@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imThe first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office was marked by the rapid implementation of his far-right program.
From ICE to DOGE,
from anti-DEI to anti-antifa,
and from bombing boats to $400 million bribes,
Trump’s regime has turned out even more extreme than feared after he was elected to a second term in November 2024.
His words and actions as president have been covered extensively over the past year,
as have those of a number of internal advise…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine's SBU captures Russian soldier suspected of executing 9 Ukrainian POWs in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukraines-sbu-captures-russian-soldier.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTitans to hire 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6981689/2026/01/19/tennessee-titans-hire-robert-saleh-49ers-dc/
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix'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…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 12.01.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@krone@frawas.deVon 2,9 auf 3,6 % - Vergleich zeigt: 2025 brachte satte Teuerungsrunde #News #Nachrichten
@rmdes@mstdn.socialPlonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…
@benb@osintua.euLithuania says Russian military intelligence ordered 2024 attempted arson at factory supplying Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/lithuania-says-russian-military-intelligence.html
@timbray@cosocial.caTFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialHat etwas gedauert, aber hier nun mein SF/Fantasy-Tagebuch für November/Dezember 2025. U.a. mit Andy Weir, Emily Tesh, Zootopia und Knives Out.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaJust a reminder that the difference in popular vote in the 2024 election was only 1.5%, with a piss poor voter turnout of 64%. I think that if the democrats had a real primary and a candidate that more period could get behind it would have easily gone the other way.
Maga has no clear mandate. You see a lot of loud voices online that make it seem like the country is behind Trump and his agenda, but that isn't the case. The latest polling indicates that only 42% approve of his presid…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt's January 4th and I've already got a few orders this year for my little hobby business.
One from the UK, one from Ireland, and one from Switzerland.
Last year we shipped close to 80% of the orders to the US and almost 20% to the UK, with a few other countries besides those two.
I do feel like I'm seeing fewer US sales since the beginning of 2024, file that as you will.
Overall sales were down a bit in 2024 but I did a few larger projects for folks that …
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaYouth Privacy in Australia: Insights from National Policy Dialogues
https://fpf.org/blog/youth-privacy-in-australia-insights-from-national-policy-dialogues/
@…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mastodon.green/@x_hace/115842893743476743
Gelukkig hebben we het archief nog:
NOS Nieuws
vrijdag 13 december 2024:
@jake4480@c.imOne 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://
@cdamian@rls.socialAnother year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
https://
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Flournoy measuring up well versus the rest of the 2024 draft class https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-flournoy-measuring-up-well-versus-the-rest-of-the-2024-draft-class
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1211359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
@johnm@social.tchncs.deApple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgJust looking at the amount of work that went into this thing trying to sell something the core audience isn't buying shows how badly Mozilla chose when it comes to the new CEO
https://bsd.network/@dch/115968952449549217
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyRE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115825823351632755
Top-3 warmest years globally, out of 135:
1. 2024
2. 2023
3. 2025
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFound an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115993692644831667
That’s a 31-point swing in margin from 2024.
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialVenezuela comprises an area of 912.050 km2, with a population estimated at 31,3 million in 2024. By comparison, France has 638.475 km2, population 68,6 million.
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfWeiß eigentlich irgendwer warum Frank Rieger kaum noch von sich hören lässt?
Er scheint kein CCC-Sprecher mehr zu sein, war auch nicht bei den Security Nightmares auf dem Kongress und bei Steady ist der letzte Eintrag von 09/2024 🤔
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCheckr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: 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…
@pgogl@troet.cafeElphi, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 2024
#FensterFreitag #windowfriday
@emd@cosocial.caMy 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineHäufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…
@cdarwin@c.imThen-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 …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFinally, 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…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlUS envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/early-warning-apocalyptic-wasteland-gaza-blocked-by-us-envoys-israel-2026-01-30/ (3:38min video)
Diplomaten van de VS in Israel hielden in januari 2024 ambtsberichten tegen omdat de beschreven omstandigheden om Gaza niet 'gebalanceerd genoeg' waren.
Maar de regering Biden en de Democraten hadden al moeite hoe met Gaza om te gaan.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMaoyan: China's box office reached $7.41B in 2025, up 20% YoY after a 23% drop in 2024, driven by animated films and IP franchises like Ne Zha 2 and Zootopia 2 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-offic…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
@holger_moller@bildung.socialIch hoffe inständig, dass wir uns nicht an der #FußballWM in den #USA beteiligen.
Es braucht starke Signale.
#uspol
@NFL@darktundra.xyz49ers LB Fred Warner and his wife Sydney welcome newborn daughter, Bella https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47544383/fred-sydney-warner-san-francisco-49ers-new-baby-born
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Yagody:
🎵 Tsunamia
#Yagody
https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com/track/tsunamia-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wWp37bN1WizYsJRnLCSFz
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaTemporary protected status for Haitians ends at 11:59 PM this upcoming Tuesday. There are around 30 thousand Haitian immigrants in central Ohio, about 2/3 of whom live in Springfield. This is the sane Springfield that became infamous during the 2024 election due to the spread of false rumors by JD Vance and Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets and the ducks and geese from a local park. Vance and Trump both made sure to characterize the Haitian immigrate populati…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDer #Windpark Lumdatal in #Staufenberg zeigt trotz anfänglicher Technikprobleme eine positive Bilanz.
Die drei #Windräder erzielten 2024 knapp vier Millionen Euro Umsatz. Die Kommune …
@mrjau@social.mrjeda.deLNG Terminal in Bremerhaven [2024]
@cdarwin@c.imSome 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year
as Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce.
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year
but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
The numbers come from employment da…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lambrini Girls:
🎵 God's Country (6 Music Session, 16 Apr 2024)
#LambriniGirls
https://lambrinigirlsband.bandcamp.com/track/gods-country
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UccUaOQ6lU7kAffOVgz1d
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineHäufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
@cdarwin@c.imA good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f
@NFL@darktundra.xyzVikings fire GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah: What does the future now hold for J.J. McCarthy, Minnesota's future at QB?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-do
@krone@frawas.deESC wird politisch - Kaleen: „Teilweise ein selbstgemachtes Problem“ #News #Nachrichten
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialThe FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/scammers-notched-333-million-bitcoin-atm-scam…
@buercher@tooting.chGross, 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
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Ash:
🎵 Girl From Mars (Independent Venue Week, 29th Jan 2024)
#Ash
https://paulhelsby.bandcamp.com/track/ash-girl-from-mars-paul-helsbys-disco-kids-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cA41ydiosNCgmmGiCST65
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineZugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineSpanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineSpanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Gossip:
🎵 Heavy Cross ( Live At 6 Music Festival, 2024 )
#Gossip
https://therockidz.bandcamp.com/track/gossip-heavy-cross-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4N6R6yqkFUTyF3AYOdR0T7
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher 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:
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
