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Solche Bilder wird es in Zukunft weniger geben. Das Jahr 2024 war bisher das heißeste seit Aufzeichnung und hat das Pariser #Klimaziel von 1,5 Grad Celsius zum vorindustriellen Niveau gerissen. Die #Wärme steckt in der

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…

Streamers in U.K. Set to Come Under ‘Enhanced Regulation’ from Ofcom
U.K. media regulator Ofcom is set to oversee streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ following new legislation.

Niners GM John Lynch: We've had 'good and substantive meetings' regarding Trent Williams' contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-gm-john-lynch-we-ve-had-good-and-substantive-meetings-regarding-trent-williams-…

Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Here is wisdom. I learned this too late in life, and am still not sure I’ve learned it well:
❝Don’t feel like you need to fix everything. A common response to bearing witness to another’s trauma is to try and fix it. We don’t want others to suffer. That said, you may not be offering what the other person or group is clearly stating they need. If they need you to listen, and you choose to act but not listen, then you have both not supported them in their trauma and violated a boundary.❞
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/

Germany U-turns, Won't Intervene on Israel's Behalf in ICJ Gaza Genocide Case - @…
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-03-19/ty-article/germany-u-turns-wont-intervene-on-israels-behalf-in-icj-gaza-genocide-case/0000019d-05c2-d65b-abfd-95deeaff0000
Archive https://archive.ph/P3UBr
This marks a shift from Germany's January 2024 stance, when it backed Israel in the case. Berlin says its decision not to intervene stems from its own ICJ defense in a case accusing it of violating international law by supporting Israel's war in Gaza

from my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12

a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Bericht: Neue Siri doch nicht in iOS 26.4?
Seit Sommer 2024 warten Nutzer darauf, dass Apple seine Sprachassistenz endlich smarter macht. Nun könnte es erneut zu Verzögerungen kommen, heißt es.
https://www.

In The Lechtal Alps (2024)
Previously (same valley):
#MountainMonday

Odell Beckham Jr. hopes flag football is a 'starting point' to NFL return https://www.nfl.com/news/odell-beckham-jr-hopes-flag-football-is-a-starting-point-to-nfl-return

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump privately told donors about one of his favorite negotiating tactics,
recounting at a New York fundraiser in May how he would deter Chinese or Russian aggression
by threatening to bomb Beijing or Moscow.

“He thought I was crazy,”
Trump said of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s response.
“He didn’t believe me, except 10 percent.
And 10 percent is all you need.”

The story, which has not been confirmed by R…

Trump’s Iran brinkmanship reaches truce, escalates backlash at home
The president’s ultimatum drew condemnation across the political spectrum and intensified open debate about his credibility, morality and sanity.

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116029119008444453
I wrote a lot about these rules in 2024 and 2025

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto. Bookending the Prom are Bruckner’s First Symphony and Tüür’s Aditus.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqxs

Chrome’s developer properties have been problematic for years so this just corresponds to its descent into disrepute.
Ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07/dont-use-webdev-for-accessibility-info.html (it discusses developer•chrome•com)

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

2023–2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds #Africa

2023–2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds
Africa's coastlines are under growing threat as sea levels climb faster than ever, driven by decades of global warming caused by human activity, natural climate cycles, and warming ocean waters. Between 2009 and 2024, the continent experienced a 73% increase in sea-level rise, according to a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment.

“Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge…”
“…latest example of how the U.S. government is using a controversial type of legal request, called an administrative subpoena, to demand that tech companies turn over the private data of individuals who have been critical of the Trump administration.”

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

I wrote https://jws.news/2024/hp-z4-g4-workstation/ two years ago about buying an old workstation off eBay to try running local LLM models. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but between tariffs, hardware shortages, and my own lack of cash, I think that it is going to be another two years before I get to try again.

Warum dieser Artikel über eine Konferenz in China 2024 erst jetzt erscheint, who knows, aber lots of spannendes Zeug drin. (I myself had politely declined an invitation.)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/how-china-learned-to-love-th…

How China Learned to Love the Classics
The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. Chang Che writes.

In diesem Essay aus Mai 2024 erklärt Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, weshalb in gesellschafltichen Umbruchzeiten oft dritt- oder vierklassige Politiker in Regierungsverantwortung kommen.
https://europa.blog/de/das-ist-populismus/

Das ist Populismus: eine Politik, die sich aus wahltaktischen Gründen vollständig von der öffentlichen Meinung leiten lässt - Europa Blog
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A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bf1fe0c-1593-49b7-aaf1-18e7da9b36ed

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs
Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

»Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich:
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.«
Betreffen kann dies uns alle aber das min die E-Mails kryptografisch signiert sind wenn nicht verschlüsselt, wäre ein Punkt mehr für mehr Sicherheit und setzt nicht blind ua auf Microschrott.
🔓

Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.

Das hat sich fein gezogen, aber es hat sich auch gelohnt. Ich habe den Sammelband am 24.11.24 begonnen und mir die 3 Bücher aufgeteilt. „Entscheidend aber bleibt die bedingungslose Absage des Autors an den Krieg, an die Unmenschlichkeit und an die Mächte des Chaos.“ Aufgezeichnet mit @…

Eating Steak, potatoes, salad, this wine, and watching the Splashdown of Artemis II
#artemis2 #nasa #splashdown

Concerns over "apparent move towards lifting the arms licences to Israel that it suspended in September 2024, and the reported transfer of new F-35 fighter jets from a British air base."
While the killing continues.
‘Frankly shameful’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…

Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90% (Yuval Halevi/Growtika)
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that
the war in Iran was “crazy”
and had left Americans feeling “betrayed” by Trump,
describing the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies that the president had campaigned on.
“It just seems so insane,”
said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and said he still texted with him on occasion.
“He ran on no more wars:
End these stupid, senseless wars.
And then we have one …

Joe Rogan Says Trump’s Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War
The influential podcast host described the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies the president had campaigned on.

La fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale

"U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says.
The figure continues the year-over-year record trend as it is up 26% compared to 2024, when Americans lost $16.6 billion to cybercrime."

I like the idea of a low-cost MacBook, but when you can get a 2024 MacBook Air with an M3 and 16GB of memory for the same money, I don't know why more people don't just do that.

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night."

Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27

Mineralogical Society of America (@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social)
American Mineralogist: Myrmekite and antiperthite formation in deformed granite: Chemical and crystallographic constraints on formation mechanisms Yueting Song, Thomas A. Griffiths, Shanrong Zhao, and Rainer Abart https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9715

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Revisiting Scarflette
https://nakatsubyjna.com/2026/02/05/revisiting-scarflette/

Revisiting Scarflette
I started this Scarflette project in 2024(?) in Circulo Anne cotton yarn, and recently picked it up again. It’s pretty complex and has 10(!) charts, and it took me a while to figure out where I’d l…

I took this super closeup of the #asteroid 2024 YR4. 😉
OK OK. JK. 😜
This is a closeup of a "laddige" my wife and I received two days ago at #Udupi #Krishna Matha. The ridges are finger impressions when the "ball" was made. This particular ball had actually been offered to Krishna at the altar earlier that day, and we were #fortunate to receive it. 🙇‍♂️
About laddige: 👇
#food

A $5$-Approximation Analysis for the Cover Small Cuts Problem
Miles Simmons, Ishan Bansal, Joe Cheriyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01462
arXiv:2602.01462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the Cover Small Cuts problem, we are given a capacitated (undirected) graph $G=(V,E,u)$ and a threshold value $\lambda$, as well as a set of links $L$ with end-nodes in $V$ and a non-negative cost for each link $\ell\in L$; the goal is to find a minimum-cost set of links such that each non-trivial cut of capacity less than $\lambda$ is covered by a link. Bansal, Cheriyan, Grout, and Ibrahimpur (arXiv:2209.11209, Algorithmica 2024) showed that the WGMV primal-dual algorithm, due to Williamson, Goemans, Mihail, and Vazirani (Combinatorica, 1995), achieves approximation ratio $16$ for the Cover Small Cuts problem; their analysis uses the notion of a pliable family of sets that satisfies a combinatorial property. Later, Bansal (arXiv:2308.15714v2, IPCO 2025) and then Nutov (arXiv:2504.03910, MFCS 2025) proved that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $6$. We show that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $5$, by using a stronger notion, namely, a pliable family of sets that satisfies symmetry and structural submodularity.
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"..the climate system is in a pincer grip. First, emissions of planet-warming gases remain stubbornly high, and second, natural carbon sinks are weakening. The result is an accelerating rise in atmospheric concentrations of CO2. 2024 saw the biggest jump ever."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-deg

Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

Der #Primärenergiebedarf für Strom ist 2024 erstmals unter 1 Kilowattstunde pro Kilowattstunde gesunken.
Der sogenannte „nichterneuerbare kumulierte Energieverbrauch“ (KEVne) liegt bei 0,92 und zeigt die steigende #Energieeffizienz im deutschen Strommix.
Gründe …

Kennzahl für Primärenergie sinkt weiter
Deutschlands Stromproduktion wird effizienter: Primärenergiekennzahl erstmals unter 1 – ein Meilenstein für Energiewende und CO₂-Reduktion.

👻 #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.

Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year
as Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce.
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year
but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
The numbers come from employment da…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …