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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

"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…

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

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon-96ac8d1d44d438f64beb8b24ca54b651
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p65#a251128p65

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.

Pixelfed ist immer noch recht klein und ich vermisse noch etwas die professionellen Fotograf*innen und Künstler*innen… ganz besonders den *innen-Teil nehme ich noch wenig wahr und ich frage mich, wem Folgen. @… hat gleich eine Liste an Vorschlägen in ihrem Profil, auch wenn die (noch) nicht im Fediverse sein dürften.

Érine Delisle (@erine.delisle@pixelfed.social)
Série Mothers France, 2021 à 2024 #erinedelisle #mothers #mereetfils #mereetfille #amourmaternel #motherandchild #maternalbond #motherhood #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #monochrome #tendresse #tenderness #gestematernel #intimatemoments #silencepartage #lumierecrue #fineartphotography #artcontemporain #photographieartistique #parisintime #emergingartist #parisartscene

#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

Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

from my link log —
Experience report: it will never work in theory.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6
saved 2025-11-09

"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…

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…

Insyde® Software Achieves Record-High Revenue in 2024, Optimistic Outlook for Continued Growth in 2025

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Brand New Heavies:
🎵 Dream On Dreamer
#TheBrandNewHeavies
https://thebrandnewheavies.bandcamp.com/track/dream-on-dreamer-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/6E4vhLRYh1pBK9woMCPHTj

Petit rappel utile (je savais que ça existait, mais il y a 48 heures, je me suis demandé comment il fallait faire)
Bookmarklet Š installer.
Lier un fragment de texte dans une page web – Le carnet de Joachim https://fourbi.eu/billet/2024-12-03-lier-un-fr…

🇺🇦 #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

Meta Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving, after 17 years at Meta; Clara Shih, who joined in November 2024 to lead its Business AI unit, is exiting (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Valencia's PP president Carlos Mazón resigns over botched handling of deadly floods.
And long after he should have gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/valencia-president-carlos-mazon-resigns-deadly-floods-spa…

"Die Wertschöpfung des Rohstoffhandels belief sich 2024 auf 19,2 Milliarden Franken"
Welcher Wert wurde da genau geschöpft?
https://news.admin.ch/de/newnsb/Pv9kCk1ioIAR6duJhxciN

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
320 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://

地味ハロウィン2024 開催レポート・前編
2024年10月27日、東京カルチャーカルチャーで地味ハロウィンが開催された。1年にいちど、地味が輝くイベントだ。そのレポート前編です。 (デイリーポータルZ)

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista https://vasemmisto.fi/mai-kivela-hallitus-auttaa-suuryrityksia-karttamaan-ymparistovastu…

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista
Metsäkatoasetus astui voimaan kesäkuussa 2023, ja siirtymäaikoineen toimeenpanon oli tarkoitus käynnistyä vuoden 2024 lopulla. Toimeenpanon alkua viivästytettiin sittemmin vuoden 2025 loppuun…

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the

Seahawks-Commanders takeaways: Sam Darnold throws 4 touchdown passes, Jayden Daniels hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6772442/2025/11/02/seahawks-commanders-score-result-takeaways-week-9-snf-nfl/

In Berlin könnte es schon bald eine linke Bürgermeisterin geben. Der Kampf um die Gestaltungsspielräume, die eine von @… geführte Regierung haben wird, hat jedoch längst begonnen. Beispiel: Mit dem #Gewalthilfegesetz müssen die Länder am Januar 2027 - …

This image is from an official blog post by the AFfiNE team (a "source available" alternative to Notion, trying to pass as "open source").
The article was posted on December 18th, 2024. No one has tried to fix it since then.
AI slop & noise all the way down, carelessness as the new dominant creed.

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.

This is the "find out" part. Look at that blue shift almost everywhere.
#VA #election2025 #ElectionDay

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

We also wrote a "Snapshot of Modern Mathematics", a short article about the so-called "4-sample-theorem" for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models.
We submitted it to MFO in Spring 2024 but sadly they have not yet dealt with it. We never put out a preprint, thinking this would have been a very short process. But it is not.
So here is the preprint now, exclusively posted on the Fediverse:
https://thomas-kahle.de/assets/pdf/mfo-mlt-preprint.pdf
@…: snapshots are in bad shape... 😞
2/2

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

I wish Spotify gave me the option to hide all tracks that are:
- Released after 2024 H1
- Less than 3:00 long
- From an artist with less than 20,000 monthly plays that I'm not following
Call it the AI slop toggle

Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-secrets-potential-revealed-wr-move-nfl-deadline

Commanders LB Frankie Luvu suspended for 3rd hip-drop tackle of season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775304/2025/11/03/commanders-frankie-luvu-suspended-hip-drop-tackle/

Wirtschaftsmacht im Abstieg (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10184

#Shitposting #Shitpost #ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite #fallout4 …

Avara luonto: Eläinten perhe-elämää #eläimet

Avara luonto: Eläinten perhe-elämää
Eläinvanhemmilla on vaativa tehtävä kasvattaa pentujaan ja poikasiaan, sillä ympäröivä luonto on täynnä vaaroja ja arvaamattomia haasteita. Sarja on kertomus omistautumisesta, kekseliäisyydestä ja uhrauksista, joita luonnon kasvattajat tekevät varmistaakseen jälkikasvunsa selviytymisen. (Parenthood, Britannia 2024)

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025 - Voronoi
#brands

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025
What We're Showing This graphic is based on data from Brand Finance, highlighting the global brands that saw the largest gains in brand value from 2024 to 20…

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Bucks County PA went just barely for Trump in 2024,
It's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack.
But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
https://bsky.app/profile/kombiz.bsky.s

Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz.bsky.social)
ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/bucks-countys-ice-loving-maga-sheriff-fred-harran-got-what-he-deserved-a-pink-slip-from-voters-on-election-night/

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:

Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers https://therecord.media/britain-water-supply-cybersecurity-incident-reports-dwi-nis

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar, Lara Sidoli, Sandro Mereghetti, Kaya Mori, Tong Bao, Giulia Illiano, Samaresh Mondal, Mark Reynolds, Chichuan Jin, Tianying Lian, Shifra Mandel, Simone Scaringi, Shuo Zhang, Grace Sanger-Johnson, Rudy Wijnands, Jon M. Miller, Jamie Kennea, Zhenlin Zhu

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical X-ray transients. On 22nd February 2024, during its daily Galactic center monitoring, Swift-XRT detected a VFXT, 7 arcmin from Sgr A* dubbing it Swift J174610--290018. We aim to characterize the outburst that occurred in 2024, and a second, distinct outburst in 2025, to understand the nature and accretion flow propert…

from my link log —
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me…

Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze, Shaikh Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01312 https://arxiv.org/p…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
In the light of the recent Particle Data Group (PDG) release, we revisit the running quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, together with the quark mixing parameters, across a range of energy scales. The 2024 PDG determinations of low-energy fermion masses feature significantly smaller uncertainties, resulting from a reduced estimate of systematic errors compared to the more conservative treatment in the 2022 analysis. To assess the impact of these changes, we present running parameters obtained us…

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Nobuyuki Sakai, Saran Poshyachinda, Koichiro Sugiyama, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Apichat Leckngam, Busaba Kramer, Phrudth Jaroenjittichai, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Dan Singwong, Kitipoom Kanjana, Nikom Prasert, Songklod Punyawarin, Spiro Sarris, Teep Chairin, Kamorn Bandudej, Chalunthon Nuchur, Haseng Sani, Nattawit Chanwedchasart, Pathit Chatu…

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Although the optical cometary database is extensive, the radio database is limited. The 18-cm OH maser observations of comets allow us to determine (i) the production rate of OH ($Q_{\rm{OH}}$) and (ii) the water expansion velocity, for each comet. To reveal the physical properties of the periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, we conducted the OH maser observations of the comet using the 40-m TNRT (Thai National Radio Telescope) on March 22nd, 27th and 29th, 2024 before the perihelion passage on April…

Symmetry analysis and new partially invariant solutions for the gas dynamics system with a special equation of state
Dilara Siraeva, Irina A. Kogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01415

Symmetry analysis and new partially invariant solutions for the gas dynamics system with a special equation of state
This paper is a contribution to the symmetry analysis of the gas dynamics system in the vein of the ''podmodeli'' (submodels) program outlined by Ovsyannikov (1994). We consider the case of the special state equation, prescribing pressure to be the sum of entropy and an arbitrary function of density. Such a system has a 12-dimensional symmetry Lie algebra. This work advances the study of its four-dimensional subalgebras, continuing the work started in Siraeva (2024). For a large subset of not p…

Raiders sign WR Brenden Rice to the practice squad https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-wr-brenden-rice-to-the-practice-squad-nfl-2025-transactions

In an unaired segment of his 60 Minutes interview on Nov. 2, Trump said CBS paid him a lot of money to settle his lawsuit over Kamala Harris' 2024 interview (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/paid-me-…

‘Paid Me a Lotta Money!’ Trump Takes Victory Lap Over ’60 Minutes’ — In Part of In ...
One part of President Trump's 60 Minutes interview on Sunday that did not air live: the president gloating that CBS paid him millions of dollars to settle

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
Renato Alvarez-Nodarse, Kenier Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01703 https://

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
In this note we show that the only result of [Rocky Mountain J. Math. 54 (2024), no. 4, 995--1004] is nothing more than a misformulated version of an exercise from classical texts, presented with a flawed proof. To place the matter on firmer ground, we provide instead a direct solution of a more general problem.

Anzahl 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:

Kyle Shanahan, 49ers 'hopeful' but 'not counting on' Brandon Aiyuk playing in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/kyle-shanahan-49ers-hopeful-but-not-counting-on-brandon-aiyuk-playing-in-2025

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training | TechCrunch
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

Good Morning #Canada
This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....
- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.
Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
TianFang Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Mamoru Doi, Haruna Hagio, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kazuya Matsubayashi, Keisuke Isogai, Koji Kawabata, Mahito Sasada, Masafumi Niwano, Masaki Hashizume, Megumi Shidatsu, Narikazu Higuchi, Ryo Imazawa, Shigeaki Joshima, Shigeyuki Sako, Shunsuke Hayatsu, Yoichi Yatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Yoshiyuki Kubo

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable flare event, during which the gamma-ray flux observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) increased by a factor of 60 over its average value. The flare peak lasted less than two days. Using optical telescopes, we conducted 100-day time-scale observation…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Yard Act:
🎵 We Make Hits (6 Music Session, 4 Mar 2024)
#YardAct
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mYTcajvGEU4LZeHQ8V5w2

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag