The engraving depicts the waveforms of the spoken word "water" in 103 different languages
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/europa-clipper-vault-plate/
Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/youtube-tv-trump-rules-digital-gap-colber…
"""Kein Einstein", aber nicht dumm: Clevere Kuh greift sich Werkzeuge, um sich zu kratzen"
faszinierend
https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Clevere-Kuh-greift-sich-Werkzeuge-um-sich-zu-kratzen-id30260095.html
Collabora Online
<https://www.collaboraonline.com/>
The Collabora name is instantly recognisable but somehow, I had forgotten the open source aspect: <
jazz_collab: Jazz collaboration network
The network of collaborations among jazz musicians, and among jazz bands, extracted from The Red Hot Jazz Archive digital database, covering bands that performed between 1912 and 1940.
This network has 198 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted
https://
DOJ lawsuit seeking records of
23 million California voters
is dismissed by judge
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/16/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-seeking-detailed-voter-informa…
Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…
The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…
While announcing new data showing that violent crime continues to fall across California’s major cities,
Governor Gavin Newsom today also launched a new website
detailing the criminal records, corruption cases, and extremist ties
of the people Donald Trump elevates, protects, pardons, and surrounds himself with.
The website highlights a simple contrast:
Governor Newsom is driving crime down
— and Donald Trump is pardoning drug lords and driving criminals …
A federal judge Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s lawsuit
challenging California’s new law prohibiting ICE agents and other police officers from wearing masks on duty.
The judge asked how ICE agents operated without masks in years past,
and questioned why California peace officers were exempted from the law.
A ruling in closely-watched case could come as soon as this week.