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polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata

The other day, @… published a agreat video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @…

MISP core format has been updated with a new field to track first-time publication, and a new IETF Internet-Draft has been published.
This minor, fully backward-compatible addition reinforces the long-term stability and extensibility of the MISP standard format.
#cti #opensource

Just published 🚀: Leadership from Birds
#leadership

"Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third"
#Diet #Emissions #Food

Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third - Carbon Brief
A new study, published in Nature Food, compares prices and emissions associated with 440 local food products in 171 countries.

🦠 Microbial glues go from foe to friend with a simple chemical tweak
... my takeaway from the paper is that biofilms are an extension of the bacterial cell wall!
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-microbial-foe-friend-simple-chemical.html

Microbial glues go from foe to friend with a simple chemical tweak
In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently introduced a new theory to help scientists engineer biofilms, which are the gluey scaffolds made by bacteria and microbes to house and protect cells from environmental extremes.

NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation #Liberia

NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation
Some of the world's best-known chocolate, from Mars to KitKat, is likely linked to deforestation in Liberia's rainforest despite many brands' claims of sustainability, according to research published by NGO Global Witness Tuesday.

Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume de la publication scientifique : "Une analyse de 100 000 numéros spéciaux de revues universitaires révèle qu'un numéro sur huit contient des articles rédigés par le rédacteur en chef, en particulier chez l'éditeur MDPI."

The just published timelapse #aurora as it was seen from Germany: note the green splotches appearing briefly all over the place, the nature of which - most likely RAGDA - is discussed in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-januar-2025/#Jan25 ("Das war das Polarlicht vom 19. Januar ...") with links to several relevant papers.

I published my slides for the #FOSDEM lightning talk in the #geospatial room:
> Lessons from teaching 100 beginners to use the OpenStreetMap <
Do you have the same challenges as I do?

FOSDEM 2026 - Lessons from teaching 100+ beginners to use the OpenStreetMap

"‘Forever chemical’ contamination could undermine sea otters’ fragile recovery in Canada"
#Canada #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

‘Forever chemical’ contamination could undermine sea otters’ fragile recovery in Canada
Sea otters living along the coastline of Canada’s British Columbia province carry residues of “forever chemicals” in their bodies, according to a new study,  and those living near dense human populations or shipping lanes are the most heavily impacted. The research was published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, authored principally by scientists at […]

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
https://ift.tt/hq3XMO1
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/qUQMEax

Videos published by the NYT show the extremely brutal and inhumane actions of #ICE against people.
I see little difference between this and the thugs of an Ayatollah in Iran.
Who would elect a president who
brings out the worst in people?
ICE is becoming a gathering place for criminals, thugs, and right-wing hooligans.
Darth

Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters
For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

😵 Diesel exhaust particles disrupt the function of brain's immune cells, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-diesel-exhaust-particles-disrupt-function.html

Diesel exhaust particles disrupt the function of brain's immune cells, study shows
Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland. The findings, published in Environment International, shed light on how traffic-related air pollution could contribute to brain inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.

Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124

TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalates to WWIII followed by the surrender of the U.S. and Europe - sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801] > Originally Published in the Atlantic (March 2022) Article without paywall: > https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F [https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F] > > Put…

Collecting the Shards
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, and sprinted through a stack of fresh manuscripts until the world blurred and the covers appeared. That is not what happened.

Collecting the Shards | David Boles, Blogs
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, …

So, it's really going to happen. My next book to be published by Wiley is slated for release in April.
I have analyzed some high-profile cyber incidents and mapped them to the outcomes in the NIST 2.0 Framework.
The goal is to give real-world relevance to what can sometimes be dry but absolutely necessary cybersecurity fundamentals that all defenders should take to heart.
Even more exciting is that Wiley will be offering corporate and government purchasers some intere…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115766665024442971
The author (Edmund Berkeley) is the co-founder of the ACM (I’m a member), he definitely did some other good stuff like being a peace activist and coming up with concepts that highly influenced the personal computer revolution 25–30 years after the book was published.
But the extreme toxic positivity about computers that “will solve all social problems” because “humans are so irrational” remains a huge problem with AI stans since the late 1940s.

"Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison."
Bari Weiss Spiked CBS Story on CECOT After Praising Bukele
https://zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss-trump-el-salvador-cecot-60-minutes

☕ Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-daily-coffee-biological-aging-people.html

Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the "biological" aging of people with severe mental illness, by lengthening their telomeres—indicators of cellular aging—and giving them the equivalent of 5 extra biological years, compared with non-coffee drinkers, finds research published in BMJ Mental Health.

Oh, you want to know how we got to write the way we all do now in the distant future? That’s a fascinating question! Let us delve right into it! The basic ingredient is the Old Language — however, we added some small, but important details:
🔍 Using em dashes far more than the typical casual writer
As you may have noticed, this is because em dashes are over-represented in professional and published writing.
1/3

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop
The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.

@… I assume you know about this https://www.threads.com/@maddowshow/post/DSnrGV4FvtV . I'm lost for words.

Raiders Receive Big Maxx Crosby, Fernando Mendoza Trade Take https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/big-maxx-crosby-fernando-mendoza-take/

China investigates top general Zhang Youxia in rare purge of senior military leaders https://therecord.media/china-investigates-top-general-purge-senior-military-leaders

Remember PayPal‘s Honey scam? It‘s been a minute (a year, in fact), but MegaLag has just published part two to his Patrons and I’m 11 minutes in and it’s already a doozy. Yes, it gets (much) worse.
https://www.patreon.com/MegaLag

Replacing animals in science #AnimalRights

Replacing animals in science - Human Relevant Science
The UK Government has (11.11.2025) published its strategy for “Replacing animals in science”, to deliver on a key pledge from the Labour Party’s election manifesto to set out a clear plan to reduce and ultimately phase out the use of animals in research. The Alliance for Human Relevant Science welcomes this turning point in government-led […]

Just published a new blog Post about a bike & hike that I did earlier this year. Actually I walke
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/a-long-awaited-bike-and-hike-adventure-in-the-mountains/d a route that I wanted to do since .. long…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop
The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.

The weirdest spam I get is for "academic conferences" (garbage conferences where you pay to get your paper published so you can pump your publication list). Sure, I totally see myself publishing at a materials science conference in Singapore. Totally. It's been my dream since I was a little monkey.

#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going to pick it up. So where and how to publish? 1/2

Bari Weiss gushed about the popularity of El Salvador’s president,
who describes himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,”
and how safe he’s made the Central American nation
– without noting he’s suspended basic civil liberties,
has been accused of making deals with gang leaders,
and has thrown thousands of innocent people in jail without giving them a fair trial.
Months later, on Sunday night, Weiss squashed a CBS News story on the treatment of immigran…

Bari Weiss Spiked CBS Story on CECOT After Praising Bukele
Weiss praised El Salvador’s brutal leader, Nayib Bukele, while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.

John Loftus has a comprehensive new paper on #Atheist morality: his peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. http://www.debunking-…

#BrandeRoderick as Leigh Dyer
with #JerryCroft who played himself on Baywatch 3 or 4 times. He published some magazines and liked doing bikini photoshoots.
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)

📖 Die neue Handreichung "Datenqualität bewerten: Der Ansatz von NFDI4Culture" fasst die Beiträge aus dem diesjährigen Forum "Qualität von Kulturdaten messen – aber wie? Konzepte, Methoden, Potentiale und der Ansatz von NFDI4Culture" zusammen. Der Text richtet sich an Datenanbieter & -produzenten, die Fragen zur Prüfung und Sicherung ihrer Datenqualität haben.
👏 Danke an die Autorinnen Celia Krause, Angela Kailus und Melanie Gruß!
➡️

"Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals"
#FossilFuels #Cliamte #ClimateChange

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

Everything Open 2025 videos published!
Have a look at what you could enjoy in Canberra in January!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI3yu3oBYCpj5bsSbk0aPbtL4yE4V1F_8
Here's the website for the Canberra conference next year:

Very glad to see our joint paper on smart tariffs and services in Europe now published!
What do these tariffs do, where are they emerging and what inputs do they use to optimise EV charging, heating and other household loads?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

from my link log —
A look at iMessage in iOS 14.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-imessage-in-ios-14.html
saved 2021-01-31

Just published 🚀: Color‑Driven Code Navigation
#visualstudio

The @… community has published their report about the very successful 2025 Culture Community Plenary: CCP 5: “Shared Data – Shared Practice – Shared Knowledge” and the Voices of the Community, at the Akadiemie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz, summarized by Zahia Schlott

*nochmalskicher*
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSKoD3wiAF6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

ISTB University of Vienna on Instagram: "We are deeply honoured and delighted that the South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies Library has been selected as one of the distinguished institutions to receive the eighty-volume commemorative edition of the Tipitaka, published in Thailand in 2016 to mark the seventieth anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne. The Thai monarchy has long upheld a well-established tradition of commissioning, presenting, and receiving editions of the Pali Canon. In 1893, King Rama V commissioned the first printed edition of the Tipitaka in Thailand, which was subsequently presented as a gift to institutions in more than twenty-five countries. The 40-volume “King Bhumibol Edition” allows monks and Buddhist laity worldwide to chant the Tipiṭaka in a consistent, rule-based manner. It is accompanied by the 40-volume “Queen Sirikit Edition” which reproduces King Rama V’s use of Syām-Pāli annotation with additional notes. The ISTB library provides an ideal home for this new edition of the Tipitaka. With a collection of more than 70,000 volumes in over ninety Asian languages, it serves as a vital centre for research and teaching in South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna."
20 likes, 0 comments - istb_univienna on December 12, 2025: "We are deeply honoured and delighted that the South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies Library has been selected as one of the distinguished institutions to receive the eighty-volume commemorative edition of the Tipitaka, published in Thailand in 2016 to mark the seventieth anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne. The Thai monarchy has long upheld a well-established tradition of commissioning, presentin…

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)
https://x.com/metr_evals/status/2002203627377574113

METR (@METR_Evals) on X
We estimate that, on our tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50%-time horizon of around 4 hrs 49 mins (95% confidence interval of 1 hr 49 mins to 20 hrs 25 mins). While we're still working through evaluations for other recent models, this is our highest published time horizon to date.

The UK National Risk Register (last published Jan 2025) is the "external" (public) version of the National Security Risk Assessment.
You suspect that there are risks listed in the internal document that would seem undiplomatic, perhaps impolitic, to admit to considering.
I think, in 2026, we should have a risk register that's updated to address actual public discourse.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan is a non-fiction book published in 1995.
I just finished reading it and I swear to you it is as relevant today as when it was written. As if 30 years haven't passed. Humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again and again.

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion
"We share here an executive summary authored by Milena Hanenberg of the new policy brief ‘Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion’, published by Research & Degrowth International and written by Marula Tsakgari. The policy brief provides both a scathing indictment of the current organisation of the fashion industry and clearly defined policy proposals."

Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion
A policy brief by Research & Degrowth  We share here an executive summary authored by Milena Hanenberg of the new policy brief ‘Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion…

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.15 released
This release fixes a nasty #HDHomeRun Tuner bug.
Shout out to VTRunner, first contribution!!
Release Notes:

I dreamed I bought a new Discworld book (about a novelist!).
Hardcover, for 14€, because it had been published some time earlier and I had wanted to hold off buying The Last One.
I wouldn't mind a jaunt in that other reality to bring it back, really.
#GNUTerryPratchett

Which way, western man?
That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley Simpson
a former leftist Christian pastor turned one of the most influential neo-Nazi ideologues in American history.
The book helped radicalize an entire generation of white supremacists in the US,
with its vicious antisemitism, opposition to all forms of immigration and open praise for Hitler.
The purpose of the book, wrote Simpson, was
“to reveal organized…

WAN-IFRA: news publications globally had an estimated combined revenue of $125.7B in 2025, down 0.01% YoY; print still accounted for 65% of total revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co…

🎭 Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-climate-deniers-online-strategy-scientific.html

Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
Climate deniers use scientific aesthetics to reinforce and legitimize their message. At the same time, their main opponents, the climate activists, are portrayed as emotional and irrational. This has been demonstrated by researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam, who have studied how climate deniers communicate online. The results are published in Environmental Politics.

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals #climate

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

High resolution Near IR images of fragmenting #comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) on 19 December from the JWST: on the left one of two raw images which just appeared on https://yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_latest_release.html, on the right two false-color images from both images published in https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebb/comments/1prolrq/fragmented_comet_c2025_k1_atlas_nircam/ and
https://bsky.app/profile/cheribliss.bsky.social/post/3mahu4to7ss2f (and further processed by me).

Just published 🚀: I Miss Riding the Cuts
#musings

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/amazon-chan…

Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct's self-published ebooks | TechCrunch
Amazon says its Kindle Direct DRM-free titles will be available as PDFs and EPUB files going forward.

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
https://ift.tt/hRPw8fF
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/MD2vExL

Waymo already operates in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix.
But maps published by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles showed that the company can now test and deploy its autonomous vehicles across a much larger area in both the Bay Area and Southern California.
In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved areas of operation now include most of the East Bay and North Bay (including Napa/Wine Country), as well as Sacramento.
In Southern Cal…

Waymo gets regulatory approval to expand across Bay Area and Southern California | TechCrunch
Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotaxi company posting Friday that it’s now “officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State.”

Been re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.

Low-fat vegan (plant-based) diet can reduce an individual's greenhouse gas emissions by 51% #nutrition

Low-fat vegan diet can reduce an individual's greenhouse gas emissions by 51%
A low-fat vegan diet is associated with a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and cumulative energy demand (CED) compared to the Standard American Diet, according to research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in JAMA Network Open.

