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How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines
How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines
U.S. deports another group of Russians, at least the fifth removal flight of 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/us-deports-another-group-of.html
Game Recap: Raiders unable to keep pace in lopsided loss to Giants https://www.raiders.com/news/game-recap-raiders-unable-to-keep-pace-in-lopsided-loss-to-giants
Perustulo etenee maailmalla #perustulo
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…
⛨ Conservative and Christian? US right champions psychedelic drugs
#drugs
Kingston's Efficient Homes Show (2025-05) - Making our homes greener and boosting Kingston's green businesses! - https://m.earth.org.uk/Kingston-Efficient-Homes-Show-2025.html
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…
»Passwörter erstellen: "123456" bleibt 2025 Deutschlands beliebteste Wahl:
Dass simple Passwörter nicht sicher sind, hat wohl fast jeder schon einmal gehört. Viele hält das aber nicht davon ab, leichtsinnige Zugangsdaten zu verwenden. Eine Auswertung – und wie es besser geht.«
Nichts neues und hatte darüber schon mehrfach getootet. Ich kenne Firmen, die dies fast schon die Tipps zwanghaft verweigern, da mensch anscheinend ihr Passwort nicht eraten kann :-/
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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
"Therapiehunde in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken": Bachelorarbeit 2025 von Pauline Geissert, FH Potsdam:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-36726
[via @…
"European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy
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
UK shipping company helped Russia raise $3.2 billion in LNG trade revenue in 2025, campaigners say: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/uk-shipping-company-helped-russia.html
In December, the authors of #watchtower decided to archive their own project.
There are a few forks out there - unfortunately I know nothing about them so can't really vouch for their legitimity. If you want to continue using Watchtower, please assess them yourself wit…
Call on your representatives to 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.
https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/
The Philadelphia Inquirer had an operating profit of several million in 2025, with its first YoY revenue growth since 2004; 70% of revenue is from readers (Elizabeth H. Hughes/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/comme…
Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/wind-and-solar-overtook-fossil-fuels-in-power-generation-for-eu-in-2025-report
Meta projects 2026 capital expenditures will be $115B to $135B, exceeding the $110.6B average analyst estimate and up from $72.2B in 2025 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/meta-says-2026-s…
One Extraordinary Photo: AP photographer uses infrared technology as surveillance tool | AP News https://apnews.com/article/2025-invisible-infrared-surveillance-technology-extraordinary-photo
#today I have done some admin related to groups I run, and I am now reading the IEA Electricity 2025* report because I know how to live on the edge.
*The October update ofc, you monster!
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
<…
POL-SZ: Pressemitteilung des Polizeikommissariats Wolfenbüttel vom 27.02.2026 Wolfenbüttel (ots) - Cybertrading Wolfenbüttel, 01.11.2026 bis 26.02.2026 Ein Wolfenbütteler investierte in vermeintliche Aktien und verlor sein Erspartes. Im November 2025 erhielt der Mann über einen Messenger eine Nachricht mit Werbung für ... https://www.
🥕 Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
#carbon
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 <…
#Trump has turned ICE into a sprawling paramilitary that roves the country at will, (...), and has been told that it enjoys “absolute immunity.” He more than doubled the agency’s size in 2025, and its budget is now larger than those of all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined, and larger than the entire military budgets of all but 15 countries.
My first bet for Super Bowl LX: Back Seattle's offense in a high-scoring matchup https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47682112/nfl-betting-2025-super-bowl-lx-first-bets-odds-props-spreads
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
Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
East Coast Main Line, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #railwayphotography #documentingplace
"En 2025, l’électricité produite en Europe Š partir de l’éolien et du solaire a dépassé celle d’origine fossile"
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/0…
Die GI liefert einen interessanten Beitrag:
> Die Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie (NSS 2025) der USA offenbart das Ziel, Europa durch technologische Monopole in strategische Abhängigkeit zu führen.
[...] legt einen konkreten Fünf-Punkte-Plan für einen strategischen Kurswechsel vor.
Neu und gut finde ich diesen passenden Begriff:
> Verbot von Souveränitätswashing
Insgesamt ist die EU Situation klar formuliert und mit Lösungsansätzen:
Estos días voy a hacer streaming, a las 22:45h en www.twitch.tv/rocquitojuegos de juegos nominados en los premios DeVuego empezando hoy por Haneda Girl , que me encanta. https://www.devuego.es/premios-devuego/2025/
Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’ https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/
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/
"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…
🧮 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
AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…
„Wasser viel zu kalt“ - Frostiges Klima im Bad lässt Gäste frieren #News #Nachrichten
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-iii
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 …
London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/synthesia-doubles-to-usd4b-pre…
💪 How testosterone went from prostate cancer villain to potential ally
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-testosterone-prostate-cancer-villain-potential.html
Dolphins top NFLPA's player survey, while Steelers finish last: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7074041/2026/02/26/nfl-nflpa-report-cards-2025-2026-survey-rankings/
Pony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to ~$90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to ~$76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, its first profitable quarter ever (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/pon…
Eagles, NFL free agents who may follow DC Christian Parker to Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/22/eagles-nfl-free-agents-christian-parker-connection-cowboys/8830380…
🎃 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/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
SPRINTS:
🎵 Descartes (6 Music Session, 22 Sep 2025)
#SPRINTS
https://cityslang.bandcamp.com/track/sprints-descartes
https://open.spotify.com/track/4breH2mImzXkcc0Ar4DfYJ
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
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
👩🏫 Wir haben folgende Vorträge und Events zu #dataliteracy und #CultureHeritage für euch:
📅 16.1., 11–12 Uhr: Vortrag "Zwischen manueller Annotation und generativer KI: Hybride Workflows für audiovisuelle Analysen mit VIAN & TIB-AV-A" (Josephine Diecke; Eric Müller-Budack, …
"Hungary adds 1.1 GW of solar in 2025"
#Hungary #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
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/…
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…
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…
💸 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…
Why Raiders' Job is More Well-Regarded Than Initially Expected https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-job-more-well-regarded-than-initially-expected
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…
Media advocacy group Free Press analyzed 35 top corporate media and tech companies for their DEI goals and says 26 retreated from those goals in 2025 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-leg…
49ers, Bills, Raiders, Titans named top landing spots for $15 million starting receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/49ers-bills-raiders-titans-name…
🛰️ 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
Hat etwas gedauert, aber hier nun mein SF/Fantasy-Tagebuch für November/Dezember 2025. U.a. mit Andy Weir, Emily Tesh, Zootopia und Knives Out.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/…
Rust JS Tooling 2025: Why Biome, Oxc, and Rolldown Change Everything
Explore how Rust-powered tools like Biome.js and Rolldown are delivering 10x performance gains and revolutionizing the JavaScript ecosystem in 2025.
— by @…
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😇 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/
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025 (Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/25/sf-surveillance-state-…
🫗 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
How Raiders Can Find Positives After Brutal 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-can-find-positives-after-brutal-2025
Tracking NFL head coach changes: Jesse Minter to the Ravens, Robert Saleh to the Titans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46437226/2025-nfl-coaching-changes-latest-news-rumors-firings-hires
🐈⬛ ‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/25/they-are-scared-of-us-now-how-one-tropical-forest-turned-the-tide-on-log…
"Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Energy #Renewables
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…
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…
Russia occupied more than 4,000 sq km (0.72%) of Ukrainian territory in 2025 – military analysts. Around 400,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded during the year, so that cost Russia 100 soldiers per km² occupied, or 1 per hectare.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/01/8014…
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/
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions
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/
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…
❤️🩹 Self-healing nuclear fuel could improve safety, reduce waste in reactors
#energy …
😿 Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/
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
💬 Zohran Mamdani Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
#politics
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…
💗 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
Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a
ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…
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…
Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/gigadevice-s…
Analysis: DeepSeek's hedge fund parent High-Flyer posted 56.6% average returns across its quant funds in 2025, boosting potential cash available for DeepSeek (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/dee…
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users