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🏀 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

TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Print Book Sales Rose Slightly in 2025
A mild rebound in children’s book sales helped to offset softness on the adult side, resulting in a 0.3% increase in unit sales of print books in 2025 over 2024. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins was last year’s top-selling title.

Injury Concerns Rise as Raiders See Big Group Miss Practice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/kansas-city-injury-concerns-big-group-miss-practice

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
⁠MASS PROTESTS HIT RUSSIA: RUSSIANS RISE UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM Vlog 1122: War in #Ukraine
#Russia had to postpone the introduction …

As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others rise up the App Store charts (Nasteho Said/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alternative Social Media Apps Surge as Australia Teen Ban Starts
Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation’s landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps.

Week 10 was the epitome of "Any Given Sunday" https://insidethestar.com/week-10-was-the-epitome-of-any-given-sunday

My take for #silentSunday . Seen yesterday from the summit that I was #hiking to. I had to zoom in quite a bit to capture this distant scene.
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that heavy gear up those mounta…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
The Modern Jazz Quartet:
🎵 Rise up in the Morning [after J S Bach]
#TheModernJazzQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jfOiN1YhIei32YanqBbeh

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/115838941958659188
Watch Tesla's rise and fall (dark green bar) in Dutch new car sales. BYD just popping up here (last picture, at the bottom).

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-socialism-democrats-sanders-establishment/

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Centrists have been declaring the socialist movement dead for years in spite of the victories it has racked up. But Zohran Mamdani’s win makes its rise undeniable.

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.1B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/airbnb-abnb-q3-results-2025.html

Airbnb shares rise on revenue beat, stronger-than-expected forecast
Shares of Airbnb rose in extended trading after the company reporter third-quarter results that beat revenue expectations.

Im Internet über historische Fakten diskutieren müssen, AI-Ära.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRUs8VjEVW3/?igsh=cHQ0Y3ppbXZrY3Vr

Eine neue Studie des Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution zeigt, dass der #Meeresspiegelanstieg entlang der US-Küste deutlich schneller voranschreitet als bislang von offiziellen Stellen dargestellt.
Demnach hat sich die Anstiegsrate seit 1900 mehr als verdoppelt. Die Analyse widerspricht einem Bericht des US-Energieministeriums, der keine Beschleunigung erkannte.

New study finds sea level rise is speeding up, contradicting federal report
Research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution finds the rate of U.S. coastal sea level rise has more than doubled in the past 125 years. The study contradicts a federal Department of Energy report issued in July, which found “no obvious acceleration in sea level rise” and downplayed the risks from rising seas.

View of Bath from Beechen Cliff the other day #photography

Moody Urbanity - Action Required 🧭
情绪化城市 - 行动指南 🧭
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🏘️ Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/25/once-austra…

Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
More homes and less property investor activity has seen Victoria’s capital rise up the affordability rankings

Kyle Tharp, a progressive writer and researcher writes the "Chaotic Era",
a newsletter about politics, media and online influence.
Tharp launched the Chaotic Era in January, just days before Trump’s second inauguration.
Over the past year, he has tracked the surge in liberal media projects, mapped the rise of
left-leaning creators on platforms like YouTube and
analyzed the narratives that managed to break through the digital noise

OTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.

NFL draft risers, questions and notes: Can T.J. Parker climb back up the board? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45531306/2026-nfl-draft-notebook-questions-latest-updates-risers-cfb-prospects

"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

#FotoVorschlag 'mein bestes Foto 2025' 'my best Foto 2025'
I was curious which photo might show up if I sort my Catalogue by my rating. Yet there are still some unprocessed folders.
But .. regarding my rating, I took my best photo close to the end of the year! Due to many reasons I didn't take as many photos this year as usual. But this one really resonate…

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
https://

Rob Larter (@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

'Time for Them to Leave': Charlotte Communities Rise Up Against ICE Invasion | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-immigration-backlash

Girls Talk, ‘Boys Talk: Rounding up the Broncos https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/girls-talk-boys-talk-rounding-up-the-broncos

Leafless winter trees near the high spot in Shindagin Hollow State Forest in the winter depths
#photo #photography #trees

Didi reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to ~$8.28B and a ~$211M net income, up from ~$127M in Q3 2024; international revenue up 35% YoY to ~$558M with a ~$240M loss (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china…

#jukeboxfridaynight
#takeittothestreets
Two more Canadian tunes from the 80s. Uplifting messages and in the videos, they take their music to the streets.
Rise Up by The Parachute Club
https://youtu.be/qNwuB76pBcc?si=-XsiQPm0c3zTCDIo
Closer Together by The Box
https://youtu.be/AFT1l50CgHo?si=NdYY5_ds4lIxy6xg

I took a fancy to these in ALDI today but there was no price tag so I asked a genuinely very helpful member of staff who had a right faff to find the price. I was expecting about £20 so you could have knocked me over with a feather when she said £6.99! Sold to the lady in the ridiculously orange coat.

Paramount signs a 10-year lease for 285K square feet at 1888 Studios in Bayonne, NJ, making it eligible for tax credits of up to 40% for movies and TV shows (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Paramount to Occupy Massive New Jersey Production Campus
The move to 1888 Studios comes amid New Jersey's rapid rise as a production hotspot.

As explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
https://

Rats Flee Floating Ship
You might have heard the story break that the Heritage Foundation, America's leading right wing "think tank", has just been hit with a rush ...

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: https://www.

Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways - Carbon Brief
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out...

Which NFC team has edge for No. 1 seed? Rams lead way but six teams have real shot to rise up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfc-team-no-1-seed-rams-six-teams-nfl-playoffs/…

Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/cybe…

Urban Mirage 👁️‍🗨️
城市幻境 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
Fengming Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09586

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
We present a transparent, reproducible measurement of research trends across 26,104 accepted papers from CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS spanning 2023-2025. Titles and abstracts are normalized, phrase-protected, and matched against a hand-crafted lexicon to assign up to 35 topical labels and mine fine-grained cues about tasks, architectures, training regimes, objectives, datasets, and co-mentioned modalities. The analysis quantifies three macro shifts: (1) a sharp rise of multimodal vision-language-LLM…

Analysts and manufacturers expect smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices to rise by as much as 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1f471189-2277-4d5d-822b-78eba6060755

I just woke up from light shining in my face. I assumed it was the rise of the moon, so while reaching for my glasses I swore "What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?"
Turns out it was a streetlamp.
#Babylon5

Raiders’ Tyree Wilson Issues Blunt Words Amid Maxx Crosby Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tyree-wilson-maxx-crosby-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

“I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart."🩸
We're going to see a rise in US Aspirin sales aren't we? Never mind the man is likely saying this just to cover up other medical issues, or just as likely to maintain his image.🥺
#Aspirin #USA #fiction #selfMedication

Congress leaves town until 2026
with no health care deal,
forcing premium hikes
Four Republicans teamed up with Democrats to require a vote to revive ACA funds in early 2026.
But Senate Republicans tell NBC News that bill is dead on arrival across the Capitol.

Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes
The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month.

Moody Urbanity - Up Up ⏏️
情绪化城市 - 上面上面 ⏏️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-hollywood/

Hollywood’s AI Experiments Are in Conflict With What Actors and Directors Want
The entertainment industry is torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy.

Last photos from that day in the #schwarzwald . We were pretty surprised when we came to the part shown in the last photo. The #moss was so thick there - like a real carpet! I've never seen such before. I found it pretty hard to get a photo that pays the situation justice. I hope it works for …

Moody Urbanity - UP 🔝
情绪化城市 - 上面 🔝
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Dak Prescott Is Playing Like an MVP, and the Cowboys Defense Finally Did Its Part https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/dak-prescott-is-playing-like-an-mvp-and-the-cowboys-defense-finally-did-its-part

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Urban Adventure II 🏞️
城市探险 II 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite