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PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50% ; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitch…

PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE
PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE

(2024) Rapid desensitization to retinally stabilized flickering stimuli https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2797077 To the extent that mechanisms for perceptual fading are in the brain it could have consequences for visual cortical prostheses.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.

Google handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept. 
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116186426545144965
“Between October 2024 and January 2025, Kliger's social media posts included controversial views and reposted content from figures such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described…

Entering the wild canyon...
(May 2024, IIRC it was the same day @… happened to be there too [unknowingly to us]...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography

In an interview, EIC Jeffrey Goldberg says the Atlantic added 50 journalists in 2025, for a total of 200 , and has ~1.5M paying subscribers, up from 1M in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/the-atlantic-jeffrey-goldbe…

How The Atlantic won 'tortoise and hare' race versus digital news start-ups
The Atlantic is in a "virtue cycle" of making a product people will pay for and putting the profit back into the business, its editor said.

Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…

Grazalema sufrió el segundo día más lluvioso jamás registrado en España, según la Aemet - malagaldia.es
La Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (Aemet) activó el aviso rojo -peligro extraordinario- el miércoles por lluvias muy abundantes en zonas de Cádiz (Grazalema

Bei @… wurde berichtet, dass die #Nextcloud der #CDU seit 2024 kein Update mehr gesehen hat.
Naja, das

"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…

The election, and after
The first thing to say about the 2024 General Election result is this: Labour lost, and lost badly. They lost, in fact, half a million votes compared to their 2019 result; they lost three million votes when compared to their 2017 result. They also failed to win anything remotely resembling a majority of the popular vote.

The Front-Runner ... G, avin newsom has a 30-page file of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/gavin-newsom-feature/685410/?gift=6kW-3kpyH7tV4NcHqyTUk3BPAaTCFSpGNyaGHEgyKs8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p97#a260106p97

Wunsch nach #OpenAccess-Lektüre von mehr als 1500 Seiten zur Geschichte Niederösterreichs im 18. Jahrhundert? VoilŠ:
Hämmerle, Tobias u.a. (Hg.): Niederösterreich im 18. Jahrhundert. 2 Bände. St. Pölten: Verlag NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2024.
Band 1:

Amy Klobuchar couldn’t get a majority of the DFL straw poll vote in South Minneapolis — a measly 30% — and she is •running unopposed•.
Shades of 2024 when a strong “uncommitted” primary vote for unopposed Biden presaged electoral disaster.
Minnesotans, use this to light a fire under her. Harangue her office. And hey…maybe field a primary opponent. Freak her campaign and the State DFL the absolute fuck out.
It’s a win if we get a better nominee •or• if we get her to show a little more fight again ICE and Trump.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobuchar-overwhelmingly-wins-dfl-caucus-straw-poll-but-many-submit-protest-votes/

"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ

Disney Settles Streaming Data Suit From CA Attorney General for $2.75 Million
Disney settled the streaming data suit brought about by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, with the entertainment conglomerate set to make a $2.75 million payout.

Patriots re-signing backup QB Tommy DeVito to 2-year deal: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7094254/2026/03/06/tommy-devito-patriots-nfl-free-agency-2026/

EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica says it more than tripled Meta AI glasses sales in 2025
The France-based eyewear brand has been working on smart glasses with the social media company since 2019.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

SiriusXM reported Q4 net income of $99M vs. $287M a year ago, rev. of $2.19B vs. $2.17B est., and "robust" guidance including an in-car audio focus; SIRI up 9% (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/sirius-xm-shares-soar-on-earnings-st…

Sirius XM Shares Soar On Earnings Street Beat | Radio & Television Business Report
Year-over-year sales were flat. Subscriber rolls were down compared to the final three months of 2024. Earnings per share estimates were much more robust than the actual results. That latter win led investors to express pleasure with the Q4 2025 fiscal health report from Sirius XM.

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet

„Keine Übung mehr, sondern Operation“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10289

RE: #TimWalz said during the 2024 Presidential Campaign “You don’t win elections to bank political capital …

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mark Lanegan feat. PJ Harvey:
🎵 Hit The City
#NowPlaying #MarkLanegan #PJHarvey
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/hit-the-city-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3OXX5hy8YPQP9QYgzqaY2f

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.

De acuerdo a los datos oficiales, en España se mataron mšs de 53 millones de cerdos en 2024, el 24% de los que se matan en toda Europa. Y los que mueren sin llegar a crecer, en condiciones pésimas... Échale un ojo a la investigación de #IgualdadAnimal y firma para que esto cambie

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

🌈 Cadolzburg für Vielfalt und Demokratie am Samstag, 24. Januar 2026 vor dem Rathaus um 11 bis 13 Uhr.🎉
:BoostOK: Wiederholung am Samstag, 31. Januar.

✊💜 Eine Menschenkette soll ein Zeichen für #Vielfalt und #Demokratie setzen!

Starz reports Q4 revenue fell to $322.8M vs. $344.5M a year ago, net loss narrowed to $20.7M vs. $31.8M a year ago, and US streaming subs hit 12.7M, up 370K QoQ (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/starz-subscribers…

Starz Subscribers Reach 17.6 Million, Losses Narrow Post-Lionsgate
Starz ended 2025 with things looking up post-Lionsgate split the now-standalone company narrowed its losses to $20.7 million vs. $31.8 million in 2024.

Titans 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/

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/

Nielsen: ~32.6M viewers watched Trump's State of the Union address, not including people who watched via streaming; Fox News led with 9M viewers (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/bu…

32.6 Million Watched Trump’s State of the Union Address, Nielsen Says
The audience was roughly on par with former President Biden’s final State of the Union address in 2024.

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

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Angélica Garcia:
🎵 Juanita (6 Music Session, 5 Jun 2024)
#AngélicaGarcia
https://angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com/album/juanita
https://open.spotify.com/track/20xUkZt5wVADOO7kZxGtpK

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
NewDad:
🎵 Angel (Independent Venue Week 2024)
#NewDad
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kiw6IXeTauPy3L964yxoZ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Bat for Lashes:
🎵 Home (6 Music Session, 4 Jun 2024)
#BatforLashes
https://batforlashes.bandcamp.com/album/livestream-at-home-los-angeles-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gXSQjrANdHYBxJpJO8Gcv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
beabadoobee:
🎵 There She Goes (6 Music Session, 9 Jul 2024)
#beabadoobee