2026-04-13 00:57:22
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby?CMP=share_btn_url
On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026) - UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES
C/2025 R3: Komet am nächtlichen Morgenhimmel zu sehen
Mit einem herkömmlichen Fernglas lässt sich derzeit am Morgen bei klarer Sicht ein Komet beobachten, der der Erde vergleichsweise nah kommt.
https://www.
Raiders Receive Big Geno Smith Take for 2026 Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/big-geno-smith-take-2026-season/
Reminder that Trump's Defense Dept secretary is a raging, unmitigated racist.
Hegseth, told an audience of several hundred military people, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’”
☑️ Pentagon's Hegseth: 'diversity is our strength' is dumbest phrase in military history | Reuters
Old fishing nets converted into energy via "Green Plasma"
Last December, Italian scientists converted 200 kg of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into #syngas – a hydrogen-rich combustible gas that can generate electricity
Since spring 2025, Marche Polytechnic Univ. in Ancona has operated Green Plasma as Italy's first system for treating marine waste
Unsorted wa…
«PDF öffnen reicht — Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader seit Monaten unter Beschuss:
Angreifer nutzen seit Ende 2025 eine Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader aus, um Daten abzugreifen und Schadcode einzuschleusen. Ein Forscher schlägt Alarm»
Jegliche Software kann schwere Sicherheitsprobleme haben und die meisten beheben dies rel. schnell. Adobe lebt wider mal in seiner eigenen Fantasiewelt.
😬
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/
250 Jahre westliche Ordnung. 1776. 1789. 1791. Aufklärung, Demokratie, Freihandel, universelle Menschenrechte. Und jetzt?
Dieter Schnaas schreibt im #Tauchsieder der #WiWo, dass 2025 und 2026 als Todesjahre dessen in die Geschichte eingehen werden, was wir 250 Jahre lang unter dem „freien West…
Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues
Western Gull, standing on a fence. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4 #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird
Pleased to live in a place where this is true (enough):
Eight states received “A” grades for LGBTQ safety based on their comprehensive pro-equality laws and low rates of hate crimes against LGBTQ people. **Only Rhode Island nabbed an A mark.**
https://www.safehome.org/data-lgbtq-state-
Курсачом, написанным в LaTeX, уже вряд ли увидишь. А кто-нибудь пробовал написать работу со всеми требованиями к оформлению, используя roff(7)?
Если кто не знает, это язык разметки, на котором был написан оригинальный Unix Programmer's Manual, и который перешёл по наследству в man-страницы.
С наборами макросов (например, -me и -ms) roff подходит для академических работ:
Alle sind herzlich eingeladen, sich an der schwarzwaldweiten Aufräumaktion zu beteiligen und die Wanderwege von Müll und Unrat zu befreien. Jede helfende Hand zählt!
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2025/…
Global renewable power capacity crossed the 5 TW (that's 5,000,000,000,000 Watts) mark last year!
It grew by 15.5 % within one year, driven by solar PV and wind.
From IRENA:
https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2
"Wie konnte das passieren? Vor zwei Jahren hat die Landeshauptstadt Dresden noch einen Millionenüberschuss erwirtschaftet. Jetzt prognostiziert Ober- und Finanzbürgermeister Dirk Hilbert (FDP) für 2025 ein Minus von 64 Millionen Euro, für 2026 sogar von 171,8 Millionen Euro."
Seit etwa 3 Jahren ist Hilbert Finanzbürgermeister. #justsaying 🤷
A new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-c…
Panthers agree to deal with Devin Lloyd, the top linebacker available https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7083934/2026/03/09/devin-lloyd-panthers-nfl-free-agency-2026/
Quite interesting that I got a #hibp notice for #Crunchyroll for a breach that they had last month.
Even though I submitted a GPDR request to have my data deleted back in August 2025. 🤔
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Gawd, Tub-o-tax has been getting ever worse. I think that the 2025 version was Vibe coded.
I've found undefined variables, sudden errors far after the program claims "checked everything", phantom inputs that it imagined, places where it says "must be equal or greater than X" but it really wants "greater than X", error messages that refer to a 1099 document without indicating which of the dozens and dozens of 1099s it is complaining about - and then di…
In 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said that it started on social media, with reported losses reaching a staggering $2.1 billion.
New FTC Data Show People Have Lost Billions to Social Media Scams
https://www.
🪵 Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
#nepal
If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/
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 National Hurricane Center's #NHC Forecast Verification Report for the 2025 #Hurricane Season is published. https://www.n…
Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event. Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to America’s democratic values. Every Monday, New Yorkers come together — rain or shine, hot or cold — to draw strength from each other, and…
Hakkuiden kokonaismäärä jäi vuonna 2025 edellisten vuosien tasolle https://www.luke.fi/fi/uutiset/hakkuiden-kokonaismaara-jai-vuonna-2025-edellisten-vuosien-tasolle
Yhä suurempi osa puun kuiva-aineesta päätyy energiaksi
POL-OS: Polizeiinspektion Osnabrück veröffentlicht die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025 Osnabrück (ots) - Die Polizeiinspektion Osnabrück hat die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) für das Jahr 2025 vorgestellt. Mit 32.191 registrierten Straftaten bewegt sich die Kriminalität trotz eines leichten Anstiegs weiterhin auf dem Niveau ... https://ww…
Here’s the underlying data source:
https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Challenger-Report-October-2025.pdf
A bit thin on methodology, shall we say, so take it as you will.
2/
Finally saw "Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning".
Not a fan.
It was like MI for Fast & Furious fans. Bad guys were stupidly over the top & the end seemed like Armageddon & MI:3 had a baby.
▶️ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie...
https://
Should I Switch From #Git to #Jujutsu
https://etodd.io/2025/10/02/should-i-switch-from-gi…
"Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Alcatraz has been practically frozen in time since the day that the storied prison saw its last inmate 62 years ago.
When the federal government closed the facility, officials had deemed it a deteriorated relic that was insufficient for housing inmates.
Alcatraz closed in part because it was far more expensive to run a prison on an island than on the mainland since everything had to be shipped in.
The small number of prisoners made the extra expense even more questionable…
Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Proposal to Protect Puppies in Florida https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-protect-puppies-florida
RE: https://mastodon.social/@accesstive_/116131242683166202
Just a few months ago I found this company might have been fabricating reviews and ratings:
要不是这周的《字谈字畅》我都不知道 text-autospace: normal 已经 Baseline 2025 Newly Available 了。可惜 text-autospace: replace 还没有浏览器在做。
#CSS
added some excellent handbills/posters to the modern lovers chronology, courtesy of gary johnson of rockaway records. (labelle cancelled at my father's place, replaced by screamin' jay hawkins, which makes mildly more sense.) https://jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-modern-lovers-1…
A study of websites created since 2022 found 1 in 3 are AI-generated text. And their characteristics follow my prediction that AI will act as compression algorithm on cultural heritage.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito…
Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
RE: https://bewegung.social/@lobbycontrol/116126317343802006
Falls ihr Euch wundert, warum die SPD bei dem irrsinnigen Heizungsgesetz mitmacht...
Meldung 2025:
Hey @Codeberg, what's up with your services? https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg shows the downtime, but the latest news to the incidents is from November 2025...
Anyhow, i hope you get your
The abstract capacity to consciously predict, simulate, and actively prepare for an uncertain future can be argued to be humanity’s primary adaptive strength. However, and perhaps uniquely, it also carries with it the existential certainty of inevitable mortality...
Dor-Ziderman Y, Schweitzer Y, Nave O, Trautwein F-M, Fulder S, Lutz A, et al. (2025): Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance. Neuroscience of Consc…
Vercel's CEO likes war criminals. Now he wants your code.
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/vercels-ceo-likes-war-criminals-now-he-wants-your-code/
Cowboys ‘Excited’ to Get Struggling Rookie Back Under New Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-excited-to-get-struggling-rookie-back-under-new-coach/
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
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
And is it trickling down?
CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/01/ceo-pay-workers-minimum-wages?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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
RE: https://schach.social/@schachjugend/116025053117951046
Unser Jahresbericht 2025 - jetzt auch mit Haushaltsabschluss und zukünftiger Etatplanung:
Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus
Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/
“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…
since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE
Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
https://youtu.be/LPHrJRglnd4?t=403
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event.
Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resist…
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:
Free link --> A Democrat for the Trump Era - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/jasmine-crockett-democrats/683652/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3il9Yroz0IJ6lNuCh03g3o4 …
An article about using "AI" for drug discovery (that fails to distinguish ML from LLMs from…), but nicely profiles Matt Might's work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html
POL-AUR: Terminänderung Einladung: Pressetermin zur Vorstellung der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS) 2025 der Polizeiinspektion Aurich/Wittmund Aurich/Wittmund (ots) - Terminänderung Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, die Polizeiinspektion Aurich/Wittmund stellt die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) 2025 vor. Aus diesem Anlass laden wir Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von Redaktionen ein ...
IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured ~41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share, which stood at 55% with ~2.2M cards (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines
Glaciers rapidly declining, with extreme losses in 2025 #environment
Filing: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' 2025 compensation rose 4% YoY to $35.15M, and new co-CEO Mike Cavanagh had a pay package of $71.76M, about 2.5x his 2024 pay (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-brian-…
LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wanted-head-of
Both `caret-color` and `caret-shape` getting some attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DSNiSKd-Y
In my role as CSS buzzkill, however, I try to give more context on use, risks, user prefs, CSSWG dismissiveness, etc:
Brian Schottenheimer Drops Hint On ‘Green Dot’ Linebacker in 2026 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-hint-green-dot/
"US adds 26.6 GW of solar in 2025 as renewables dominate"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
Raiders’ Keyron Crawford Sends Strong Message to Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/keyron-crawford-strong-message-maxx-crosby/
Podcasting company Red Seat Ventures, bought by Fox Corp. in 2025, is building a membership program for the ultra-wealthy, focused on hospitality and events (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/31/red-seat-ventures-membership
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
When DHS, USCIS, and DOGE announced the overhaul of the SAVE program,
they explicitly linked the effort to a campaign to combat the “taint” of noncitizen voter fraud,
a long-standing claim tied to the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
By all appearances, the administration is poised to use the SAVE program to prop up these false claims,
and sympathetic local officials may deploy SAVE to concoct evidence.
This move poses serious risks to vo…
Future says Google traffic fell 20% in the six months to March 31, a sharp acceleration on the year to September 2025; FUTR falls 25% to its lowest since 2017 (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/why-future-share-…
Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…
Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet
Three million trees were planted by the UK Government last year…800,000 have already died
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets (Scilla Alecci/ICIJ)
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/fake-journal…
Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/india-ai-boom-pushe…
Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/meta-kicks-off…
Trotz steigendem #Stromverbrauch sind die globalen Emissionen 2025 leicht gesunken.
Laut #Ember wurde das Nachfrageplus vollständig durch #ErneuerbareEnergien gedeckt, vor allem d…
Netflix feels comfortable raising prices knowing customers can downgrade to its ad tier; in 2026, Netflix is on track to double 2025's $1.5B in ad sales (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026…
Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/anthropic-outspends-openai-biggest-lobbyin…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Roku launches a standalone app for Howdy, its $2.99/month ad-free streaming service with ~10K hours of content, in the US; Howdy debuted in August 2025 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/roku-launches-a-standalone…
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:
Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-op…