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#idw Growing Land Use Pressure Puts Mount Kilimanjaro’s Biodiversity at Risk
Rapid population growth is driving sweeping land use changes that have become the chief cause of species decline on Mount #Kilimanjaro. These are the findings of an international research team led by the University of Bayreuth,…

Growing Land Use Pressure Puts Mount Kilimanjaro’s Biodiversity at Risk

Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.
#mexicocity #cdmx

How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

How AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO

Cowboys' confidence growing behind 3 straight wins: 'We'll play anybody, anywhere' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-confidence-growing-behind-3-straight-wins-we-ll-play-anybody-anywhere

Get your shots, people.
https://wapo.st/4osPgsh

Venezuela Detains Americans Amid Growing U.S. Pressure (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/americas/venezuela-detained-americans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p48#a251231p48

Analysis of Apple News in the UK: Apple News has 1.7M subscribers generating ~$136M for outlets; national papers account for 55% of time spent on Apple News (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/should-news-pub…

Just finished "Breadcrumbs" by Kasia Babis. A super interesting graphic novel about growing up in 2000's and 2010's Poland. It's autobiographical, which naturally means lots of plot threads without clear resolutions (they aren't plot threads after all, they're real events). Lots of interesting info on Polish history and politics, which showed me way more than the occasional glimpses I get through social media.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"Geothermal energy has the potential to reshape global power supply"
#Geothermal #Energy
https://

Geothermal energy has the potential to reshape global power supply
Through a detailed mapping of the operating principles of current geothermal systems, scientists are pointing to vast, largely hidden potential capable of meeting the growing demands of an energy-hungry world.

The Photog Files: Photography, Creativity And Everything In Between
Whether you're just starting out or already a pro, this podcast is about growing your craft, finding inspiration, and sharing the passion for capturing life through the lens...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them.
Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

👣 Investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth—but not the label
#degrowth

Investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth—but not the label
The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth—the notion that high-income economies should prioritize well-being over growing production—reveals significant public support for its key ideas across both the UK (74–84%) and US (67–73%).

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: Whose in particular?
FEN: Like most of our city, this room lives; a vegetable biologically adapted but living and growing - and all life, Travis, is linked. [Laces her fingers] That is the basis of the Rule of Life.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/158

Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting
Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.
But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.
Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?
The reason is taxes…

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.

Layoffs, profits, and The Quarterly Cycle™ create headlines, discussion, and narratives that make $1bn in quarterly profit look like less than zero. Breaking even, a milestone for any growing business, would be catastrophic.
1/2

A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/

Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.

‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentina’s water https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/27/argentina-hidden-arsenic-crisis-poor-contaminat…

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.
Useful to Journalists,
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Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
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Cowboys' confidence growing behind 3 straight wins: 'We'll play anybody, anywhere' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-confidence-growing-behind-3-straight-wins-we-ll-play-anybody-anywhere

Different Corners ▶️
不同的角落 ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/24/growing-up-in-crisis-caring-for-youth-in-violent-times

'Mr. Eligible': The growing fraternity of NFL sixth offensive linemen https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47406180/mr-eligible-growing-fraternity-nfl-sixth-offensive-linemen-jumbo-sets-packages

VA reorganization to shift health care workforce to hubs with growing veteran population (Jory Heckman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2026/01/va-reorganization-aims-to-shift-health-care-workforce-to-hubs-with-growing-veteran-population/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p124#a260128p124

How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…

The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

The Hill is growing traffic in a declining market by investing in reporters
The Hill has “fortified” its breaking news team to make the most of a “bonkers” news cycle in US politics.

"Fury over Alex Pretti’s killing has flooded forums for golfers, cat lovers and bourbon aficionados, reflecting a growing outrage over the Trump administration’s crackdown."
Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/o1NUO

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341860/

Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources
The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.

With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!

Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win? — California DSA
By now, San Francisco is famous not just for unaffordable rent, but also for its acrimonious debates about how to solve the problem. One well-funded contingent asserts it’s all about making it easier and cheaper to build privately owned homes, but as even the corporate media is now noting, we’ve don

Nice!
‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/garden-of-eden-the-spanish-farm-growing-citrus-youve-never…

Nice!
‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/garden-of-eden-the-spanish-farm-growing-citrus-youve-never…

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #20!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-20/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome This week reads like a map of infrastructure coming alive. From the EU’s record share of solar power to Jiangsu’s new surge of offshore wind, from China’s growing forest of EV chargers to solar cooling for Nigerian food supply chains, and a Morocco workshop steering critical

How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…

Gold and silver retreated from record highs
and the dollar strengthened
on reports that Trump may appoint a more hawkish-than-expected Federal Reserve chair.
Trump said on Thursday that he intended to announce his pick to replace Jerome Powell on Friday,
with growing speculation that the role will go to the former Fed governor #Kevin

Gold falls, dollar gains on talk Trump wants Kevin Warsh as Fed chair
Precious metals eased off record highs and the US currency clawed back some of its losses this week ahead of an announcement from the president

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Raiders' HC Options Growing and Dwindling at the Same Time https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hc-options-growing-dwindling-same-time

Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…

Databricks Boosts Sales Forecast, Driving Valuation to $134 Billion
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. His company’s new $5 billion round of fundraising, at a higher valuation than ever, epitomizes the risks and rewards of the boom: While sales are growing faster than forecast, AI ...

Lavrov: U.S. is growing impatient as ‘climax is approaching’ in Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/lavrov-us-is-growing-impatient.html

Want to ride your bicycle? Study highlights rise of Canada's bike network #Canada

Want to ride your bicycle? Study highlights rise of Canada's bike network
A new Simon Fraser University study has found that Canada's cycling network is growing, but not everyone is benefiting. Between 2022 and 2024, nearly 3,600 kilometers of high-quality cycling infrastructure was added across the country, with the largest proportional increases seen in small- to medium-sized cities. But one consistent finding across Canadian cities is that areas with more children and older adults tend to have less cycling infrastructure.

There are reports ice morale is low. Proud boys or not, cleaving them away from the organization by encouraging them to see the downsides of staying is doable and worth pursuing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politi

ICE agents face burnout and frustration amid Trump's aggressive enforcement
As ICE launches a recruitment effort to hire 10,000 more officers, existing staff struggle with long hours, growing public outrage.

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

Fascists are incapable of working internationally. Every #fascist *knows* that his nation is inherently superior to all the others and is destined to rule over them. So when they talk about this, they just infuriate each other.
They may fake convivial meetings, they may try to bond over shared hatred of dark skin, but its just a mask.
‘Enemy of

Dallas Cowboys Interviewing Intriguing USC Assistant For Defensive Role https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-interviewing-intriguing-usc-assistant-defensive-role

Growing number of company bosses are questioning the business case for AI after a global survey found most have yet to see financial benefits from the technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/corporate-leaders-question-r…

Corporate leaders question returns from heavy AI spending, research
A growing number of company bosses are questioning the business case for AI after a global survey found most have yet to see financial benefits ...

More British warmongering.
UK youth to be offered military ‘gap year’ in bid to boost defence: Report | Military News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/27/uk-youth-to-be-offered-milita…

UK youth to be offered military ‘gap year’ in bid to boost defence: Report
UK plans to boost ranks of armed forces by offering young people paid military experience amid growing Russian threats.

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

when i was growing up, "which side are you on?" seemed like the corniest shit ever & now pretty much just singing it in my head can make me cry.

It's not 7018, but a noteworthy addition to the growing community of ASPA users:
#RPKI

Post by New ASPA Signers, @newaspa@bgp.tools
AS797 (AT&T Services, Inc.) has signed ASPA objects for the first time! This means 890 unique ASNs have signed ASPA objects at some point

In my opinion,
I think there are more happy linux users than windows users in the world.
Most if not all windows users just "tolerate it" but that's far from appreciating it. It's a burden that they learned how to handle.
And this is the biggest reasons for linux to be slowly and steadily growing in market share. The only obstacle is people resisting to change, which with age I've accepted as a respectable feeling.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy4y3VDpS0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoiding disposal fees after shopping. In response, Narita Airport is testing solutions such as clothing compression machines to help travelers save space and avoid buying new luggage. Retailers and repair businesses are also encouraging reuse through free take-back and resale programs, aiming to reduce waste and promote more sustainable travel habits."
49 likes, 0 comments - japandaily_jp on January 21, 2026: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoid…

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/one-glacier-is-actually-growing-and-perplexed-scientists-hope-to-discover-its-secrets/

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets
The samples were drilled across 100 meters of ice, equating to some 30,000 years of glacial history. 

They coulda looked at my lawn if they wanted to know you can't kill moss...
Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/scientists-put-moss-on-the-outside-of-the-international-space-station-for-9-months-then-kept-it-growing-back-on-earth

When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.

How Has Inequality Changed? - Equality Trust
Levels of inequality changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Overall income inequality fell from a high point in the 1930s, remained fairly static until 1979, and then increased dramatically from 1979 to 1991. Since 1991, the trend has been more volatile, affected by Great Recession of the late 2000s and the Covid-19 […]

Elliot and I went to New England last weekend on short notice -- here's Massabesic Lake which I walked around almost every day growing up in Manchester, NH
#photo #photography #landscape <…

The ALMA survey to Resolve #ExoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) - motivation, sample, data reduction, and results overview: https://www.mpg.de/26005548/arks_part_i_overview_preprint.pdf -> ALMA Reveals Teenage Years of New Worlds: https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2026-01-arks-survey - new astronomical survey captures previously unknown growing pains in the lives of planets.

Since we had temperatures of -15/-13℃ (5℉) the past few nights, I was planning to go on an early morning shoot of one of my favorite waterfalls, but decided against it due to severe black ice warnings and likely ensuing road chaos today... Hope there will be more cold nights this winter...
So instead, some close-up detail shots of ice structures at the same waterfall from exactly 364 morning ago. Enjoy!

Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

Afzet gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met PFAS neemt enorm toe
De afzet van PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is flink gestegen. In de periode 2010-2020 lag dit rond de 150.000 kilo, in 2023 was dit ruim 250.000 kilo. Fungiciden hebben het grootste aandeel. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van adviesbureau CLM.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was facing growing pressure on Thursday over its crackdown in Minnesota, a day after the state’s chief judge condemned its agents for violating nearly 100 court orders and warned that “ICE is not a law unto itself.”
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, whom Mr. Trump put in charge of the ICE operation in Minnesota earlier this week, was holding a news conference early on Thursday morning.
The judge’s extraordinary broadsidecame on Wednesd…

Trump’s Border Chief Says ‘Improvements Could and Should Be Made’ in Minneapolis: Live Updates
Tom Homan, trying to find common ground with local officials, conceded that not “everything that has been done here has been perfect.”

CIWF Highlights The ‘Growing Threat’ Of Octopus Farming With New Report #AnimalRights

CIWF Highlights The 'Growing Threat' Of Octopus Farming With New Report
A report by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has highlighted the “growing threat” of octopus farming and all “carnivorous aquaculture"

US ambassador warns of China's growing manufacturing dominance (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-ambassador-david-perdue-speech-c272cef3ace8225909a6f7d875f2e5e2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p41#a260129p41

Raiders' rookies weather growing pains but continue to rise to the challenge https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-rookies-weather-growing-pains-but-continue-to-rise-to-the-challenge

Sources: OpenAI is laying the groundwork for a public listing in Q4 2026, holding informal talks with Wall Street banks and growing its finance team (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ipo-anthropic-race-69f0…

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Well, there's always rodents of one sort or another.
TARRANT: I'm a growing lad, Vila. Rats are not the answer to my diet-
DAYNA: [Makes a gesture to cut them off] Yes, but Orac, can you get a fix on him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/27<…

"Norway hits pause on deep-sea mining until 2029 amid growing environmental pressure"
#Norway #Oceans #Environment

Norway hits pause on deep-sea mining until 2029 amid growing environmental pressure | The Optimist Daily

Russia’s growing missile stockpile can sustain weekly mass strikes, expert says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/russias-growing-missile-stockpile-can.html

🤬 National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
#swearing

National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
Today's parents may be growing more relaxed about their children using curse words, according to a national poll.

What? Catering to a known liar and cheat's ego might not be a good idea? How can that be?
Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/emb…

What? Catering to a known liar and cheat's ego might not be a good idea? How can that be?
Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/emb…

I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this.
But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change.
Oil companies are doing whatever they possibly can to keep the plaintiffs in these suits
(cities, counties, states, and Native American tribes)
from having their day in court
—and as some of the most powerful corporations in the world…

The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times
https://ift.tt/gwClnEW
updated: Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 9:48amfull name / name of organization: Zoe Antoinette Eddy,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Tyler Shough shows 'it factor' in Saints' upset win over Buccaneers: 'I feel my confidence growing' https://www.nfl.com/news/tyler-shough-it-factor-saints-upset-win-buccaneers-confidence-growing

Raiders' rookies weather growing pains but continue to rise to the challenge https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-rookies-weather-growing-pains-but-continue-to-rise-to-the-challenge

Quite a website banner header on #ttc website. It keeps growing!
Just stay home seems to be the advice today
#toronto

Satya Nadella says Windows 11 reached 1B users during Q2, growing over 45% YoY and at a faster rate than Windows 10 did (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869889/microsoft-windows-11-1-billion-users

Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10
Microsoft says 1 billion people are now running Windows 11. The operating system has reached this milestone quicker than Windows 10.

Russia Cheers the Growing NATO Rift Over Greenland (Thomas Grove/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-cheers-the-growing-nato-rift-over-greenland-51821b55?st=3Dep7C&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p43#a260121p43

The growing number of Republicans challenging the Trump administration’s handling of the Alex Pretti killing
reflects a potentially significant shift in the dynamics of the Trump presidency,
as GOP officials who have almost uniformly supported the president are sparking an unusual backlash over his signature issue of immigration.

Congressional Republicans voiced little dissent during the first year of Donald Trump’s second term,
rallying behind even positions that wer…

GOP backlash on Minnesota signals a tougher landscape for Trump
Republican lawmakers, who were highly supportive of the Trump administration in its first year, are taking issue with its handling of the Minneapolis crackdown.

🏀 Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/04/andrew-wiggins-how-a-shy-nba-player-negotiated-growing-up-a-star-in…

Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era
In an extract from his new book on the rise of Canadian basketball, Oren Weisfeld examines the pressures of being a teenage star in the modern game

The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/the-measles-outbreak-in-south-carolina-is-growing/

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times
https://ift.tt/gwClnEW
updated: Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 9:48amfull name / name of organization: Zoe Antoinette Eddy,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $30B from Nvidia, less than $10B from Microsoft, and $10B-$20B from Amazon as part of a $100B funding round (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-microsoft-amazon-…

Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $60 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI is lining up huge checks from some of its biggest tech partners, as it seeks to raise up to $100 billion to fund growing demand for its AI. Nvidia, an existing investor whose chips power OpenAI’s AI models, is in talks to invest up to $30 billion, according to a person with knowledge of ...

"Residential installations lead Dutch storage boom"
#Netherlands #Energy #Batteries

Residential installations lead Dutch storage boom
The phasing out of net-metering for solar installations is incentivizing a growing number of citizens to install residential battery storage systems in the Netherlands. Analysts are predicting the upward trend will accelerate in the coming years.

Dante Moore buzz keeps growing, Ty Simpson makes a statement: NFL Draft takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6907560/2025/12/21/nfl-draft-2026-college-football-playoff-moore/

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

Billionaire philanthropy’s growing divide: Mark Zuckerberg stops funding immigration reform as MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI
Two models for tech wealth are emerging, as notable billionaire donors reveal their priorities.

🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio

Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps explain why growing up in a stimulating environment enhances memory. In contrast, a lack of stimulation can impair it. The team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), was led by researcher Ángel Barco.

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

"Ukraine deploys 1.5 GW of solar in 2025"
#Ukraine #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Ukraine deploys 1.5 GW of solar in 2025
The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine estimates around 1.5 GW of solar was added in the country last year, driven by growing interest in projects co-located with battery energy storage systems across market segments.

For months, she had been mentally preparing for this moment
as she helped one colleague after another who had been fired by the Trump administration
pack up their offices.
She took on hundreds of additional motions from the dockets of her terminated colleagues,
working weekends and nights to shoulder the exponentially growing workload. 
But nothing could have emotionally prepared her to see the email come in. 
The floodgates opened. She broke down in tears…

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

The western US is in a snow drought. Here's how a storm made it worse
https://theconversation.com/the-western-us-is-in-a-snow-drought-and-storms-have-been-making-it-worse-272549

The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have been making it worse
A major atmospheric river brought record precipitation to the Pacific Northwest, yet the snow and water supply still suffered. It’s a growing problem.

Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/outtake-cyber-openai-ai-raise.html

Ex-Palantir engineer raises $40 million for cyber startup Outtake, with backing from Microsoft CEO Nadella
Since its founding in 2023, Outtake has added OpenAI, Applovin and Bill Ackman's Pershing Square to its growing list of customers.

"Quite frankly I was pissed off!" Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-justice-dept-resignation-letters-chronicled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p76#a251123p76

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

🌾 Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
#rice

Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England.

Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000 square foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output starting in H2 2028 (Reuters)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/micron-plans-24b…

Micron plans $24bn memory chipmaking plant in Singapore
US company says new wafer fabrication facility to meet growing demand

I will say right now that growing up in militia land we never, never successfully built the organizational capacity or popular support to pull off an honest to God revolution.
What I'm seeing out of MN looks like exactly that.
DHS is cosplaying civil war,
the resistance is building *capability.*
https://…

DakotaVAdams (@toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social)
I will say right now that growing up in militia land we never, never successfully built the organizational capacity or popular support to pull off an honest to God revolution. What I'm seeing out of MN looks like exactly that. DHS is cosplaying civil war, the resistance is building *capability.*

Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tax-cus

Residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods,
leading to days of confrontations and protests.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mcfdjwcxa524

NBC News (@nbcnews.com)
Residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods, leading to days of confrontations and protests.

Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it "crossed €100M of ARR in October" (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/fast

Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track | TechCrunch
Flatpay’s bet is that it can challenge larger players by charging small merchants a flat transaction rate to use its card terminals and point-of-sales systems.

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.