Tootfinder

Pats clinch AFC East; Bills' reign ends with loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47439298/drake-maye-led-patriots-clinch-first-afc-east-title-19

Apple's iPhone 16 was the world's best-selling smartphone in 2025, followed by the 16 Pro Max and 16 Pro; Apple took 7 of the top 10 spots and Samsung took 3 (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in

I've been using khal for years to quickly display the calendar in the terminal and schedule events as reminders. It's simple and fast.
Another good option is calcurse. It's just as fast and you can also manage events, although it has a cooler interface.
#linuxtips #cli

When you're taking a train and half of the seats is reserved for a Gang.
Fortunately, yours is Fenster.
#WordPlay #German

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Marlon Magnee:
🎵 Nuage Gris
#NowPlaying #MarlonMagnee
https://open.spotify.com/track/2x02xV4vO3Ph7ndHQa4vVF

Oha, also auch beim #DHM die Berlinische Dekade der Bauverzögerung: https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-deutsches-hist…

'Manchester is unaffordable for ordinary Mancs - but it's too late to turn back' -
Yes, surprise, surprise, it's the growth model.
And it isn't so much a question of turning back as choosing another course, as we've argued throughout the hypergrowth period in GM.
Manchester Evening News

'Manchester is unaffordable for ordinary Mancs - but it's too late to turn back'
In his new book, Charlie Winstanley, a former political advisor in Greater Manchester, explains where he thinks it all went wrong

Mit dem heutigen #mdRzA — übrigens bei laut Wetterbericht "anhaltendem Schneeregen", aber da war leider nur "anhaltender Regen" — habe ich 700km beim #Frostpendeln erreicht. Deutlich mehr als meine letztjährige Frostpendeln-Gesamtstrecke von knapp 550km insgesamt. Vielleicht schaffe…

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

Dallas Cowboys 'Unsung Hero' of 2025 Perfectly Rounds Out Elite NFL Unit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-unsung-hero-2025-perfectly-rounds-out-elite-nfl-unit

Shorts sind im Trend: YouTube nähert sich 30 Milliarden Videos | Laut einer neuen Analyse von Omdia waren im Dezember 2025 auf YouTube 29 Milliarden Videos verfügbar. Das Wachstum werde durch Shorts, KI-generierte Inhalte und die Expansion in Märkten wie Indien vorangetrieben. Die am meisten gesehenen 1 Prozent der Videos generierten 91 % der Betrachtungszeit, so #Horizont

Workout of the day.

“Overweighting the US has served global investors well the past 15 years,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said.
“That said, we believe shifting geopolitical, monetary and fiscal policy regimes amid technological upheaval and the constraints of developed world debt are creating a need for diversification beyond US stocks and bonds for long-term investors.”
“One of the biggest and most underappreciated surprises of 2025 has been the extr…

US stocks had a remarkable 2025. But international markets did much better
Heading into 2025, US stock valuations were already relatively expensive compared to the rest of the world, creating an incentive for investors to look for returns in different markets.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot:
🎵 Bonnie And Clyde
#NowPlaying #SergeGainsbourg #BrigitteBardot
https://borgg.bandcamp.com/track/serge-gainsbourg-brigitte-bardot-bonnie-and-clyde-b-rgg-remix-preview
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sYrhh2FglkxRpDAwIbqfL

I've seen an Audi car today where the rear thingie featured four hearts rather than rings.
Inevitably, I LOL-d hard.

"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows
2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global average surface temperature for 2025 was estimated to be 1.44° Celsius (2.59° Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years […]

Niederländisch ist doch eine wundervolle Sprache.
Bei @… gab es in der Vergangenheit auch schöne Beispiele.
https://speld.nl/2025/03/06/wie-is-j-d

FW Flotwedel: Großbrand bei Recyclingbetrieb in Eicklingen - Rund 150 Einsatzkräfte im stundenlangen Einsatz Eicklingen (ots) - In den frühen Morgenstunden des 27.01.2025 ist es gegen 05:15 Uhr im Ludwig-Erhard-Ring in Eicklingen zu einem Brand bei einem plastikverarbeitenden Recyclingbetrieb gekommen. Bereits beim Eintreffen der ersten Einsatzkräfte der ...

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Adult DVD:
🎵 Do Something (Glastonbury 2025)
#AdultDVD
https://adultdvd.bandcamp.com/track/do-something
https://open.spotify.com/track/05glB9hBfxKPmHbw86tcnV

Las Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook

The just published timelapse #aurora as it was seen from Germany: note the green splotches appearing briefly all over the place, the nature of which - most likely RAGDA - is discussed in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-januar-2025/#Jan25 ("Das war das Polarlicht vom 19. Januar ...") with links to several relevant papers.

Ende Dezember 2025 lieferten #Windräder in Österreich Spitzenwerte von über 80 GWh pro Tag.
Am 31. Dezember deckte #Windenergie 46 Prozent des Strombedarfs. Der Oktober 2025 war mit über 1.000 GWh der bisher stärkste Monat. Zwei Drittel der

🛰️ 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

Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small region in and around the West Hollywood neighborhood), are increasing their reliance on these aquifers in order to reduce the amount of water imported from elsewhere. A new Caltech-led study provides the most detailed picture to date of how the Hollywood Basin responds to groundwater usage, revealing th…

150 GW in a year: record new wind power capacity installed globally in 2025! Not really evenly spread over the world ;)
China 100 GW (that country where Trump couldn't find a single wind turbine :)
Europe 17 GW
US 7 GW
India 6 GW
Rest of the World 20 GW
<…

GWEC Reports Record Wind Energy Additions in 2025, with Asia Emerging as the Primary Growth Engine
Global wind energy installations are set to cross 150 GW in 2025, driven by rapid growth across Asia, with record additions in India, China and emerging markets.

Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…

Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days,
and that has so far cost the US about $30-40bn
and Israel $300m a day,
Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than it was in May 2025.
Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear programme in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US demanded in a 15-point paper that it tabled on 23 May last year,
Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen…

"European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy

European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025
Analysis across 16 European countries finds an around 240,000 increase in the number of residential heat pump sales year-on-year. The European Heat Pump Association attributes the upward trend to governments stabilizing subsidy schemes.

Dak Prescott’s 10 Longest Completions of 2025 | Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emlSTFVrc4w

Cactus Flower in the Desert Garden. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko90mm F3.5 #huntingtonlibrary #cactus #cactusflower <…

#Anarchism

Unsung heroes of 2025 NFL season: One overlooked/surprise contributor from each AFC team https://www.nfl.com/news/unsung-heroes-of-2025-nfl-season-one-overlooked-surprise-contributor-from-each-afc-team

An vielen Bombardierungen war die #USA im Jahr 2025 beteiligt oder hat diese selbst initiiert?
#trump

Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator - Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/09/03183755/Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf

Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/broadcast-tv-economic-contributions-2025/

Report: Broadcast TV contributed $748 billion to U.S. economy in 2025
Advertising drove the majority of the impact, accounting for nearly $628 billion in economic output.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Regina Spektor:
🎵 Us
#ReginaSpektor
https://landonmoser.bandcamp.com/track/us
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zJms3MX11Qu1IKF44LoRW

One of those news days that will confuse some people: China's coal "output" (mining) grew 1.2% y/y to a record high in 2025, but "output at coal plants" (burning it in power plants) fell 1%, so stockpiles grew and prices fell.

UK Government Plans to Ban Small Hen Cages and All Pig Crates in England by 2030 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/26/uk-government-plans-to-ban-small-hen-cages-and-all-pig-crates-in-england-by-2030/…

UK Government Plans to Ban Small Hen Cages and All Pig Crates in England by 2030
On 22nd December 2025, the UK government confirmed that it wants to outlaw “colony cages” for laying hens and “farrowing crates” for pigs in England as part of a new animal welfare strategy that…

« En 2025, 243 termes recommandés par la Commission d'enrichissement de la langue française sont parus au Journal officiel. Nous en avons présélectionné dix mais, maintenant, c'est Š vous de choisir votre terme préféré ! »
https://www.culture.fr/franceterme/Actuali

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.

Twice as many people die in car accidents *every day*.

Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …

Science Fiction und Fantasy - Winter Edition 2025/26
Irgendwie hat sich nach meinen letzten Sammelrezensionen doch einiges angesammelt, was ich an SF und Fantasy gelesen und angeschaut habe. Innovativ fand ich Emily Teshs neuen Roman The Incandescent (2025). Tesh hat 2024 den Hugo für ihre antifaschistische Space Opera Some Desperate Glory bekomme

Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate

The Top Environmental Headlines From 2025
The media has an important role to play in combatting climate doom. Unlike our usual schedule, this blog is showcasing a curated selection of 2025's positivity. We hope this yearly news round up of positive environmental and climate change news, has sparked joy and shown that progress is being made.

Four fast, weird songs on this EP from 2025 via Buffalo's synth punk freaks HAVANA SYNDROME. Love the guy's voice, he sounds totally unhinged. I love singers that sound unhinged. 😂
https://swimmingfaithrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kill-your-brain

Europa Erlesen Marchfeld wurde für das WeinviertelBücher-Blog von Helga Dieberger rezensiert, was für eine schöne Conclusio: "Ein wunderbares und uneingeschränkt empfehlenswertes Buch für Marchfelder*innen, Marchfeldinteressierte und alle, denen das Marchfeld bisher egal war." https://

Anton TANTNER (Hg): Europa erlesen. Marchfeld
Anton TANTNER (Hg): Europa erlesen. Marchfeld 280 Seiten, Hardcover Wieser Verlag, 2025 ISBN 978-3-99029-676-9   EURO 14,95 Zum Europa, das erlesen werden möchte, hat sich das Marchfeld h…

Jetzt haben wir schon drei sehr ereignisreiche Wochen 2026 hinter uns und ich bin immer noch nicht dazu gekommen, meine Nerdkram-Highlights für 2025 zu schreiben – also, jetzt frisch ans Werk und mal schauen, wann ich zwischendurch dazu komme, diesen Text zu vervollständigen. Wie immer gibt es Bücher, Brett- und Computerspiele, Musik und diesmal nur sehr wenige Filme und Serien:

Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography

Hey, WILTY fans. After a year off they started a new season, #19, with a Christmas 2025 show. They’re up to S19E03 as of this past Friday. And Bob Mortimer was on E02. Does not disappoint. https://youtu.be/cHB1iSNAvG4?si=d-5nwiaaIhMslgor

Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

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

Frontiers | From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era
Assistive technologies can enhance safety, independence, and quality of life for people with blindness and low vision. Despite their benefits, abandonment of...

#konkurssit ja Orvon hiljaisuus

All my apes gone!
#nwsl

Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/an…

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…

🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials

Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs.

"Solar generates record 13% of EU electricity in 2025"
#EU #Europe #EuropeanUnion #SolarPower

Solar generates record 13% of EU electricity in 2025
EU solar generation increased by over 20% for the fourth year running in 2025, with its share in the energy mix surpassing coal and hydro. For the first time in history, solar and wind generated more energy in the EU than fossil fuels.

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

Point of View: A photo essay of the 2025 season https://www.raiders.com/news/point-of-view-a-photo-essay-of-the-2025-season-part-ii

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer zum 01. Juli 2026 vom 24.11.2025"
hat bisher 1767 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 28233 Unterschriften bis zum 21.01.2026.
https://

Bills promote GM Brandon Beane despite turbulent 2025 season, checkered draft record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983482/2026/01/19/brandon-beane-promoted-bills-gm-draft-record/

Kshamenk, Argentina’s Last Captive Orca, Dies After Decades in Tiny Tank https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/18/kshamenk-argentinas-last-captive-orca-dies-after-decades-in-tiny-tank/?utm_source=Mastodon

Kshamenk, Argentina’s Last Captive Orca, Dies After Decades in Tiny Tank
On 14th December 2025, Kshamenk, the last captive orca in Argentina, died at the Mundo Marino facility in San Clemente del Tuyú after spending 33 years confined in a circular tank only 12 metres in…

Von der Leyen 5 months ago.
"Stability and predictability" 🤣
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/27/von-der-leyen-and-trump-strike-eu-us-trade-deal-to-avert-all-out-tariff-war

Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the bloc
The trade deal will introduce a 15% tariff for the vast majority of EU products. But some will benefit from a "zero-for-zero" scheme. #EuropeNews

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Tenor Saw:
🎵 Ring The Alarm
#TenorSaw
https://veak.bandcamp.com/track/tenor-saw-ring-the-alarm-veak-2025-remix-free-dl
https://open.spotify.com/track/08RKvnMeBFWZE69P3dQa74

So yeah, uhh, I guess I’ve been daily driving #Linux

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…

"Wie lernt man eigentlich mit den Fingern zu lesen? Zum Weltbrailletag am 4. Januar"
https://blog.dzblesen.de/2025/12/19/wie-lernt-man-eigentlich-mit-den-fingern-zu-lesen/

Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PV-Speicherbatterien: Gericht stärkt Herstellern bei Fernabschaltung den Rücken
Werden Photovoltaik-Speicher per Software gedrosselt, müssen Kunden das laut einem Landgericht trotz Leistungsversprechen als Sicherheitsmaßnahme akzeptieren.

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…

Trump’s Campaign Manager Resolves Daily Beast Defamation Suit
As part of the settlement, The Daily Beast was not required to apologize or issue any payment to Chris LaCivita, who sued the outlet last year.

Cowboys PFF Grades Highlight Dak Prescott's Superhero Effort in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-pff-grades-highlight-dak-prescott-superhero-effort-2025

💗 Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-marathons-heart-decade-term-cardiac.html

Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
A marathon pushes the human body close to its limits. Legs tire, lungs burn and the heart works hard for hours on end. For years, that strain has raised an uncomfortable question: does running 26 miles actually damage the heart?

Dutch far-right leader Wilders is losing ground. After his failed government coalition, followed by an election defeat for his PVV (going from 37 seats in 2023 to 26 in 2025), 7 out of his 26 MPs are now jumping ship. That leaves 19, half the number of 2.5 years ago.
https://nos.nl…

Opstand tegen Wilders: zeven PVV'ers beginnen eigen fractie
Zij hebben zich in een fractievergadering uitgesproken tegen de koers en het beleid van de partijleider.

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/China-Smartphone-Shipments-Q4-20…

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…

The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?

IFPI: global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY, total streaming revenue surpassed $22B, and users of paid music subscriptions reached 837M (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusin…

Global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY; users of paid music subscriptions reach 837M
IFPI has published its new ‘Global Music Report 2026’ showing that global recorded music revenues grew by 6.4%

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

More than half of all crypto tokens have failed — and most died in 2025
Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.

Tracking NFL head coach changes: Bill fire Sean McDermott, Dolphins hiring Jeff Hafley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46437226/2025-nfl-coaching-changes-latest-news-rumors-firings-hires

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…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

Cowboys’ tight end room was one of its best in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-tight-end-room-was-one-of-its-best-in-2025

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Energy #Renewables

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…

Billionaire tax FAQ
Everything you need to know about the Billionaire Tax

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…

Trump is addicted to military force. Congress knows what is missing.
A dilemma confronts the Trump administration in Iran. It needs the U.S. soft power it eviscerated.

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…

Google’s Gemini Sees Skyrocketing Business Sales
Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s ...

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

Call your reps! https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/
Demand that they block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE.
This lawless and violent agency must be defunded and dissolved for good.

Defund ICE ⭑ 5 Calls
Following the federal funding deal passed in mid-November 2025, Congress faces another January 30th deadline to pass the remaining appropriations …

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…

Waymo hits 170 million miles while avoiding serious mayhem
Waymo released a new analysis of its robotaxi fleet after driving over 170 million driverless miles. The company says it still manages to avoid most serious crashes or injuries.

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…