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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.

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…

Za'Darius Smith coming out of retirement to join Falcons: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7516962/2026/08/18/zadarius-smith-falcons-signing/

Another 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…

Is it too much to check that the dates of events occurred *after* July 2024 before blaming them on the policies of the current UK government?

US closes probe into 2024 Delta Air Lines meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike outage
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-closes-probe-into-2024-delta-air-lines-meltdown-sparked-by-cro…

#Podcast
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten #Endometriose-Fälle ist in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich gestiegen.
Laut Schmerzforscherin Esther Pogatzki-Zahn deutet dies darauf hin, dass die Erkrankung häufiger und früher erkannt wird. Eine frühe Diagnose kann helfen, Beschwerden gezi…

Endometriose: „Frühe Diagnose ist entscheidend“
Die Zahl der Frauen mit der Diagnose Endometriose ist in den letzten 20 Jahren stark gestiegen – zwischen 2005 und 2024 von rund 230.000 auf gut 510.000. „Diese Zahlen sind ein Beleg dafür, dass die Symptome immer früher und häufiger diagnostiziert werden“, erklärt die Schmerzforscherin Prof. Dr. Esther Pogatzki-Zahn von der Universität Münster der neuen Folge des „Umdenken“-Podcasts. Darüber hinaus spricht sie Hausärzten bei der Diagnose der Krankheit eine wichtige Rolle zu u…

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024,
following the U.S. elections.
But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.
According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb,
Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026,
-- down 27.2% year-over-year.
In addition, mobile daily active us…

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

"‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
#Coral #CoralReef #SouthKorea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — In April 2025, I zipped myself up into a thick wetsuit and inched down a steep, rocky ledge toward the gray-blue water encircling Beomseom, a small island off the southern coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. Then I leapt into the chilly sea and wriggled into my scuba gear […]

July was the second warmest on record globally, tied with 2024, and just behind 2023.
The global average temperature for July 2026 was 16.90°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for July and 1.47°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for the month.
From https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

Survey: 81% of INN newsrooms used AI-based tools in 2025, compared to 63% in 2024 and 34% in 2023; common uses include meeting transcription and data analysis (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/ai-use-g

AI use, growth challenges, and funding cuts: A new report looks at the state of nonprofit news
More than eight in 10 Institute for Nonprofit News members reported using AI-based tools in 2025, according to the latest INN Index.

Gas prices were a staple of GOP ads in 2024. Now it's Democrats' turn. (Jessica Piper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/19/gas-prices-midterms-affordability-ads-01041175
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p9#a260819p9

from my link log —
Performance culture.
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/
saved 2024-06-01 https://

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/business/data-centers-ai-economy

‘Brand-new everything’: How data centers transformed this small town’s economy
A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago.

@… seeing AACSB mentioned, I thought first of the period during which the Association lost its status as an accrediting body. I can't find the documentation at the moment.
I did find these:
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools - Richard J Arend, 2024 ― <

Trump bereichert sich, weil es „niemanden interessiert" – und baut Kontrolle gegen Wissenschaft, Justiz und Kritiker auf. Musk, Kushner, Palantir: Geld und Überwachung verschmelzen zu einem System. Midterms? 2016, 2024 lehren: nicht zu früh freuen.
#Trump #Palantir

The Vatican is set to build an agrivoltaic installation (on land outside the Vatican in Italy) as part of its efforts to achieve energy neutrality for Vatican City
The foundation will be called “Fratello Sole” (Brother Sun)
https://www.vaticannews.va/…

Pope establishes Foundation to implement Vatican agrivoltaic project
The “Fratello Sole” Foundation will promote, as envisioned in Pope Francis’ 2024 Motu Proprio of the same name, a “transition toward a sustainable development model.” The new installation will provide energy both to Vatican Radio's transmission centre and to Vatican City State.

