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Last year someone asked me for the pizza recipe I use, but it's a little more complicated than just a recipe, so I wrote a whole post about it.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/12/18/pizza-advice/

Pizza Advice
What I've learned in the months and years...

Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…

Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAI
Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company's operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.

from my link log —
Minimal version selection revisited.
https://matklad.github.io/2024/12/24/minimal-version-selection-revisited.html
saved 2025-08-06

In a burst of planning, I just booked a RT flight to SFO to attend the NFS 40th birthday celebration at MSST 2025 next month a hotel room in Santa Clara for a couple nights another night near SFO so I can go visit a buddy in Oakland for a day. I'll book DTW bus tix later.
https://www.msstconference.org/

Source: Jets cut 2024 third-round pick Corley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46079307/source-jets-cut-2024-third-round-pick-malachi-corley

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

#China hat als erstes Land weltweit die Marke von 1.000 GW installierter #Solarleistung überschritten.
Allein im ersten Halbjahr 2025 wurden 210 GW neu zugebaut. Das Land setzt gezielt auf Erneuerbare Energien, um fossile Abhängigkeiten zu verringern und seine industrielle Position zu stär…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

The Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑‍🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from

UK-based Yoto, whose screen-free speakers for kids play audiobooks and music, reports 2024 revenue up 86% YoY to £94.8M and expects to turn a profit in 2025 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fbd8dbbc-3b47-45d6-a380-1e973c61d903

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Temesgen Kitaw Damenu, \.Inci Zaim G\"okbay, Alexandra Covaci, Shujun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17414

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Educational games have been widely used to teach children about cyber security. This systematic literature review reveals evidence of positive learning outcomes, after analysing 91 such games reported in 68 papers published between 2010 and 2024. However, critical gaps have also been identified regarding the design processes and the methodological rigour, including lack of systematic design, misalignment between proposed and achieved learning outcomes, rare use of control groups, limited discus…

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 ...

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record #Svalbard

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

'I can't go out like that': How Travis Kelce has prepared for what could be his final season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46018818/kansas-city-chiefs-travis-kelce-2025-final-season-super-bowl

Revisiting H\"otte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
Kerstin H\"otte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17695 …

Revisiting Hötte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
In 2025, the UK Office for National Statistics released a novel dataset of monthly inter-industry payment flows during January 2017 to November 2024 at the 5-digit SIC level (ONS, 2025a), covering $>$3.1 million UK organizations. Annual aggregates amount to 490 million transactions with an aggregate value of over £3.1 trillion in 2023. Such publicly available data are unprecedented by their granularity and timeliness, providing a rich basis for economic research and real-time policy advice. H�…

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Vani Kanjirangat, Alessandro Antonucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20088 https://

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Recent papers show LLMs achieve near-random accuracy in causal relation classification, raising questions about whether such failures arise from limited pretraining exposure or deeper representational gaps. We investigate this under uncertainty-based evaluation, testing whether pretraining exposure to causal examples improves causal understanding >18K PubMed sentences -- half from The Pile corpus, half post-2024 -- across seven models (Pythia-1.4B/7B/12B, GPT-J-6B, Dolly-7B/12B, Qwen-7B). We an…

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

Social Networks Are Lying to Manipulate You
#SocialMeda are manipulating all the time. This is what h…

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Chandra Chekuri, Shubhang Kulkarni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18637 https://

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Bérczi, Chandrasekaran, Király, and Kulkarni (ICALP 2024) recently described a splitting-off procedure in hypergraphs that preserves local-connectivity and outlined some applications. In this note we give an alternative proof via element-connectivity preserving reduction operations in graphs.

"Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record"
#Svalbard #Glacier #Climate #ClimateChange

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

Kreml-Experte offen: - „Hatte das Gefühl, schutzlos ausgeliefert zu sein“ #News #Nachrichten

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.ST/new
[1/1]:
- Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage

Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Election Season
Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, Chara Podimata, Aleksander M\k{a}dry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18446

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/deforestation-illegal-roads-advancing-fast-in-colombias-largest-natural-area/

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area
In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete National Park, 525 hectares (1,297 acres) of forest were lost throughout 2024 up until March 2025 due to the opening of 81.5 kilometers (50.6 miles) of illegal roads within the reserve. In the Llanos del Yarí-Yaguará II Indigenous Reserve, located in […]

In Buffalo, the Chief of Narcotics and Intelligence for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office can plead guilty to hit-and-run in his county vehicle (while probably drink), intimidate a witness, collude with city police in a possible cover-up, and keep his job.
https://www.

ECSO chief pleads guilty, receives no jail time for string of hit-and-runs
Chief Daniel "DJ" Granville with the Erie County Sheriff's Office appeared in Buffalo City Court on Friday afternoon, according to Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman.

>>Viele Tote in Deutschland <<
>>Zehntausende Europäer starben an Hitze im Rekordsommer 2024<<
Gut, das es dank unseres allwissenden, weisen Kanzlers Merz keine Klimakatastrophe gibt. 🤮
https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Zehntausend…

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines

Podcasting Is a Talent Business. SiriusXM Is Intent on Winning.
The company famous for car radio and Howard Stern has recently climbed the podcast charts by betting hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like “Call Her Daddy” and “SmartLess.”

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

Conceptual design of a Doppler Backscattering diagnostic for the EXL-50U spherical tokamak
Ying Hao Matthew Liang, Valerian Hongjie Hall-Chen, Terry L. Rhodes, Yumin Wang, Yihang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18532

🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-AI 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence within the NREN community is here.
SIG-AI brings the Research & Education community together to share expertise, best practices, and explore practical use cases of AI in NREN context—from cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to network automation and next-generation networks.
📖 For more insights, read the full interview with Leonie Schäfer (@…

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

OpenAI says its Chief People Officer Julia Villagra will leave on August 22; Villagra joined in February 2024 and was promoted to the role in March 2024 (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-chief-people-officer-to-depar…

tfw you finally get an MVP into prod that you thought would be done by Xmas… 2024

"Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise - Inside Climate News
An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the American Meteorological Society, as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase at a quickening rate.

Übrigens: die ganzen Berichte zum Jahresbeginn über den angeblichen Einbruch der Zulassungszahlen von Elektroautos waren quatsch, weil überholt.
Das kann man hier anhand der Grafik der KBA der letzten 12 Monate gut sehen. Ich habe mit lila den 12-Monats-Trend für BEV eingezeichnet...

'Dak's gotta be able to run': How will Prescott's hamstring affect his usage in 2025? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46031777/nfl-dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-hamstring

Good Morning #Canada
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, as of January 2025, only 38 countries recognize same-sex marriage, out of 195 recognized nations. Canada has been a leader in LGTBQ rights and, in a recent ranking, places us 5th worldwide in protecting same sex and gender affirmation. The USA ranks 23rd but is likely to drop further as the report was based on 2024 data before the MAGA morons took office.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LGTBQI
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lgbt-rights-by-country

Filing: OnlyFans took in $7.2B from subscribers in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid out $5.8B, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d936956-f1b9-4fe4-b3de-feaddac79953

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction
Sujit Roy, Dinesha V. Hegde, Johannes Schmude, Amy Lin, Vishal Gaur, Rohit Lal, Kshitiz Mandal, Talwinder Singh, Andr\'es Mu\~noz-Jaramillo, Kang Yang, Chetraj Pandey, Jinsu Hong, Berkay Aydin, Ryan McGranaghan, Spiridon Kasapis, Vishal Upendran, Shah Bahauddin, Daniel da Silva, Marcus Freitag, Iksha Gurung, Nikolai Pogorelov, Campbell Watson, Manil Maskey, Juan Bernabe-Moreno,…

SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction
This paper introduces a high resolution, machine learning-ready heliophysics dataset derived from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), specifically designed to advance machine learning (ML) applications in solar physics and space weather forecasting. The dataset includes processed imagery from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), spanning a solar cycle from May 2010 to July 2024. To ensure suitability for ML tasks, the data has been preprocessed…

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Brent W. Barbee, Matthew A. Vavrina, Rylie Bull, Adrienne Rudolph, Davide Farnocchia, Russell TerBeek, Justin Atchison, Joshua Lyzhoft, Jessie Dotson, Patrick King, Paul W. Chodas, Dawn Graninger, Ronald G. Mink, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Jason M. Pearl, Mary Burkey, Isaiah Santistevan, Catherine S. Plesko, Wendy K. Caldwell, Megan Harwell

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 2024-12-27 and its probability of Earth impact in December 2032 peaked at about 3% on 2025-02-18. Additional observations ruled out Earth impact by 2025-02-23. However, the probability of lunar impact in December 2032 then rose, reaching about 4% by the end of the apparition in May 2025. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations on 2025-03-26 estimated the asteroid's diameter at 60 +/- 7 m. Studies of 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact effects …

I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

A Multi-Body Dobrushin-Sokal Criterion -- Part I
Jan Philipp Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12078

A Multi-Body Dobrushin-Sokal Criterion -- Part I
We derive a sufficient condition for zero-freeness of partition functions applicable to lattice gases with possibly complex-valued multi-body interactions. This includes the case of hard-core interactions and, in particular, generalises recent results by Galvin et al.\ (2024) and Bencs-Buys (2025) on zero-free polydiscs of hypergraph independence polynomials. We provide two proofs: the first generalises the inductive approach of Bencs and Buys; the second employs the Kirkwood-Salsburg hierarchy…

"However, by 2015, support for independence stood at 52% among those on the left, compared with just 24% among those on the right – a difference of 28 points... In our most recent survey in 2024, those on the left were 34 points more likely than those on the right to say that Scotland should become an independent country"
#ScottishIndependence

Scottish Social Attitudes | 25 years of devolution in Scotland | National Centre for Social Research
This briefing charts some of the key developments in Scottish public opinion since the advent of devolution.

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

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Technical Note: Low-Dose Simulation for Grating-Based X-Ray Dark-Field Radiography Using a Virtually Decreased Irradiation Area
Henriette Bast, Rafael C. Schick, Thomas Koehler, Franz Pfeiffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15328

Technical Note: Low-Dose Simulation for Grating-Based X-Ray Dark-Field Radiography Using a Virtually Decreased Irradiation Area
Background: X-ray dark-field radiography uses small-angle scattering to visualize the structural integrity of lung alveoli. To study the influence of dose reduction on clinical dark-field radiographs, one can simulate low-dose images by virtually reducing the irradiated area. However, these simulations can exhibit stripe artifacts. Purpose: Validation of the low-dose simulation algorithm reported by Schick & Bast et al., PLoS ONE, 2024. Furthermore, we want to demonstrate that stripe artifacts …

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
Ruby Nealon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13453 https://arxiv.org/p…

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
In February 2024, after building trust over two years with project maintainers by making a significant volume of legitimate contributions, GitHub user "JiaT75" self-merged a version of the XZ Utils project containing a highly sophisticated, well-disguised backdoor targeting sshd processes running on systems with the backdoored package installed. A month later, this package began to be distributed with popular Linux distributions until a Microsoft employee discovered the backdoor while investiga…

What can go wrong?
Google's healthcare AI model, dubbed Med-Gemini, invents a body part — "basilar ganglia" — that simply doesn't exist in the human body.
#AI
https://

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newsp…

Closed newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are saved as buyers swoop in
A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains. This quick action is notable in an industry where, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism, more than two newspapers close each week. Illinois-based News Media Corporation had announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states. Within two weeks, new buyers in Wyoming and North Carolina p…

In Rheinland-Pfalz wurden 2024 über 1.100 Megawatt neue Leistung aus Erneuerbaren Energien installiert – ein Plus von 13 Prozent.
Vor allem #Photovoltaik legte stark zu, mit 916 Megawatt Zubau. Spitzenreiter beim PV-Ausbau war die Verbandsgemeinde Zell, beim #Windenergie-Ausbau Ulmen.…

Erneuerbare Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz boomen weiter
Die Entwicklung der erneuerbaren Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt 2024 ein beeindruckendes Wachstum. Besonders Photovoltaik-Anlagen verzeichnen einen erheblichen Zuwachs.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Like I Say (I Runaway) (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2024)
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/like-i-say-i-runaway
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f57Tz3uydJkSuVsQ7sj4l

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

Researchers have found the
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution released by wildfires
is even more toxic than air pollution from other sources.
One possible reason is the high level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
mixed with various levels of other known neurotoxic particles that can be found in smoke,
including heavy metals.
These particles can reach the brain via the olfactory nerve
and pass through the blood–brain barrier,
…

I just saw an animation showing the evolution of the number of artificial satellites in orbit around Earth:
- 1957: 1
- 1960: 10
- 1965: 100
- 1996: 1'000
- 2016: 2'000
- 2024: 10'000
- 2025: 14'000

Filing: OnlyFans took in $7.2B from subscribers in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid out $5.8B, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d936956-f1b9-4fe4-b3de-feaddac79953

Keine Hilfe geleistet - Todeslenker beschwerte sich über 600 Euro Strafe #News #Nachrichten

from my link log —
Legacy safety: the Wrocław C wg21 meeting.
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profiles/
saved 2024-12-04 https://

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Bundes-Klinik-Atlas geht offline, Verbraucherschützer üben Kritik
Der im Mai 2024 vom Bundesgesundheitsministerium veröffentlichte Klinik-Atlas geht nach nur einem Jahr wieder offline. Die Verbraucherschutzzentrale übt Kritik.

South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/upstage-…

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

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Handling fabrication defects in hex-grid surface codes
Oscar Higgott, Benjamin Anker, Matt McEwen, Dripto M. Debroy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08116 https://

Handling fabrication defects in hex-grid surface codes
Recent work has shown that a hexagonal grid qubit layout, with only three couplers per qubit, is sufficient to implement the surface code with performance comparable to that of a traditional four-coupler layout [McEwen et al., 2023]. In this work we propose a method for handling broken qubits and couplers even in hex-grid surface code architectures, using an extension of the LUCI framework [Debroy et al., 2024]. We show that for isolated broken qubits, the circuit distance drops by one, while f…

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (Niki Kitsantonis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/europe-st…

Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

Mit der #Zukunftsklage wollen wir vor dem Verfassungsgericht BVerfG erreichen, dass die BundesRegierung den Klimaschutz ernst nimmt.
Unsere von @… engagierte Anwältin Roda Verheyen schreibt uns:
"Obwohl das neue Sonderverm…

Panthers' Derrick Brown primed for return after missing most of 2024 season with knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-derrick-brown-return-from-knee-injury-2025-preseason

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 …

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/ai-companion-apps-on-track-to-pull-in-120m-in-…

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch
The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024.

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

#Steckersolargeräte, auch bekannt als #Balkonkraftwerke, gewinnen in #Deutschland weiter an Bedeutung.
Laut einer aktuellen Analyse erzeugten sie 2024 rund 1,7 TWh

Steckersolargeräte gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung
Steckersolargeräte, umgangssprachlich Balkonkraftwerke, werden immer beliebter. Durch sie kann man vergleichsweise preiswert und leicht Solarstrom erzeugen und selber nutzen. In einer aktuellen Studie wurde untersucht, wie hoch das Marktvolumen dieser Anlagen tatsächlich ist, wie viel Strom bereitgestellt wird und in welchem Umfang dieser PV-Strom selbst verbraucht oder ins Netz eingespeist wird.

Media advocates criticize a US Department of Energy plan to throw out FOIA requests sent before October 1, 2024, unless the request is formally renewed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/trump-administration-outlines-p…

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

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

An Eclipse of Another Kind – Standing Down #eclipse #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/an-eclipse-of

An Eclipse of Another Kind - Standing Down
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Laut #Klimaschutzbericht sanken Deutschlands #CO2-Emissionen 2024 um 3,4 % auf 649 Mio.
Tonnen, vor allem dank Einsparungen im #Energiesektor.

Klimaschutzbericht - Trotz sinkender Emissionen - Deutschland droht Klimaziele 2040 und 2045 zu verfehlen
Die Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland sind im vergangenen Jahr um 3,4 Prozent gesunken.

Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M with a net loss of $53M, up from a net loss of $18M in Q2 2024, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

2025 Bengals look a lot like the 2024 Bengals: Here's the good, bad and ugly from preseason loss to Eagles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-be

Bengals contract drama with Trey Hendrickson quietly continues: Will 2024 NFL sack leader play in Week 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals

The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

How will Nik Bonitto build on his All-Pro breakthrough? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45984013/denver-broncos-edge-rusher-nik-bonitto-sacks-contract-year-extension

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers isn't a fan of new helmet, says it 'looks like a damn spaceship'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Der Juli 2025 war weltweit der drittwärmste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Die globale Durchschnittstemperatur lag 0,45 °C über dem Juli-Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,25 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Damit blieb der Monat knapp unter der 1,5-Grad-Schwelle. Im 12-Monats-Zeitraum August 2024 bis Juli 2025 lag die globale Temperatur im Schnitt bereits 1,53 °C darüber.

Sources: Intel's 18A process is facing significant yield challenges, with only ~5% of chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/…

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373783/polyma

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr