2025-12-20 01:33:41
I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol
I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol
The senators America searched for most in 2025 (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/bernie-sanders-most-google-searches-senators-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p116#a251219p116
For everyone already sworn into this 119th Congress,
there was no excuse.
There is no excuse.
The refusal to act,
to even start to pound the drum for Trump's impeachment,
is an abdication of their own declared duty to the nation
and destructive in and of itself.
from my link log —
Monorepos: Please don't!
https://medium.com/@mattklein123/monorepos-please-dont-e9a279be011b
saved 2019-01-03
I should steal junk food. Copy that.
Love the scare acronym, BTW. Y’know, I might consider taking this article seriously if they hadn't plastered it with inline clickbait ads encouraging me to wrap my doorknobs in tinfoil. #meeja #jermalisms
Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…
Ma présentation au Capitole du libre 2025 - la guerre des navigateurs
#web…
US drops Uganda deportation order against Chinese dissident, lawyer says (Michael Martina/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-drops-uganda-deportation-order-against-chinese-dissident-lawyer-says-2025-12-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p2#a251220p2
From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1719746/full
There is a #Trump proclamation (few months old) that imposes an additional fine ($100k) for applying to a new H1-B visa (the type that is used a lot by researchers).
Does anyone know for sure (with a source please) if this applies to those who are already in the US (for any reason, e.g. you were on a different visa or you are in the grace period of a visa)?
The original pro…
„It’s a path puzzle. You draw a path that enters the grid at the top and exits at the bottom. Along the way, there are 50 sections, each following a different ruleset. Consecutive sections overlap by a few rows, creating short hybrid sections in between.”
This is amazing! The printable PDF-version is 17 pages! 🤯
https://
What's crazy is the vast majority of #Obamacare subscribers voted for #Trump.
And Trump is making their payments increase by 75%.
☑️ 77% of 2025 Obamacare enrollees lived in Trump‑won states. About 80% of all premium tax credits flowed to residents of those same states.
Windkraft-Rekord: Die Branche liefert, doch das Netz wird zum Flaschenhals
Mit einem historischen Genehmigungsplus und starkem Zubau hat die Onshore-Windenergie 2025 die Erwartungen übertroffen. Es drohen mehr Infrastrukturlücken.
Der Konzernatlas 2026 von @… beleuchtet die Marktmacht der großen Konzerne vom Saatgut bis zum Supermarkt und zeigt auf, wie Politik und Bürger:innen diese Macht begrenzen können - für eine umweltverträgliche, sozial gerechte und nachhaltige Ernährung.
Hier kostenloser Donwload oder Print bestellen:
India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/the-mystery-of-reliance-quick-commerce-growt…
As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…
Von 2,9 auf 3,6 % - Vergleich zeigt: 2025 brachte satte Teuerungsrunde #News #Nachrichten
Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…
Kerry Kennedy says she'll 'grab a pickax' to pull Trump's name off Kennedy Center (Ryan Mancini/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/kerry-kennedy-renaming-of-kennedy-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p5#a251220p5
NFL playoff schedule: Top-seeded Seahawks, Broncos advance to conference championships https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6979795/2026/01/17/2025-26-nfl-conference-championship-schedule/
Trump Goes for the Stoner Vote (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-marijuana-reschedule-drugs-cdc-fda-6b30bf00
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p120#a251219p120
It’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…
USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
https://ift.tt/lqYSwCK
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…
Bill Clinton breaks silence on damning Epstein file photos with blistering accusation about Trump: Live updates (Brittany Chain/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15307537/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-photos-latest-release-live-updates.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p115#a251219p115
Ukraine's GDP grew 2.2% in 2025, economy ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukraines-gdp-grew-in-economy.html
Stripe and Paradigm-backed startup Tempo launches the Machine Payments Protocol and its blockchain to facilitate autonomous AI agent transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/stripe-tempo-paradigm-mpp-ai-payments-protocol/
…
Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
Vor ca. 2 Wochen hatte ich noch die Gelegenheit einen neuen 3D Drucker in Betrieb zu nehmen. 🤗
Den bekommen wir eigentlich zu Weihnachten, aber naja, damit dann alles ab Tag 1 läuft muss der natürlich vorher zusammengebaut und getestet werden. ☝️
Bis vor einiger Zeit hatten wir den Ultimaker Original (ohne beheiztes Bett, komplett bare bones von 2014) und der hatte einfach zu viele Macken und Probleme. Wir haben uns nun für einen Prusa MK4S (als Bausatz) entschieden.
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Trump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
am 11.12.2025 gabs #oboecontent & #bassooncontent/#fagottcontent im türchen des rätsel-adventskalenders der uni münster! 🥰
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!
Fantastic work by @… visualising Climate Change through 2025 - the Antarctica numbers are eye-opening ( 1.06°C)-> higher anomaly recorded in 2025 than almost anywhere else, except of course the Arctic 1.37°C
#PolarAmplification
https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025
heise | heise Update vom 16. Januar 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Wärmepumpen bei Frost, Glasfaser-Wechsel, Wikipedia-Jubiläum, Zweitdisplay und HBO Max im Test.
https://www.…
📢 Deutsche Wirtschaft 2025 leicht gewachsen
Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist 2025 nach zuvor zwei Rezessionsjahren in Folge erstmals wieder gewachsen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt stieg um 0,2 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr, wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte. Ökonomen trauen Europas größter Volkswirtschaft im laufenden Jahr ein Wachstum von etwa einem Prozent zu - begünstigt von einer höheren Zahl von Arbeitstagen und steig…
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The last line: “‘a great level of deference’ is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground”.
What is the Insurrection Act, and can Trump use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/trump-insurrection-act-exp…
The last line: “‘a great level of deference’ is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground”.
What is the Insurrection Act, and can Trump use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/trump-insurrection-act-exp…
Raiders predicted to hire hot-shot 3-time coordinator as next head coach https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-predicted-hire-hot-shot-3-time-coordinator-next-head-co…
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…
Good message on using fear as a guide. And even people you think are fearless can also have anxiety being in public / public speaking.
A little bit uncomfortable
In hindsight, these scary (and occasionally terrifying) moments are the ones that we all learn the most from. - DR. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/12/a-little-bit-uncomfortable.html
Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…
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/
USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening
My article about "#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead" from https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ was listed on the entry page of
Pink Rosebud starting to open Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #rose #rosebud #descansogardens
Perplexity „halluziniert wie ein Weltmeister“, Le Chat ist „europäisch brav“, und CapCut macht 60-Sekunden-Reels, die eher remixen als erzählen. Ich nutze KI-Tools intensiv – aber nicht als Orakel. Mein KI-Tools 2025 - ein Jahresrückblick mit Augenzwinkern. 🔗 https://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/01/07
Ich berichte über das Gutachten der Stiftung Klimaneutralität zur kommunalen Wärmewende. Die Ergebnisse scheinen definitiv relevant und neu.
Trotzdem bin ich darüber gestolpert, dass der Wikipedia-Artikel über die gGmbH jüngst gelöscht wurde. Gibt es hier Meinungen zur Stiftung, die von Rainer Baake geleitet wird?
Finally got to the @… Monktoberfest 2025 talk and I recommend y’all watch it!
„Trust as Infrastructure“ is an excellent talk that discusses why trusting people is of critical Importance!
https://youtu.be/WF7J7…
Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel.
To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road
and throw sand into the gears.
-- Yangyang Cheng ▪ Fall 2025
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/to-outlive-tyranny/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
GANS:
🎵 NIGHTWALKING (6 Music Session, 16 Sep 2025)
#GANS
https://open.spotify.com/track/3H37OXMRvC4GXzk1BkchI5
Übersicht: Was Tim Cook & Co. 2025 verdient haben
74,2 Millionen US-Dollar für den CEO, 22,4 Millionen für den CFO: Apple hat eine Gehaltsliste wichtiger Manager publiziert.
https://www.heis…
An NFL player breaks down his goal sheet for the 2025 season, plus this week's best Peak nuggets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6974400/2026/01/15/alec-ingold-nfl-dolphins-goals-2025/
"Romania installs 2.2 GW of solar in 2025"
#Romania #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening
Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://
NFL divisional playoffs picks against the spread: Seahawks, Rams to flex NFC West muscles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6968665/2026/01/16/nfl-divisional-playoffs-picks-predictions-betting-2025/
freitag – und damit zeit für den #fachreferatsfreitag!
für die wochen seit dem 19.11.2025, die dem openbiblio-servercrash zum opfer gefallen sind, verweise ich zum nachlesen einfach mal "nach drüben": KW 47/25: https://
2025 NFL Playoff Buzz: Seahawks QB Sam Darnold Questionable vs. 49ers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-playoff-buzz
FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/los-angeles-production-no-rebound-12…
Donald Trump has comprehensively
failed to meet a key election promise
to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency
-- with ❌power prices instead surging across the US.
The average household electricity bill in the US was 💥6.7% more expensive in 2025 compared with the previous year,
according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistical arm.
The i…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Richard Hawley:
🎵 Tonight The Streets Are Ours (6 Music Session, 25 Nov 2025)
#RichardHawley
https://peachyp.bandcamp.com/track/tonight-the-streets-are-ours-by-richard-hawley
https://open.spotify.com/track/68UGKNGREtwsO7fDRwftZ2
How the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/17/us/politics/house-republicans-majority-productivity.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p15#a260117p15
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-
Urban Priol's Jahresrückblick auf 2025. Ein Genuss, wenn auch manchmal bittere Wahrheiten. Danke an Sandra Russo und Frank Horneff, die beide die "Generalprobe" in Darmstadt gesehen haben. für den Tipp. Genussvolle 90 Minuten, die ich jedem empfehlen kann.
https://www.
NFL running back rankings, 1-64: How does every starting RB from the 2025 season stack up? https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-starting-running-back-rankings-1-64-2025-nfl-season
For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water.
But new research from Saarland University reveals that this
long-standing explanation is wrong.
Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis.
These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice,
creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near abs…
Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/ai-…
Former Guardian and Prospect EIC Alan Rusbridger has been appointed editor-at-large for The New World, which rebranded from The New European in mid-2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/al…
NFL Misery Index: Which non-playoff teams have it the worst entering long offseason? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6972376/2026/01/15/nfl-misery-index-2025-cardinals-jets-raiders/
We asked over 100 people in sports which leaders they most admire. Here are the top 40 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6945825/2026/01/15/top-leaders-in-sports-2025-most-admired/
UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861668/uk-police-microsoft-copilot-error-mistake<…
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:
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
Klimaziel 2025 erreicht, aber nur wenig CO2 gespart
Solar boomt, Wind legt zu – doch Gebäude und Verkehr bremsen die Klimabilanz. Wie geht es weiter mit dem Klimaschutz in Deutschland?
https://www.
Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-sm…
NFL Misery Index: Which non-playoff teams have it the worst entering long offseason? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6972376/2026/01/15/nfl-misery-index-2025-cardinals-jets-raiders/
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
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Phtovoltik lag 2025 vor Braunkohle und Erdgas
https://www.<…
Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade/taiwan-…
Agent's Take: Ultimate 2025 end-of-season, 53-man roster that's the best team money can buy
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-ultimate-2025-end-of-season-5…
‼️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
The US Commerce Department drops a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns; FCC barred imports in December 2025 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-com
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/
A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
In #Niederösterreich steigt das Interesse an #Photovoltaik und #Batteriespeichern weiter.
2025 kamen rund 12.000 neue PV-Anlagen hinzu, insgesamt sind nun über 130.000…
Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on
👉how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year.
💥In 2025, their measurements broke records once again,
making this the eighth year in a row that the world’s oceans have absorbed more heat than in the years before.
The study, which was published Friday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Science, found that
the world’s oceans absorbed an additional 23 zettajoules’ w…
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac
NFL Divisional Round injury report: Player statuses for all four games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-divisional-round-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-four-games
A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China
used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.
The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups,
including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals.
Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025, it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series …
PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50% ; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitch…
NFL playoff schedule: Divisional round set as Texans move on to face Patriots https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962268/2026/01/12/2025-nfl-divisional-round-schedule/