Tootfinder

i love this country, but we need to fight the enemy within, which somehow is everyone but me and also the majority

CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says the Winklevosses asked Trump to pause his confirmation after he refused to make promises "rectifying" a prior Gemini settlement (Declan Harty/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/10/trump-wall…

"Nicht der ideale Weg": "Hyper Light Breaker" stirbt im Early Access
Das Indie-Studio Heart Machine entlässt Angestellte und beendet die Entwicklung von "Hyper Light Breaker". Zumindest ein Update soll aber noch kommen.

Noted: Price of maintaining complete territorial independence: 16 F35s
Expect Carney to buck up soon enough and call it “pragmatic deal making”
https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115354018043926876

Ukraine says Russia aims to widen Zvereve salient near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/ukraine-says-russia-aims-to.html

Alright, time to actually look at my :signal: messages that have piled up.

“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

#ARD #moma gibt zu, dass #Banksy eine Frau sein kann.

AOL announced that it will discontinue its dial-up internet service next month,
marking the end of a 34-year offering that is synonymous with the early days of the internet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-i…

AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.

‼️Die #Petition
"Erweiterung des Leistungsumfangs der GKV im Zusammenhang mit Prostataerkrankungen vom 22.06.2025"
hat bisher 79 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29921 Unterschriften bis zum 20.10.2025.

Spotify Privacy Quick Guide (Asking for a Friend) https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/09/06/spotify-privacy-quick-guide-asking-for-a-friend/

Spotify Privacy Quick Guide (Asking for a Friend)
Spotify’s defaults trade convenience for exposure. This quick guide explains what Spotify collects, why recent policy changes matter, and the specific settings that curb public-by-default leaks, ad…

For those fretting about Microsoft's inevitable further enshittification of the already shit Github, I can report (having ditched it the day Microsoft announced its acquisition) that Forgejo (#libre

Oh no! My beloved dinosaur, the cassowary, has been kicked to the curb, once again unfairly out of the running for the Guardian's bird of the year comp. 😭🦖
Looks like it's now up to my favourite chorister, the magpie, once again.
#ByeByeBirdie #BirdOfTheYear

I have complicated feelings that are not entirely dissimilar to Popehat’s thread here, but are…well…more complicated.
1/ https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lyiwvin3g22n

It took two days, but finally had my first fika at the new place. All my gear was spread across boxes and bins over five rooms and three floors, but I did it! Tiny victories.
#espresso #coffee

Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.

Abschlusstagpanel @… über Akademische Freiheit.
NRW Ministerin Ina Brandes (CDU) weißt die Teilnehmer gleich darauf hin, dass es nicht die Aufgabe der Wissenschaft sei, die Demokratie zu verteidigen. Warum sie das macht, ist mir komplett unklar.

Fascinating observations on EVs from David Fickling:
- High adoption rates in developing countries
- EVs pencil out unsubsidized
- Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to In India and Pakistan
- Switching half of India’s car fleet to EVs could eliminate its current account deficit
- Rich countries are sabotaging their own energy transitions

Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/knowledge-is-human
On 20 October, the British Library is joining forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on ope…

Knowledge is Human: The Information Ecosystem in the age of AI
A summit to mark the role of human-created, open knowledge in the age of AI and our collective responsibility to safeguard knowledge integrity and sustainability.

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/yellow-fever-deaths-reported-among-threatened-captive-monkeys-in-colombia/

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia
An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight deaths among four monkey species in southern Colombia’s Putumayo department, researchers note. Six of the individuals were in captivity: one white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons), […]

Wow, FileMerge not only has a new icon, but someone finally fixed the "Use Selection for Find" (Command-E) menu item that's been raising an "unrecognized selector" exception for several years.
Thank you to the team at Apple for giving this ancient NeXT-era tool some love!

Arjen Lubach legt uit waarom het beeld dat de VVD verspreidt over het geleidelijk afbouwen van de hypotheekrenteaftrek op geen enkele manier klopt.
#VVD #hypotheekrenteaftrek #factcheck …

Strange how aggressive and upset people can get in response to any suggestion of hope or optimism.
You don’t have to accept when other people tell you you’re powerless, you know. Even if the voices in your head repeat it.

Mother, sister of Charlotte stabbing suspect describe history of mental illness - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-sister-charlotte-stabbing-suspect-describe-history-mental/story?id=125451590

Finally a useful magic quadrant
Thanks to @… for the discovery.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability

- Coming home
- Copying all photos & videos to the NAS
- Getting a warning that 90% storage is consumed 😳
- doing digital cleanup...

Scoop: Trump plans leaders summit on Gaza during Egypt visit next week (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-gaza-summit-egypt-world-leaders
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p93#a251010p93

Les photos valent le coup, mais deuxième mention en deux articles de Facebook :(
« Je vois mon fils tellement épanoui, lui qui a toujours été un enfant un peu Š part » : les petits perdreaux de la photo
…

« Je vois mon fils tellement épanoui, lui qui a toujours été un enfant un peu à part » : les petits perdreaux de la photo
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (3/7). Lubin Godin, 13 ans, et Corentin Revel, 15 ans, depuis leur plus jeune âge passionnés de nature, entraînent leurs familles respectives dans leurs périples à la recherche d’animaux, et parcourent festivals et expositions.

Harsh … but also called for. https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/115186129424152505

from my link log —
Writing a C compiler.
https://norasandler.com/2022/03/29/Write-a-C-Compiler-the-Book.html
saved 2025-06-11

🚲 The Wotancraft Rider V2 Photography Sling is Inspired by Cycling Bags
https://petapixel.com/2025/08/21/the-wotancraft-rider-v2-photography-sling-is-inspired-by-cycling-bags/

The Wotancraft Rider V2 Photography Sling is Inspired by Cycling Bags
Wotancraft upgraded its Rider series sling, an expandable shoulder bag originally designed as a cycling messenger.

It's probably time for Trump to send the national guard into Utah (against the wishes of any of their electeds) to stem the unbridled violence that we're seeing there. https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/115181773543464046

i put so much active effort over the years into communicating closer to an average person, not sounding like some stuffy pretentious academic like when i was 15, but now i sorta wanna relearn aspects of that. the aesthetic of being a smart person people should listen to, at least depending on where its applied, is a tool like any other

@… Yes, absolutely. If you DM me an email address, I will forward it on. (My partner is also not on Mastodon.)

Encuentro que es genial el sistema de "paga lo que quieras" por la música en Bandcamp. He comprado varios discos de bandas independientes locales y hasta dan ganas de aportar así. Ojalš que mšs artistas se sumen para hacer frente a la "dictadura" de spotify.
#Bandcamp #Spotify

An aspect of #ClimateLiteracy that isn't normally considered, and maybe should be.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

The #Perseverance press conference panel consists of 5 NASA managers and 1 Mars researcher - so the topic is likely some follow-up to "the
discovery of a potential #biosignature" in an outcrop reported earlier this year in #spectroscopy method to hunt for microbial markers was discussed in March in https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00392.html

Der Blick gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen verengt sich immer mehr auf die Technologie. Auf diese Weise wird alles Nicht-Technologische ausgeblendet, was aber fundamental wäre, um selbst das Technologische zu verstehen:
> The Technical needs to exclude women in daycares, women in cafes, women in grocery stores and now even women in labs in order to continue its own existence. It needs to be separate from all other areas of work in order to get different rules for itself.
Dara…

Why I Cannot Be Technical
With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I understand why it happens. I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of

got lots of votes for my proposals around #firmware 👀

#CakeABookOrPlay #HashtagGames
"Cakelet"
-by William Cakespeare
"The Caking"
-by Stephen Cake
"Thus Caked Zarathustra"
-by Frederick Cheesecake

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

Wow. I didn't know the history of R, actually, it's co-creator, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland, of Māori descent.

A true global public good used by millions.
'...he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.'

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero - History of Data Science
Many inventors seek fame and fortune, or at least recognition. This isn’t the case for New Zealand statistician and associate professor George Ross Ihaka. Despite being the co-creator of R, an open-source programming language used by millions and loved by the likes of Google and the Bank of America, he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.

President Trump promised we’d see everything. But when the Epstein files were unsealed, Trump’s name was missing—blacked out by the same DOJ that pledged transparency.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theintellectualistofficial/p/president-tru…

President Trump Promised Full Disclosure. But His Name Was Blacked Out.
Donald Trump vowed the public would “see everything.” But when the binders opened, his name had vanished.

2025 NFL preseason, Week 1: What We Learned from Sunday's doubleheader https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-preseason-week-1-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-doubleheader

"Battlefield 6" angespielt: Peng, du bist tot!
Alles beim Alten bei "Battlefield 6": Große Schlachten, viel Chaos und eine Einzelspielerkampagne zum Vergessen.
https://www.heise.…

yes, confront your bully in high school, have him sit through school meetings for hurtful statements, otherwise he might turn into steven miller

YouTube rolls out multi-language audio after a two-year pilot, saying creators saw 25% of watch time coming from views in their video's non-primary language (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/yout

YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators | TechCrunch
YouTube's multi-language audio feature is rolling out to millions of creators, helping them reach a wider global audience.

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/ukrainian-journalist-roshchyna-posthumously-named.html

This is when the cats decided to join humanity in the fight against the machines

Charly Kirk ist nun unsterblich. Ob er das gewollt hat? Oder wars eine Aufführung von "Die Erschießung des Ohrs von Donald Trump" die furchtbar schief gegangen ist, weil der Requisitör die Platzpatronen mit echter Munition verwechselt hat?

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands,
for a mission that its flight crew knew would make history
‘My teeth told me’:
What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
https://www.washingtonpost.co…

‘My teeth told me’: What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
Eighty years ago, a group of B-29 bombers flew a world-altering mission. Here are memories of the crew.

Vor einiger Zeit gab es eine #Bundestagspetition die eine Anhebung des #Pflaschenpfand​es gefordert hat, um #Flaschensammler finanziell zu unterstützen. Allein das wirft ein sc…

Mehrwegflaschen: Stadtwerkeverband fordert höheres Flaschenpfand
Pfandflaschen werden nach Angaben des Verbands kommunaler Unternehmen immer häufiger im öffentlichen Raum stehen gelassen. Der Verband fordert deshalb Reformen.

Moorden op politici zijn afschuwelijk, juist de mensen waar je het meeste mee oneens bent moet je het beste beschermen, tegelijk is het verschil in hoe wordt omgegaan met de moord op het gekozen parlementslid, Melissa Hortman en de activist Charlie Kirk wel erg groot.
#charliekirk #melissahortman

Maine Gov. Janet Mills to run for Senate, seeking to dislodge Susan Collins (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/10/janet-mills-maine-senate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p112#a251010p112

Strengere EU-Regeln für politische Werbung treten in Kraft
Facebook, Instagram und YouTube zeigen wohl künftig keine Parteienwerbung mehr an. Grund dafür ist laut den US-Konzernen eine EU-Verordnung.
https://www…

Irgendein Unsinn wird medial von Rechtsaußen in Umlauf gebracht und ist nächstes Jahr Gesetz, doch gute, klimaschützende oder soziale Maßnahmen brauchen Ewigkeiten bis sie verwirklicht sind, und sind selbst mit einer parlamentarischen Mehrheit irgendwie nie real. Warum ist das so?

from my link log —
A proper x86 assembler in Haskell using the Escardó-Oliva functional.
http://blog.vmchale.com/article/escardo-oliva-functional
saved 2025-08-06

⚡ Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
#technology

Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an inexpensive device that generates enough electricity to power a calculator using only waste walnut shells and drops of water. Their work is published in the journal Energy & Environmental Materials.

Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats

Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} – Nicola Rennie
Adding social media icons to your data visualisation is a great, concise way to put your name on your work, and make it easy for people to find your profile from your work. This blog post explains how to add social media icons to {ggplot2} charts.

Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Energy counterattack: how Ukraine can leave Russia without electricity | Weapons of War with Starsky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/energy-counterattack-how-ukraine-can.html

FAQ: Sammelklage gegen Meta vor Hamburger Gericht
Die Verbraucherzentrale wirft Meta Datenschutzverstöße vor. Am Freitag beschäftigt sich das Hamburger Oberlandesgericht damit. Geschädigte könnten profitieren.
https://www.…

So, there're a couple communities I want to be part of which force me to use Slack. What a puke-in-the-mouth experience. Constantly being advertised to by the system (which is holding the community's content hostage - it is a ransomware business model). Just got a message telling me to 'go pro' so I can use 'AI' to summarise what I've missed. Get into the sea, Slack, and sink to the bottom where you belong. And yes, there are many others who should join you and Da…

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina
Argentine President Javier Milei,
a staunch ally of Donald Trump,
hailed the initiative
-- even as some MAGA supporters grumble.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing Thursday a
$20 billion economic support package
-- and the purchase of Argentine pesos
aimed at stabilising the South American nation’s volatile markets.
“Lending money to Argentina is easy;
getting repaid is what is hard,”

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms
The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

Die #Klimakrise trifft auf fossile #Autobauer und #Politiker:
Die EU-Kommission startet gemeinsam mit der

EU-Kommission: Initative für günstige E-Autos angestoßen
EU-Kommission und Autoindustrie haben eine Initiative gestartet, um günstige Elektroautos aus europäischer Produktion voranzubringen.

In a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI’s Growth Leaves Financial Regulators Struggling to Catch Up
Regulators are still at an “early stage” in their efforts to track the risks posed to the financial system by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, global financial watchdogs warned on Friday.

Azerbaijan releases Russian propagandist as tensions with Moscow ease: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/azerbaijan-releases-russian-propagandist-as.html

Peru's Boluarte Ousted and Jerí Sworn in as President (Marcelo Rochabrun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/peru-s-boluarte-ousted-from-office-as-ex-allies-back-impeachment
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p4#a251010p4

This looks helpful: #rstats #optimization

Deutschland holt dritten Platz bei Cyber-Sicherheitsmeisterschaft
Kryptoanalyse, forensische Rätsel und Teamgeist: Deutschlands Nachwuchs glänzte bei der Cyber-Challenge. Was das Female Bootcamp für die Zukunft bedeutet.

The Senate on Thursday night approved its $925 billion version of the
National Defense Authorization Act,
the annual must-pass Pentagon policy blueprint,
setting up what is expected to be a lengthy negotiation with the House to finalize the bill.

The legislation, deadlocked for weeks over various partisan disagreements,
advanced by a margin of 77 to 20 following amendment votes earlier in the evening.

Senate and House staff will next reconcile their bills…

Senate passes $925 billion defense bill, setting up House talks
Staff from both chambers must now negotiate final, compromise legislation ahead of a vote expected later this fall.

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsc…

Analysis: in 2025, tech companies have raised about $157B in the US bond markets, up 70% from last year, as debt seeps into every corner of the AI economy (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

Elektronische Patientenakte: E‑Rezept-Enthusiasten präsentieren Positionspapier
Die "E-Rezept-Enthusiasten" fordern nach dem Start der elektronischen Patientenakte unkomplizierte Identifikationsprozesse, KI-Analysen und mehr.

The collapse of Democratic lawfare in Michigan (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/09/michigan-fake-electors-dana-nessel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p34#a250910p34

Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/blockchain-lender-figu…

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.
Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.
Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.
-- Sen Bernie Sanders
https://

Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov)
Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million. Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals. Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet Offshore-Standort.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer

TUM: Roboter mauert klimaoptimierte Wände
Klimaoptimierte Wände lediglich aus Ziegeln aufzubauen, erfordert eine hohe Präzision, die menschliche Maurer nicht erreichen. Ein Roboter kann helfen.
https://www.

After declaring D.C. 'safe,' Trump dines out in the city (Matt Viser/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/trump-dinner-dc-restaurant/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p32#a250910p32

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/open-ai-…

When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings.
The experience was terrifying.
But some of the employees were not particularly shocked.
“I’m actually surprised it didn’t happen sooner,”
a nearly 20-year veteran of the agency told me.
(She, like others I spoke with for this article, requested anonymity out of fear of losing her job.)
This was, in one sense, the first attack o…

CDC Staffers Saw the Violence Coming
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

Der Bau von sieben #Windrädern auf dem Zeller Blauen wurde genehmigt.
Die Anlagen vom Typ Vestas V-172 mit je 7,2 MW dürfen in #Bürchau, #Pfaffenberg und

Sieben Windräder auf Zeller Blauen: Landratsamt Lörrach genehmigt den Bau
Das Landratsamt Lörrach hat die Genehmigung für den Bau von sieben Windrädern auf dem Zeller Blauen erteilt. Alle dazu notwendigen Vorgaben seien erfüllt.

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal
has been identified as the shooterwho opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident,
had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire.
The man, identified a…

Union wants statement against COVID vaccine misinformation after CDC shooting
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associat…

Charlie Kirk shot while visiting Utah university; Trump says, 'We all must pray' (Meredith Deliso/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/charlie-kirk-shot-event-utah-university-jd-vance/story?id=125451514
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p113#a250910p113

Der neue „Digitale #Klimaatlas Region #Stuttgart“ liefert jetzt online detaillierte Daten zu Hitze- und Starkregenszenarien, kombiniert mit Infos zu sozialer Verwundbarkeit und Schadenspotenzialen.
Er richtet sich an Stadt- und Regionalplaner:innen, um klimaangepasste Bau- und

Für resiliente Planung: „Digitaler Klimaatlas Region Stuttgart“
Wie wirken sich die Folgen des Klimawandels – Starkregen und Hitze – auf die Bevölkerung und Infrastruktur aus? Dazu liefert der neue Klimaatlas für die Stuttgarter Stadt- und Regionalplanung Daten und Szenarien. Entwickelt wurde das digitale Tool vom Projekt ISAP, das vom BMFTR gefördert wird. Es berücksichtigt auch die (umwelt-) ökonomischen Effekte unterschiedlicher Anpassungsoptionen. Dafür führte das am Projekt beteiligte Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) Um…

Sources: Microsoft's US data center crunch will last through H1 2026, longer than previously outlined, as the company restricts new Azure cloud subscriptions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

What Vance expressed to the friendly Claremont audience was a dramatically reduced vision of American citizenship.
It’s one in which having ancestors who have lived here for generations entitles you to more;
a vision of citizenship that’s long existed around the world, with a notable and aspirational exception in the United States.
“Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence — that’s a definition that is way ove…

JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
The day after President Trump signed a bill that throws unprecedented amounts...

Live updates: Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p112#a250910p112

Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria

Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.

Warum sind die #Meerestemperaturen so wichtig für unser Klima? 🌊🔥 Im März 2023 erreichten die globalen #Meeresoberflächentemperaturen Rekordwerte, was weitreichende Folgen hat. Ein wärmerer Ozean bedeutet mehr Energie für

Rekord-Meerestemperaturen: Was die Erwärmung der Ozeane für die Welt bedeutet
Erkunde die dramatischen Auswirkungen der Ozeanerwärmung und wie sie den Planeten verändert. Erfahre mehr über die Rekord-Meerestemperaturen und ihre Folgen.

Trump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
The program was affiliated with another $20 billion in green funding also terminated under Trump.

Sources: Apple plans health and fitness teams reorg under Eddy Cue, watchOS under Craig Federighi, and Watch hardware under John Ternus, as Jeff Williams exits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump administration says federal worker layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-budget-director-says-layoffs-begun-government-shutdown-rcna236923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p97#a251010p97

Die Ausschreibung für zwei #Offshore-Windflächen in der #Nordsee mit 2,5 GW Kapazität ist erstmals gescheitert.
Niemand hat ein Gebot abgegeben. Branchenvertreter sehen die Gründe vor allem in gestiegenen #Baukosten

Ausschreibung von Windkraftanlagen: Niemand will sie haben
Zum ersten Mal ist eine Ausschreibung für den Betrieb von Windanlagen im Meer gescheitert. Den Investoren sind die Risiken zu hoch.

Interviews with Tim Cook, Apple's VP of industrial design Molly Anderson, and others about the design choices behind iPhone Air, cross-body straps, and more (Sam Schube/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-air-