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) - An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024)
An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

Updates:
• Two more environmental impact bullets: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
•

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…

New bike day. I'll be bringing this new 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor home this afternoon. I wanted the Classic 650, but we couldn't come to terms on financing. This saves on my monthly payment and cuts a year off the loan, and I've ridden these bikes and loved them.
#motorcycles #royalenfield

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

Keine neuen Beweise - Staatsanwaltschaft beendet Pilnacek-Verfahren #News #Nachrichten

„Die Antikriegsbewegung international vorwärts bringen“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10431

from my link log —
Strings in Julia vs Rust: you probably don't need to validate UTF-8.
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/utf8/
saved 2024-05-16 https:/…

Extreme dominance of Earth-origin heavy ions in the intense #RingCurrent near the Earth during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: #ionosphere supplied vast majority of ring current ions during May 2024 super geomagnetic storm, study finds: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/earths-ionosphere-supplied-vast-majority-of-ring-current-ions-during-may-2024-super-geomagnetic-storm-study-finds/ - despite the dense solar wind, solar wind ion contributions to the ring current during the May 2024 superstorm were minimal; the first simultaneous observation of ring current ions and solar wind during a storm this large.

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.05.2026 Hannover (ots) - Hannover / Bad Bentheim Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen ...

It’s about fucking time.
There’s an opportunity that has just been sitting there waiting for months to impeach everyone, or at least write up the details and force every last Republican to endorse the blatant criminality of each corrupt thug. @…

Donald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order
that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records,
as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump claims that the BBC’s 2024 documentary on the January 6 attacks have damaged the president’s business interests.
In July, a Miami-based judge ruled that the president would have to start handing over detailed financial records to the BBC b…

Trump team pushes to block court order giving BBC access to financial records
President has sued the broadcaster for $10bn, claiming a documentary on 2021 Capitol attack led to financial harm

I love Debian

Here's my blog post on how to make a mosquito bucket. Has a dozen or so tips, plus a video of mosquito larvae in a jar that looks like a lava lamp. https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

Powdered & Dusted (2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps

Running a TOR snowflake proxy
#tor

Running a TOR snowflake proxy

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-08/ftx-co-foun…

A profile of Netflix's film division chair Dan Lin, who's greenlit 88 films since 2024, shifting strategy toward budget discipline and in-house development (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/business/media/dan-lin-netf…

Netflix’s New Movie Strategy: Fewer, Better Films
Dan Lin doesn’t fawn over stars or write blank checks. And he still greenlights more movies than anyone.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

Aaron Donald works out for Rams as he eyes potential return to NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7495221/2026/08/05/aaron-donald-rams-tryout-retirement/

When the University of Minnesota (UMN) extended an offer to historian Raz Segal
to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in June 2024,
it did so upon the near-unanimous recommendation of a committee of academics after a rigorous search process.
The scholars had enthusiastically praised Segal, with one committee member describing a presentation he gave as “breathtaking”.
But five days after making the offer, the university abruptly withdrew it,
citi…

An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring

The Lovely Eggs - “Nothing/Everything” (2024)
lo-fi psychedelic punk rock band from Lancaster, England. Married couple.
#music #lofi #alternative

DefoEye: Python-Based Software for Facilitating Time-Series InSAR Analysis of Sentinel-1 Remote-Sensing Data
Alireza Taheri Dehkordi, Hossein Hashemi, Amir Naghibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04915 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04915 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04915
arXiv:2608.04915v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many existing time-series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (TS-InSAR) software tools have limitations, including restricted geographic applicability, commercial licensing, and incomplete end-to-end processing support. Although GMTSAR avoids some of these constraints, it still requires substantial manual intervention and C-shell commands, lacks a user-friendly graphical interface, and omits important steps such as interferogram network pruning and anchoring of unwrapped interferograms. This paper introduces DefoEye (v1), an open-source Python-based software package that wraps GMTSAR and provides a unified, user-friendly TS-InSAR workflow for Sentinel-1 data. DefoEye supports parallel job execution, interferogram network pruning, and multiple anchoring options. Its performance was evaluated from 2020 to 2024 in four regions with different geological settings, deformation mechanisms, and atmospheric and climatic conditions. In Bologna, Italy; Gotland, Sweden; and Houston, USA, DefoEye results were compared with observations from 10 GNSS stations and showed strong agreement, with RMSE values of 4.3-11.9 mm and Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.63-0.95. In Karaj, Iran, where GNSS observations were unavailable, DefoEye was compared with other widely used processing tools and achieved similarly close agreement, with an RMSE of 4.8 mm/yr and a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.98. These results demonstrate that DefoEye provides reliable TS-InSAR products for geological, hydrological, and environmental applications.
toXiv_bot_toot

"Hot take: Learning from Google Scholar and why a tool does not need to be flawless to be useful" by Aaron Tay
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/learning-from-google-scholar-and
"I consider the idea of tools that are considered flawed because they…

"Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling"
#Deforestation #Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling
In 2025, the area deforested in the country fell below 1 million hectares in a year for the first time since 2019. A total of 984,794 hectares of native vegetation were cleared during 2025, a reduction of 20.6% compared with 2024.

3 Points: DeMarvion Overshown has breakout potential in Year 4 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-demarvion-overshown-has-breakout-potential-in-year-4

I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

📅 Mi, 24.6. – 10:00 Uhr bis 12:00
Seminar: Erste Schritte auf dem Weg zur Erarbeitung eines Notfallplans
👉 Weitere Infos: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6826
📝 Anmeldung:

Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 30.06.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...

“Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies”
https://vale.rocks/posts/digital-accessibility-technologies
Which I now link to from my post “AT Is More Than Screen Readers”:

Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies
No bodging here. None at all. Nope.

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

from my link log —
Scanners work fine over iSCSI.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
saved 2024-05-09 https://dotat.a…

Just a bunch of scanners (JBOS?)
Can you run scanners over iSCSI?

In Nevada, Republicans are seeking to flip a southern Clark County district that covers part of Las Vegas.
Democratic Rep. Susie Lee,
who won reelection in 2024 as Trump carried the district,
faces Republican Marty O’Donnell,
who won Trump’s backing.
The race is rated as competitive by Cook, with a “lean Democratic” rating that very slightly favors Lee;
Republicans hope strong turnout in support of Nevada GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo,
who is up for reele…

Meet Susie - Susie Lee for Congress

75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).

"Period of extreme heat in Europe, with important role of climate change."
@… says it like it is, written by weatherman and climate scientist Peter Kuipers Munneke.
https://nos.nl/l/2619698

Periode met extreme hitte in Europa, met belangrijke rol voor klimaatverandering
De hittegolf in Europa kan zich gaan meten met de grote hittegolven uit 2003, 2006, 2019, 2022, 2023 en 2024.

Historical pairing of Jared Verse, Carson Schwesinger to lead Browns defense in post-Myles Garrett era https://www.nfl.com/news/historical-pairing-of-jared-verse-carson-schwesinger-to-lead-browns-defense-in-post-myles-g…

This new energy supplier in Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) provides access to the TSOs' imbalance prices. It works with smart control of devices (EVs and heat pumps) and is now accepting early bird interest requests.
https://10senergy.com

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…

Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.

The Western states hold four of the nation’s
18 toss-up races as rated by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Two are for Republican-held seats in Arizona,
both in districts that Trump carried narrowly in 2024,
and both top targets of Democrats.
In an open Phoenix-area district,
Democrat Amish Shah,
a physician and former state lawmaker,
faces Republican Jay Feely,
a Trump-endorsed former NFL player.

Amish for Arizona

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

A BBC presenter talking to a representative of striking doctors, making the suggestion that since doctors already earn more than the average salary people have little sympathy. When saying "that's a lot of money", it comes off as condescending given their own salaries - paid via regressive taxation - dwarf them.
https://www.

BBC pay 2024-2025: The full list of star salaries
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who left in May, is still the corporation's top earner.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
MJ Lenderman:
🎵 Wristwatch (6 Music Session, 10 Dec 2024)
#MJLenderman
https://mjlenderman.bandcamp.com/track/wristwatch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j2DQgFAyVuKOBFpq4vEPR

Iphone 15 pro max żony padł... Podpięty pod kabel, patrzę po 2h - czarny ekran, zero odpowiedzi. Nie był gorący nic, termowizja pokazuje temperaturę otoczenia. Jeszcze mam miernik usb-c - niby pokazuje 30mA poboru, ale już kilka godzin tak i nic - na żadne "magiczne" kombinacje nie reaguje.

Kupiony kwiecień 2024, jest maj 2026 -.- No to już ostatni iPhone w naszym życiu. Żona weźmie moją 14stkę, ja potestuje Fairphonea.

Z wymiany MBP na Framework'a jestem bardzo zado…

Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116680726980295049
It’s important to know (IMO) that headings can never go beyond level 9 with this feature:

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.

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
saved 2024-05-18 https://

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported sharply lower margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bill (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-funnels-earnings-us-avoids-e…

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

Democrats are seeing positive signs in a South Texas congressional seat that looked, on paper, like one of the harder places for the party to win back in 2026.
Democrat Bobby Pulido leads Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, according to a new House Majority PAC-sponsored poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Associates, and shared with Newsweek on August 4.
Donald Trump carried the redrawn district by nearly 18 points in 2024,

Democrats Favored to Flip Texas House Seat Trump Won by 18 Points
A new poll has put Democrat Bobby Pulido ahead of Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District.

With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

Author of DNC's 2024 "autopsy" says he concluded Gaza war hurt Harris (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/dnc-2024-autopsy-author-gaza
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p129#a260806p129

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
419 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

"Ørsted turns on 500 MWh battery project with co-located solar in Texas"
#US #USA #America #Teax

Ørsted turns on 500 MWh battery project with co-located solar in Texas - pv magazine Global
The Old 300 Storage project has reached commercial operations and is now fully integrated with the ERCOT grid, using made-in-America Tesla battery energy storage systems (BESS). It is co-located with a 430 MW solar project that was switched on in 2024.

An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ill

On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/scattered-spider-hacker…

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Angélica Garcia:
🎵 Juanita (6 Music Session, 5 Jun 2024)
#AngélicaGarcia
https://angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/juanita-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/20xUkZt5wVADOO7kZxGtpK

“But in Europe we know how to make buildings and they’re much better at retaining heat”
https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/temperature-related-mortality-burden-worsen-europe-2024-08-22_en

W sobotę 27 czerwca na kiermaszu w trakcie Palestine Solidarity Days w Warszawie będą do nabycia 3 egzemplarze mojego DIY-owego albumu pt. “Voices Against”.
Album zawiera 19 zdjęć 13x18 i eksploruje różne formy sprzeciwu wobec ludobójstwa na narodzie palestyńskim, które udokumentowałem od maja 2024 do stycznia 2026 - od protestów i demonstracji, przez sztukę uliczną, po akcje bezpośrednie. Każdy egzemplarz jest opieczętowany, ponumerowany, ręcznie opisany i opakowany w eleganckie pudełko.
Dochód z jego sprzedaży zostanie przekazany na Fundusz Ocalałych ze Strefy Gazy uruchomiony przez Polsko-Palestyńską Organizację Na Rzecz Sprawiedliwości “Kaktus”.
Warszawa, Plac Zabaw nad Wisłą, od godz. 12.
Zapraszam do nabycia 🙂

An easy way to kill thousands of mosquitoes each summer is to set out a container of water,
add a handful of leaves or hay,
then drop in 1/4 of a Mosquito Dunk,
a compressed, shelf-stable form of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (“Bti”) that kills larvae
https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bt…

Bti honeypot traps for killing mosquito larvae
An easy way to kill thousands of mosquitoes each summer is to set out a container of water, add a handful of leaves or hay, then drop in 1/4 of a Mosquito Dunk, a compressed, shelf-stable form of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ("Bti") that kills larvae. Pregnant females will oviposit onto the wa

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Nubya Garcia:
🎵 Clarity (6 Music Session, 2 Oct 2024)
#NubyaGarcia
https://nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/clarity-outerlude
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gvSk09m7tUz3hUa8BCrqF

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Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
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