@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Business Insider's shift from aggregation and toward scoops under EIC Jamie Heller; original content now makes up 80% of output, up from 40% in 2024 (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/business-insiders-big-bet-against-agg…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRobert Reich, always on point. 🎯
@cdarwin@c.imAmateur astronomer Joël Lapointe stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024.
He was simply trying to plan his camping vacation when he spotted something unexpected on his screen
— what researchers recently confirmed is a previously unidentified, 390-million-year-old meteor crater.
“It was quite an exciting discovery,” said Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIreland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney
@jonippolito@digipres.clubAnother way to see data centers aren’t just about AI: even by EPRI’s most generous forecast, AI accounts for less than half of the load added since ChatGPT. You may not like what the rest of the buildout is being used for.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-ar…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys ink Raiders edge who was 'sleep, unresponsive' in 2024 arrest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/18/cowboys-raiders-edge-charles-snowden-signing/90615532007/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imTrump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution
to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-pr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIan Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/khos…
@jake4480@c.imI have one for #GrindayFriday this week. This is one man deathgrind project NAILGUT from Kelowna, British Columbia, and their brief 4 song EP 'Distorted Perceptions of Reality' from 2024. It's nasty, grody, grindy, sludgy stuff with chainsaw guitars and bashing drums. I love it.
@cdarwin@c.imExxonMobil’s CEO called Venezuela “uninvestable” without changes to its legal system.
The head of ConocoPhillips wanted U.S. government financing.
But Jeffery Hildebrand, a major Trump donor whose wife had been named ambassador to Costa Rica, had already seen how loyalty could be rewarded.
Even though he had no notable operations outside the U.S., he hunched toward a microphone and said in a halting voice,
“Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the i…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialYesterday I scrolled through the accounts I'm following and was a bit surprised about the amount of accounts that haven't been active since 2024 :-(
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved - Proms 2024
The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska performs the UK premiere of Julius Eastman's Second Symphony. Titled The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy1z
@hierkiosk@social.tchncs.deNicht nur in Deutschland werden Klimagelder in Klimaschädliches umgewidmet, auch in Frankreich, wenngleich in geringerem Maßstab: Der Petrochemie-Gigant Ineos hatte sich 2024 um ca. 300 Millionen € beworben. Nachdem die Anforderungen für eine Finanzierung durch die Klimaagentur Ademe nicht erfüllt waren, wurden 2025 die Anforderungen schnell noch geändert, sodass das Geld doch fließt.
https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/le-gouvernement-detourne-les-aides-de-lademe-pour-financer-lun-des-plus-gros-pollueurs-de-france
via https://mastodon.top/@D_cence/116771203960460161
In Deutschland liegt der Maßstab im Milliardenbereich: https://taz.de/Stromnetzfinanzierung-aus-KTF/!6108084/
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs
@jake4480@c.imGot my Phlegmesis tapes in from Iron Fortress! They were on sale and I couldn't resist. 'The New Wave of Rotten Fornication' was of course one of my top 20 albums of 2024, and even the Phlegmesis LEFTOVERS are sick.
Here's New Wave if you wanna hear it: https://phlegmesis.bandcamp…
@servelan@newsie.socialScience just proved what we all suspected: the 2024 election was rigged - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/1vrnD
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGot 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…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 29 Jun 2026 - 06 Jul 2026
https://ift.tt/BJAMCRh
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK-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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…
@Life_is@no-pony.farmIn Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Steady #Klimacrew
Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
Schon relativ früh habe ich eines der Copilot-Derivate ausprobiert. Das war 2024 – glaube ich – und noch lange vor der Copilot-Inflation. Was ich aber nie wusste ist, dass es sich um
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe predictable effect of the European levies on EVs is that they have led to fewer EVs and more plug-in hybrid cars, which, in practice, have been shown time and again to offer barely any CO₂ savings. We remain dependent on imported fossil fuels.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/06/19/eu-…
@publicvoit@graz.socialAfter 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
@ckent@urbanists.socialA reminder that the obsession 50 years ago was #overpopulation — it was the scary message next to every practical environmental message about pollution, etc
Fast forward to now, and the opposite is true — no longer a case of “don’t worry, it’s just wealthy nations breed less”
In fact, environmentalism was always right about pollution — but the scary message is everything cost…
@cdarwin@c.imBurgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social @cdarwin@c.imThe result that should really cause you to update your beliefs about this year’s midterms is not in the topline or the Times’ official reporting, but hidden deep in the poll’s crosstabs.
A big story of the 2024 election was that Donald Trump made inroads with non-voters who traditionally leaned Democratic, and even got some of them to turn out for him.
But now it’s looking like he has squandered those gains and put his party on the path to midterm defeat in the House
— an…
