Tootfinder

A profile of Disney Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush, appointed in September 2024, who is trying to reclaim Disney's animation magic, ahead of Zootopia 2 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/business/disney-zootopia-2-jared-bush…

Disney’s ‘Zootopia 2’ Will Be a Test for Jared Bush
Jared Bush is trying to make the heart of the media empire beat more consistently. “Zootopia 2” will be a test.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

„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

We are DEFINITELY going back to Stratford next summer!

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised €430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations in Germany.Picnic's existing investors include German supermarket giant Edeka, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firm Hoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital.As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it's the market leader, the funds will be used to expand into multiple unnamed m…

The UK approves the £750M Marlow Studios project backed by James Cameron, overruling a 2024 local council decision to block it due to environmental concerns (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994 https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/15-great-games-you-could-play-on-a-mac-performa-575-in-1994

15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994
I’m not an Apple guy today, and I have all non-Apple stuff now. But as a kid, the first family computer we had was the Mac Performa 575 (around 1994, when it was released). And I dug it. At t…

Der deutsche #Emissionshandel erzielte 2023 #Rekordeinnahmen von über 18 Milliarden Euro. 💶🌍 Diese Gelder fließen in den Klima- und #Transformationsfonds, der klimaneutrale …

Neuer Rekord im deutschen Emissionshandel im Jahr 2024
Deutschlands Weg zur Klimaneutralität: Wie der Emissionshandel 2023 finanzielle Rekorde bricht und den Klimaschutz vorantreibt.

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

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Revolut Notches $75 Billion Valuation in Latest Share Sale
Revolut Ltd. garnered a $75 billion valuation in its latest share sale after months of courting investors, a steep increase from the $45 billion price tag it received last year.

Yay, datasci.social is now 3 years old! 🥳
Same as last year, so I don't bother with a new post: https://community.datasci.social/blog/2024-11-15/two-years-old/
stable users - no issues - 99.9 % uptime - muchas gracias to our supporters!! 💖
Only new th…

Two years old
datasci.social is two years old

I feel like this Stop Copaganda project from 2024 didn't get enough love. It certainly made me reflect on how I portray law enforcement. Particularly in Domestic Threats. Some police officers/agents are really trying to do the right thing and the system makes it hard. Some of them just do what they're told because they trust the system, without realizing they might be doing more harm than good. Some are more interested in getting status or power than worrying about morality. These st…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Orbital:
🎵 Spicy (Sofa Session, 15 May 2024)
#Orbital
https://darkenergyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/spicy-crab-of-nighttime

Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
https://www.wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion-racine-county-wisconsin-jobs

Foxconn planning $569M expansion in Racine County that could create 1,300 jobs
Under the newest revision to Foxconn’s contract with the state, Foxconn could earn up to $96 million in state tax credits through 2029.

Kesä 2024 oli Lapissa lämpimämpi kuin koskaan viimeisen 2 000 vuoden aikana #Lappi

Kesä 2024 oli Lapissa lämpimämpi kuin koskaan viimeisen 2 000 vuoden aikana
Lähelle vuoden 2024 kesän keskilämpötilaa on päästy viimeksi vuonna 1937 ja sitä ennen vuonna 34, lähes 2 000 vuotta sitten.

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.
In late January, Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, who had taken the top posting in July 2024, was asked for his advice about the legality of using Texas National Guard soldiers for immigration enforcement.
Berger told Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George that he was skeptical and wa…

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.

Le gouvernement vaudois a plongé le canton dans une situation paradoxale: le frein Š l’endettement est activé alors qu’il n’y a quasiment pas de dettes (0,71% de taux d’endettement en 2024), il connaît une crise politique profonde alors que sa situation financière est loin d’être problématique.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/y-a-t-il-un-pilote-dans-le-canton-de-vaud?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Kanzlei Liebling Kreuzberg - #ARD
Trailer:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/kanzlei-liebling-kreuzberg/trailer-kanzlei-liebling-kreuzberg-bewaehrungsprobe/ard/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2JveHNldC1rYW56bGVpLWxpZWJsaW5nLWtyZXV6YmVyZy82NmM0NGM3Zi05OTY0LTQ3OWUtOWQ2Mi0xNzJhNzMyZTQ4YjA
Serie: (deel 1, 2)
https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/bewaehrungsprobe-oder-folge-2/staffel-1/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2JveHNldC1rYW56bGVpLWxpZWJsaW5nLWtyZXV6YmVyZw/1
Vanavond deel 2 van deze serie (begon om 20:15 op DasErste)
Deel 1 was in 2024.

"Austausch zum Thema #Schattenbibliotheken" – Einladung von Anna Schwerdtel, Nina Gerlach, @… und @…:

Everytime I stumble upon this, I'm made joyus by Jim's writing! ^^
The Humble Link - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-humble-link/

👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…

Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/politics/latino-voters-new-jersey.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p53#a251115p53

#Microsoft:
> Due to ongoing technical issues, as of October 23, 2024, downloads are temporarily unavailable.
Yeah, I get it. These proprietary systems are like that. You can't do anything without exploiting open source volunteers.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b4d5e238-c34a-4602-91d0-4c7300b0006f

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

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:

Bears, Patriots, Jaguars clinch playoff berths in stunning first-year coaching turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-clinch-playoff-berths-in-stunning-firstyear-coaching-turnarounds

J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

🫧 Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
#atmosphere

Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
Earth is reflecting less sunlight, and absorbing more heat, than it did several decades ago. Global warming is advancing faster than climate models predicted, with observed temperatures exceeding projections in 2023 and 2024. These trends have scientists scrambling to understand why the atmosphere is letting more light in.

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/

Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

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

"October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange

October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record
Only October 2023 and October 2024 were warmer.

Bernie Kosar undergoes liver transplant surgery https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6814372/2025/11/17/bernie-kosar-undergoes-liver-transplant-surgery/

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]

Heute vor 1 Jahren: Am 19.11.2024 unterzeichnete Putin eine neue #Nukleardoktrin die vorsieht, dass #Russland Nuklearwaffen auch gegen Nicht-Atomstaaten einsetzen kann, wenn diese von einer Atommacht unterstützt werden sowie bei massiven Luftangriffen mit konventionellen Waffen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Brand New Heavies:
🎵 Dream On Dreamer
#TheBrandNewHeavies
https://thebrandnewheavies.bandcamp.com/track/dream-on-dreamer-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/6E4vhLRYh1pBK9woMCPHTj

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔
Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆
For context, Mastodon Android app has this https://bl…

Old growth threatened by logging increases in BC
The Narwhal reports on a new study by Sierra Club BC that finds efforts to protect old growth forests in BC have largely failed since the ruling centrist NDP party has been in charge starting in 2013. The report found that "13,000 football fields worth of old-growth deferral zones were logged" in the past 4 years in BC. Meanwhile, premier David Eby has urged forestry production in BC to increase by 50% over 2024 levels.
<…

BC Old-Growth | Wilderness Committee
Protecting old-growth forests isn’t just about saving trees; it’s about preserving incredibly rare ecosystems.

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @… et al.;

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, our independent reanalysis reveals multiple methodological concerns that raise questions about the validity of their conclusions. Specifically, our evaluation demonstrates that: (1) the reconstruction results are biased by selective reporting of only the best-performing examples at multiple levels; …

Two suspected Scattered Spider hackers plead not guilty over Transport for London cyberattack https://therecord.media/transport-for-london-hack-scattered-spider-suspects-plead-not-guilty

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

Endlich Schluss mit der Cookie-Banner-Flut! 🙌 Die Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (BfDI) hat am 17. Oktober erstmals einen Dienst zur automatischen Verwaltung von Cookie-Einwilligungen offiziell anerkannt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.…

"In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX hoped to be able to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have as many as 25 launches in 2025.
This did not occur. Starship was launched just five times by mid-October, with no planned launches during the remaining months of 2025."
—Wikipedia Starship article
I've been pretty vocal about all of Starship being what's essentially a scam—yes, including the engineering behind it.
But there's always white knight tech people riding to the rescue of the Nazi billionaire even when it's obvious it's not working right.
I'm sure they'll reply to this post as well.

,/2
En anders bij de WDR:
Tatort: Made in China (2024) - hier anschauen
#crimi #krimi

Bargeld rocks!
- Inklusion
- (Un)Abhängigkeit vom Stromnetz
- (Un)Abhängigkeit von Visa/Mastercard
Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/1436212/europe-is-rediscovering-the-v…

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/three-andean-condor-chicks-hatch-in-colombia-as-species-nears-local-extinction/<…

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction
Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, contributor Christina Noriega reported for Mongabay. The artificial incubation program is run by the Jaime Duque Park Foundation, a Colombian conservation nonprofit that has worked since 2015 to counter the birds’ population decline. Globally, the […]

Accessibility is not a popularity contest and open surveys aren’t research.
https://fosstodon.org/@matcha/115455586804252676
I can tell you that the survey results do not reflect my approach:

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year
Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability

@… 2025 war eher so mittel. Ich konnte viel weniger für D3 machen, als ich wollte, weil die Gesundheit nicht passt. Einige Projekte aus 2024, die veröffentlichbar wären, sind es deshalb immer noch nicht und #DnD '24 schafft es nicht über den Event Begeiste…

Foda-se.
https://expresso.pt/sociedade/ciencia/2025-12-16-fisico-portugues-que-dirigia-laboratorio-no-mit-morto-a-tiro-em-boston-4705be26

Físico português que dirigia laboratório no MIT morto a tiro em Boston
A notícia foi dada pelo ministro Paulo Rangel numa audição no Parlamento. Nuno Loureiro dirigia o Centro de Ciência do Plasma e Fusão do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts desde maio de 2024

Interessante vraag zou zijn of het ook meer fossiele kilometers zijn. Ik vermoed van niet.
Voor het eerst meer autokilometers dan voor corona https://nos.nl/l/2589264

Voor het eerst meer autokilometers dan voor corona
Samen reden Nederlandse automobilisten in 2024 bijna 122 miljard kilometer in binnen- en buitenland. Dat is 726 miljoen kilometer meer dan in 2019.

Tötete zwei Obdachlose - Killer (19): „Sperrt mich weg, bis ich gesund bin“ #News #Nachrichten …

How can we make sustainability part of everything we do?
That question led to the creation of SIG-Sustainability, a new community space within the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP).
Launched in 2024, the group brings together members from across our community to exchange ideas and tools, from reducing carbon footprint to promoting inclusivity & climate adaptation.
📖 Read the full interview with the SIG-Sustainability Coordinator Judith Six (Jisc) in

Following law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, ransomware incidents reported to FinCEN decreased in 2024, with 1,476 incidents, reflecting $734 million in the aggregate value of reported payments in BSA reports.
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-rele…

OMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://

The Bear Is Not a Good Show
When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

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.

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 - …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 One Hundred Days
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/one-hundred-days-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZkOFujtamIynWGfo9PdGR

#FotoVorschlag 'Fortbewegungsmittel' 'Means of transportation'
1/.
I do not have that many photos of my beloved means of transportation.
The photo itself has also some context which I've written in my blog:

Rimer Cardillo, Uruguayan-American artist exhibition "Deep Ecology" at the Plains Art Museum #Fargo #NorthDakota

🍼 Baker and wife Emily expecting baby No. 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47013637/baker-mayfield-wife-emily-expecting-second-child-tampa-bay-buccaneers

Grundeinkommen mal anders.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115639265788636490

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 13.11.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind …

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

LION: from 2022-2024, local independent online news organizations with dedicated staff for revenue generation had median revenue 700% higher than those without (Eric Rynston-Lobel/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Paths to sustainability
News organizations with staff focused on revenue generation had a median revenue 700% higher than news outlets without it, according to a report released by Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers on Wednesday.

