@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@nohillside@smnn.chMorgen dann: SBB prüft Rückkehr zum Dampflok-Betrieb.
UKW bleibt: SRG ändert Pläne für Radioprogramme https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/nach-abschaltung-2024-srg-plant-nach-parlamentsentscheid-ukw-comeback
@jake4480@c.imThose CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two
@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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyConfirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-video-…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialOver Wiersma (gratis te lezen),
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/05/schrappen-vertragen-blokkeren-h…
@cdarwin@c.imI really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…
@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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys must let 2024 leading WR walk in free agency, commit to breakout star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-let-2024-leading-wr-walk-nfl-free-agency-commit-breakout-star
@usul@piaille.fr
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialNever been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFollowing law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, ransomware incidents reported to FinCEN decreased in 2024, with 1,476 incidents, reflecting $734 million in the aggregate value of reported payments in BSA reports.
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-rele…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzCharacteristics of temporal and spatial variation of the electron density in the plasmasphere and ionosphere during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-025-02317-3 -> How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth’s plasmasphere to one-fifth its size: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106633 - new study shows how a major space storm dramatically shrank Earth’s protective plasma layer and slowed its recovery, helping improve solar storm forecasts and protect space infrastructure we rely on.
@mapto@qoto.org"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.…
@pgogl@troet.cafeLaptop meiner Frau Ende 2024 mit einer neuen Windowsinstallation versehen. Der Fehler in der Updateverwaltung dieser Version zieht sich immer noch durch bis heute.
Jetzt bekommt der LP eine spezielle von MS angebotene Reparaturinstallation.
Ey #Microsoft - WTHFUGG läuft da verkehrt?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Steve Cropper:
🎵 Crop Dustin’
#SteveCropper
https://stevecropper.bandcamp.com/track/crop-dustin-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BSNxsAu2ocf4TQ9Wt79yg
@Europablog@mastodon.socialFoto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@roland@devdilettante.comThe anti-alarmists e.g. Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Bret Stephens, Corey Robin, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, William Watson, John Harris, Simon Jenkins, Zachary Karabell, Josh Barro, and Noah Feldman — scolded & derided the Cassandras. Going forward, we should be skeptical of giving them & others like them our attention when they pooh pooh people fighting against obvious racism, fascism, and kleptocracy etc etc yup <-- read the whole thing
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow NFL Draft can help Lions, Chiefs, other 2024 playoff teams that flopped this season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911825/2025/12/23/nfl-draft-2026-lions-chiefs-ravens-outlook/
@exil_inselette@norden.socialWarum arbeiten Menschen Teilzeit? Wie geht es Beschäftigten in den einzelnen Bereichen?
Dazu gab es zwei Studien von ver.di (2020 und 2024). Von einem Kanzler, der die Bezeichnung und das Amt verdient, würde ich erwarten, dass er selbst oder jemand aus seinem Team die 40seitige Broschüre liest und ihn, den Kanzler dazu berät.
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I've lived in DC since 1989 {edit: since 1984, 1989 in this house] and find it heartbreaking. But I've felt that way since late 2024, so I'm getting used to it, sadly.
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle 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…
@johnm@social.tchncs.deApple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyCrows 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
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usWith this being the first Raspberry Pi 5 of the cluster, and since those are notorious for running hotter than the Pi 4. Which I did extensive testing on last year: https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-w…
@krone@frawas.de„Im System vorgesehen“ - Finanzamt bittet Toten mit 150 Euro zur Kasse #News #Nachrichten
@schachjugend@schach.socialVon den Siegern 2024 zum Start der DVM 2025
Heute geht es wieder los!
#dvm25
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
@paulwermer@sfba.social"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialInteresting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to h…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaHow much suffering would the US and the world have been spared, how many people would still be alive today, if on July 13, 2024, a ridiculous one or two centimeters had not been missing...
#trump #usa #Minnesota
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/slapp-lawsuit-p…
@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.socialHow the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…
@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.online @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
BODEGA:
🎵 Shiny New Model (6 Music Session, 3 Jun 2024)
#BODEGA
https://bodegabk.bandcamp.com/album/shiny-new-model
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n4a29V8m31YOzvZ1z1jST
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDespite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
@wvmierlo@zirk.usHathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Sampha:
🎵 Dancing Circles (6 Music Session, 9 Jul 2024)
#Sampha
https://sampha.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-circles-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lNyT8TfnpMTRrmJRQKQC9
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@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlChina produced almost 1,000 terrawatthour #windenergy in 2024 with an installed base of almost 522 gigawatt #windturbines and growing. Making it the 3th source of electricity after coal and hydro.
In the EU windenergy produced 473 terrawatthour in 2025. Making it the 2nd source of electricity after nuclear.
So much for #Trump's lies about windenergy.
PS any news about his #Epstein files?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-s-top-a…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
New Starts:
🎵 What I Specifically Love (6 Music Session, 14 Aug 2024)
#NewStarts
https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/track/what-i-specifically-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xkfgSjn3s7SWsnihw6bUS
