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How 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

Source: 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…

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...

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

With 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…

from 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

Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card
If you aren't using a read-only filesystem on your Pi, you can still reduce writes to the SD card to increase its lifespan.

Confirmed: 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!

I 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…

Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities?
He’s clearly slipping, mentally and physically, but the political press suddenly finds it less newsworthy that we have a woefully aging president.

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

Source: 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…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

Raoul Hedebouw ist Vorsitzender der belgischen Partei PTB/PVDA (Parti du Travail de Belgique/Partij van de Arbeid). Sie hat sich in den letzten Jahren einen bemerkenswerten Platz in der belgischen Politik erarbeitet – sowohl auf föderaler, regionaler und kommunaler Ebene. Im September 2024 hat die belgische Zeitung De Morgen ein Interview mit Hedebouw veröffentlicht. nd-aktuell hat das Interview nun auch in einer deutschsprachigen Übersetzung für deutschsprachige Leserinnen und Leser zugängl…

Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine

One 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.
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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.

The 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

How 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-…

„Im System vorgesehen“ - Finanzamt bittet Toten mit 150 Euro zur Kasse #News #Nachrichten

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Nur 32 #Energieunternehmen waren 2024 für die Hälfte der weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen verantwortlich.
Besonders staatlich kontrollierte Produzenten wie #SaudiAramco blockierten beim Klim…

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Maruja:
🎵 Zeitgeist (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2024)
#Maruja
https://marujaofficial.bandcamp.com/track/zeitgeist
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ak2c5gazmNBX9fHEtQFSp