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Niedersachsens #Kommunen profitieren vom neuen #Beteiligungsgesetz zur #Windkraft.
Betreiber zahlen 0,2 Cent pro Kilowattstunde an die Gemeinden. Allein durch 2024 genehmigte Anlage…

Windkraft: Niedersachsens Kommunen erhalten Millionen Euro
Niedersachsens Kommunen können dank des neuen Beteiligungsgesetzes mit zusätzlichen Millionen aus der Windkraft rechnen. Künftig werden sie an den Einnahmen beteiligt, die auf Flächen ihrer Gemeinde erzielt werden.

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".

All the president's mess -- In 2024, Donald Trump won back the White House in a landslide victory ... (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2026/03/06/all-the-presidents-mess-00817081
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p87#a260306p87

Got the official power numbers from my utility for the April billing cycle.
3572 kWh imported from grid, 200 kWh overproduction exported, for net 3372 kWh consumed/billed.
That is an all-time record for lowest power consumption (at least back to January 2024 which is the oldest bill I have easy access to).
Too bad it's also an all-time *high* for price per kWh - the effective price per kWh after taxes and fees hit 21.7 cents, a 15.4% increase since the start of the year…

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.

A Not-so-Common Sunflower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #sunflower #bloomscrolling

UK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 says eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025; four journalists were murdered in 2024 (Lizbeth Diaz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Charges against Sneed from shooting dropped https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48684719/charges-ljarius-sneed-shooting-dropped

@… I was reading this article - https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/06/between-2008-an…

Between 2008 and 2024, 97 Public Libraries Across Scotland Permanently Closed
The vital contribution public libraries make to our communities has been highlighted in a survey of  2,000 library users and 300 librarians across Scotland. Many libraries are either being closed, …

The dramatic transition of the extreme Red #Supergiant WOH G64 to a Yellow Hypergiant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19329 - this 2024 paper, already mentioned by me in connection with other observations of that star in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-11-2024/ ("Die enge zirkumstellare Umgebung des Roten Überriesen WOH G64 ..."), has now been formally published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7.epdf?sharing_token=7UR_XvTAZerqnMHPRyA0LtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N7FejDObMF3AkHA10E71tuouxDX6yP8bM1QCFKGVVZLl8bT37LMadR8u4ukhACilFI60-Zxl0e00Bc0v3qXkG29yIQr7uTE0sd644q7We4d6ay5Tblhxc-UABROlAnuDs=

Crachat, "La dérape" (2024)
#MusicWomenWednesday

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.

National survey finds microplastic pollution around Britain's coastline could be double than previously recorded https://phys.org/news/2026-02-national-survey-microplastic-pollution-britain.html

National survey finds microplastic pollution around Britain's coastline could be double than previously recorded
Data collected during a rowing challenge around the seas of Great Britain has found significantly higher concentrations of microplastic pollution than previously recorded, a new report finds. The team, which included University of Surrey academic Hannah Davies, rowed more than 2,000 miles in just 50 days as part of the GB Row Challenge 2024, while also collecting crucial data on microplastic pollution, underwater man-made sound, water temperature, salinity and biodiversity.

Parteireform?! Einerseits ein bisschen seltsamer Zeitpunkt dafür, gibt ja gerade durchaus inhaltlich relevante Fragen der Politik, andererseits beim starken Wachstum von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen nachvollziehbar, dass an einigen Stellen nachgesteuert werden soll.
Ich habe mir die Vorschläge des Bundesvorstands, die jetzt zur Urabstimmung gestellt werden sollen, mal angeschaut und erste Eindrücke aufgeschrieben.

Parteireform?!
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen sind in den letzten Jahren enorm gewachsen - nicht ganz so stark wie englischen Grünen, die gefühlt gerade explodieren, aber immerhin: Zum 31.12.2024 waren es in Deutschland rd. 155.000 Grüne (+23% im Vergleich zum Vorjahr), zum 31.12.2025 waren es dann über 180.000 (erneut +18

"Valencia’s deadly flood still haunts Spain. Would it have happened in a fossil fuel-free world?"
#Spain #Valencia #FossilFuels

‘Growing threat’: How climate change worsened Valencia’s deadly floods
A major study has confirmed that the flash flooding that devastated Valencia in 2024 was ‘intensified’ by human-made climate change.

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

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023) (Wendy Siegelman/NewsTRACS)
https://newstracs.com/jared-kushners-affinity-partners-investment-firm-filed-a-disclosure-showing-over-six-billion-aum/2026/03/23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p102#a260323p102

Brinker exits as Titans' president of football ops... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48623122/chad-brinker-steps-titans-football-operations-chief

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Neil Diamond:
🎵 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
#NeilDiamond
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/neil-diamond-sweet-caroline-geh-haim-illegal-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/62AuGbAkt8Ox2IrFFb8GKV

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.

Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.