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Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/29/paragraphs.html

The first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office was marked by the rapid implementation of his far-right program.
From ICE to DOGE,
from anti-DEI to anti-antifa,
and from bombing boats to $400 million bribes,
Trump’s regime has turned out even more extreme than feared after he was elected to a second term in November 2024.
His words and actions as president have been covered extensively over the past year,
as have those of a number of internal advise…

The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump
Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration.

Titans to hire 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6981689/2026/01/19/tennessee-titans-hire-robert-saleh-49ers-dc/

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Employers slashed more than 150,000 jobs in October,
the largest wave of layoffs in more than 20 years,
a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Nov. 6.
From tech to Hollywood, retailers and utilities,
U.S. companies are intensifying job cuts and workforce reductions that began in 2024,
as they focus on cost savings and leaner operations amid a challenging economic environment.
Firms have pointed to a myriad of causes for their layoffs,
fr…

Layoffs are hitting. See the major companies cutting jobs in 2025.
Verizon, Amazon, Target and Paramount are just a few of the many companies to have announced layoffs in 2025.

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/gigadevice-s…

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

Der #Eigenverbrauch von #Solarstrom nimmt in #Deutschland deutlich zu.
Laut Fraunhofer ISE lag er 2024 bei 12,28 Terawattstunden und machte damit 17 Prozent der

Fraunhofer ISE: Photovoltaik-Eigenverbrauch steigt stark
Angesichts hoher Stromkosten lohnt es sich für Betreiber von Photovoltaik-Anlagen, den erzeugten Solarstrom direkt zu verbrauchen oder in Batteriespeichern zwischenzuspeichern. Das Fraunhofer ISE hat eine neue Methode entwickelt, um die Höhe des Photovoltaik-Eigenverbrauchs einschätzen zu können.

I september går Sverige till val. Musk intervenerar redan i val över hela Europa; Tyskland, Storbritannien, Italien, Frankrike. Nu Sverige: "Sweden is dying." Jag samlar mina tankar om X, algoritmer och demokrati i en längre text.
https://carlheath.se/sa-kan-elon-musk-

Old growth threatened by logging increases in BC
The Narwhal reports on a new study by Sierra Club BC that finds efforts to protect old growth forests in BC have largely failed since the ruling centrist NDP party has been in charge starting in 2013. The report found that "13,000 football fields worth of old-growth deferral zones were logged" in the past 4 years in BC. Meanwhile, premier David Eby has urged forestry production in BC to increase by 50% over 2024 levels.
<…

BC Old-Growth | Wilderness Committee
Protecting old-growth forests isn’t just about saving trees; it’s about preserving incredibly rare ecosystems.

Wunsch nach #OpenAccess-Lektüre von mehr als 1500 Seiten zur Geschichte Niederösterreichs im 18. Jahrhundert? VoilŠ:
Hämmerle, Tobias u.a. (Hg.): Niederösterreich im 18. Jahrhundert. 2 Bände. St. Pölten: Verlag NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2024.
Band 1:

thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/

Biden says 'giving up is unforgivable,' assures peaceful transfer of power after Trump win
President Biden vowed Thursday to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" following Donald Trump's decisive victory in 2024 election.

Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 #environment

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dank Mama und Papa - Angreifer zahlt Ex-Rapidler Burgstaller 50.000 €! #News #Nachrichten

Crypto scams received $14B on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-scams-2026/

2026 Crypto Crime Report: Scams
Record $17 billion estimated stolen in crypto scams and fraud in 2025 as impersonation tactics and AI enablement surge.

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Zelf kijk ik trouwens naar Tatort die bij de BR om 20:15 begon.
#Tatort: Zugzwang - hier anschauen
#crimi #krimi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 One Hundred Days
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/one-hundred-days-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZkOFujtamIynWGfo9PdGR

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…

AI Fraud Has Exploded. This Background-Check Startup Is Cashing In.
San Francisco-based Checkr has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents.

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

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CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-complet

"Austria deploys 1 GW of PV in January-September period"
#Austria #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Austria deploys 1 GW of PV in January-September period
Austria added 1,036 MW of new solar capacity between January and September 2025, down from 1,419 MW over the same period in 2024, as political uncertainty, delayed legislation, and weakening residential demand strain the solar sector.

IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/ibm-…