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2025 Wildfires Were the Costliest Ever, Researchers Say (Rebecca Dzombak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/climate/2025-wildfire-damage.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p78#a260601p78

"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/

Aidan Hutchinson: Lions remain 'in a window' to win Super Bowl despite disappointing 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/aidan-hutchinson-lions-remain-in-a-window-to-win-super-bowl-despite-disappointing-2025

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

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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.

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/…

"Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
"Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digit…

The #Database Zoo: Exotic Data Storage Engines
https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2025-09-19-The-Database-Zoo-Exotic-Data-Storage-Engines/

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

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.…

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.

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.

"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.

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

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

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%

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…

#eurovision
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/1/20/aerial-photos-show-scale-of-israeli-destruction-in-gaza

NYC Health Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M people (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com…

NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people | TechCrunch
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including fingerprints — in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.

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/

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

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…

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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 […]

Raiders’ Treydan Stukes Gets Blunt on Klint Kubiak, Rob Leonard https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/treydan-stukes-klint-kubiak-rob-leonard/

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

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.

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

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

Raiders post hilarious video alongside 2026 schedule release https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/14/raiders-post-hilarious-video-alongside-2026-schedule-release/90088776007/…