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat | TechCrunch
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Dallas’ Defense Is Broken — The Rebuild Starts Now https://insidethestar.com/dallas-defense-is-broken-the-rebuild-starts-now

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista https://vasemmisto.fi/mai-kivela-hallitus-auttaa-suuryrityksia-karttamaan-ymparistovastu…

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista
Metsäkatoasetus astui voimaan kesäkuussa 2023, ja siirtymäaikoineen toimeenpanon oli tarkoitus käynnistyä vuoden 2024 lopulla. Toimeenpanon alkua viivästytettiin sittemmin vuoden 2025 loppuun…

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/sierras-revenue-flex

Sierra's revenue flex
ARR is the new AI startup recruiting pitch. Also: Harvey's Winston Weinberg this week on ACCESS.

Chicago Public Media partners with alt-weekly Chicago Reader for a six-month pilot to sell ads and sponsorships; CPM brought in $13.1M in ads in 2024 (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/chicago-public-medi…

Chicago Public Media teams up with alternative weekly Chicago Reader on advertising sales
The six-month pilot will include bundling placements across the Reader and Chicago Public Media’s Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ.

This is the "find out" part. Look at that blue shift almost everywhere.
#VA #election2025 #ElectionDay

#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…

Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/phys

Physics Wallah enjoys a rosy IPO day, bucking the broader slowdown in Indian edtech | TechCrunch
The Indian edtech startup ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher than they were listed for, indicating that the country's edtech sector may still recover after years of gloom.

Bucks County PA went just barely for Trump in 2024,
It's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack.
But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
https://bsky.app/profile/kombiz.bsky.s

Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz.bsky.social)
ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/bucks-countys-ice-loving-maga-sheriff-fred-harran-got-what-he-deserved-a-pink-slip-from-voters-on-election-night/

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/ai-musi

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

#Tatort: Macht der Familie - #ARD #NDR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort/macht-der-familie/ndr/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS9wcm9wbGFuXzE5NjI4Nzg1Ml9nYW56ZVNlbmR1bmc (2024, 86min)
Helaas geen live crimi die hier te zien was, maar dit is een aardige vervanger.. 😀

Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…

Trump’s Campaign Manager Resolves Daily Beast Defamation Suit
As part of the settlement, The Daily Beast was not required to apologize or issue any payment to Chris LaCivita, who sued the outlet last year.

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/state-european-tech-report-2025/

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Trotz extremer #Wetterereignisse steigen die weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen weiter.
2024 wurde lt EDGAR der Rekordwert von 53,2 Milliarden Tonnen Treibhausgase ausgestoßen. Hauptverursacher waren #China

CO2-Ausstoß: Wer sind die größten Klimasünder? – Tabellen, Grafiken, Statistiken
Globale CO2-Emissionen befördern den Klimawandel. Wer sind die Verursacher, aktuell und historisch? Tabellen, Grafiken, Statistiken.

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
320 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Internal documents: Meta earned $18B in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10% of its global revenue, with $3B linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates…

Entwicklung der Kapazitätsgrößen von #Batteriespeicher​n von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
289 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Ei…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

A survey of 1,004 UK journalists in 2024: 56% use AI professionally at least weekly, 62% view AI as a threat to journalism, only 15% as an opportunity, and more (Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

2025 wird voraussichtlich eines der drei heißesten Jahre seit Beginn der #Wetteraufzeichnungen.
Der November lag global 1,54 Grad über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und damit über dem Ziel des #PariserAbkommens.
Zwischen 2023 und 2025 könnte erstmals ein Dreijahresze…

Klimawandel: 2025 wohl eines der drei wärmsten Jahre
Ganz so heiß wie das Negativ-Rekordjahr 2024 ist dieses Jahr global noch nicht – aber viel fehlt nicht. Das Klima heizt sich weiter auf. Der November war in Europa ungewöhnlich warm.

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/chatgpt-is-apples-most-downloaded…

ChatGPT is Apple's most downloaded app of 2025 in the US | TechCrunch
This is ChatGPT's first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.