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/amazon-chan…

Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct's self-published ebooks | TechCrunch
Amazon says its Kindle Direct DRM-free titles will be available as PDFs and EPUB files going forward.

Jordan used Cellebrite phone-hacking tools against activists critical of Gaza war, report finds https://therecord.media/jordan-used-cellebrite-against-activists-critical-gaza-war

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

> Our conclusion is clear: AI is promising for quality assurance and marker training, but for the moment it’s nowhere near ready to take over high stakes marking.
https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/using-ai-in-mar…

Using AI in marking: why technical capability, fairness, and transparency all matter
Ofqual has published new research exploring artificial intelligence’s potential role in marking, as well as its current capabilities and constraints. Rather than providing definitive answers, the published working paper offers an overview of the topic, shares our current thinking, highlights …

🪼 How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organis…

How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
No creatures from the microscopic world have managed to captivate the human imagination as authoritatively as radiolarians. Since the late nineteenth century, they’ve made their existence known in …

French government always talks about technological sovereignty…
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/15/us-tech-firm-palantir-extends-deal-with-french-intelligence-agency_6748523_7.html

Alarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

"Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025
Every calendar year since 2019, ocean temperatures have reached new record highs. 2025 was no exception, according to a new study. The study, published Jan. 9 in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, found that the ocean heat content (OHC) in the upper 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) of the water column had increased by a […]

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136311/journal-australian-catholic-historical-society

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

Freedom for Animals has delved into the dark world of the bird of prey industry for a second time, to carry out a major new investigation as part of our Tether and Torment campaign.
This comes seven years after our landmark 2018 report first brought national attention to the hidden suffering behind the industry, and exposed the continuing welfare failures in UK bird of prey centres.

Tether and Torment 2
Undercover investigation into Bird of Prey Zoos in the UK. Read our new report, published 2025.

The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access (Nicholas Henriquez/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new…

The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
Subscribers now have easier, unlimited access to every article, cover, and issue published in the magazine, as it marks its hundredth anniversary in print.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134374/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions.

⏰ Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
#animals

Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 17 nodes and 146 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover
A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious "experts" who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.

Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.

The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…

Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
A public letter signed by hundreds of tech workers said CEOs must “pick up the phone” to press Trump to pull back ICE deployments.

JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134375/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published

polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata

Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/12/millions-of-brazilians-unknowingly-eat-toxic-endangered-shark-how-mongabay-br…

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story
Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil have been procuring shark meat — which is high in mercury and arsenic — served to potentially millions of schoolchildren and thousands of public institutions. With Mongabay’s […]

The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife.
The U.S. Interior Department said the final rule would be published next week but announced it is repealing rules put in place last year.
Those rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National …

Trump administration repealing rules to protect parts of Alaska petroleum reserve
The Trump administration says it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife. The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday said the final rule would be published next week. But it announced it is repealing rules put in place last year. The rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that were designat…

Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136358/japan-review-40-published

"The 13 clean energy stories we wish we wrote in 2025"
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.

The 13 clean energy stories we wish we wrote in 2025
Canary Media published a lot of articles last year. We wish we had published these ones, too.

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions.

Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136359/japan-review-40-published

🧈 Diets high in sugar and butter lead to changes in gut microbiome linked to excessive alcohol intake in mice
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-diets-high-sugar-butter-gut.html

Diets high in sugar and butter lead to changes in gut microbiome linked to excessive alcohol intake in mice
Mice that switched from a high sugar/butter diet to a standard diet developed a strong preference for alcohol over water, in a study exploring the connection between gastrointestinal microorganisms and alcohol use disorder (AUD). The findings, published in the journal Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, may help lead to new treatments for AUD.

92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.

Dozens of former US Department of Justice attorneys have now gone on record to describe the unprecedented corruption of federal law enforcement taking place during Donald Trump’s second term.
In a lengthy story published on Sunday by the New York Times,
the former DOJ attorneys described rampant politicization of prosecutions,
directives to dig up evidence on Trump’s political foes,
and orders to drop investigations into potential terrorist plots and white-collar crime…

‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ | Common Dreams
Former DOJ attorneys detail unprecedented corruption under Trump's second term. Politicization, pardons, and misuse of power exposed.

Questions remain about how leaders at the Los Angeles fire department responded to a fire that leveled entire communities,
and who within the agency knew about concerns the fire could still pose a threat.
A former LA city councilor says the aftermath and recovery effort should serve as a Pearl Harbor moment for the city,
which should never again be in a position with flames encroaching on all sides.
The LA Times has published a series of bombshell revelationsabout th…