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Russian 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

Marques Brownlee plans to shut down his wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: it had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/mkbhds-wallpaper-app-panels-is-shutt…

MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down | TechCrunch
"We knew it was niche... and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.

For 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

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Five things to watch in J.J. McCarthy's return as Vikings' starting QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46793387/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-carson-wentz

De compagnie van Frans Banninck Cocq
🎗️
📷 #OTD 2024

In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/lis

🇺🇦 #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

#np

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition)
Judas Priest · Album · 2024 · 14 songs

#Maduro ist ein autokratischer Diktator, dessen Wiederwahl 2024 von der EU aufgrund mutmaßlicher Wahlfälschung nicht anerkannt wird.
Ein Regimesturz durch oder mithilfe von US-Truppen ist völkerrechtswidrig.
#Venezuela

#BizimKiez kämpft gegen Gentrifizierung und andere Formen der #Verdrängung
Ein kleiner Kiezkrimi über Untermiete und Schikane

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Maruja:
🎵 Zeitgeist (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2024)
#Maruja
https://marujaofficial.bandcamp.com/track/zeitgeist
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ak2c5gazmNBX9fHEtQFSp

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Jakub Józef Orliński with Il Pomo d'Oro at the BBC Proms
A Late Night Prom from 2024 featuring golden-voiced Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński with regular collaborators Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the early Baroque.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ksl9

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @… et al.;

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, our independent reanalysis reveals multiple methodological concerns that raise questions about the validity of their conclusions. Specifically, our evaluation demonstrates that: (1) the reconstruction results are biased by selective reporting of only the best-performing examples at multiple levels; …

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M after raising $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-pr…

"October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange

October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record
Only October 2023 and October 2024 were warmer.

I’d never heard of the “commander’s lock” on the space shuttle program…
#NASA #Space
https://

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C in equity and debt, after raising a $80M Series B in 2024 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-robotics-startup-dexory-raises-165m/

#GoodNews @… https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115498163707135…

This photo has been on my lock screen this morning and the spatial scene that the iPhone creates makes it delightful.

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Saints stop eight-game skid, give Moore 1st win https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46502661/new-orleans-saints-end-skid-top-new-york-giants-1st-win

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Romance (Glastonbury 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/romance

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Favourite (6 Music Session, 15th July 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/favourite
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oG9qhZ0UaQEoUGJJVXh1U