2026-09-19 15:00:05
On Website Technicals (2025-07) - Tech updates: heating schedule thoughts, FLAC bot good behaviour but RSS badness continues, 4kW clamp. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-98.html
A team of companies and universities from the UK, Spain, Estonia and Sweden is exploring
whether old satellites could be taken apart and reused directly in space.
Their work, known as DEXTER, was launched in 2025 and is led by Leonard Felicetti,
a space engineering associate professor at Cranfield University in the UK.
“We are cluttering space with new objects,” said Felicetti.
“What we want to do is to try and reuse the material that is already there"
Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …
Filing: Newsquest now has 159,000 paying digital subscribers, up 18% YoY, with online subscription revenue up 20% in FY 2025; overall revenue fell 4.5% to £192M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/newsquest-accounts-2025/
AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/business/dealbook/clay-ai-fundraisin…
Looking at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/732341/trump-claims-that-declassified-documents-show-us-election-vulnerabilities it's worth noting that the Heritage Foundation wrote the Project 2025 plan, and they're …
Nordrhein-Westfalen hat seine #Treibhausgas-Emissionen seit 1990 um 53 Prozent reduziert.
2025 sanken sie gegenüber dem Vorjahr um weitere vier Prozent auf 171,5 Millionen Tonnen CO2-Äquivalente. Rückgänge gab es besonders in #Industrie,
Been listening to a lot of private music again lately, Deftones' damn masterpiece from 2025. Deftones are wild because it's like, what if we put The Cure, Radiohead, Weezer and Helmet together? 😂
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfS6y9lIweW5abSzL3fu5q7pOgQ-QWmb…
Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025 (David Morris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/emmys-2026-ratings-viewers-1236863148/
August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
Saving Electricity (2025) - Meter readings at home #defossilisation #fossilFree - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-el…
Cowboys RB Javonte Williams Has Favorable Matchup in Week 1 vs. Giants https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-favorable-matchup-nfl-week-1-giants
'The rights of asylum-seekers and other human rights were curbed as recently as November 2025. Just a few months later the Home Secretary has returned with even more draconian curbs on those rights.
'This is a pattern we have seen or some time. The false cliche was that “we can never talk about immigration.” In the past 20 years, there have been nine major Acts of Parliament in this area.'
Diane Abbott
Why we should oppose the Immigration and Asylum Bill | Morning…
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo contacts list has reportedly included Evan Baehr,
a former advisor to Peter Thiel.
(It was Baehr & Thiel who conceived of the Teneo Network,
which is now led by Leonard Leo.)
https://prospect.org/2025/02/05/2025-0
Imst, Tirol, Austria 2025
#fensterfreitag #windowfriday
A look at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's tense relationship with financial media, sources say after Bloomberg's 2025 story on his two "principal residences" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/13/2026
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/mic…
Extreme heat linked to deaths of over 40,000 people in England between 1988 and 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/26/deaths-england-hottest-days-extreme-weather
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Kittle, Bosa off the injury report; will play in Week 1 vs. Rams in Australia
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kittle-bosa-off-the-injury-report-will-play-in-week-1-v…
#AntiAKW Illegale #Atomtransporte durch den #Hamburg er Hafen!
Im Zeitraum vom 30.09.2025 bis 22.05.2026 gab es keine Genehmigung für den Container Terminal
from my link log —
Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing.
https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
saved 2020-12-27 https://
Het artikel had ik al eens geschreven en gepubliceerd, maar in het kader van het testen van 'flat-file' CMS Publii nog maar eens onder de aandacht brengen:
https://kamasys.nl/la-cronica/frente-a-la-sagrada-familia.html
(juli 2025)
Publii is leuk s…
Suomen kauppakeskukset
#espoo #omistus
https://www.kauppakeskusyhdistys.fi…
POL-CUX: Diverse Verkehrsdelikte im Bereich der Kommissariate Hemmoor und Schiffdorf - Kontrolle in Beverstedt bringt diverse Delikte ans Licht Cuxhaven (ots) - Hechthausen. Am Samstag (05.09.2026) wurde gegen 02:50 Uhr ein 23-jähriger E-Scooter Fahrer auf der Hauptstraße in Hechthausen kontrolliert. An seinem E-Scooter war ein Versicherungskennzeichen für den Zeitraum 2025 angebracht, ...
California invests big in battery energy storage — and leaves rolling blackouts behind
Over the last few years, California has quietly but dramatically increased the resiliency of its electrical grid through a significant expansion in battery energy storage.
https://www.…
The UK Observer raised £10M, diluting The Scott Trust's 9% stake; since its sale to Tortoise in 2025, print circulation has fallen from ~114K to ~90K (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0e6d6b07-93ed-4f81-9e53-86fae05e9f9c
@… I might have run into a bug in #BSSG. I have assigned image in the frontmatter, and they render on the first page and on the single post page, but fail to render from page 2 onward.
For example,
How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
https…
Cowboys RB Javonte Williams Has Favorable Matchup in Week 1 vs. Giants https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-favorable-matchup-nfl-week-1-giants
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2025 (Census.gov)
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/income-poverty-health-insurance-coverage.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p157#a260915p157
A San Francisco-based federal immigration judge was fired
after she questioned Trump administration legal tactics and resisted a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fast-track the deportation of a teen asylum seeker, a lawsuit claims.
In the complaint, filed Thursday in federal court,
Chloe Dillon alleges she was fired roughly 48 hours after sending a message to a superior
relating her concerns over an August 2025 incident.
In the message, Dillon…
Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
@… A description or name?
For a description, `<figure>` / `<figcaption>` is probably best:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brie
Den Solar-Boykott zu begründen wird immer schwieriger: 17,4 % mehr Solarstrom 2025, 250 Mrd. Euro Klimaschäden vermieden, 500 Mio. Tonnen CO₂ eingespart. Niklas Engelking / @… hat die Zahlen. Reiche & Konsorten dürfen jetzt erklären, warum wir dennoch mehr Gas brauchen. #Solar
Former analyst, NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez plans guilty plea to charges stemming from fight outside hotel https://www.nfl.com/news/former-analyst-nfl-quarterback-mark-sanchez-plans-guilty-plea-to-charges-stemming…
Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e3774b6-52e5-4b8a-be76-0bb87495e1f0
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 1980-2025 🇲🇳 #mongolia #asia #nomad #trendingsong - YouTube
ESPN ranks Cowboys QB Dak Prescott lower than 2025 stats would suggest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/13/espn-dak-prescott-top-10-quarterbacks-2026/90899104007/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
keiyaA:
🎵 take it (6 Music Session, 20 Dec 2025)
#keiyaA
https://keiyaa.bandcamp.com/track/take-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZkjTRSa7Ha2cf29okELYh
gestern eine #dokuwiki-instanz geupdated. auch wenn mir der name der vorversion besser gefallen hat. 🙃
The relaxation of the 2025 CO₂ emission targets was made possible by the promise that new, smaller and ‘more affordable’ electric cars would come onto the market in the coming years. Now it’s here: a ‘boring’ and relatively affordable electric car.
Und wenn ein Windrad außer Betrieb geht, kann man das Turbinengehäuse als Tiny House weiterverwenden: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/05/12/blade-made-former-wind-turbine-micro-home/
Leider nur eine Design-Sudie, kein Fertigprodukt.
KEHS talk: My Home Heat Pump Installation (2025) - Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on retrofitting from gas. - https://www.earth.org.uk/KEHS-2025-talk-Home-Heat-Pump-Installation.html
Palm oil firms kept zero-deforestation pledges, but forests saw little extra benefit https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/palm-oil-firms-kept-zero-deforestation-pledges-but-forests-saw-little-extra-benefit/
Sources: WPP plans to cut up to 1,000 more jobs in H2 2026, after cutting ~11,000 jobs since the start of 2025, as AI reshapes the ad industry (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/91395fb6-1782-41b2-82e5-e2a40d754e3f
Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08690
arXiv:2608.08690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries to disclose information on the minerals' origins. Concerns have been raised that the regulation may have induced a de facto embargo through avoidance of sourcing from the covered region. However, how the price responsiveness of mineral exports evolved under changing institutional and market conditions remains insufficiently understood. Since tungsten production in the covered region is concentrated almost entirely in Rwanda, this study examines the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports from January 2009 to December 2023.
Because missing export quantity data prevent continuous observation of export unit values, we apply the identification approach of Nakano and Nishimura (2025), combining monthly mirror trade data from UN Comtrade with exchange rates and a world average price. An importer fixed-effects model is estimated using export value as the dependent variable, with the sample divided into four periods according to changes in the institutional and market environment.
The results reveal substantial temporal variation in price responsiveness. A statistically significant negative price response is observed in Period 1 ($\eta=-20.814$, $p<0.01$), disappears in Period 2 ($\eta=1.814$, $p>0.10$), reappears in Period 3 ($\eta=-5.277$, $p<0.01$), and disappears again in Period 4 ($\eta=0.440$, $p>0.10$). Coefficient-difference tests confirm significant changes between Periods 1 and 2 ($p=0.0021$) and between Periods 3 and 4 ($p=0.0006$). These findings suggest that the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports varied substantially over time rather than following a uniform trajectory after the regulation.
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France's wildfires already are the most widespread in modern records. (In other 'news', climate deniers in the UK and from the Trump regime deny the severity of the situation).
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-europe-is-not-hav…
Cowboys Urged to Make Big Contract Move on ‘High-Upside’ Playmaker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ryan-flournoy-contract-extension/
The United States Constitution puts control over elections in the hands of the states
and grants Congress the ability to pass federal election legislation.
It gives no explicit authority to the executive branch.
But in early February, Trump said he wanted the Republican-led federal government to “nationalize” or “take over” the running of elections.
“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” he said.
Trump had already, in March 2025, signed…
novel - Slow Gods (2025) by Claire North is a story of the struggles and deaths that occur after a superintelligent entity sends a message to all the human and alien civilizations within 80 light-years of a binary star, telling them that in 100 years the binary will collapse into a black hole, and all of you people are in the fatal blast radius.
https://felix.dognebula.com/dev/slow-gods.html
#VLC4 a enfin une date de sortie officielle pour décembre 2026. Je viens de voir ^^ #VLC #OpenSource #FOSS
J'…
Why Cowboys Offensive Tackle Concerns Might Be Overblown https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/why-dallas-cowboys-offensive-tackle-concerns-might-be-overblown
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The Planets and Star Wars
From the 2025 BBC Proms: Holst's The Planets, John Williams' Star Wars Suite and Caroline Shaw's The Observatory.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zcym
"9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year"
#US #USA #America #Education
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
HAAi:
🎵 Stitches (6 Music Session, 7 Oct 2025)
#HAAi
https://haai.bandcamp.com/track/stitches
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RsfEGhEPOaoKyzq65V8p3
Cowboys' Dak Prescott, Brian Schottenheimer Snubbed From Top 10 QB-Coach Duos https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-brian-schottenheimer-snubbed-top-10-qb-coach-duos
Cowboys' Dak Prescott, Brian Schottenheimer Snubbed From Top 10 QB-Coach Duos https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-brian-schottenheimer-snubbed-top-10-qb-coach-duos
The United Nations reported this week that
more than 117.8 million people were forcibly displaced due to conflict and violence worldwide in 2025.
One in every 70 people in the world are now forcibly displaced..
Disaster relief agency ShelterBox USA is delivering vital supplies across the globe as the United Nations recognizes refugees forced to flee due to conflict, persecution and violence on
World Refugee Day, Saturday June 20.
“On World Refugee Day, we hon…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ryanjess77/116967826500999130
'Afgelopen vijf jaar [aug 2025] is de Nederlandse aanschaf van Israëlische wapens geëxplodeerd.
Met een pakket orders ter waarde van 1,9 miljard euro is Nederland een van de belangrijkste klanten van de Israëlische wapenindustrie geworden. De helft daarvan is besteld na de start van het Israëlische offensief in Gaza in oktober 2023. De genocide heeft daar kortom geen enkele rem op gezet.'
https://paxvoorvrede.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Policy-Paper-Hoe-Nederland-de-Israelische-wapenindustrie-spekt.pdf (PDF)
Een verbod op goederen uit illegale nederzettingen als afleidingsmanoeuvre voor de miljarden die we aan Israëlische wapens afnemen.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sylvester & Soulwax:
🎵 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Soulwax for Despacio remix)
#Sylvester #Soulwax
https://sylvester.bandcamp.com/track/you-make-me-feel-mighty-real-soulwax-for-despacio-remix-remastered-2025
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jUDKdgTo3kMfGIfeQQEMw
Ryan Flournoy looking forward to 'playing freely' in year 3 with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ryan-flournoy-looking-forward-to-playing-freely-in-year-3-with-cowboys
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
keiyaA:
🎵 take it (6 Music Session, 20 Dec 2025)
#keiyaA
https://keiyaa.bandcamp.com/track/take-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZkjTRSa7Ha2cf29okELYh
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Annahstasia:
🎵 Slow (6 Music Session, 29 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/slow-live-at-glasshaus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5i5Rt40zinWyID6QGp8gso
Harter Brocken: Die Versuchung – #ARD #DasErste #crimi #krimi #HarterBrocken
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Tyler Ballgame:
🎵 Got A New Car (6 Music Session, 15 Sep 2025)
#TylerBallgame
https://tylerballgame.bandcamp.com/track/got-a-new-car
https://open.spotify.com/track/16aedSY0QWzG99gvKKqK7B
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Suede:
🎵 Disintegrate (6 Music Session, 1 Sep 2025)
#Suede
https://open.spotify.com/track/527x8zKAZzQNCc28xhPYIc
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Nehizena Arase:
🎵 Ekhoe (Edit - 2025 Remaster)
#NehizenaArase
https://unearthedafricanrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/ekhoe-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xEEYb8PFMyIoKR979rVBP
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Makeshift Art Bar:
🎵 Birthday Party (6 Music Session, 4 February 2025)
#MakeshiftArtBar
https://makeshiftartbar.bandcamp.com/track/birthday-party
https://open.spotify.com/track/1izOkBHkWXSgOKz4ijDKBl
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 Don't Throw Rocks (6 Music Session, 17 Dec 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4B31jv3HqAJ3yYDlpo5ZYm
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Nubiyan Twist:
🎵 Lights Out (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#NubiyanTwist
https://aduki.bandcamp.com/track/nubiyan-twist-lights-out-garage-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wRaWtogW3IXgNBrL2jqZ8