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#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…

Congratulations, @… and @… for winning the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit!

from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05

Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card
If you aren't using a read-only filesystem on your Pi, you can still reduce writes to the SD card to increase its lifespan.

Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/nfl-games-chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-record

NFL shatters Thanksgiving Day viewership records
The nail-biter between the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs is now the most-watched regular season game of all time.

@… I've been very happy with Mint since I switched from Windows in 2024. It works very well and is fairly customizable. It's also not a difficult transition from Windows. I found Ubuntu to be not as satisfying. I've also tried Zorin, but prefer Mint, because it is more customizable, at least for me.

In Berlin könnte es schon bald eine linke Bürgermeisterin geben. Der Kampf um die Gestaltungsspielräume, die eine von @… geführte Regierung haben wird, hat jedoch längst begonnen. Beispiel: Mit dem #Gewalthilfegesetz müssen die Länder am Januar 2027 - …

Just updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/

kind of wild, but only michael jackson & dr. seuss outrank syd barrett & rick wright as 2025's best-paid dead celebrities (though i assume that's a 1-year-only thing after the floyd sold their publishing rights in 2024). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/202

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025
On the 25th anniversary of the Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

såg ofta butterfly på lekplatserna när jag var föräldraledig, lite för ofta skulle jag säga, extremt ofta, deras ekonomiska strategi verkar vara att använda kommunens offentliga lekplatser som avlastningsyta för att slippa betala för egna lokaler, vilket tär på våra gemensamma resurser, glad att de inte får nytt tillstånd www.mitti.se/nyheter/nej-till-privat-forskola-i-ragsved-6.3.325639.9606f7a3e2
EDIT: Se bild, det funkar!

Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://

地味ハロウィン2024 開催レポート・前編
2024年10月27日、東京カルチャーカルチャーで地味ハロウィンが開催された。1年にいちど、地味が輝くイベントだ。そのレポート前編です。 (デイリーポータルZ)

Every dictator guilty of crimes against humanity¹ deserves to be arrested and sent directly to The Hague.
What makes the U.S.' arrest of #Maduro problematic is the potentially disproportionate military strike and the lack of an ICC warrant – the one that Argentina had demanded in 2024.² #Venezuela

Argentina calls on ICC to order arrest of Venezuela's Maduro
Buenos Aires argues that recent actions of Nicolas Maduro's government could constitute crimes against humanity, asking for Maduro to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court.

El Cheeto is tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
He says, of course, that he isn't. But he is.
And he promises to preserve historical elements and artifacts.
But he won't - does anyone remember when he was trying to get New York to allow him to build the horrid "trump tower" on the site of the then existing Bonwitt Teller building (a building full of and covered by art deco works)?
Well back then El Cheat-o promised to preserve those Bonw…

The #EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) has now an Implementing Act:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/cyber-resilience-act-imple…

„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6

AI video start-up takes wide-angle view to boost growth
Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries

Internal documents: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its annual ad revenue, or $16B, came from fraudulent ads, including $7B from "higher risk" ads (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/met

ARD History: Emilie Schindler · Die vergessene Heldin - #ARD #BR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ard-history/emilie-schindler-die-vergessene-heldin/br/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdC9kMTgzNDdjZC0yNjQ0LTQ3MTgtYTEwZi0zYTdkNWQ3OWYxZmZfb25saW5lYnJvYWRjYXN0 (2024, 44min)
'Emilie Schindler, die door velen werd bespot als bedrogen echtgenote, is een door de geschiedenis vergeten heldin die onverschrokken en moedig Joden redde. De documentaire haalt haar uit de schaduw van haar man.'
(Deepl vertaling)
Waar Iedereen Oskar Schindler kent van Schindler's List, bleef Emilie totaal op de achtergrond.
(Wel zijn Engelse sprekers Duits nagesynchroniseerd...)

#TLGBQIA2S

”It’s Time To Reshuffle This Acronym!” - FANE
An open letter to the greater queer community, haphazardly but passionately written by R.T. Ferent: a 40-something, married, gay, cisgender, white man with the absolute best of intentions in his heart. This is dedicated with all of my love to my fearless nephew, Remus, who is so much stronger than I ever was at his

Gruselgeschichten aus dem Bayerischen Wald
Sendung vom 04.04.2024 ∙ Capriccio ∙ BR
Geister, Wahrträume, Todesankündigungen. Der Heimatforscher Karl-Heinz Reimeier aus Grafenau hat zahlreiche Protokolle gesammelt von Menschen aus dem Bayerischen Wald, denen seltsame Dinge widerfahren sind.

Capriccio: Gruselgeschichten aus dem Bayerischen Wald - hier anschauen
Geister, Wahrträume, Todesankündigungen. Der Heimatforscher Karl-Heinz Reimeier aus Grafenau hat zahlreiche Protokolle gesammelt von Menschen aus dem Bayerischen Wald, denen seltsame Dinge widerfahren sind.

from my link log —
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me…

Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Cowboys Trade Prediction Lands Them $36 Million Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-prediction-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06)
Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025

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.

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post

Drowned out in the stream. Australian music is in trouble and needs investment: new report
The algorithms of global music streaming services like Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple are killing Australian music, according to a new report by a

„Wages not Weapons“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10243

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty