Tootfinder

The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

Spectator made £6.6m loss in year Paul Marshall paid £100m for title
The 15-month sale process of The Spectator resulted in total costs to the weekly news magazine of £11.4m, new accounts show.

Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr

In the central Netherlands, this was the 5th (or possibly 6th) warmest spring in the 126-year record. It was also sunny and dry.
Probably quite popular with many, but a clear sign of our changing climate. Personally, I've come to dislike hot weather in May; happy that it has cooled down now.

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/

So not a single Israeli war criminal is standing trial, but thanks to Brooke Jenkins, people who protested the genocide are. Disgraceful.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/trial-golden-gate-protesters/

Trial kicks off for 7 pro-Palestine protesters facing up to 14 years for Golden Gate Bridge demonstration
Seven protesters facing up to 14 years in prison in connection to a 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration saw their first day in court.

I have a JPC-12 vertical antenna. On the good side, it puts the coil 4' away from the base, reducing coil losses by not putting it at the point with the highest current. On the other hand, it's stainless steel with significant real resistance, so even that reduced current still heats it up substantially. Some of that heat could instead be radiated RF!
I am considering rewinding the coil with lacquered silver-coated copper wire for substantially-reduced real resistance, as KA7O…

🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming

Vedenalaisia niittyjä Helsingin edustalle? #Helsinki

Vedenalaisia niittyjä Helsingin edustalle?
Meriajokasistutukset antavat lisätietoa Itämeren luonnon ennallistamismahdollisuuksista. Tulokset vuosina 2024 ja 2025 tehdyistä istutuksista ovat varovaisen myönteisiä.

«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte — Windows-Updates werden immer größer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig für ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies für die unnötige Datenüberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
😒

Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte: Windows-Updates werden immer größer - Golem.de
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.

Was this real? Announcing things is cheap; building things matters🏗️
In 2025, it became clear that it is real.
4 industrial-scale Green Methanol plants are operational in China. In Europe? 1
In 2024, A.P. MŸller Holding (owners of Maersk🚢) created the startup VioNeo, with plans for a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp🇧🇪. In 2026, they changed plans & want to build "in China near green methanol supply"

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/

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Hieronder een paar links voor verdere info.
Opvallend daarbij is dat sommige voorlichting al niet meer beschikbaar is (website is weg) of dat het enige en laatste nieuws uit 2020 😉
Slimme verkeerslichten: hoe werken ze?
#TalkingTraffic #iVRI #verkeer

Net als bij #Brexit blijft #NigelFarage te koop voor rijke lui https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rfceditor/116660055140888488
huh, RFCs are published more frequently (on average) than i thought!
first RFC was 7th April 1969
20 000 days after that was 9th January 2024
looks like RFC 10 000 will be betwee…

'Why are we talking about this?': Democrats are furious that the Bidens won't go away (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/28/biden-democrats-2024-election-00942001
http://www.memeorandum.com/260528/p135#a260528p135

Heute mal wieder eine Mediathekperle schauen mit @… in der Arte Mediathek
https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/lars-becker-heaven-can-wait-2024/

This looks like quite a cool project! Can't help wondering if Aotearoa NZ needs something like this... https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/ - example

I really should get back into #astrophotography this year. Last year was marred by both bad weather and brainfog. Here's an image from 2024.

The dramatic transition of the extreme Red #Supergiant WOH G64 to a Yellow Hypergiant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19329 - this 2024 paper, already mentioned by me in connection with other observations of that star in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-11-2024/ ("Die enge zirkumstellare Umgebung des Roten Überriesen WOH G64 ..."), has now been formally published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7.epdf?sharing_token=7UR_XvTAZerqnMHPRyA0LtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N7FejDObMF3AkHA10E71tuouxDX6yP8bM1QCFKGVVZLl8bT37LMadR8u4ukhACilFI60-Zxl0e00Bc0v3qXkG29yIQr7uTE0sd644q7We4d6ay5Tblhxc-UABROlAnuDs=

Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy marries longtime girlfrie... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48624227/jj-mccarthy-katya-kuropas-wedding-cabo-minnesota-vikings

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

"Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week"
#Cambodia #Snails

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week
In 2024, scientists found a tiny new-to-science translucent microsnail in a cave of Banan Hill, a limestone hill that is part of the karst ecosystem of Battambang province in western Cambodia. The snail is less than 2 millimeters (0.1 inches) wide and long including its shell, about the size of a pinhead. The scientists behind […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Vazz:
🎵 Breath
#Vazz
https://vazzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/breath-remixes-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OzUQEJo6vvLWDsOuw9k3D

A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks (Ciara Zavala/Local News Matters)
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/04/2

A Playbook for Newsrooms: Revolutionizing Election Coverage with AI Part II
Our Goal In the fast-evolving landscape of AI, we saw an opportunity to revolutionize local election coverage in our newsroom by reducing manual,

Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a $22M Series B, following a $15M Series A in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/triomics-nabs-22m-to-b…

Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers | TechCrunch
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.

Translation: Kaspersky forced to cut staff in France as the Russian antivirus software company continues to pay the price for the collateral damage of the war in Ukraine. Revenue at its French subsidiary fell from nearly €30m in 2021 to €22.4m in 2024, and the workforce was reduced by a fifth.

Antivirus : le russe Kaspersky contraint de tailler dans ses effectifs en France
L’éditeur de logiciels continue de subir les effets de la guerre en Ukraine. Il a perdu de nombreux clients dans les administrations et les grandes entreprises.

Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/112507456412083232
(2024) Visual mental imagery and neural dynamics of sensory substitution in the blindfolded subjects

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

The Republican former lieutenant governor of North Carolina,
Mark Robinson,
has admitted he "misled" voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign
when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website
– suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the "After the Call" podcast on Thursday:

The Dali crew is still in Baltimore 2 years after Key Bridge collapse - The Baltimore Banner https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/dali-crew-key-bridge-collapse-LB5XY2XQJVADLBQMBVYSB6OP7I/

2 years after the Dali slammed into the Key Bridge, its crew is still here
Two years after the Dali cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, eight crew members remain grounded in Baltimore, among the longest stretches of time for any seafarers in recent memory.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889
This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).

Alisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in

Alisa Yurchenko - Investigativjournalistin
Alisa arbeitet seit mehr als zehn Jahren als Investigativjournalistin und Redakteurin in der Ukraine. Seit 2024 ist sie bei der ukrainischen Zeitung „Kyiv Independent“. Zuvor war Alisa beim Anti-Korruptions-Projekt „Bihus.Info“ als Redakteurin, Journalistin und Moderatorin tätig. Sie wurde mit mehreren ukrainischen Preisen für investigativen Journalismus ausgezeichnet. Darüber hinaus arbeitet Alisa als Medientrainerin. Sie hat mehrere Kurse entwickelt, die Journalisten und zivilgesel…

#AI to recreate F/OSS in a "clean room" without acknowledging that it trained on F/OSS takes copyright evasion to an uncomfortable new level.
To anybody actually versed in machine learning, this …

@… I was reading this article - https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/06/between-2008-an…

Between 2008 and 2024, 97 Public Libraries Across Scotland Permanently Closed
The vital contribution public libraries make to our communities has been highlighted in a survey of  2,000 library users and 300 librarians across Scotland. Many libraries are either being closed, …

Klinkt nog als weinig voor de gruwelijkheden die hij beging.
10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing https://nos.nl/l/2609892

10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing
De 32-jarige Mark S. uit Borculo perste tussen 2011 en 2024 slachtoffers af door te dreigen seksueel getinte foto's en video's online plaatsen.

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

Gibt es weitere Verzögerungen bei der Einführung der e-ID? Ankündigungen vom BAG zu Organspenden deuten darauf hin.
"Das erklärt zumindest teilweise die Verschiebungen bei der Widerspruchslösung: Mitte 2024 sollte sie ursprünglich in Kraft treten. Dann hiess es zweite Hälfte 2026, dann Anfang 2027, heute, laut Tages-Anzeiger, drittes Quartal 2027.
Im Raum steht also offenbar die erneute Verschiebung des E-ID-Termins."
… wettet @…

"As Cuba’s grid fails, solar power becomes a lifeline"
#Cuba #Energy #Renewables

As Cuba’s grid fails, solar power becomes a lifeline
Ten percent of the Caribbean nation’s electricity was generated by renewable energy in 2025, up from 3.6% in 2024.

Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @… for the hint!)

Hat hier jemand Erfahrungen mit dem in Baden-Württemberg oder Niedersachsen stattgefundenen #LastCopies-Projekt, bei denen Titel mit drei oder weniger Beständen in den WBs eines Bundeslandes im K10plus markiert wurden? Ich habe da eine Frage:

Amsterdam – A10 Zuid
#kamafotos

Poll: 1 out of 8 Trump voters has buyer's remorse about 2024 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-27-buyers-remorse-trump-defectors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p39#a260327p39

Had a bucket list moment performing with him and his son (also a guitarist) in 2024. Lovely man, super cheery, and then just jaw-droppingly note perfect. RIP @… https://

lja Leonard Pfeijffer: 48 Kolumnen aus der belgischen Zeitung De Morgen über konstitutionelle und absolute Demokratie in Deutsch:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Archives - Europa Blog
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer / Foto: Stephan Vanfleteren Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Der niederländische Schriftsteller Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer hat von Januar 2024 bis Dezember 2025 zwei Mal monatlich Essays zur Entwicklung von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat unter dem zunehmenden politischen Druck rechter Parteien in Europa und in den USA – dort vor allem durch Donald Trump und die MAGA-Bewegung – in der niederländischsprachigen belgischen Zeitung „De Morgen“ veröffentlicht. In den insgesamt 48 Essa…

Der Grüne Ortsverband Karlsruhe Nordstadt hat für diesen Freitag eine spannende Lesung mit der Aktivistin und Autorin Penny Prinz im Kulturhaus Mikado organisiert zum Thema Überwachung und Widerstand in Hongkong nachdem die Demokratiebewegung dort niedergeschlagen wurde https://karlsunruh.org/event/745d4b49-

nach der Revolte – Lesung mit Penny Prinz | KarlsUNRUH
Hongkong 2024: Eine Buchhändlerin, die nicht mehr weiß, welche Bücher sie noch verkaufen darf. Eine Dozentin, die nicht denunziert werden will. Ein Gesetz, so vage, dass jeder damit gemeint sein könnte, ein intelligenter Laternenpfahl, und ein anarchistisches Café, das den Zuständen trotzt. Dieser Reisebericht beschreibt den Alltag in einer Stadt, in der die nationale Sicherheit die Freiheit ersetzt hat. Er erzählt von Überwachung, Repression und Widerstand - und einem Modus digitaler H…

Kamala #Harris denkt über eine erneute Kandidatur nach. Dumm ist, wer einen Fehler ein zweites Mal wiederholt. Die Demokraten sollten eigentlich gelernt haben, dass Harris die US AmerikanerInnen nicht überzeugt.
Außerdem verärgert ihr politisches Schweigen zu Darth #Trump, nur um ihre Chancen für eine erneu…

US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2028: Kamala Harris denkt über Kandidatur nach
Versucht sie es noch einmal? Die Demokratin Kamala Harris verlor 2024 die Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA gegen Donald Trump. Jetzt deutet sie eine Kandidatur für 2028 an.

"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents.
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists.
In total, 12 universities paid th…

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Traditionell schaue ich mir am #Vatertag das Gesaufe aus der #Fahrradsattel-Perspektive an. Aber draußen regnet es ziemlich beständig, darum liege ich lieber noch im Bett 😁

Am Vatertag wieder so gut wie keine Väter gesehen
Traditionell mache ich an Christi Himmelfahrt nicht das, was in den sozialen Medien heute von vielen Frauen kritisiert wurde: mit dem Bollerwagen und Freunden saufend und gröhlend durch die Gegend ziehen. Ich fahre seit Jahren mit dem Fahrrad durch Bad …

Am Vatertag wieder so gut wie keine Väter gesehen Weiter…

Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/exclusive-…

Exclusive: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, raises $27 million Series A
After seeing the challenges of rural hospitals firsthand, Jack O’Hara set his sights on transforming the financials of healthcare.

Squirrel sitting on the grass and wondering “Who is that strange man with a camera?” LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2024. OM Systems OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150 F2.8 PRO MC14. #laarboretum #squirrels

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

Diesen Film zum Thema Wirtschaftssysteme jenseits der gegenwärtigen politischen Ökonomie kann ich echt empfehlen: „Outgrow the System – Wirtschaft neu denken“ ist eine schwedische Dokumentation aus dem Jahr 2024, die gerade frisch in die Arte-Mediathek gepurzelt ist.
https://www.arte.…

Setting up remote access to Bambulab 3D printers that are on a different VLAN than yours is a pain in the ass.
Bambulab has chosen the wrong path. It might carve out a niche among users who aren't very tech-savvy when it comes to 3D printing (and who aren’t interested in learning either), but all of us nerds who have used their printers are going to tell them to go to hell.
By the way, if you're trying to set up remote access using pfSense or OPNsense, here's a great …

Wind-solar-nuclear electricity production in China, 1992-2024
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/line_race_electricity_production_cn_1990-2024.html

After Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, the NFL draft's QB board could go quiet fast https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/after-fernando-mendoza-at-no-1-the-nfl-drafts-qb-board-could-go-quiet-fast

A Rome court deemed illegal (sent. 01/04/2026, n. 4993) some Netflix continuous price increases since 2017 and instructed to make reimbursements up to 500 euros per user.
"""
Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituzione di circa 250 euro
&quot…

Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituz…

Filing: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' 2025 compensation rose 4% YoY to $35.15M, and new co-CEO Mike Cavanagh had a pay package of $71.76M, about 2.5x his 2024 pay (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-brian-…

Comcast Co-CEOs Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanagh 2025 Pay Package Revealed
Comcast gave Brian Roberts a pay raise in 2025 -- but not nearly as much as his recently promoted co-CEO, Mike Cavanagh.

Travis Hunter, Mykel Williams, other 2025 NFL Draft first-rounders who need big seasons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7291654/2026/05/21/nfl-draft-2024-picks-hunter-ashton-jeanty/

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…

Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Three Degrees:
🎵 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
#TheThreeDegrees
https://kitremakes.bandcamp.com/track/mfsb-with-the-three-degrees-t-s-o-p-the-sound-of-philadelphia-dj-kit-remakes-2024-115bpm

Tutkimus: ilmaston 1,5 asteen raja ylittyi odotettua aiemmin #ilmasto

Tutkimus: ilmaston 1,5 asteen raja ylittyi odotettua aiemmin -
Maapallon keskilämpötila ylitti 1,5 celsiusasteen rajan jo vuonna 2024, mikä on jopa seitsemän vuotta aikaisemmin kuin useimmat ilmastomallit ennustivat. Tuore tutkimus osoittaa, että vain ne mallit,

Amsterdam – Maasstraat - Mini Cooper S
#kamafotos

ProPublica launches its first in-house podcast, Paper Trail, an audio serialization of past investigations; filing: ProPublica had an $18.5M surplus in 2024 (Shannon Thaler Cherry/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/propublica…

ProPublica Is Packaging Investigations for the Spotify Era
Andrii Lysenko - stock.adobe.com ProPublica has entered the crowded podcast landscape. For an investigative newsroom whose donor base skews mostly white,

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
…

Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/google-completes-32b-acquisition-of-wiz…

Google wraps up $32B acquisition of cloud security giant Wiz | TechCrunch
Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google's biggest acquisition in its history.

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

In 2024, Europe spent circa €375 billion on imports of fossil fuels. [consumptive: burn it, and only CO2 remains]
In stark contrast, investment in renewable power and grids remains comparatively low: Europe spent €100 billion on those in 2025. [delivering clean energy for decades, and avoiding CO2]

2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming: #GlobalWarming or the lack thereof see the many links in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ at the very bottom).

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Gits:
🎵 Second Skin
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/second-skin-live-at-rkcndy-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Rvwe2nPrL4QiylcSD6lcy

Amsterdam – Maasstraat - Mini Cooper S
#kamafotos

Bright red Indian shot flower (canna indica). Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. November, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #bloomscrolling

FilmLA: in H1 2025, Los Angeles soundstage occupancy averaged 62%, down from 63% in 2024 and a 35.4% drop from the 96% peak in 2016; shoot days fell 8% to 7,940 (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/los-angeles-soundstage-report-1236758623/

L.A. Soundstage Occupancy Held Steady During First Half Of 2025 But Remains Way Below A Decade Ago, FilmLA Says
Los Angeles-area soundstage occupancy held steady during first half of 2025 but remains way below levels from a decade ago, according to a new FilmLA report.

Boye Mafe to help fill void in Bengals' post-Trey Hendrickson era https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48198524/boye-mafe-help-fill-void-bengals-post-trey-hendrickson-era

Democrats Pulled Off Their Biggest Shift Yet Among House Specials Since 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/elections/georgia-house-special-shifts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p10#a260408p10

Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backed-vultr-seeks-1-billion-ai-cloud-push

AMD-Backed Vultr Seeks $1 Billion for AI Cloud Push
Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list of startups scrambling for cash to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company, which is backed by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, ...

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.

US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…

Artists From 75 Different Countries Made at Least $500,000 On Spotify Last Year
"The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless," Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-i…

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says
“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

Kamala Harris wants the DNC to release its autopsy report of the 2024 campaign (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/kamala-harris-dnc-release-autopsy-report-2024-campaign-rcna343453
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p4#a260507p4

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…

Artists From 75 Different Countries Made at Least $500,000 On Spotify Last Year
"The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless," Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit

The people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…

Forget the "MAGA split" on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
Plus, most "moderates" favor left-wing economic policies. Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…

Microsoft reveals major price increases for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues: Flagships now $500 more expensive than at launch
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.

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

The Sun reports pre-tax losses of £53M in the year to July 2025, up from £18M in 2024; phone-hacking legal costs more than doubled to £36.7M (James Warrington/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/14/murdoch-loses-more…

TechInsights: chip manufacturing emissions will climb by ~33% to 247M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, roughly equivalent to Algeria in 2024 (Aaron Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVwyC2sEXhq/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

CBS News on Instagram: "The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling glassy volcanic fragments, including ash. Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky. The fountaining that began Tuesday morning marked the eruption’s 43rd episode since it began in December 2024."
99K likes, 1,454 comments - cbsnews on March 11, 2026: "The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling glassy volcanic fragments, including ash. Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky. The fountaini…

Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government…

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx

Cash-strapped AI chip startup Hailo sees valuation halved to under $500 million ahead of urgent IPO
Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures.

Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pulls Back the Curtain on Its Finances
Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g

Cyber startup Onyx Security raises $35 million to control AI agents in organizations | CTech
The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.