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California's 2024 Google deal to fund journalism is tangled in budget cuts, infighting, and questions over who controls money, leaving journalists empty-handed (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/01/california…

Nach Gerichtspleite: Bundesnetzagentur startet 5G-Frequenzverfahren neu
Die Vergabe der Frequenzen aus den Bereichen 2 und 3,6 GHz wird neu aufgerollt. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hatte das Verfahren von 2024 für ungültig befunden.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115825823351632755
Top-3 warmest years globally, out of 135:
1. 2024
2. 2023
3. 2025

Une 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

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Precedented, 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/
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Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…

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…

LNG Terminal in Bremerhaven [2024]

The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/356443/us-forfeiture-400-million-helix-darknet-mixer

US Finalizes Forfeiture of $400 Million Tied to Helix Darknet Mixer
The mixer processed hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that prosecutors say were tied to illicit activity on the dark web.

Immigration has been a centerpiece of Trump’s platform throughout more than a decade of political life,
-- and was at the core of his 2024 election campaign.
But polls show public opinion has shifted amid the widely circulated operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents in urban areas.
Those operations have this month seen the shooting deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis.  
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published o…

ICE on US streets challenges American norms, founding values
The Trump administration has moved ICE's center of activity from the US border with Mexico to the heart of US cities. Federal agents' encounters with the public are challenging the foundational ideas of America.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115980311563744273
In 2024, a study by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec concluded that
➡️ increased control of wood-burning stoves could prevent deaths.
In the province, wood heating kills three…

Nur 32 #Energieunternehmen waren 2024 für die Hälfte der weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen verantwortlich.
Besonders staatlich kontrollierte Produzenten wie #SaudiAramco blockierten beim Klim…

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Mit dem heutigen #mdRzA — übrigens bei laut Wetterbericht "anhaltendem Schneeregen", aber da war leider nur "anhaltender Regen" — habe ich 700km beim #Frostpendeln erreicht. Deutlich mehr als meine letztjährige Frostpendeln-Gesamtstrecke von knapp 550km insgesamt. Vielleicht schaffe…

🇺🇦 #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

Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…

Civil war is now a possibility in the US. All thanks to Trump
"We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump…

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

How much suffering would the US and the world have been spared, how many people would still be alive today, if on July 13, 2024, a ridiculous one or two centimeters had not been missing...
#trump #usa #Minnesota

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down
The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.

A „magnetic avalanche“ on the #Sun! At the end of 2024, ESA’s #SolarOrbiter was lucky to witness a strong solar #flare – and observed the events leading up to this firework with unpreceden…

A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/canada-tiktok-court-ruling-00739237

Ich hoffe inständig, dass wir uns nicht an der #FußballWM in den #USA beteiligen.
Es braucht starke Signale.
#uspol

As Emily Waldorf languished in an Arkansas hospital,
she felt like “a ticking time bomb”.
It was 2024, and the physical therapist was in the midst of miscarrying a much-wanted pregnancy.
But because her fetus still had a heartbeat, hospital officials said Arkansas’s near-total abortion ban blocked them from taking steps to induce labor and end her pregnancy.
Instead, Waldorf had to wait and hope that she didn’t develop a deadly infection.
Waldorf’s sister, Eli…

Bills owner Terry Pegula: Coaching staff 'pushed to draft' WR Keon Coleman https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-owner-terry-pegula-coaching-staff-pushed-to-draft-wr-keon-coleman

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott named Comeback Player of the Year finalist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/22/dak-prescott-is-a-finalist-for-nfl-comeback-player-of-the-y…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jockr/115924111507057837
"End-of-year filings reveal that in 2024 the trust invested $254m in companies that extract fossil fuels such as Chevron, BP and Shell. This was a nine-year record and up 21% from 2016, Guardian anal…

A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/canada-tiktok-court-ruling-00739237

from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05

Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card
If you aren't using a read-only filesystem on your Pi, you can still reduce writes to the SD card to increase its lifespan.

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

"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)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/netflix-earnings-q4-2025-stranger-things-12…

Netflix Edges Wall Street’s Q4 Estimates, Says Ad Revenue Topped $1.5B In 2025
Netflix's fourth-quarter results edged Wall Street analysts' estimates, and the company cited "great progress" in its nascent advertising business.

Total 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

Just 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…

One I somehow missed last year and may have even made my top 20 because of how damn good it is, NYC punks KALEIDOSCOPE and their LP 'Cities of Fear' that was written and recorded in just a few days in 2024. Some KILLER, catchy, rough, angry hardcore punk the way it SHOULD be. ffo MDC, Poison Idea, Crucifix.
https://

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/netflix-earnings-q4-2025-stranger-things-12…

Netflix Edges Wall Street’s Q4 Estimates, Says Ad Revenue Topped $1.5B In 2025
Netflix's fourth-quarter results edged Wall Street analysts' estimates, and the company cited "great progress" in its nascent advertising business.

The Linebacker Archetype the Cowboys Have Missed Since 2024 https://insidethestar.com/the-linebacker-archetype-the-cowboys-have-missed-since-2024

„Wages not Weapons“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10243

Charles Snowden calls game with fourth-down sack vs. Browns https://www.raiders.com/video/charles-snowden-sack-browns-nfl-thrilling-moments

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Raoul Hedebouw ist Vorsitzender der belgischen Partei PTB/PVDA (Parti du Travail de Belgique/Partij van de Arbeid). Sie hat sich in den letzten Jahren einen bemerkenswerten Platz in der belgischen Politik erarbeitet – sowohl auf föderaler, regionaler und kommunaler Ebene. Im September 2024 hat die belgische Zeitung De Morgen ein Interview mit Hedebouw veröffentlicht. nd-aktuell hat das Interview nun auch in einer deutschsprachigen Übersetzung für deutschsprachige Leserinnen und Leser zugängl…

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor #EU

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor
The planet is on track to log its second hottest year on record in 2025, tied with 2023 after a historic high in 2024, Europe's global warming monitor said Tuesday.

Worldwide, sales of new cars with a fossil fuel combustion engine dropped to the level of 2004, by 2024. And sales of new cars that use fossil fuels (100% or partially, in hybrids) dropped to the level of 2012. EVs are on the march.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean

NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150 AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

NBC Sports Bringing Live Milan Olympics Coverage to AMC Theatres
The companies experimented with the idea during the 2024 Paris games, and are now expanding on the idea.

Cowboys Could Lose Coach to Dolphins After Jeff Hafley Hire https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/steve-shimko-qb-coach-dolphins-jeff-hafley-connection/

Gross, stark und erst noch viel zu grosszügig, das sind die USA und ihre Wirtschaft – wenn es nach dem Präsidenten geht. In Tat und Wahrheit zahlen wir ihre Defizite und all die Rekorde an der Wall Street werden weggefressen vom Wertzerfall des Dollars.
Wer in der Schweiz 100 Franken anlegte, der hat heute 111. Wer dasselbe in den USA tat, hat heute nur gerade 102.
Rechnet man das BIP in Franken, so schrumpfte die US-Wirtschaft im Vergleich zu 2024 um über 9 Prozent.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/trump-in-davos-usa-leben-auf-kosten-der-schweiz-682776061961

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

#Declining usage of #Oakland and #SJ #airports by approx 15% amidst sputtering regional

Second-Year WR Named Cowboys’ Most Underrated Impact Player https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/second-year-wr-named-dallas-cowboys-most-underrated-impact-player

Luminate's 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY; on-demand US streams hit 1.4T, up 4.6% YoY; Christian/gospel music grew 18.5% (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

From my Twitter archive. It took one year longer ;)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo

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:

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50% of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (Ofcom)
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/online-h…

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …