@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaJust a reminder that the difference in popular vote in the 2024 election was only 1.5%, with a piss poor voter turnout of 64%. I think that if the democrats had a real primary and a candidate that more period could get behind it would have easily gone the other way.
Maga has no clear mandate. You see a lot of loud voices online that make it seem like the country is behind Trump and his agenda, but that isn't the case. The latest polling indicates that only 42% approve of his presid…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPutin sends warning to Ukraine and West with weapon not used since 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/putin-sends-warning-ukraine-west-with-weapon-not-used-since-2024-2026-01-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p53#a260109p53
@timbray@cosocial.caTFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialRéfutation 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSaquon 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/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineTrotz Herausforderungen setzt #SchleswigHolstein konsequent auf #OpenSource in Verwaltung und Justiz.
Seit 2024 werden Systeme wie #LibreOffice,
@benb@osintua.euRussian shadow fleet ship that sank in 2024 carried nuclear reactor components to North Korea, may have been torpedoed, La Verdad reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/russian-shadow-fleet-ship-that.html
@cdarwin@c.imThen-candidate Donald Trump famously remarked two weeks before the Iowa caucuses in 2016 that he could
"stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody"
and he "wouldn't lose any voters."
Last year, Trump's lawyer suggested in federal court that a president could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival and — unless he was impeached and convicted by Congress — be immune from criminal prosecution
Increasingly, Trump's …
@johnm@social.tchncs.deApple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialTotal Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Flournoy measuring up well versus the rest of the 2024 draft class https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-flournoy-measuring-up-well-versus-the-rest-of-the-2024-draft-class
@jake4480@c.imFor the first #ThursDeath of 2026, we have NEKUS from Marburg, Germany and their sophomore LP from 2024, 'Death Apophenia': https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/death-apophenia
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeJanuary 2025, because Billy was put to sleep on 31st December 2024.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin
😢
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFound an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLast Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPrecedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
12/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie Deutsche #Umwelthilfe hat erneut vor Gericht gewonnen: Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung muss Akten zum gestoppten #Radweg in der #Stubenrauchstraße offenlegen.
Das Oberverwaltun…
@mszll@datasci.socialJust updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deEvery dictator guilty of crimes against humanity¹ deserves to be arrested and sent directly to The Hague.
What makes the U.S.' arrest of #Maduro problematic is the potentially disproportionate military strike and the lack of an ICC warrant – the one that Argentina had demanded in 2024.² #Venezuela
@candide@vis.social
@avalon@jazztodon.com#MarshallAllen interview (2024):
“the space age is here to stay,
there’s no place you can run away.
Run to the rock to hide your face,
rock cried out ‘no hiding place.’
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfWeiß eigentlich irgendwer warum Frank Rieger kaum noch von sich hören lässt?
Er scheint kein CCC-Sprecher mehr zu sein, war auch nicht bei den Security Nightmares auf dem Kongress und bei Steady ist der letzte Eintrag von 09/2024 🤔
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialUne bonne nouvelle pour commencer l'année ;
les ventes de Tesla en baisse de 15,6 % par rapport Š la même période de trois mois en 2024
#elmoron #svasticars
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngToblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The Hallé family of orchestra and choirs perform James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler’s life-affirming Fifth Symphony. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qb5z
@mro@digitalcourage.socialWhat is a #platform after all?
In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.
They have in common a
@mia@hcommons.socialEvaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-a…
@cdarwin@c.imWill Lewis,
the Murdoch media veteran who took over as publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post in early 2024,
announced abruptly on Saturday evening that he is leaving the company.
His departure comes just three days after the Post laid off nearly one-third of its entire staff,
citing the need to cut costs and reposition the money-losing publication.
Lewis, who did not appear on the all-staff meeting during which the cuts were announced, has faced c…
@gray17@mastodon.socialIt's What's Inside (2024) - Eight friends with somewhat messy relationships spend a night screwing around with mind swaps (or body swaps). It's cleverly constructed, and it does a lot to help you keep track of who's who, but I still got confused at a few points (mild face blindness doesn't help). It did all make sense on 2nd viewing.
Thrash pointed out that fursuiters can actually do this type of identity swap, but this movie does a few things that does need the mag…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…
@holger_moller@bildung.socialIch hoffe inständig, dass wir uns nicht an der #FußballWM in den #USA beteiligen.
Es braucht starke Signale.
#uspol
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAnother big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: Based on daily values, the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's around 2.7 ppm higher than last year!
#ClimateChange #CO2 #emissions
@cdarwin@c.imThe Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…
@krone@frawas.deDämpfer bei CO2, aber: - Österreicher fahren immer öfter elektrisch #News #Nachrichten
@wemic@social.linux.pizzaEverytime 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/
@mrjau@social.mrjeda.deLNG Terminal in Bremerhaven [2024]
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 01.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@newsie@darktundra.xyzTreasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed
@cdarwin@c.imA good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…
@cdarwin@c.imJust 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024,
down from 36 a year earlier, a report has revealed.
Saudi Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter
and ExxonMobil was the largest investor-owned polluter.
Critics accused the leading fossil fuel companies of
“sabotaging climate action” and
“being on the wrong side of history”
but said the emissions data was increasing…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@lilmikesf@c.im @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
New Starts:
🎵 What I Specifically Love (6 Music Session, 14 Aug 2024)
#NewStarts
https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/track/what-i-specifically-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xkfgSjn3s7SWsnihw6bUS
@life_is@no-pony.farm @tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDer deutsche #Emissionshandel erzielte 2023 #Rekordeinnahmen von über 18 Milliarden Euro. 💶🌍 Diese Gelder fließen in den Klima- und #Transformationsfonds, der klimaneutrale …
@cjust@infosec.exchange @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
