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General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years | TechCrunch
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…

Kentucky Supreme Court rules charter school funding unconstitutional
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional. The high court ruled that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.” The Republican-backed measure was struck down by a lower court in 2023. In an opinion released Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court wrote that the Constitution "does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system.” In 2024, Kentucky voters rejected a…

Idly wondering if this time, the media will clearly identify "fossilflation" as the reason for higher prices for everything as we discussed with @… back in Ep. 221 in 2024 https://

[Episode #221] – Fossilflation | The Energy Transition Show
What causes inflation? And how is it connected to the energy transition?

Just an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…

Khalid's Timeline
2024: Productive member of society
2025: Lose the ability to effectively close a Ziplock bag on the first try
2026 : Assisted-living nursing facility

Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023

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

Vergangene Woche verstärkt im Ohr: die Debut-EP Thrones der kanadischen Nachwuchs-Band Freeze the Fall, veröffentlicht 2024. Stromgitarrenrocknroll ist zum Glück nicht tot, Gen Z liefert da auch ganz ordentlich ab. #rocknroll #albumderwoche

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.

Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Print Book Sales Rose Slightly in 2025
A mild rebound in children’s book sales helped to offset softness on the adult side, resulting in a 0.3% increase in unit sales of print books in 2025 over 2024. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins was last year’s top-selling title.

Gitarren-Riffs und unvergessen Songs zu Neujahr: David Gilmour: Das legendäre Rom-Konzert 2024 – 2025 #Gänsehaut #Rock #Legende

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…

POL-DH: --- Diepholz - Graffiti Verursacher ermittelt --- Diepholz (ots) - Die Polizei hat drei Heranwachsende als Verursacher von rund 30 Graffiti in Diepholz und Umgebung ermittelt. Im Laufe der letzten zwei Jahre (2024 und 2025) wurden in der Stadt Diepholz und der weiteren Umgebung (Barnstorf und ... https://www.pres…

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…

The anti-alarmists e.g. Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Bret Stephens, Corey Robin, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, William Watson, John Harris, Simon Jenkins, Zachary Karabell, Josh Barro, and Noah Feldman — scolded & derided the Cassandras. Going forward, we should be skeptical of giving them & others like them our attention when they pooh pooh people fighting against obvious racism, fascism, and kleptocracy etc etc yup <-- read the whole thing

From the D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France on Jun 6, 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
A WWII veteran tried to kiss Zelensky’s hand. #Zelensky stopped and hugged him. “No, you saved Europe. You are our hero.”
A leader who has the humanity to respect & revere our veterans. Imagine that.

@… Thanks for the link to the texdev post (https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/engine-news-from-the-latex-project): it greatly mo…

@… Thanks for the link to the texdev post (https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/engine-news-from-the-latex-project): it greatly mo…

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Zelf kijk ik trouwens naar Tatort die bij de BR om 20:15 begon.
#Tatort: Zugzwang - hier anschauen
#crimi #krimi

Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5661739-democrats-debate-2024-election-lessons/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p12#a251224p12

Precedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
12/

Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison arrested, charged with misdemeanor trespassing in Florida

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-jordan-addison-arrested-misdemeanor-…

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

If you want proof that people are basically optimistic.
People 2024-12-31:
Man I can't wait to be done with 2024. 2025 is going to be so much better
Same people 2025-12-31:
Man I can't wait to be done with 2025. 2025 is going to be so much better
#nye
#newyear

Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/160-million-export-controlled-nvid…

How $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China
The scheme involved falsifying shipping documents to misclassify the GPUs and hide their true destinations, including China and other prohibited locations.

Interesting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to h…

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Immigration has been a centerpiece of Trump’s platform throughout more than a decade of political life,
-- and was at the core of his 2024 election campaign.
But polls show public opinion has shifted amid the widely circulated operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents in urban areas.
Those operations have this month seen the shooting deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis.  
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published o…

ICE on US streets challenges American norms, founding values
The Trump administration has moved ICE's center of activity from the US border with Mexico to the heart of US cities. Federal agents' encounters with the public are challenging the foundational ideas of America.

Hohde on osa Terveystaloa
#terveydenhoito #hammashuolto
https://yle.fi/a/74-20201334

Terveystalo tähtää hammashoitomarkkinan kärkeen – ostaa kuopiolaisen Hohde Groupin 88 miljoonalla eurolla
Terveystalo ostaa nopeasti toimintaansa kasvattaneen valtakunnallisen hammaslääkäriasemien ketjun. Hohde Groupin liikevaihto vuonna 2024 oli 50 miljoonaa euroa.

The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

Temporary protected status for Haitians ends at 11:59 PM this upcoming Tuesday. There are around 30 thousand Haitian immigrants in central Ohio, about 2/3 of whom live in Springfield. This is the sane Springfield that became infamous during the 2024 election due to the spread of false rumors by JD Vance and Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets and the ducks and geese from a local park. Vance and Trump both made sure to characterize the Haitian immigrate populati…

Elphi, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 2024
#FensterFreitag #windowfriday

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.

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

ARD History: Emilie Schindler · Die vergessene Heldin - #ARD #BR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ard-history/emilie-schindler-die-vergessene-heldin/br/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdC9kMTgzNDdjZC0yNjQ0LTQ3MTgtYTEwZi0zYTdkNWQ3OWYxZmZfb25saW5lYnJvYWRjYXN0 (2024, 44min)
'Emilie Schindler, die door velen werd bespot als bedrogen echtgenote, is een door de geschiedenis vergeten heldin die onverschrokken en moedig Joden redde. De documentaire haalt haar uit de schaduw van haar man.'
(Deepl vertaling)
Waar Iedereen Oskar Schindler kent van Schindler's List, bleef Emilie totaal op de achtergrond.
(Wel zijn Engelse sprekers Duits nagesynchroniseerd...)

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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

Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Comeback Player of the Year? How Christian McCaffr... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47769168/san-francisco-49ers-christian-mccaffrey-comeback-player-year-candidate-2025

Crypto Bros contributed at least $315 million
— more than double their record 2024 spending
— to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115980936797588226

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

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

Isaac Hayes' estate settles with President Trump to end its lawsuit over the allegedly unauthorized use of the song Hold On, I'm Comin' at 2024 election rallies (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/isaac-hayes-estate-s…

Isaac Hayes Estate Settles with Trump in Copyright Lawsuit Over Election Rally Song
The estate of Isaac Hayes has reached a settlement with Donald Trump over the use of the 1966 song “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at 2024 election rallies.

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-bitfinex-razz…

Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release
Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Roku reported an $88.4M profit in 2025, after a $498M loss in 2022, a $709.6M loss in 2023, and a $129.4M loss in 2024, boosted by new ad deals and cost cutting (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

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

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #heritagephotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace