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Just as they did across the country, Latino voters in the agricultural heart of California shifted toward Republicans in 2024.
GOP leaders celebrated the multiracial coalition they called the beginning of a political revolution.
Now, there are signs that support could be swinging away from the Republicans once again.
This year’s midterm election — in California and beyond — may show that the Latino rebuke of political parties can cut both ways.

In California’s Central Valley, Latino Voters Are Up for Grabs in 2026’s Elections
As in other Hispanic areas of the country, voters shifted toward Republicans in 2024. But now the question is whether this was a blip more than a durable trend.

Cents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/26/laundromat-software-cents-tender-offer

Exclusive: Laundromat software maker Cents spins up $140M deal
The company also completed a $30 million tender offer.

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, RTL, and BMG, reports 2025 after-tax profit of €1.01B, down from €1.04B in 2024, and revenue flat YoY at €18.96B (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/peng

Squirrel sitting on the grass and wondering “Who is that strange man with a camera?” LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2024. OM Systems OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150 F2.8 PRO MC14. #laarboretum #squirrels

from my link log —
A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils.
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/3d-mouse-with-3d-printed-flexures-and-pcb-coils/
saved 2024-02-03

3D Mouse With 3D Printed Flexures And PCB Coils
3D mice with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) motion are highly valued by professional CAD users. However, the entry-level versions typically cost upwards of $150 and are produced by a single manufact…

The Radio-wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) instrument onboard the #IntuitiveMachines-1 Mission to the Moon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22600 -> "This paper describes the design and operations of the ROLSES instrument and presents initial observations made during transit and surface operations in February 2024. We also describe next version of this instrument (ROLSES 2) currently under development."

Before submitting one or more talks to @… 2026, I wrote a blog post based on my 2024 presentation: Bring Back RSS for Operational Security.
#rss #infosec

Bring Back RSS for Operational Security
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Lit-dropped Noe Valley in defense of Prop I and got a solid workout 😅 This is how we're gonna win and preserve funding for social housing. #sfpol
- If you live in SF and haven't sent a letter yet: https://dsasf.org/protectpropi

Save Prop I and Affordable Housing Funds
On Wednesday February 25, billionaire Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood announced a tax cut for wealthy real estate investors. They propose to repeal 2020's Proposition I, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for rent relief and affordable housing. Although Prop I revenue has never been fully dedicated to social housing as intended, it has funded over $200 million to help San Franciscans afford housing as of 2024, including $42 million for the strongest Covid rent re…

#Neustadt an der Weinstraße legt den #Klimaschutzbericht 2024 vor und dokumentiert messbare Fortschritte.
#ErneuerbareEnergien decken 15,5 Prozent des Strombedarfs, 21 komm…

Neustadt /Wstr. – Klimaschutz: Stadtrat sieht messbare Fortschritte
Der Klimaschutz in Neustadt an der Weinstraße kommt voran – Schritt für Schritt, messbar und transparent. In seiner Sitzung am 4. Februar 2026 hat der Stadtrat den Klimaschutzbericht 2024 zur Kenntnis genommen. Damit liegt erneut eine fundierte Standortbestimmung vor, die zeigt, wo die Stadt heute steht, welche Fortschritte erreicht wurden und wo weiterhin

Wind-solar-nuclear electricity production in China, 1992-2024
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/line_race_electricity_production_cn_1990-2024.html

„Habe alles versucht“ - Krankheit zwingt Ski-Routinier zum Karriereende #News #Nachrichten

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

Alisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in

Alisa Yurchenko - Investigativjournalistin
Alisa arbeitet seit mehr als zehn Jahren als Investigativjournalistin und Redakteurin in der Ukraine. Seit 2024 ist sie bei der ukrainischen Zeitung „Kyiv Independent“. Zuvor war Alisa beim Anti-Korruptions-Projekt „Bihus.Info“ als Redakteurin, Journalistin und Moderatorin tätig. Sie wurde mit mehreren ukrainischen Preisen für investigativen Journalismus ausgezeichnet. Darüber hinaus arbeitet Alisa als Medientrainerin. Sie hat mehrere Kurse entwickelt, die Journalisten und zivilgesel…

"Doel’s feat wasn’t just a display of ingenuity; it also highlighted a growing problem—specifically, the mounting burden of landfill waste. According to a 2024 report by Wired, 137 billion pounds of e-waste, including vape pens, are generated each year. Only one quarter of that waste is recycled."
Man uses 500 disposable vape batteries to power up electric car - Good.is
https://www.good.is/british-engineer-uses-over-500-disposable-vape-batteries-to-power-up-an-electric-car/

“Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2025 AppleVis Report Card”
https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-vision-accessibility-2025-applevis-report-card
“Overall satisfaction with VoiceOver accessibility on Apple products decreased compared to 2024.”

Linear Memory (2024)
A prototype version of my piece Linear Memory running inside a https://thi.ng/genart-api sandbox on a Motorola phone, connected to a custom early prototype Layer square screen...
The animation consists of dozens of layers of semi-random multi-scale pixel patterns, slowly scrolling in…

Gerade eben habe ich mich an meine Begegnung mit Jürgen #Serke erinnert, 1987. Wir waren gemeinsam in kleiner, feuchtfröhlicher Runde unterwegs und hatten einen sehr unterhaltsamen, anregenden Abend. 2024 ist er gestorben.
Ihm verdanken wir "Die verbrannten Dichter" und die "Bömischen Dörfer"
Die Begegnung mit ihm hat mich sehr inspiriert. Leider bin ich ihm später nicht …

"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…

February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record
Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event, global ocean temperatures were the second-warmest on record in February, behind only the El Niño year of 2024.

Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …

Science Fiction und Fantasy - Winter Edition 2025/26
Irgendwie hat sich nach meinen letzten Sammelrezensionen doch einiges angesammelt, was ich an SF und Fantasy gelesen und angeschaut habe. Innovativ fand ich Emily Teshs neuen Roman The Incandescent (2025). Tesh hat 2024 den Hugo für ihre antifaschistische Space Opera Some Desperate Glory bekomme

The Republican former lieutenant governor of North Carolina,
Mark Robinson,
has admitted he "misled" voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign
when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website
– suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the "After the Call" podcast on Thursday:

The Crab Nebula Revisited Using HST/WFC3: #CrabNebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-revisits-crab-nebula-to-track-25-years-of-expansion/ (color coded the expansion in two sections from 2000 to 2024).

Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht

Diesen Film zum Thema Wirtschaftssysteme jenseits der gegenwärtigen politischen Ökonomie kann ich echt empfehlen: „Outgrow the System – Wirtschaft neu denken“ ist eine schwedische Dokumentation aus dem Jahr 2024, die gerade frisch in die Arte-Mediathek gepurzelt ist.
https://www.arte.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chicago:
🎵 25 or 6 to 4
#Chicago
https://lostox.bandcamp.com/track/almost-cut-my-hair-csny-25-or-6-to-4-chicago-with-band-of-comerados-live-at-the-goodfoot-in-portland-or-on-5-4-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/65eRcjlStTnk8opG5eIQ8Z

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

Boye Mafe to help fill void in Bengals' post-Trey Hendrickson era https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48198524/boye-mafe-help-fill-void-bengals-post-trey-hendrickson-era

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/nearly-all-climate-claims-by-meat-and-dairy-firms-amount-to-greenwashing-study/…

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study
Meat and dairy production are significant drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Many companies claim to be tackling this, but nearly all these claims, 98%, could be considered greenwashing, a recent study found. Researchers logged more than 1,200 environmental commitments made by 33 of the sector’s largest companies between 2021 and 2024. They found […]

Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney

Kenne ich jemanden, der mir eine Paper aus der Zeitung #Allergologie (ISSN: 0344-5062) aus 2024 schicken kann?
#CanIHazPaper #followerpower

@… how come I see these in my feed? I suspect they have a “science” hashtag, but I don’t see it in the app.
https://reddthat.com/post/61631735
Anyway to show those?

Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - Berkeley News (2024) - Reddthat
Lemmy

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

I like the idea of a low-cost MacBook, but when you can get a 2024 MacBook Air with an M3 and 16GB of memory for the same money, I don't know why more people don't just do that.

The Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) is a process by which a taxpayer can ask two states (or #tax authorities) to reach an amicable agreement to eliminate double taxation as required by bilateral treaties, where the normal processes have failed.
According to #OECD statistics, in 2016-2024 there were only 19 cases …

The people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…

Forget the "MAGA split" on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
Plus, most "moderates" favor left-wing economic policies. Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.

One of the saddest disbanding of 2024
I's "はっぴーえんどろーる"MUSIC VIDEO

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

La fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale

Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…

Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch

It's finally Friday, but don't leave for the weekend before checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses,
--EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP,
--Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack,
--Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems,
--Him & Hers report Feb. data breach,
--TA416 refocuses efforts back t…

Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses
EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP, Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack, Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems, Him & Hers report Feb. data breach, TA416 refocuses efforts back to Europe, Former engineer admits to hacking employer in $750k extortion bid, much more

Here is the #visualization that I was writing about yesterday. It's showing data by the #UN about immigrants/emigrants to/from all countries to/from all countries in 5-year intervals.
What do you think?

Migration Stocks – Interactive World Map
Explore international migration flows from 1990 to 2024. People from one country living in another – visualized with D3 and the Hufnagel III projection.

Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

HZA-H: Zoll Hannover - Jahresstatistik 2025 der Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit Hannover (ots) - 16,5 Millionen Euro Schadenssumme (2024: 7,2 Millionen Euro) ermittelte die Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit des Hauptzollamts Hannover im Jahr 2025. "Die mehr als doppelt so hohe Schadenssumme ist nicht gleichzusetzen mit einer ... https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
True Faith:
🎵 Take Me Away
#TrueFaith
https://glenhorsborough1.bandcamp.com/album/true-faith-take-me-away-glen-horsborough-2024-edit

Da sage eins, die Politik der BRD-Sozialdemokratie habe keine nachhaltige Wirkung: Der Schriftsteller Ken Merten, dessen in Rojava spielenden Roman "Ich glaube jetzt, dass das die Lösung ist" (XS-Verlag 2024, ISBN 978-3-944503-21-9) ich letztes Jahr sehr gerne gelesen habe, soll auf Grundlage des "Radikalenerlass" von 1972 an der Ausübung seines Brotberufs (Nachwächter in sozialen Einrichtungen) gehindert werden; Grund: Mitgliedschaft in der "DKB" {sic!}:

Das neueste Berufsverbot
Der Antikommunismus bleibt die bundesdeutsche Staatsräson. Obwohl schon in den 80ern offiziell abgeschafft, werden weiterhin Berufsverbote verhängt. Jetzt trifft es den Leipziger Schriftsteller Ken Merten.

Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90% (Yuval Halevi/Growtika)
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government…

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Gits:
🎵 Second Skin
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/second-skin-live-at-rkcndy-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Rvwe2nPrL4QiylcSD6lcy

Google says 90 zero-days exploited in 2025 as commercial vendor activity grows https://therecord.media/google-says-90-zero-days-exploited-apt-spyware-vendors

I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/

Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.

"Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated"
#Wildfires #AmazonRainforest #Emissions

Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its highest levels in 20 years, affecting vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado—the world's most biodiverse tropical savanna, stretching across one-fifth of Brazil and extending into Bolivia and Paraguay.

Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that
the war in Iran was “crazy”
and had left Americans feeling “betrayed” by Trump,
describing the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies that the president had campaigned on.
“It just seems so insane,”
said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and said he still texted with him on occasion.
“He ran on no more wars:
End these stupid, senseless wars.
And then we have one …

Joe Rogan Says Trump’s Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War
The influential podcast host described the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies the president had campaigned on.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1244930 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Yellow Rose. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. Fujifilm X100VI. #ranchopalosverdes #rose #rosegarden

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Country Death Song
#ViolentFemmes
https://violentfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/country-death-song-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kqBAV3R35lVIRvhYmSI6s

An interview with CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product release since 2024, scrapping set-top box plans, app fiasco, and more (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…

Former Trump Spokeswoman Turns on Him Over Iran War
Caroline Sunshine, who was a spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, is not thrilled with his recent decisions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Celestial Candyfloss (6 Music Session, 21 Feb 2024)
#GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/celestial-candyfloss
https://open.spotify.com/track/0drFirwZCpz2frsJILGmzU

BPOLD-H: BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.03.2026 Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und den ...

Phobos ransomware leader facing 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking charges https://therecord.media/phobos-ransomware-leader-facing-20-years

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/china-ai…

Trump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 The Ghost In You
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://glennlimbaga.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in-you-glenn-limbaga-2024-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/04BQXS1HwzNpfZ2Wvw2RIy

Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president elections.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump,” his Truth Social post said, “and now faces renewed war with United States”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/trump-iran-attack-2020-election-loss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy
AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.

🛌 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.

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx

Cash-strapped AI chip startup Hailo sees valuation halved to under $500 million ahead of urgent IPO
Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Starburster (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/fontaines-d-c-starburster
https://open.spotify.com/track/09ttHg3ZNVgDlYBZa1ZBw0
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