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Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels

Des nouvelles concernant l’effondrement de l'échafaudage Š #PrillyMalley. Les parallèles avec Crans-Montana sont choquants: selon le rapport des experts, aucune règle n’était respectée, et la question n'était pas de savoir «si» cela arriverait, mais «quand».

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Sunday,
sending lava fountains, ash and smoke into the air.
The US Geological Survey said it was the 42nd episode of lava fountains since the current series of intermittent eruptions began in December 2024.
The plume from the latest eruption reached more than 10,000 metres (35,000 feet), according to the National Weather Service

from my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12

a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html

Bitcoin breaks below $73,000 to lowest since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes
Bitcoin fell below $73,000 on Tuesday as investors sold the asset to hedge against heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

from my link log —
That British mid-century signage font is called “Festive”.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/that-mysterious-font-is-festive-not-stymie/
saved 2026-02-12

That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie
What is that font? You know, THAT font? The chunky italic lettering you see on launderettes and council blocks, on post-war churches and new town butcher’s shops, across the UK. The font you’re thi…

Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40 Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025 (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-southeast-asian-content-1236632912/

Netflix Says Global Viewership Of Southeast Asian Content Grew By Almost 50% From 2023 To 2024
The streamer reported that more than 100 Southeast Asian titles have appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10.

#Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) and #Galaxy NGC 55
Date: 11 02 2026 UT 18:39
Location: Farm Tivoli, #Namibia
Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro
Mount: ASA DDM 85
Exp.Time: LRGB 10/2/2/2 min.
Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Peter Tosh:
🎵 Legalize It
#PeterTosh
https://scottremedy.bandcamp.com/track/peter-tosh-legalize-it-2024-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/73lYI49LhfsscO33ohrGN0

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

I generally hate buying new computing devices and try to make them last as long as possible. I bought a used/refurb iPad 5th Gen in 2022 for $199 and got 2 years of solid use before I upgraded to a 6th Gen in 2024 (for $170) so I could use an Apple Pencil.
I then put the old 5th Gen on my trainer bike as a video player and it still works great.
But sadly, two years in the 6th Gen now has dead spots on the screen. I may need to replace it.
1/n

Obras que entraram em domínio público, segundo a Biblioteca Nacional da França:
2025:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/ces-oeuvres-qui-entrent-dans-le-domaine-public-en-2025
2024:

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

Another year, another @… Year in Music! 🥳
#ListenBrainz #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz

Every 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

Argentina calls on ICC to order arrest of Venezuela's Maduro
Buenos Aires argues that recent actions of Nicolas Maduro's government could constitute crimes against humanity, asking for Maduro to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court.

Then-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 …

Trump's "Fifth Avenue" sequel
The D.C. appeals panel appeared deeply skeptical of the argument.

#TLGBQIA2S

”It’s Time To Reshuffle This Acronym!” - FANE
An open letter to the greater queer community, haphazardly but passionately written by R.T. Ferent: a 40-something, married, gay, cisgender, white man with the absolute best of intentions in his heart. This is dedicated with all of my love to my fearless nephew, Remus, who is so much stronger than I ever was at his

Just 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/

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Delivers New Health Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-delivers-new-health-update/

The #EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) has now an Implementing Act:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/cyber-resilience-act-imple…

from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03

With record-tying 10 openings, NFL hires zero Black head coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7014495/2026/02/01/nfl-head-coaching-hires-black-coaches/

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

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

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

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

A $5$-Approximation Analysis for the Cover Small Cuts Problem
Miles Simmons, Ishan Bansal, Joe Cheriyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01462
arXiv:2602.01462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the Cover Small Cuts problem, we are given a capacitated (undirected) graph $G=(V,E,u)$ and a threshold value $\lambda$, as well as a set of links $L$ with end-nodes in $V$ and a non-negative cost for each link $\ell\in L$; the goal is to find a minimum-cost set of links such that each non-trivial cut of capacity less than $\lambda$ is covered by a link. Bansal, Cheriyan, Grout, and Ibrahimpur (arXiv:2209.11209, Algorithmica 2024) showed that the WGMV primal-dual algorithm, due to Williamson, Goemans, Mihail, and Vazirani (Combinatorica, 1995), achieves approximation ratio $16$ for the Cover Small Cuts problem; their analysis uses the notion of a pliable family of sets that satisfies a combinatorial property. Later, Bansal (arXiv:2308.15714v2, IPCO 2025) and then Nutov (arXiv:2504.03910, MFCS 2025) proved that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $6$. We show that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $5$, by using a stronger notion, namely, a pliable family of sets that satisfies symmetry and structural submodularity.
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Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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

Ryan Lizza Claims Olivia Nuzzi Would Share “Opposition Research” With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The claim is the latest in a series of explosive allegations about the Vanity Fair West Coast editor and the Health and Human Services Secretary, who allegedly had an affair last year.

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Moses Sumney:
🎵 Vintage (6 Music Session, 22 Oct 2024)
#MosesSumney
https://mosessumney.bandcamp.com/track/vintage
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EQt3hJTjy2dYuxZp3cqo9

I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty