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Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024 (Anna Isaac/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p34#a260429p34

Reaching the End of the ICEV Domination: 35 Years of Battery Electric Vehicles in Norway
#EV

A look at Clickout, which has bought hundreds of websites to harvest their reputations and pack them with casino links; in 2024, it had £40M in revenue (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo-parasites-bu…

The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands
Parasitical SEO companies are buying respected online news outlets to harvest their reputations before leaving behind a ruined shell. 

"I hate to say I'm honored"
Donald Trump said Saturday that
he views his repeated brushes with violence as a sign of his historic significance
The latest instance of a gunman in his vicinity — after the two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign — led the president to contemplate why such things keep happening to him.
Trump says he sees shootings as a reflection of his impact

Trump says he sees shootings as a reflection of his impact
“I hate to say I’m honored,” the president says of his repeated brushes with violence, including two assassination attempts during his 2024 campaign.

Interesting: Minneapolis is actually converting downtown offices to residential, not just using it as an excuse to cut taxes while not converting any, like San Francisco.
Sounds like a bad deal for the public, though. The new units are expensive, up to $4,695 for 1415ft², and to get them the city is waiving all affordability requirements, and MN is considering subsidizing through tax credits as well.

Progress from 2024: Minneapolis Adds 574 New Homes with Adaptive Reuse
Through adaptive reuse, Minneapolis turned office space into 574 apartments. Possible new State legislature may make this easier, though the retail market remains challenging.

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…

„Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“ mit Playstation VR2: Was taugt der VR-Modus?
Die PS5-Version von „Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“ unterstützt jetzt Playstation VR2. Der VR-Modus offenbart im Praxistest Höhen und Tiefen.

Is It True That... - ...Hitler Invented the Autobahn? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/120854-008-A/is-it-true-that/ (2024, 24min)
Hat Hitler die Autobahn erfunden? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120854-008-A/hat-hitler-die-autobahn-erfunden/ (2024, 24min)
Arte docu over propaganda.
De docu begint inderdaad on die periode en eindigt met de vraag wat AI ons gaat brengen.
Aanbevolen in dit moment van de geschiedenis.

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, according to a report by The Intercept.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/goo…

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.

Heute 14 Uhr Syrienkonferenz im Museum Bochum:
Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt nach dem Beginn des Krieges ist die Lage in Syrien weiterhin von Gewalt, Unsicherheit und schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen geprägt, religiöse und ethnische Minderheiten wie Alawiten, Drusen, Christen, Eziden und Kurden sind unzureichend geschützt.
Im Fokus der Veranstaltung stehen Fragen nach dem Schutz besonders vulnerabler Gruppen, nach den Folgen der Machtübernahme durch die HTS sowie nach Möglichkeiten von…

The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…

Vorfall bei Vision-Pro-Filmproduktion: Tödlicher Crash in Jordanien
Im Sommer 2024 kam es in Nahost zu einem tragischen Zwischenfall bei einer Apple-Videoproduktion. Der Absturz eines Kleinflugzeugs wird derzeit untersucht.

Pink Rose. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. Fujifilm X100VI. #ranchopalosverdes #rose #rosegarden

Gerade eben habe ich mich an meine Begegnung mit Jürgen #Serke erinnert, 1987. Wir waren gemeinsam in kleiner, feuchtfröhlicher Runde unterwegs und hatten einen sehr unterhaltsamen, anregenden Abend. 2024 ist er gestorben.
Ihm verdanken wir "Die verbrannten Dichter" und die "Bömischen Dörfer"
Die Begegnung mit ihm hat mich sehr inspiriert. Leider bin ich ihm später nicht …

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chicago:
🎵 25 or 6 to 4
#Chicago
https://lostox.bandcamp.com/track/almost-cut-my-hair-csny-25-or-6-to-4-chicago-with-band-of-comerados-live-at-the-goodfoot-in-portland-or-on-5-4-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/65eRcjlStTnk8opG5eIQ8Z

J'ai une question pour l'ARCEP. Il y a UNIQUEMENT en France, que l'on a ces appels abusifs, ces numéros usurpé, le non respect totale de la réglementation. En Belgique, Allemagne, Italie, il n'y a rien de cela. Et chez l'ARCEP, il se passe: Rien! Ah oui, on fait la statistique des victimes. Y a un pilote dans l'avion?

Usurpation de numéros de téléphone, SMS frauduleux, appels abusifs… le nombre de signalements de consommateurs
Le nombre de signalements de consommateurs liés à des appels frauduleux ou abusifs et à des usurpations de numéros est "en forte croissance de 113% par rapport à 2024", d'après les chiffres du régulateur des télécommunications, publiés lundi.

POL-BS: Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeidirektion Braunschweig für das Jahr 2025 Braunschweig (ots) - Braunschweig, 14.04.2026 - Die Polizeidirektion Braunschweig veröffentlicht die Verkehrsunfallstatistik für das Jahr 2025: -Gesamtzahl der Verkehrsunfälle leicht gesunken -Nach Tiefstand 2024 wieder mehr Unfälle mit schweren ... https://www.

Germany's population is estimated to decline by 10% by 2070, from 83.5 to 74.7 million. One of the reasons is emigration; over 250,000 people per year leave #Deutschland.
https://www.

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

Cowboys Linebacker Delivers Powerful Response to Controversial Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-linebacker-delivers-powerful-response-to-controversial-video/

I had to stop at a friend's house on Saturday to pick something up. I saw a large pothole in front of their place, took a few minutes to snap a photo and report it to the city, and... it just got filled in.
Reported on Saturday, fixed on Monday.
I don't know how to convince more people to do this.
https://

Fixing Potholes
Let's see how quickly a pothole gets filled in...

Katherina Reiche: Berufen, weil sie „vom Fach" ist. Das Fach: Atomausstieg mitbeschlossen (2011), Netzausbau vergeigt (2009–2013), danach Lobbyistin für Netzbetreiber (2024), jetzt Ministerin die Netzausbau bremst. Das Wort „Batteriespeicher" kommt in ihrem FAZ-Gastbeitrag kein einziges Mal vor. „Fusionskraftwerk" zweimal. @…

Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…

Grazalema sufrió el segundo día más lluvioso jamás registrado en España, según la Aemet - malagaldia.es
La Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (Aemet) activó el aviso rojo -peligro extraordinario- el miércoles por lluvias muy abundantes en zonas de Cádiz (Grazalema

👻 #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.

Und wieder ein Artikel auf #orfat zu #RepairCafe Initiativen in Österreich 😃
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3342166/…

Eltern vor Gericht - Bub (3) tot: Wahrsagerin riet, Dämon zu bekämpfen #News #Nachrichten

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

POL-WHV: Zusammenfassung der Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2025 für das Polizeikommissariat Varel mit den an- geschlossenen Polizeistationen Bockhorn und Zetel Varel/Bockhorn/Zetel (ots) - Die Zahl der Verkehrsunfälle in Varel, Zetel und Bockhorn befindet sich weiterhin auf einem vergleichsweise niedrigen Niveau. Gegenüber dem Jahr 2024 gab es einen Anstieg der Verkehrsunfallzahlen 994 auf 1114( 120)). ...

The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost-low-info-voters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p20#a260212p20

California voters are receiving mailers promoting a 'poison-pill' ballot measure aimed at nullifying a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets. The countermeasure, backed by Silicon Valley billionaires including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, would override the tax even if both pass in November. The clash reflects a broader surge in billionaire political spending, which reached $3 billion nationally in 2024 and is reshaping policy battles at state and federal levels
…

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…

How DoorDash and Other Food Delivery Apps Are Reshaping Mealtime in the U.S.
Almost three of every four restaurant orders in the U.S. weren’t eaten in a restaurant, according to recent data. We spoke to readers who are devoted to delivery but question the costs.

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 28.02.2026 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 ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 When Your Number Isn't Up
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/when-your-number-isnt-up-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aRedm15894RrspWnLuqMx

👻 #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.

After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy
AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.