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Globally, four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change.
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/worlds-largest-survey-climate-change-out-heres-what-results-show<…

The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
We break down the results of Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, representing 87 percent of the global population.

To people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …

In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
Trump is desperate to distract his base

Andy Reid dismisses retirement talk, plans to return to Chiefs next season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927238/2025/12/29/chiefs-andy-reid-plans-to-return/

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/record-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2025-despite-renewables-buildout-report-says/

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

#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

North American box office in 2025 will fall far short of the $9B most analysts expected, flat from 2024 levels and well below the pre-pandemic norm of $10B-$11B (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-struggled-2025-hits-1236617641/

Why the Box Office Struggled in 2025: Analyzing the Hits and Bombs
The box office is struggled to rebound in 2025 as hits like 'Zootopia 2,' 'Avatar 3' and 'Superman' couldn't lift ticket sales.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 28.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

USpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.

»Eine KI denkt nicht, sie produziert keinen Sinn, außer durch Zufall. Der Sinn existiert nur für uns. Er entsteht, wenn ein Beobachter da ist, der ihn wahrnimmt. Deshalb warnen wir vor Vermenschlichung.«
Aus: FibreTigre et al. - Künstliche Intelligenz (2019/2024) #ai #ki

Things I have read in major newspapers and cyber publications over the past week that are just really fiction, totally false, and yet have become conventional wisdom among cyber journos:
--TP-Link routers are a US security threat. (not more than any other router)
--The SEC's settlement with SolarWinds is evidence of how little Trump cares about cyber (utterly false -- fed judge pooped on the SEC's legality in 2024 and much more).
--Coinbase is playing fast and loose…

Reform have written to me. Wow, what a push poll. “Rising crime”, “mass immigration” (not devolved), but no mention of transport, let alone the environment (unless that’s what they mean by high energy prices).
Also, why only one set of choices for who I’m voting for? Have Reform forgotten that in a Scottish election you have two votes (constituency and list)?

In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/lis

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/deepseekmath-v2-is-deepseeks-late…

DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble
Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs.

Stumbled across this great new d-beat band from Brisbane, EXIT-PLOOM. They just started in 2023, they rip, and their loud, noisy, rough tape 'Duck and Cover' from 2024 is here, to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdj0BBjX_k
and here, to buy:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
SOAK:
🎵 Bleach (6 Music Session, 25 Nov 2024)
#SOAK
https://soakinbleach.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aCOnhe1Krk6u2WmaxdgCp

The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/25/uk-government-spending-social-media-infl…

Donald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace

Germany summons Russian ambassador over cyberattack, election disinformation https://therecord.media/germany-summons-russian-ambassador-cyberattack-disinformation

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
Kshitij Duraphe, Kartik Mandar, Chooda Khanal, Abha Pareek, Tejaswi Kondhiya, V Sree Suswara, Deeksha Dinesh, Vidyasagar Bhat, Gopal Bhatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10746

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
We present a comprehensive timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 using 26 NuSTAR observations spanning 2012-2024, providing the most detailed characterization to date of its accretion flow variability across spectral states. Our analysis reveals fundamental insights into the physics governing state transitions in stellar-mass black holes. We discover distinct bimodal flux distributions in the 8-79 keV band with well-separated peaks, contrasting with overlapping distributions…

Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace

#Tatort: Das Verlangen - #ARD #BR
#crimi #krimi #DasErste

Sheffield ! Looking forward to playing on the 12.4 channel iklectik soundsystem at no bounds festival together with @… bundy from 2:30pm this Saturday
https://noboundsfestival.co.uk/lineup

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

'I'm probably going to cry': Inside DeMarvion Overshown's long journey back from knee surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46974338/nfl-dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-knee-surgery

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
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Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Good Morning #Canada
This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....
- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.
Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile