Tootfinder

Sources: the US has paused a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's digital regulations and food safety rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs…

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

ich frage mich was er überhaupt erfunden hat
bestimmt einen hammer-schraubendreher
das wäre praktisch
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/patent-staatsgeheimnis-nukleare-abschreckung-nato-100.html

Då det nu uppstått en debatt om de allt fler miljardärerna i Sverige - och huruvida de när eller tär - vill jag tipsa om den här intervjun med ekonomen Gabriel Zucman från tidigare i höstas. https://www.dn.se/varlden/stjarnekonomens-forslag-sa-ska-sup…

Gabriel Zucman: ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”
Den franske ekonomen Gabriel Zucman vill införa en minimiskatt för miljardärer. ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”

Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/republicans-muslim-mass-expulsions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p130#a251215p130

from my link log —
The Worst programming language.
http://worst.mitten.party/
saved 2020-03-02 https://dotat.at/:/8G9PB.html

The case for Arvell Reese as the No. 1 pick in 2026: In a year without a slam-dunk QB, he's the safest bet

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-a…

The Allen Institute of AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/bolmos-architecture-unlock…

bison: Bison dominance
Dominance relations among a group of American bisons in the National Bison Range in Moiese Montana, observed in 1972.
This network has 26 nodes and 314 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/bison
Ridiculogram:

📢 Achtung, liebe Communities – diese beiden CfPs könnten für euch interessant sein
🚀 Call for Papers: 13. Internationale Konferenz über digitale Bibliotheken für Musikwissenschaft 2026 (ENG)
📝 Full und Short Paper 👉 23.01.2026
📅 02.07.2026, Thessaloniki, Griechenland
➡️ https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/2026-cfp

5 unsung Cowboys who deserve Valentine's Day cards after 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/14/5-unsung-cowboys-deserve-valentines-day-cards-2025/88663463007/

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Yield Sec: the top 10 pirate sports streaming sites in the UK, largely funded by ads from unlicensed gambling operators, had 1.6B views in H1 2025, up 33% YoY (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Frederick McKinley "Casey" Jones was a man we should all know about. He was a self-taught genius--though his parents abandoned him at 12. He ran away from his orphanage at 17.
He had 60 patents to his name, though he probably should have had more. The refrigeration units he invented for trains and trucks, ALONE, should have guaranteed him lasting fame!

ICE director, without evidence, accuses police of sabotaging 2025 Aurora raids - Sentinel Colorado https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/ice-director-without-evidence-accuses-police-of-sabotaging-2025-aurora-raids/

ICE director, without evidence, accuses police of sabotaging 2025 Aurora raids
“We tried to work with state and local government. They made notifications. So when tactical teams arrived, protesters were already there, and the apartment complex was empty.”

US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025: Report - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/us-1st-time-50-years-experienced-negative-net/story?id=129175522

nach ziemlich genau 10 jahren mussten wir ende 2025 das "infostreifenlesezeichen" für unsere bib im vom-stein-haus neu auflegen, weil sich die öffnungszeiten der bibliothek zukünftig häufiger ändern werden, aufgrund von sparmaßnahmen. gelegenheit, beide seiten etwas aufzufrischen und die streifen mal wieder in den umlauf zu bringen.
#bibliotheksleben

Merry Yule, Middle-earth! 🎄
It's officially time for holiday shenanigans in Bree-land. We're diving into the LOTRO Yule Festival quests and snowball fights, all running smoothly on my trusty Bazzite PC.
🔴 LIVE NOW: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Raiders QB Geno Smith Hit With Major Take Amid Vikings Rumor https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-major-take-vikings-rumor/

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 16-12-2025 02:35
Temperatur: (min: 2,2C) 2,3C (max: 3,0C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1015,7 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad
Wi…

"La production d'électricité Š partir du charbon a diminué Š la fois en Chine et en Inde en 2025, la première baisse simultanée en un demi-siècle, après que chaque pays ait ajouté des quantités record d'énergie propre."
https://www.

Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet

Latest Quinnen Williams injury update is troubling for Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/latest-quinnen-williams-injury-update-troubling-for-cowboys

Vom Metaverse zur KI-Offensive: Mark Zuckerberg will Feeds, die nicht nur zeigen, sondern erzeugen. Du tippst einen Prompt, bekommst eine Welt – am besten gleich durch die Brille betrachtet. Social Media wird zur Bühne, auf der die KI Regie führt. Eintritt künftig wohl mit Abo. Meta bleibt sich treu: Visionär im Geschäftsmodell, blind für Verantwortung.
#Meta

Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media
During Meta’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he believes AI will be the next big social media format, making feeds “more immersive and interactive.”

“The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop: Guest Article by Dr. Aina G. Irbe on A Step Backward for Accessibility”
https://www.lflegal.com/2026/01/font-flip-flop/
The guest author worked for the State Department when it replaced Times New Roman in 2023.

The US State Department's Font Flip-Flop
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administratio

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Gossip:
🎵 Love Long Distance
#Gossip
https://phbrussels.bandcamp.com/track/the-gossip-love-long-distance-ph-alternative-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gTBpjMs1ZBfvCN06AlbZV

Cowboys’ Brian Schottenheimer Expresses ‘Confidence’ in DC Matt Eberflus https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-confidence-matt-eberflus-vikings-loss/

What a treat: A reader send me a bunch of hand-printed cards inspired by my article "Something From Nothing" https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…

Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs
This open letter has been sent to Greater Manchester labour MPs. It raises a series of concerns about the government’s planning reforms, as set out in the new National Planning Policy Framewo…

Cowboys Urged to Franchise Tag 2-Time NFL All-Pro Instead of George Pickens https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/franchise-tag-kicker-brandon-aubrey/

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Warum

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johannes Brahms, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Anja Bihlmaier:
🎵 Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op 98
#JohannesBrahms #BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #AnjaBihlmaier

An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.

Cowboys rookie DE Donovan Ezeiruaku arrested on reckless driving charge https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6968273/2026/01/13/dallas-cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-arrested-reckless-driving-charge/

I’m at a spa trying to get my shit together in a 90ºC (~194ºF) sauna after my 2025 was beautiful madness but madness no less.
I’ve finally started to write a new newsletter & if you wanna know more about the madness or what’s coming up or a cute dog photo, sign up at https://buttondown.com/hynek

Hynek Did Something
Greetings friend! This is a list for those who’d like to be notified whenever I, Hynek Schlawack, do or publish something noteworthy, somewhere. Examples are new blog posts, YouTube videos, and talks, significant updates to existing work, or if I need to be bailed out of jail. It does not include announcements about new software releases. But it does usually include a cute dog photo. As a thank you for your trust, the emails aren’t just links to content. They contain a kind of “director's…

Latest Quinnen Williams injury update is troubling for Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/latest-quinnen-williams-injury-update-troubling-for-cowboys

Is it because they are eating less or because they can't afford food after buying Ozempic?
"According to new research, the medications are associated with meaningful reductions in how much households spend on food, both at the grocery store and at restaurants."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby?CMP=share_btn_url

Weekend Reads
* BGP in 2025
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/bgp2025.html
* BGP updates in 2025
https://www.…

Upgraded a server today from Windows 2019 to 2025. Also upgraded the MSSQL on it. Usually we find MSSQL 2019, occasionally MSSQL 2016 (ick) but we've been slowly bringing everything up to date and under IT management. The box we have on schedule for tomorrow? It is Windows 2019 but somehow running SQL Express 2005. 🤦 🤦 Double facepalm on that one.

Book Publication Latin and Eastern Catholicism in Ottoman Anatolia
https://ift.tt/oG3uQyv
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

BYD is now the world's top seller of EVs, selling ~38% more units in 2025 than Tesla did. https://electrek.co/2026/01/02/byd-crushes-tesla-all-electric-sales-for-2025-secures-global-bev-crown/
BYD's P/E ratio: 17-25x, …

Auch hier lag die Mehrheit nicht richtig. Folgende Reihenfolge wäre korrekt:
1. Franziskus
2. Charlie Kirk
3. Robert Redford
4. Gene Hackman
https://

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months ending December 31, 2025 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Bitcoin fällt auf tiefsten Stand seit April 2025
Der Bitcoin hat seit seinem Rekordhoch im November rund 47.000 Dollar verloren. Wie steht es aktuell um die bekannteste Kryptowährung?
https://www.

Save the date! Our first meetup in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region for 2026 is just around the corner, taking place on February 26th, only two weeks from now.
Sign up here https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/305478333/

PHPUGMRN 06/25, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - Create reactive web applications with (almost) no JavaScript (HTMX), Thomas Bley 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CE

Personal bankruptcies in Russia soar 31% to nearly 568,000 in 2025, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/personal-bankruptcies-in-russia-soar.html

Russia occupied more than 4,000 sq km (0.72%) of Ukrainian territory in 2025 – military analysts. Around 400,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded during the year, so that cost Russia 100 soldiers per km² occupied, or 1 per hectare.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/01/8014…

There are some pretty cool photos there:
#photography

For This Prestigious Contest, Photographers Capture the Planet's Most Stunning Landscapes
A panel of judges chose three top winners, with the first place award of Landscape Photographer of the Year presented to J. Fritz Rumpf.

don't worry about me, beta

"Climate venture investment climbed 8% in 2025, with focus shifting to AI’s energy demand"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Energy

Mastodon（Fedibird）からこんにちは
実は自宅サーバー勢でもあったりします。面白そうなのでお邪魔しますー。
@…

Trump's Weird Definition of
'#Alien #Enemies'
Trump's invocation of the
"Alien Enemies Act" was dubious from the beginning.
That rarely used 1798 statute applies when
"there is a declared war"
between the United States and a
"foreign nation…

3 areas where courts resisted Trump's attempts to avoid judicial review in 2025
The president asserted broad powers to deport people, impose tariffs, and deploy the National Guard based on his own unilateral determinations.

Pharoah Sanders - "Love Is Here: The Complete Paris ORTF Recordings" (2025, recorded 1975)
I was not anticipating the heavy church organ sounds!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m14oVMMdwPBPSdw1qg0id-U6HM7Rj8UXI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Sarah Gibson, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Anja Bihlmaier:
🎵 warp & weft
#SarahGibson #BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #AnjaBihlmaier

Großwärmepumpen are heating up Germany: capacity is expected to increase 6x by 2030.
Rivers and sea are increasingly being used as a heat source. The cost of heat pumps appears to be proportional to their size.
These and other findings from a new study:
https://www.

I usually find year-end top stories round-ups to be insipid and mediocre at best, but this one by @… is first-rate.
https://www.

The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2025
2025 was a big year for cybersecurity, with cyberattacks, data breaches, threat groups reaching new notoriety levels, and, of course, zero-day flaws exploited in breaches. Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our readers than others. This article explores 15 of the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2025.

The Girl with the Kali Dragon Tattoo

How film companies contributed to war efforts. “What happens if we think of film not as part of the culture industry, but as part of the chemical industry?” Tales of a Militant Chemistry by Alice Lovejoy.
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/202…

Not Your Idea of a Kodak Moment
A new book explores the photo industry’s dark past.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@openrisk/116056883121013726
This aligns very well with what I wrote about a year ago:
htt…

Best Super Bowl-era team for every NFL franchise: 2025 Seahawks or the Legion of Boom?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/best-nfl-team-every-franchise-super-bowl-era/

A TIE FOR FIRST?! Raiders’ Top 10 Plays from the 2025 NFL Season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RR2j7RGUzI

Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-ratings-123665…

Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Ratings: 128.2 Million Viewers
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show ratings are in, attracting 128.2 million viewers.

‼️Die #Petition
"Gesetzlich verankerter Maßnahmeplan zur Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele bis spätestens 2035 vom 14.08.2025"
hat bisher 568 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29432 Unterschriften bis zum 07.01.2026.

Many more are ready to leave MAGA — and I know how hard that is - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/22/many-more-are-ready-to-leave-maga-and-i-know-how-hard-that-is/

Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
Beethoven, Bartók and Hindemith performed by quartets in the Canadian competition: Quatuor Elmire, Viatores Quartet and Quartett HANA.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qr1k

#TGIQF: Das waren die Themen 2025 bei heise online
Ein aufregendes Jahr 2025 mit vielen spannenden Themen ist Vergangenheit. Erinnern Sie sich an die spannenden heise online-Schlagzeilen? Quizzen Sie mit!

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)
https://www.piratewires.com/p/californias-tech-industry-kill-switch

California's Tech Industry Kill Switch
it’s not a tax on “wealth,” the union’s ballot prop is designed to target the very

Looking Back at 2025: A Year of Challenges and Growth: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/looking-back-at-a-year.html

Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593

@… was wurde aus manuel?

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

New year celebrations around the world – in pictures
Auckland, New Zealand
A firework display from the top of Sky Tower welcomes in the new year.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/galle…

:dbh_akedeto:

How will we remember the 2025 Patriots? As their most fun team in a generation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7029590/2026/02/10/patriots-2025-super-bowl-60-fun/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Edward Elgar, Tobias Feldmann, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Anja Bihlmaier:
🎵 Salut d'amour
#EdwardElgar #TobiasFeldmann #BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #AnjaBihlmaier

A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-

Global AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute | Microsoft
Global adoption of AI continued to rise in the second half of 2025 as the digital divide between the Global South and Global North widens.

Cowboys rookie DE Donovan Ezeiruaku arrested on reckless driving charge https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6968273/2026/01/13/dallas-cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-arrested-reckless-driving-charge/

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
Seit Sep. 2023 immer falsch geraten. 🤨
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Dβeβzβeβmβbβeβrβ β2β0β2β5β über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

🔥Ukraine’s TOP STRIKES against Russia in 2025 – overview of the Spiderweb and Deep Strike operation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/ukraines-top-strikes-against-russia.html

Trump's first year reflected many Project 2025 goals. Here are some that remain
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/01/trump-project-2025-remaining-goals

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:

Nielsen: The most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/christmas-2025-n…

Netflix’s Lions-Vikings Leads NFL Christmas Day Audiences; Prime Video Trails With Chiefs-Broncos But Sets ‘Thursday Night Football’ Record
Netflix had the largest audience for this year's Christmas Day NFL matchups, and Prime Video still set a record despite trailing

Ranking each NFL team's primary starting quarterback from the 2025 regular season https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-each-nfl-team-s-primary-starting-quarterback-from-the-2025-regular-season

US executions surged in 2025 to highest level in 16 years | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/us-death-penalty-executions-2025

Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% to $221M, below est., and net income down 34%; HOOD drops 5% after hours (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/robinh…

Dallas Cowboys star defensive back undergoes successful surgery https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-star-defensive-back-undergoes-successful-surgery

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

‼️Die #Petition
"Gesetzlich verankerter Maßnahmeplan zur Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele bis spätestens 2035 vom 14.08.2025"
hat bisher 568 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29432 Unterschriften bis zum 07.01.2026.

Cowboys' familiar penalty problems persisted in Schottenheimer's first season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/11/cowboys-most-penalized-team-2025/88131547007/

UK's Ofcom is reviewing multiple complaints against GB News over not challenging Trump's assertions, including that climate change is "a hoax", in an interview (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec

Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push
Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities.

‼️Die #Petition
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ab dem Jahr 2030 vom 22.11.2025"
hat bisher 535 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29465 Unterschriften bis zum 10.03.2026.
https://

Cowboys Predicted to Sign Talented but Injury-Afflicted Free-Agent Corner https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/predicted-sign-asante-samuel-jr/

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

2025 letter | Dan Wang
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/nvidia-groq-deal/

NVIDIA’s Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
NVIDIA gets a creator of the TPU, access to inference tech & IP, and stops anyone else from getting such things. All for a mere $20B...

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/3

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned.