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"Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down
More and more countries are hitting new solar generation records, and those that are still relying on fossil fuels have good reason to catch up.

USA Today reports Q1 revenue down 4% YoY to $548.5M, net income of $19.9M, up $27.2M from Q1 2025, 1.46M paid digital subs, and $45.9M digital subscription rev (Business Wire)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260430434910/en/

https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalor.bsky.social/post/3mihfravp5426
SCotUS birthright citizenship argument transcript as an untagged PDF:

I find this . . . entertaining
Ref:
Forbes article on AI coding at Microsoft
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsoft-makes-ai-mandatory-for-employees-what-it-means-for-your-career/…

“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.

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In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Jβaβnβuβaβrβ β2β0β2β6β 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.

POL-H: Nachtragsmeldung: Seit August 2025 Vermisste aus Hannover-Südstadt ist wieder da Hannover (ots) - Eine seit mehreren Monaten Vermisste junge Frau aus Hannover ist wieder da. Die inzwischen 18-Jährige ist wohlauf. Die Polizei bedankt sich bei allen, die sich an der Suche nach ihr beteiligt haben. Die Fotos in der ursprünglichen ... https://www.…

Robert Saleh, Liam Coen move on from 2025 sign-stealing spat: 'That's water under the bridge'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/robert-saleh-liam-coen-sign-stealing-spat/

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

"Poland adds 3.6 GW of solar in 2025"
#Poland #SolarPower #Environment #Renewables

Poland adds 3.6 GW of solar in 2025
Poland's cumulative solar capacity reached 24.8 GW by the end of 2025, with last year's growth led by C&I and large-scale installations.

Voittoja luonnon puolesta vuodelta 2025 #luonto

Voittoja luonnon puolesta vuodelta 2025 - Greenpeace Suomi
Maailman meno voi tällä hetkellä tuntua aika uuvuttavalta, mutta suurten haasteiden keskellä on onneksi paljon valonpilkahduksia, jotka antavat syytä hymyyn. Lue viime vuoden onnistumisista ja ota mukaasi annos toivoa!

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.

Ahnenforschung nimmt deutlich zu
#HannMünden. Bilanz des Mündener Stadtarchivs für das Jahr 2025.
https://www.hna.de/lokales/hann-muenden/ha

Raiders select S Dalton Johnson with No. 150 overall pick https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-select-s-dalton-johnson-with-no-150-overall-pick-2026-nfl-draft-arizona-wildcats

"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.

💸 Crypto money laundering balloons to $82B as Chinese-language services dominate, Chainalysis says
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/27/crypto-money-laundering-balloons-to-usd82b-as-chinese-lan…

Chinese-language crypto laundering networks surge as illicit on-chain flows hit $82B
Crypto laundering grew to more than $82 billion in 2025, with Chinese-language networks emerging as a dominant force, Chainalysis reports.

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…

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%

The Streisand Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Streisand_effect_examples#United_States
(According to an unverified source, the interview now has over 40 million views.)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from "fanatical" donors since early 2025 (Washington Post)

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

Cowboys Urged to Add Former Super Bowl Champ CB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/rasul-douglas-nfl-free-agency-dallas/

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…

On July 4, 2025, protesters gathered outside the Prairieland Detention Facility in a
“noise demonstration,” using drums, speakers and chanting to disrupt operations and draw attention to conditions inside the facility.
Participants “could not go on business as usual as our government forced hundreds into sleeping on floors in overcrowded conditions with no access to adequate medical care.”
What followed has since become known as the Prairieland case.
According to orga…

Playing for the Prairieland 19: A night of music and resistance
Mary Court hosted a concert to raise money for the Prairieland 19, a group of protestors facing charges for their actions against ICE.

"AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas"
#Amazon #Gold #AI #Techology

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas
In July 2025, the Indigenous Shuar people celebrated the end of a decade-long struggle when they received official titles for three communities — the Shuar Tunants, Kampan and Tsuntsuim –- within the Kutukú Shaimi Protected Forest, in the south of the Ecuadorean Amazon. But in one of those communities, satellite imagery shows that between August […]

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

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-acros…

Since December 2025, print media companies in France have cut nearly 1,000 jobs; Trendeo: since 2009, 10.5K jobs have disappeared from the sector in France (Brice Laemle/Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/

France's print media in crisis amid massive layoffs
Since December 2025, magazine and regional press companies have announced nearly 1,000 job cuts, putting the viability of countless newsrooms at risk.

Using some of my pre-embargo Bourbon in my maple candy (syrup from 2025). Hope it’s worth it. Will report back.

#EON #Glasfaser in #BadOeYnhausen
um Sommer sollte das eigentlich hier bei uns laufen. Ich habe in den letzten Monaten allerdings nicht den Eindruck, dass irgendwo etwas passiert.

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/

Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that
the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

Bruttospeicherleistung aktiver #Batteriespeicher je #Netzanschlussebene in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „a…

Former Cowboys starting defender announces retirement from NFL https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/former-cowboys-starting-defender-announces-retirement-nfl/255192b522cf44fa041543db

#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher in #Deutschland je Netzanschlussebene ab 2012 mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „aktiv“…

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography

Geno Smith Gets Jets, Dolphins Take Amid Raiders Release News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-jets-dolphins-release-news/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60% of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/programmat

Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine, report says
Ads accounted for more than 60% of the malware and phishing campaigns observed by digital safety company The Media Trust in 2025, per a new report.

Jan. 9, 2025: A vibrant portrait of Krishna and his consort Rukmini. I found it stashed behind stuff on top of a storage closet at an office in #Udupi #Krishna Matha, #India.
(right bottom corner edited)
#tbt #throwback #throwbackThursday
#photography #amateur #portrait #painting #art

RTL reports 2025 revenue down 3.8% YoY to €6.02B, adjusted EBITDA of €661M, paying streaming subscribers up 19% to 8.1M, and streaming revenue up 26% to €509M (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

RTL Group Bets on Streaming Pivot as Sky Deal and HBO Max Partnership Reshape Business
RTL says its streaming platform RTL+, which now boasts more than 8 million subscribers, will cross into profitability later this year.

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

#Steady-#Klimacrew
#Datenanalyse von #Stromspeicher​n: Wie kann man den Ausbautrend für #Batteriespeicher

Flächendiagramme neu gedacht: Großspeicher sichtbar machen
Diagramm zeigt nur Januar? Wie ein Achsenfehler den Zubau 2025 unvollständig machte – und was danach verbessert wurde.

"Netherlands’ 2025 solar additions estimated at 2.08 GW"
#Netherlands #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Netherlands’ 2025 solar additions estimated at 2.08 GW
Provisional estimates from Dutch New Energy Research indicate the Netherlands added 0.54 GW of residential solar and 1.54 GW of C&I and large-scale solar last year, taking the country's cumulative capacity to just shy of 30 GW.

"Cyprus installs 122 MW of solar capacity in 2025"
#Cyprus #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Cyprus installs 122 MW of solar capacity in 2025
Self-consumption PV projects accounted for most of the new solar capacity added in Cyprus last year, despite record levels of renewable energy curtailment, according to industry data.