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The European Broadcasting Union says it is tightening Eurovision's voting rules to limit the influence of governments on the public poll that decides the winner (Lynsey Chutel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/music/eurovision-votin…

Eurovision Tightens Voting Rules to Tamp Down on Government Influence
In this year’s contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.

"Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74"
I always quite liked his music, even if it is outside my usual bubble.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-d…

"…poll in April showed a majority of Americans suddenly wanted to restrict that presidency in ways they hadn’t before…percentage who said a president has 'too much' power rose from 32% last year (under Biden) all the way up to 54% (under Trump)."
"All of which suggests Americans-or at least a majority of them-see something extraordinary happening right now."
"Republicans…try to diminish… 'No Kings' rallies…something that’s very real to l…

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing
New polling reinforces how much the thrust of the “No Kings” message has resonated with much of the American public.

Das wäre erfreulich. Kann natürlich auch sein, dass #apple schlicht die Features ausgehen, die sie in #iOS und #macOS noch einzubauen gewillt sind. Auch Windows stagniert funktional schon länger.
Apple to focus on 'quality …

OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/openai-atlas-new-ai-web-browser-release-date

OpenAI is launching a web browser called Atlas
The moves come as traffic from bots is expected to surpass that from humans.

Auf Besuch zu Hause, im Radio läuft BR 1 – also biederes Regional­programm. Und natürlich auch mit der passenden Musikauswahl für die Zielgruppe – genauer gesagt Guns'n'Roses und Oldies. Sowas lief in meiner Jugend allenfalls auf BR 3¹, während auf BR 1 Heintje und Heino mit Nicole um die Wette sangen.
Die rebellische Musik von damals ist konservativ und bieder geworden²…
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¹bei Gottschalk und Jauch
²das gilt auch für Gottschalk und Jauch

Christopher Walken and Bugs Bunny https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/christopher-walken-and-bugs-bunny

Christopher Walken and Bugs Bunny
Turns out, Christopher Walken has channeled Bugs Bunny in several of his acting roles. They were discussing this on the Severance podcast, and I love it– it makes perfect sense. Walken says “…

Makes me almost glad to have outlived all of my elderly family… https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115600998838282974

r-process nucleosynthesis with ab initio nuclear masses around the N=82 shell closure
Jan Kuske, Takayuki Miyagi, Almudena Arcones, Achim Schwenk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19131

r-process nucleosynthesis with ab initio nuclear masses around the N=82 shell closure
Our understanding of the origin of heavy elements beyond iron relies on the rapid neutron capture process (r-process), which accounts for roughly half of their cosmic abundance. However, the extreme neutron-rich conditions required for the r-process involve many nuclei that remain experimentally inaccessible, making theoretical predictions essential. We explore the impact of nuclear masses calculated with the ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group, focusing on the re…

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.