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Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bc300579-4b19-4f82-b232-e537e992c310

I wish Spotify gave me the option to hide all tracks that are:
- Released after 2024 H1
- Less than 3:00 long
- From an artist with less than 20,000 monthly plays that I'm not following
Call it the AI slop toggle

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…

How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content hours they represent.

Russia's seaborne oil exports see sharpest fall since early 2024 after new US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-seaborne-oil-exports-see.html

Cowboys must let 2024 leading WR walk in free agency, commit to breakout star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-let-2024-leading-wr-walk-nfl-free-agency-commit-breakout-star

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:

Lions-Chiefs showdown, surging Jaguars, desperate Bengals lead NFL Week 6 storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6703954/2025/10/12/nfl-week-6-storylines-chiefs-lions-bengals-jaguars/

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 - …

[Bei Achillessehnenproblemen übrigens erstaunlich gut empfunden, fancy Kühlungsverband: https://polysportiv.com/2024/08/27/produkttest-medivid-cryo/]

Produkttest: MEDIVID CRYO
Die moderne Art zu kühlen | Langzeittest bei Schmerzen an der Achillessehne. Seit 11 Monaten teste ich das MEDIVID CRYO, um bei bereits minimal aufkommenden Schmerzen an der Achillessehne, langanha…

#Deutschland hat mit 107,5 Gigawatt installierter #Photovoltaik-Leistung bereits die Hälfte des für 2030 angestrebten Ziels erreicht.
2024 wurde ein Rekordwert bei der #Stromeinspeisung

Rekord bei Sonnenstrom: Solar-Ausbau bis 2030: Die Hälfte ist geschafft
Millionen Anlagen auf Dächern und Feldern produzieren Sonnenstrom für Verbraucher. Doch das Wachstum verliert an Schwung und am Markt dominiert China, während hiesige Firmen in die Pleite rutschen.

We are DEFINITELY going back to Stratford next summer!

I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…

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

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

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
TianFang Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Mamoru Doi, Haruna Hagio, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kazuya Matsubayashi, Keisuke Isogai, Koji Kawabata, Mahito Sasada, Masafumi Niwano, Masaki Hashizume, Megumi Shidatsu, Narikazu Higuchi, Ryo Imazawa, Shigeaki Joshima, Shigeyuki Sako, Shunsuke Hayatsu, Yoichi Yatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Yoshiyuki Kubo

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable flare event, during which the gamma-ray flux observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) increased by a factor of 60 over its average value. The flare peak lasted less than two days. Using optical telescopes, we conducted 100-day time-scale observation…

One of the biggest political scandals in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2024 was the accusation that Alice Guo, the elected town mayor of Bamban was not actually a Filipino citizen and instead was a Chinese spy that engaged in trafficking of Chinese nationals for illegal online gambling operations.
Following her recent conviction of human trafficking last November 20,

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

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd

AfD-Boykott zu den Landtagswahlen 2026 in BW und Rheinland-Pfalz Keine Wahlpodien mit der AfD
In Belgien weigerten sich im Europawahlkampf 2024 die etablierten politischen Parteien im Rahmen des „Cordon sanitaire“, einer echten Brandmauer, mit der extremen Rechten zusammenzuarbeiten. Festzuhalten ist ein geringer Wahlerfolg der rechten Parteien in Belgien (vgl. (3) und (4)). Die Autoren der europäischen Cambridge-Studie von 2022 finden keine Hinweise dafür, dass Anpassungsstrategien die Unterstützung der radikalen Rechten verringern. Wenn überhaupt, deuten die Ergebnisse darauf …

Ryan Lizza claims Olivia Nuzzi regularly shared "opposition research" that she obtained from sources with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his 2024 presidential bid (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pol

Ryan Lizza Claims Olivia Nuzzi Would Share “Opposition Research” With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The claim is the latest in a series of explosive allegations about the Vanity Fair West Coast editor and the Health and Human Services Secretary, who allegedly had an affair last year.

📣 The call for nominations for the Sarah Jones Award 2026 is now open!
What is it?
‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience’ was established by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in June 2024. This bi-annual award honours the memory of our dear colleague Sarah Jones, and her significant contributions to the global open science commu…

👀 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…

Valmisruoan vaarat #dokumentti #terveys

Valmisruoan vaarat
Dokumentti tutkii elintarviketeollisuuden vaikutusta ruokailutottumuksiin ja terveyteen. Viimeisen 70 vuoden aikana suuryritykset ovat kehittäneet houkuttelevia, edullisia ja helposti saatavilla olevia valmisruokia ja eineksiä, joilla on mm. yhteys maailmanlaajuiseen lihavuusongelmaan. Tuotanto: Lion TV/Arte/CBC/BBC. (Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating, Iso-Britannia 2024)

49ers sign veteran linebacker who ditched San Francisco for Cowboys in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/49ers-sign-linebacker-who-ditched-san-francisco-cowboys-2024/8…

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril…

"Kaarster Stern" für Jonas Greiner
Das Publikum wählte ihn mit deutlicher Mehrheit: Jonas Greiner wird als bester Nachwuchscomedian mit dem Kleinkunstpreis Kaarster Stern ausgezeichnet. Er bekommt den Preis im November 2026. - Am 27.11.25 wird der Kaarster Stern 2024 an Sven Garrecht verliehen.
https://www.

Super Bowl contenders go splat on Thanksgiving, plus a college football rivalry week watch guide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6839028/2025/11/28/thanksgiving-nfl-results-the-pulse/

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar, Lara Sidoli, Sandro Mereghetti, Kaya Mori, Tong Bao, Giulia Illiano, Samaresh Mondal, Mark Reynolds, Chichuan Jin, Tianying Lian, Shifra Mandel, Simone Scaringi, Shuo Zhang, Grace Sanger-Johnson, Rudy Wijnands, Jon M. Miller, Jamie Kennea, Zhenlin Zhu

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical X-ray transients. On 22nd February 2024, during its daily Galactic center monitoring, Swift-XRT detected a VFXT, 7 arcmin from Sgr A* dubbing it Swift J174610--290018. We aim to characterize the outburst that occurred in 2024, and a second, distinct outburst in 2025, to understand the nature and accretion flow propert…

Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-secrets-potential-revealed-wr-move-nfl-deadline

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

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
M. S. Afify, J. Dreher, S. O'Neill, M. E. Innocenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18032

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
Context. In a previous paper (Afify et al. 2024), we have investigated the stability threshold of the ion-ion acoustic instability (IIAI) in parameter regimes compatible with recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP, (Fox et al. 2016)) observations, in the presence of a Maxwellian electron distribution. We found that observed parameters are close to the instability threshold, but IIAI requires a higher electron temperature than observed. Aims. As electron distributions in the solar wind present clear non…

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"}

'Everybody gotta eat': With Rice back, Chiefs finally have offense they envisioned https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46685079/kansas-city-chiefs-offense-rashee-rice-return-elite-offense-commanders

Cowboys' 3rd-year CB 'ready' for PUP activation to 'ball out' in secondary https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-3rd-year-cb-ready-pup-activation-ball-out-secondary

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV

#Shitposting #Shitpost #ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite #fallout4 …

Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown returns from knee injury to boost D: 'It's only up from here' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-lb-demarvion-overshown-returns-from-knee-injury-to-boost-d-it-s-only-up-from-here<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
OneDa:
🎵 Let Me In (6 Music Session, 30 Sep 2024)
#OneDa
https://oneda.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-in-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UTcMOGxRez2fwpGIoPVhp