2026-01-03 01:30:44
🚒 'A personal embarrassment': Why fire agencies keep failing to put out blazes that later turn disastrous
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-01/holdover-fires
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🚒 'A personal embarrassment': Why fire agencies keep failing to put out blazes that later turn disastrous
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-01/holdover-fires
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Global SWF: sovereign wealth funds invested $66B in AI and digitalization in 2025, with Mubadala investing $12.9B and Kuwait Investment Authority investing $6B (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
"Don’t eat meat or drive a car: Are lifestyle-targeted climate policies eroding our green values?"
#Climate #ClimateChange
What to expect from Browns QB Shedeur Sanders' final 2025 start https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47482023/what-expect-browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-final-2025-start
Weekend Reads
* VPN IPv6 leaks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19698
* ACME protocol brief history
»Dass ich sogenannte Naturisten, Vegetarier u. andere Sektierer nicht ausstehen kann, liegt daran, dass sie aus einer Lebenshaltung, die jeder mit sich selbst abzumachen hat, eine öffentl. Angelegenheit machen u. alle, die nicht so leben wie sie, wenn nicht verachten, so doch für arme Irrende halten.«
Aus: Ré Soupalt – Kaffee mit Croissant in Avignon (1951/2025)
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
NEW YEAR IN MOSCOW: NO ELECTRICITY AND NO INTERNET Vlog 1275: War in Ukraine
In 2025 it became evident that war is back home, to #Russia, and not just to the bordering with
Sensor Tower: Latin American downloads of the top 20 microdrama apps rose ~402% YoY in 2025; ReelShort and DramaBox led with 77M and 74M downloads, respectively (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/how-chinas-short-video-streamers-ar…
FRAME 39.2 “Textual Odysseys” https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/29/frame-392-“textual-odysseys”
💊 More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-substances-farming
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/
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How Bears quarterbacks coach J.T. Barrett connects with Caleb Williams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936465/2026/01/03/bears-jt-barrett-caleb-williams/
The Castle along the river Trent, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
From the Romantic Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, quartets by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Brahms. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzj
I fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…
Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:
Rund um den Chiemsee wandern 2025
#silentsunday
Marvelous & inspiring 1h set of analog synth tracks by Federico Chiesa aka OORA...
The Memoir — Page 168: OORA (2025)
#Music4Coding
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/bitcoi…
POL-WL: Pressemitteilung der PI Harburg für den Zeitraum Freitag, 30.01.2025, 12 Uhr bis Sonntag, 01.02.2026, 12 Uhr Tostedt (ots) - Ohne Licht und unter Alkoholeinfluss mit dem E-Scooter unterwegs Am späten Freitagabend fiel einer Streifenwagenbesatzung im Tostedter Ortskern ein E-Scooter ohne Beleuchtung auf. Bei der Kontrolle konnte bei dem 18-jährigen ...
The Kresšks’ diagram - Hyperbolic #meteoroid orbits and their confidence level: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54274-25/aa54274-25.html -> Meteore interstellari - quando l’orbita inganna: https://www.media.inaf.it/2026/01/28/meteore-interstellari/
The 1st Symposium on the Chinese Translation of the Greek Septuagint https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/29/the-1st-symposium-on-the-chinese-translation-of-the-greek-septuagint
Niners LB Dre Greenlaw admits 'I just wasn't happy' during 2025 season with Broncos https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-lb-dre-greenlaw-admits-i-just-wasn-t-happy-during-2025-season-with-broncos
The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…
Oha, also auch beim #DHM die Berlinische Dekade der Bauverzögerung: https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-deutsches-hist…
Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:
"Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year"
#Energy #Renewables
https://e360.yale.edu/dige…
"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…
What is the Future Talent Programme (FTP) really like?
🎥 Hear directly from FTP 2025 participants, NREN mentors and programme organizers: Jiri Matousek (CESNET), Nelson Dias (FCCN), Davina Luyten (Belnet), Sarah Hughes (GÉANT), Aurora Vasconcelos, Oliver Gurka, Abdalla Alfaramawi, Richard Hyroš, and Mike De Decker.
There’s still one more week left to apply for the 2026 edition!
🔗 Apply at
It's only an hour. You can do it! But I wonder, given keiko is in her fifties today, and given I am more than thrice 22, is her story still relevant in 2025? Sion Sono has a knack for nailing his target.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807053292677021696/i-am-keiko-1997?source=share
Cam Ward's rookie year: A timeline look at the ups, downs for the No. 1 pick https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47474337/tennessee-titans-cam-ward-no-1-pick-line-rookie-season
Polizei #Andernach feiert wieder, dass sie anlasslos Jugendliche gängeln. Puh.
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117712/6205267
Huuuh, jeg kommer lige fra biografen hvor vi har set en særforevisning af den franske film “13 dage, 13 nætter” som handler om Kabuls fald i 2021, og hvordan den franske ambassade fik evakueret over tusind mennesker i en vanvittigt anspændt situation. Den er gribende og meget anbefalelsesværdig!
Se evt. mere her:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt…
Cowboys Sack Artist Linked to AFC Franchise as Top Free-Agency Fit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-sack-artist-linked-to-afc-franchise-as-top-free-agency-fit
I just got this email regarding the spring 2026 Midwest Several Complex Variables conference:
"Unfortunately we did not get the NSF grant so the conference will not run this year."
I was not planning to attend this time (Florida Polytechnic being, for me, in an inconvenient corner of the "midwest") but I do co-organize a smaller annual workshop with a similar type of NSF conference grant. We got some funding in 2025 (>insert Theoden meme<), but I am not…
Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30…
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und
"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…
Why We've Tried to Replace #Developers Every Decade Since 1969
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-develop…
Communication, entertainment, everything in between - another great post by @… that will inspire you, offend you, educate you- all the things great writing should do. It'll make you think, challenge your assumptions- there are too many great quotable parts of this, I couldn't even pick one to use as a blurb here. Worth it to just read the full deal 🔥:
#Wetter #Behrendorf Januar 2026: mittlere Temperatur -1,7°C (-2,9K), tiefste Temperatur -13,8°C, höchste Temperatur 9,9°C, 3 sehr kalte Tage, 12 Eistage, 28 Frosttage, 31 Kalte Tage, Niederschlag 18mm (37,1%), Kältesumme 31.01.2026 98,4 (2025 33,6)
from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/
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…
Comcast reports NBCU's Q4 revenue rose 5.5% YoY to $7.62B and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $122M; Peacock had a $552M loss on $1.6B in revenue and 44M subscribers (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/comcast-cmcsa-earnings-q4-2025.html
RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und
Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/
Our favorite 60 stats entering Super Bowl 60: How Philip Rivers, Cam Little and others blew up 2025 NFL season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/our-fa…
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200% to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/samsung-record-q4-2025-profit-…
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
Broadcaster Sinclair reports Q4 revenue of $836M, down 17% YoY, and net income down 38% YoY to $109M, core advertising revenue up 14% to $354M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/sinclair-q4-2025-earnings-report/
POL-OL: Polizei sucht Eigentümer von Schmuck Oldenburg (ots) - Am 27.12.2025 wurde in einem Waldstück in Oldenburg an der Straße Am Tegelbusch eine rote Schmuckschatulle samt Schmuckstücken aufgefunden. Die Polizei kann derzeit nicht ausschließen, dass es sich um aufgefundenes Diebesgut ... https://www.presseportal.de/bl…
🥕 Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
#carbon
NFL betting wrapped: Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl fitting end to 'off-the-charts' season https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47516244/nfl-2025-betting-wrapped-most-bet-teams-players-2026-outlook
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found…
🧮 The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-texas-instruments-cc-40-invades.html
#calculator
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-2-million-paid-subscribers-300m-arr-r…
Vikings fire general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after disappointing season: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6933813/2026/01/30/vikings-fire-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah/
Momentum Works: the GMV of the online food delivery market in Southeast Asia's six biggest economies grew 18% YoY to $22.7B in 2025, and Grab accounted for 55% (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/food-beverag…
Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate
💪 How testosterone went from prostate cancer villain to potential ally
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-testosterone-prostate-cancer-villain-potential.html
2025 waren 60 Prozent der neu zugelassenen #Stadtbusse in der EU #Zero-Emission, davon 56 Prozent batterieelektrisch und 4 Prozent mit #Brennstoffzelle.
2019 lag der Anteil bei 12 Prozent.…
Starz reports Q4 revenue fell to $322.8M vs. $344.5M a year ago, net loss narrowed to $20.7M vs. $31.8M a year ago, and US streaming subs hit 12.7M, up 370K QoQ (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/starz-subscribers…
2025 NFL season's 25 biggest stories: Shedeur Sanders, Sam Darnold, stunning firings headline wild ride
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-season-25-biggest-stories/
🎃 Carbon and charisma: How climate network CC35 tricked its way to the limelight
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/carbon-and-charisma-how-climate-network-cc35-tricked-its-way-to-the-limelight/
Die Schweizer #Bahn erreichte 2025 mit 94,1 Prozent pünktlichen Zügen einen neuen Rekord.
Trotz Baustellen und Großereignissen blieb die #Pünktlichkeit auf hohem Niveau. In Deutschland lagen die Werte deutlich niedriger. Die Deutsche Bahn fällt vor allem im
Jones Lang LaSalle projects Malaysia's operational data center capacity to increase from ~1,025 MW at the end of 2025 to ~2,100 MW by the end of 2026 (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/malaysia-s-data…
⭐ Promising new superconducting material discovered with the help of AI
#materials
‼️ YES!
Der Internationale #Strafgerichtshof ersetzt #Microsoft durch #openDesk, eine Open-Source-Lösung aus
The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri
Osaka-based Capcom reports game sales up 13.5% to a record 34.64M from March to December 2025; the Street Fighter and Resident Evil maker's stock jumps 10% (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Assessing Tyler Booker and Cowboys' 2025 rookie dr... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47754790/nfl-dallas-cowboys-tyler-booker-rookies-draft-ezeiruaku-shavon-revel-jr-jaydon-blue
🐺 Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-africa-rarest-carnivore-story-ethiopian.html
TE Evan Engram hopes to remain with Broncos after challenging first season in Denver https://www.nfl.com/news/te-evan-engram-hopes-to-remain-with-broncos-after-challenging-first-season-in-denver
🪵 Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medieval-ship-discovered-copenhagen/
PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387280/crypto-…
📊 Meine Top-4-Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Mythos „#Holzheizungen sind klimaneutral“.
https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/116282409767393879
2. 2025 erreichte der weltweite Ausbau von
Steelers seven-round 2025 NFL mock draft: Pittsburgh makes surprising move with 21st pick; grabs QB on Day 3
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-nfl-mock-draft/
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…
OpenEvidence, which is building "ChatGPT for doctors", raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/openevidence-chatg…
🐜 Ant smuggling case highlights legal inconsistencies
#ants
Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…
🛰️ Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-satellite-reveals-insights-sustainable-groundwater.html
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…
#Endometriose bleibt oft lange unerkannt. Betroffene leiden teils jahrelang unter starken #Schmerzen, besonders während der Periode.
Bis zur Diagnose vergehen im Schnitt bis zu zehn Jahre. Das erschwert eine frühzeitige
😇 Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/taboo-against-harming-strangler-fig-spirits-protects-forests-in-indonesian-borneo/
Gallup: 12% of employed US adults reported using AI daily in their job in Q4 2025, compared to 10% in Q3 and 8% in Q2; 49% say they never use AI in their role (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/701195/frequent-workplace-continued-rise.aspx
🫗 The perfect polymer? Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-polymer-based-plastic-fully-saltwater.html
💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1
Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Filing: C3.ai plans to cut ~26% of its workforce; the company had ~1,200 employees as of April 2025; C3.ai shares drop 20% after hours on weaker FY guidance (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…