1 2022 (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2025-crypto-crime-mid-year-update/

2025 Crypto Crime Mid-Year Update - Chainalysis
Over $2.17 billion has been stolen in crypto so far in 2025, led by the $1.5 billion ByBit hack. Learn more in our 2025 Crypto Crime Mid-Year Update.

from my link log —
Where did DNSSEC go wrong?
https://blog.apnic.net/2024/07/05/where-did-dnssec-go-wrong/
saved 2025-09-05

Where did DNSSEC go wrong? | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: What lessons can we learn from the development of DNSSEC?

@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

Sieben Mitglieder der Gruppe #LetzteGeneration sind nach einer #Protestaktion am Flughafen #Frankfurt angeklagt.
Sie hatten sich im Juli 2024 mit

Anklage gegen Mitglieder der "Letzten Generation" wegen Protestaktion
Im vergangenen Sommer klebten sich Mitglieder der "Letzten Generation" auf der Startbahn des Frankfurter Flughafens fest. 200 Flüge fielen aus. Jetzt sind die Umweltaktivisten wegen Hausfriedensbruchs und Sachbeschädigung angeklagt worden.

Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B valuation, and reports $134M in 2024 sales (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/scale-…

The question for Europe's car industry is not whether to reach "2035" a year earlier or later, or what the market will look like in a decade. The question should be: what will the car market look like in a fortnight?
Fresh comparison Thailand - EU from the #ICCT earlier figure from the #IEA

I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e05a5c5-84ad-4f8a-991a-d7f3842de76d

Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Chiefs' Rashee Rice likely facing suspension after pleading guilty to 2024 car crash felony charges: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500108/2025/07/17/chiefs-rashee-rice-sentence-suspension/

Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-1…

from my link log —
SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time.
https://sander.saares.eu/2024/12/31/you-do-not-need-multithreading-to-do-more-than-one-thing-at-a-time/

You do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time
As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing …

Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, a jump from the $150M fund it closed in February 2024 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack…

Investor docs: Revolut reported Q2 revenue up 46% YoY to £1.01B and is on track to deliver more than £4.1B in 2025 annual revenue, up from £3.1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/revolut-tou…

Falcons QB Michael Penix Jr. credits mental reps for 2024 success, eyes postseason in first year as starter https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-qb-michael-penix-jr-credits-mental-reps-for-2024-success-eyes-postseason-i…

The World Shipping Council launches an AI tool to scan millions of bookings in real time to identify risks of cargo fires, which reached a decade-high in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e9c70f1-af80-4e9b-8171-59b1ad54aaf6

from my link log —
Runtime-extensible PEG parsers for SQL.
https://duckdb.org/2024/11/22/runtime-extensible-parsers.html
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Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using PEG
Despite their central role in processing queries, parsers have not received any noticeable attention in the data systems space. State-of-the art systems are content with ancient old parser generators. These generators create monolithic, inflexible and unforgiving parsers that hinder innovation in query languages and frustrate users. Instead, parsers should be rewritten using modern abstractions like Parser Expression Grammars (PEG), which allow dynamic changes to the accepted query syntax and b…

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)

A look at prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket; Kalshi has ~$1B in current monthly volume and processed $6.9B in total, including $6.4B since October 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025/09/15/why-b…

Why Prediction Markets Like Kalshi Are Attracting Savvy Billionaire Investors
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Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
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49ers' Jauan Jennings wants new contract or trade following breakout 2024 season, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-j…

Dolphins' Jaylen Waddle looks to move past 2024 struggles: 'Definitely the year that I didn't want as an individual' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-jaylen-waddle-looks-to-move-past-2024-str…

Bengals contract drama with Trey Hendrickson quietly continues: Will 2024 NFL sack leader play in Week 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals

Jets CB Michael Carter II 'in a lot better place' after adverse 2024, eager to play for Aaron Glenn https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-cb-michael-carter-ii-in-a-lot-better-place-after-adverse-2024-eager-to-play-for-aaron-…

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CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…

China’s cyber sector amplifies Beijing’s hacking of U.S. targets
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Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024, and $52M in H1 2025, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362685/crypto

Vikings' Jordan Addison resolves DUI case by pleading no contest to a lesser charge https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-jordan-addison-resolves-dui-case-by-pleading-no-contest-to-a-lesser-charge

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

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https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos