2025-10-28 02:48:41
Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/most-cambodia-laos-tree-cover-loss-in-2024-happened-inside-protected-areas/
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Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/most-cambodia-laos-tree-cover-loss-in-2024-happened-inside-protected-areas/
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thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/
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
49ers sign veteran linebacker who ditched San Francisco for Cowboys in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/49ers-sign-linebacker-who-ditched-san-francisco-cowboys-2024/8…
„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga
3 things to know about Bears: Could 2024 top pick be hitting stride? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-bears-could-2024-top-pick-be-hitting-stride-3466586/
Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."
Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/irobot-stock-roomba.html
Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, wrote recently that
“the great sleeping giant of America is awakening”,
just as it did after the Communist witch-hunt era in the 1950s
or during the Vietnam war protests
or during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
On those occasions, the listing ship eventually was righted.
Reich says he knows the signs of that awakening and sees it happening now.
As evidence, he cites the recent massive protests,
the…
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 #environment
2024 NFL Draft regrade: Who's already a star, who's stalled and what's changed 18 months later
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-draft-regrade-updated-g…
Von den Siegern 2024 zum Start der DVM 2025
Heute geht es wieder los!
#dvm25
"Global use of coal hit record high in 2024"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange
I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
#BizimKiez kämpft gegen Gentrifizierung und andere Formen der #Verdrängung
Ein kleiner Kiezkrimi über Untermiete und Schikane
A profile of Disney Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush, appointed in September 2024, who is trying to reclaim Disney's animation magic, ahead of Zootopia 2 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/business/disney-zootopia-2-jared-bush…
Joost.com aka theveniceproject, when youtube wasn't a thing yet.
#video
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern
Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
📣 The call for nominations for the Sarah Jones Award 2026 is now open!
What is it?
‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience’ was established by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in June 2024. This bi-annual award honours the memory of our dear colleague Sarah Jones, and her significant contributions to the global open science commu…
Wandern auf den Laaber bei Oberammergau 2024
#hiking #silentsunday
"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
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
J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain
If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about it last year:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/
#NCKF25
Ranking top 10 players from loaded 2024 NFL Draft class: Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-top-10-players-from-loaded-2024-nfl-draft-class-jayden-daniels-or-drake-maye-at-no-1
Didi reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to ~$8.28B and a ~$211M net income, up from ~$127M in Q3 2024; international revenue up 35% YoY to ~$558M with a ~$240M loss (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china…
Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows
I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5661739-democrats-debate-2024-election-lessons/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p12#a251224p12
TIL Insyde is apparently the biggest UEFI firmware vendor now, claiming more than 50% market share as of this year:
https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-achieves-record-high-rev…
Over the 2 years since the previous elections, popular support for the 4 right-far-right coalition parties in the Netherlands consistently went downhill, from 56% shortly after the elections to 50% at the start of their coalition government in July 2024 to 31% now.
Data: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd
Everytime I stumble upon this, I'm made joyus by Jim's writing! ^^
The Humble Link - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-humble-link/
15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994 https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/15-great-games-you-could-play-on-a-mac-performa-575-in-1994
China
USA
Myanmar
Australia
Nigeria
Thailand
India
Russia
Madagascar
Vietnam
The 10 leading countries by Rare Earth metal production
https://investingnews.com/daily/resour
Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/29/paragraphs.html
"Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024" für Playstation 5 erschienen
Der "Flight Simulator 2024" ist für die Playstation 5 erschienen. Dabei hatte Microsoft einen Port zuerst abgelehnt.
https://w…
Kesä 2024 oli Lapissa lämpimämpi kuin koskaan viimeisen 2 000 vuoden aikana #Lappi
The UK approves the £750M Marlow Studios project backed by James Cameron, overruling a 2024 local council decision to block it due to environmental concerns (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Good analysis from april 2024 by Ian Bond, still valid, "Does it matter if Ukraine loses?"
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2024/does-it-matter-if-ukraine-loses
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
One of the biggest political scandals in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2024 was the accusation that Alice Guo, the elected town mayor of Bamban was not actually a Filipino citizen and instead was a Chinese spy that engaged in trafficking of Chinese nationals for illegal online gambling operations.
Following her recent conviction of human trafficking last November 20,
London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6
Interesting that an Atlas Network affiliated 'thinktank' is calling out 'grade inflation' at the varsity level. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579886/grade-inflation-think-tank-warns-a-s-will-soon-be-mos…
When Trump began his second term, conventional wisdom held that the resistance was moribund.
If that was ever true, it’s certainly not anymore.
This year has seen some of the largest street protests in American history.
Amanda Litman, a founder of Run for Something, a group that trains young progressives to seek local office, told me that since the 2024 election, it has seen more sign-ups than in all of Trump’s first four years.
Just this month, the Republican-domi…
"Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Ryan Lizza claims Olivia Nuzzi regularly shared "opposition research" that she obtained from sources with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his 2024 presidential bid (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pol
PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b4d5e238-c34a-4602-91d0-4c7300b0006f
#Deutschland hat mit 107,5 Gigawatt installierter #Photovoltaik-Leistung bereits die Hälfte des für 2030 angestrebten Ziels erreicht.
2024 wurde ein Rekordwert bei der #Stromeinspeisung
Hall of Fame cuts two Raiders including 2024 finalist from list of senior semi-finalists https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/22/raiders-2024-senior-hall-of-fame-finalis…
Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril…
'Everybody gotta eat': With Rice back, Chiefs finally have offense they envisioned https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46685079/kansas-city-chiefs-offense-rashee-rice-return-elite-offense-commanders
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1167083 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
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
“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…
Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/828685/uber-weride-robotaxi-fully-driverless-u…
J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain
Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p3#a251220p3
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung
Regrading eight NFL trades from last year's deadline: Hindsight on Adams to the Jets, Cooper to the Bills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654966/regrading-deals-2024-nfl-trade-deadline-davante-adams-marshon-lattimore
Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/amazon-rainforest-hits-record-carbon-emissions-from-2024-forest-fires/
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Dutch public broadcaster Nos quits X, citing the "amount of hateful responses and disinformation" on the site; The Guardian quit in 2024 and NPR in 2023 (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
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
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch
Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
https://www.wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion-racine-county-wisconsin-jobs
How NFL Draft can help Lions, Chiefs, other 2024 playoff teams that flopped this season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911825/2025/12/23/nfl-draft-2026-lions-chiefs-ravens-outlook/
South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
AI sector minted 50 new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025/12/25/ai-minted…
Trotz rückläufiger verbrannter Fläche stiegen die CO₂-Emissionen durch #Waldbrände 2024/25 auf über 8 Milliarden Tonnen – rund 10 % mehr als im langjährigen Schnitt.
Ursache sind vermehrte #Brände in kohlenstoffreichen
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia-born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/r
Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…
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
Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/
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:
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/hackers-stole-…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…
Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/stablecoin-leader-tether-expect…
Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…
Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/
Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20