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In 2024, #Finland made some changes to financial support for students (mostly at #university level). Newspapers report on some financial outcomes:
https://yle.fi/a/74…

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night."

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:

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

Das mit dem Kühlen kann man nicht genug betonen. Ein kühler Fussboden ist im Sommer sowas von geil!
https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116624135838946337

After reading about today's #Github #security incident, exposing thousands of internal repositories, I'd like to remind you of:
Read That Before You Trust Anything by #Microsoft Once Again

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

“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.”

from my link log —
TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.
https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus
saved 2024-03-28 http…

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.

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

Wow, das überrascht mich wirklich positiv. (Das Buch von Gareth Gore ist sehr gut.)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet
Gareth Gore’s 2024 book Opus alleges decades of manipulation, which the group has denied. He believes the pope wanted to send a clear message

#Elektroauto RANT über führenden Mineralölkonzern in D:
ARAL bzw die Europazentrale des Weltkonzerns BP ist nicht in der Lage eine funktionierende App herzustellen, die man zum Laden benötigt. Ich konnte mich tagelang nicht anmelden, jedes Mal brach der Vorgang nach erfolgreichem Einloggen mit Fehlermeldung ab und man wird vertröstet: "Versuche es noch einmal"
Aufgrund de…

POL-GÖ: (129/2026) Ermittlungen nach Überfall auf Schnellrestaurant in Göttingen-Grone im September 2024 gehen weiter - Polizei geht inzwischen von örtlichen Tätern aus Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Stadtteil Grone, Siekweg Donnerstag, 12. September 2024, gegen 02.35 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Die Tat liegt schon länger zurück, die Ermittlungen zur Aufklärung aber gehen ohne Unterlass weiter. Im September 2024 ...

Auch tropische Pflanzen reagieren auf die #Klimakrise.
Eine Auswertung von #Herbarien-Daten aus 1794 bis 2024 zeigt: Der #Blühbeginn verschiebt sich im Schnitt um zwei Tage pro Jahrze…

Tropische Pflanzen: Blüh an einem anderen Tag
Die Klimakrise verschiebt auch die Jahreszeiten, klar. Jetzt zeigt sich: Sogar in den immergrünen Tropen geraten Pflanzen aus dem Takt – und zwar ziemlich gewaltig.

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

Disappointing growth in EU biomethane production, growing by 'only' 12% from 'gas year' (Oct-Sep) 2023/24 to 2024/2025.
5 years to go to the REpowerEU target of 350 TWh; that would now require a 52% compound annual growth rate.
Tall order, but today's news shows how important it is to accelerate!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nia Archives:
🎵 Crowded Roomz
#NiaArchives
https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lalkara-crowded-roomz-diljit-dosanjh-nia-archives-welcome-to-future-2-drum-bass-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JH3rxj9e7cY8T1QFgr5mQ

Lesenswerter Artikel über die Frankfurterin Fotografin Inge Werth. Sie wurde am 21. Mai 95 Jahre alt.
#Foto #Photo #Frau #Geschichte

Mit 95 Jahren arbeitet sie noch immer – und lebt in einer Altenwohnanlage
Die Fotografin Inge Werth wird am 21. Mai 95 Jahre alt. 2024 entstand ihr bisher letztes Buch mit Aufnahmen aus der Frankfurter Altenwohnanlage, in der sie selbst lebt.

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…

🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

Le monde Š l’envers: la droite tessinoise est fâchée parce que l’Italie veut inciter les frontaliers de travailler de nouveau en Italie, donc réduire l’immigration du travail vers la Suisse.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/remous-autour-d-une-taxe-sur-la-sante-pour-les-frontaliers-italiens-28385749.html

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.

Italian authorities confirm that Francesco Cancellato, director of news site Fanpage, had his phone hacked in December 2024 using spyware made by Paragon (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/ital

Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two Italian journalists with Paragon spyware continues.