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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD

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The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/
saved 2024-04-05

The case against self-closing tags in HTML
The history, facts, and opinions.

In 2025, Article 19 documented 69 cases of Mexican officials' use of lawsuits and other legal tools against journalists, more than triple the number in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

Mexico’s Laws Have a New Target: Journalists
Politicians and officials in Mexico are using the country’s laws to intimidate critics and the media, forcing them into censorship and blunting scrutiny.

West Coast Whale Entanglements Still High in 2025, 9 Seen in 2026 So Far https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/west-coast-whale-entanglements-still-high-in-2025-9-seen-in-2026-so-far-2026-06-1…

West Coast Whale Entanglements Still High in 2025, 9 Seen in 2026 So Far
Center for Biological Diversity: SAN FRANCISCO— Federal data shows that 33 whales were reported entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2025. That’s just one fewer than the 34 entangled in 2024, which was the highest number since 2018. At least nine whales have already been seen entangled in 2026, including two humpbacks entangled near Monterey, Calif., in late May.

RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cl

Cloud Startup Runpod Raises $100 Million, Says It Turned Down Buyout Offers
By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw even venture capital firms becoming quasi-cloud providers temporarily. That’s good news for a subclass of firms that popped up to rent out computing power and help developers run ...

> "Ich kann Politikerinnen und Politikern nichts mehr beibringen, die wissen alles, da gibt es keinen Beratungsbedarf mehr. Sie handeln wider besseren Wissens."
> Zitat Prof. Mojib Latif, Klimawissenschaftler, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum
Bin gerade drauf gestoßen und fand das Originalzitat hier:

MONITOR am 05.12.2024 | Klimajahr 2024: Die angeheizte Katastrophe
Dürre, Hochwasser, Waldbrände – in allen Teilen der Welt zeigt sich 2024 das zerstörerische Ausmaß der Klimakrise, tausende Menschen sterben, ein Rekord jagt den nächsten: Noch nie war es auf der Erde so heiß wie 2024, noch nie wurden mehr CO2-Emissionen ausgestoßen – und noch nie waren Klimaskeptiker so mächtig. MONITOR schaut auf ein Jahr, das für die Zukunft nichts Gutes verheißt.

Nachdem Austeritätspolitik im Vereinigten Königreich unnötiges Leid verursacht hat (siehe Link), hatte ich nicht erwartet nur kurze Zeit später "sozialdemokratische" Austeritätspolitik zu erleben.
#SPD #Austerität

The cost of austerity: How UK public spending cuts led to 190,000 excess deaths - LSE Inequalities
Austerity measures (2010-19) cost the average Briton nearly 1/2 a year in life expectancy. Regional disparities widened and 190,000 excess deaths occurred.

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

ZeroHeight readers should be aware AudioEye is a litigious company that sues detractors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html
They should also know its overlay never worked, a signal its services are p…

#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related CAO Hire: 8 February 2024 Talk References (Added 7 July 2024)…

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

Peace
2024
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, #Minnesota
Handwoven wool and cotton, audio recording
current exhibition at the #NorthDakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (NDMOA)
"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace -- peace is the way."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The Olympics made viral stars out of Paul and Gary O’Donovan in 2016, the rowing brothers from Ireland best known for their colourful post-race assessments,
and again in 2024 with Yusuf Dikec, the shooter from Turkey who pitched up in Paris for the Olympics with no equipment beyond his pistol.
That both of those stories ended with a silver medal, rather than gold, was lost in the fun.

Vozinha and 14million reasons why the World Cup can change lives overnight
The transformation of a previously unknown veteran goalkeeper into a global star could only happen at the World Cup

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-2…

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

Titans waive QB Will Levis, ending 3-year tenure with franchise: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7550710/2026/08/30/will-levis-titans-waive-nfl/

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/doj-tiktok-biden-lawsuit-settlement

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit
The settlement ends a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

2024:
Turkey’s Yusuf Dikeç didn’t need special gear to win a silver medal for Olympic shooting,
and viewers couldn’t get enough of his understated brilliance.
The Turkish shooter took part in the 10-meter air pistol mixed team competition on Wednesday in a T-shirt
and what looked like regular reading glasses,
a contrast from other competitors who utilized specific lenses or bulky ear protectors.
“I shoot with both eyes,
most shooters do it with one.

The Best Memes About The Viral Shooter Who Won Olympic Silver In A T-Shirt
While other competitors were decked out with hi-tech equipment, Turkey's Yusuf Dikeç just wore regular glasses and a casual tee.

Free Will
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, Minnesota
2024
Handwoven wool and cotton, hydrostone, audio recording

Currently on exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art (NDMOA)
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
-Mary Oliver

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ant-international-raise…

Angie Craig is a data center cheerleader:
#Minnesota #mnpol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
La Luz:
🎵 Poppies (6 Music Session, 29th August 2024)
#LaLuz
https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-poppies
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oiZ494M5fJgMhdqew0n8p

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
SPRINTS:
🎵 Shadow Of A Doubt (6 Music Session, 8 Jan 2024)
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadow-of-a-doubt
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ztIebjhmfFdYPhH4m6ORE