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Unemployment rose in half the states in September • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/12/repub/unemployment-rose-in-half-the-states-in-september/

Crossbody-Band: Apples iPhone-Leine auch für Kameras geeignet
Apple verkauft seit September erstmals eigene iPhone-Lanyards. Die sind nicht nur zu Smartphones kompatibel.
https://www.

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publish…

UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Google updates
UK-based sports website publisher GRV Media has let go of 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft
💥 painted to look like a civilian plane
in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September,
according to officials briefed on the matter.
The aircraft also
💥carried its munitions inside the fuselage,
rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
⭐️The nonmilitary appearance is significant,
according to legal specialists,
👉because the …

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

#OTD 2014 vanuit het net nieuwe TivoliVredenburg, #Utrecht. Ter vergelijking ongeveer zelfde uitzicht in september 2025. Dit ziet er over een jaar weer heel anders uit, nu het Smakkelaarsveld bebouwd wordt.

Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! #VisualStudio2026
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-st…

Must read: "Flight Tracking, OSINT, Roblox: The Cyber frontline of Gen Z's Revolution in Madagascar" by @andrinivo
#Madagascar

Zalando schließt Standort Erfurt mit 2.700 Beschäftigten
Zalando schließt Ende September seinen 2012 eröffneten Logistikstandort in Erfurt mit 2.700 Beschäftigten. Grund: Umbau nach Übernahme von About You.
https…

In the first attack on a speedboat in September 2025, Trump and Hegseth used a military plane made up to look civilian. That’s a war crime called “perfidy”. (Free link)
#uspol #usnavy #uscg

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bangles:
🎵 September Gurls
#Bangles
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ccv6xLrPjyJlHB6Oq835h

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Olivia Dean:
🎵 Nice To Each Other (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #OliviaDean
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/olivia-dean-nice-to-each-other-dirty-needlz-heartbroken-in-september-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gKxCvTDWwV9wBhdeBbr3l

Mein #Selbstzitat des Tages: »Ich bin es längst leid, ertragen zu müssen, wie sich die Dummheit überall für schlau hält. Egal, ob in meinem Umfeld, im Bundestag, im Journalismus oder in den Geisterwisschenschaften«

Ambush at Wallbank https://edintone.com/ambush-at-wallbank/ On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, the quiet road between Northampton and Kingst

Ambush at Wallbank - Miscellanea Edintone
On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, violence erupted on the road to Wallbank, leading to a shocking end at the gallows.

Sen. Tom Cotton says survivors of first September boat strike 'were not incapacitated' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/tom-cotton-survivors-september-boat-strike-not-incapacitated-bradley-rcna247750
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p39#a251207p39

Überdosis mit Absicht? - Pflegerin in Wiener Klinik unter Mordverdacht #News #Nachrichten

Am 6. September wird in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt.
"Im Falle einer Regierungsübernahme würde die extrem rechte Partei Sachsen-Anhalt binnen kurzem in ein Labor für den autoritären Umbau der Gesellschaft verwandeln.
Sie wird ausprobieren, wie weit man es auf Landesebene mit der Durchsetzung rechter Politik treiben kann." - David Begrich

US lawmakers voice concerns about Venezuelan tanker seizure:
‘sounds a lot like the beginning of a war’
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia,
the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, questioned how the US was able to seize an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday
but “not a drug boat”
– referring to the suspected
drug-trafficking vessel that was the target of the 2 September double-tap strike.
Warner has been part of the choru…

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Top acting, directing, cinematography, etc. Wow! Instant classic. See it in the theater if you can

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Dank Ausbau: Zwei Drittel des produzierten Stroms jetzt wieder aus Erneuerbaren
Von August bis September haben erneuerbare Energiequellen fast zwei Drittel zum hierzulande produzierten Strom beigetragen. Kohle ist aber weiter auf Platz 3.

"September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record
Only September 2023 and September 2024 were warmer.

A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/microsoft-copilot-personal-productivity

Exclusive: Microsoft Copilot is getting personal
Users are increasingly turning to Microsoft Copilot for non-work topics.

Email: USA Today EIC Caren Bohan has abruptly left the company, the second editor in chief to do so in less than two years; she became EIC in September 2024 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/media/usa-today-to…

USA Today’s Top Editor Departs, the Second in Less Than Two Years
Caren Bohan, who was named editor in chief in September 2024, will no longer continue in her role “effective immediately,” the company told employees.

CfP on transdisciplinary workplace research
Just a few more days until abstracts are due (14 Nov) for the 5th TWR (Transdisciplinary Workplace Research) conference, to be held in Zurich, 2-5 September 2026
Topics include physical and social workplace environments, sustainability, digital work, hybrid and new ways of working, occupational health, inclusion at work etc
More info and how to submit:

I'm going to go and see @… in Winchester in September.
I've never been to a poetry reading and it might sound silly, but I'm not quite sure what to expect - I guess we'll go and see :)

Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe hat in einem #Musterverfahren ein rechtskräftiges Urteil gegen illegale #Abschalteinrichtungen bei

Rechtskräftiges Dieselgate-Urteil in Sicht: Deutsche Umwelthilfe setzt mit Musterverfahren Gesundheitsschutz für Bevölkerung durch
· Oberverwaltungsgericht Schleswig legt Urteilsbegründung seines Urteils vom 25. September 2025 vor · Gericht verwirft Berufung des Kraftfahrt-Bundesamts und VW und lässt keine Revision im DUH-Verfahren gegen illegale Abschalteinrichtungen nach Software-Update zu · DUH erreicht acht Jahre nach Klageeinreichung Meilenstein zum Schutz der Gesundheit der Menschen in Deutschland· Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt muss gegen VW die Entfernung der illegalen Abschalteinrichtungen oder Stilllegung anordnen, s…

Ambush at Wallbank https://edintone.com/ambush-at-wallbank/ On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, the quiet road between Northampton and Kingsthorpe became the scene of a shocking act of violence that would end on the gallows.

Ambush at Wallbank - Miscellanea Edintone
On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, violence erupted on the road to Wallbank, leading to a shocking end at the gallows.

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.
(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)
#BigTech #Apple #poisoning

Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD (@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "Former Apple employee Ashley Gjøvik moved into one of the adjacent apartments in 2020 only to fall badly ill with indications of chemical poisoning, she told SFGATE. She didn't know what was happening at first, she said, but after she arrived she started suddenly having chest pains, strange rashes, arrhythmia and numbness. She regularly fainted. When she got her blood and urine tested that September, she said, the results showed arsenic, mercury, toluene and xylene." https:…

On the way to Gepatschferner, September 2025... How I miss this place!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

September updates.
✅ What's new in Copilot Studio: September 2025 | Microsoft Copilot Blog
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/copilot-studio/whats-new-in-copilot-studio-september-2025/

What's new in Copilot Studio: September 2025 | Microsoft Copilot Blog
In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping new features released in Microsoft Copilot Studio in September 2025.

Darüber redete der Wedding von Juli bis September https://weddingweiser.de/darueber-redete-der-wedding-von-juli-bis-september/

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…

San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.

Kostenvermeidung durch Bauen ist das eine, Miet-/Neben-Kostenfehler das andere.
September 2025 #dresden
https://video.dresden.network/w/exQwWwTpAtcGMi1fJsd9cY

The end of Twitter and my choice of the fedi as the place I hang my virtual hat means that I only just now learned of the deaths in September and October 2025 of three seminal scholars in my field (the history Québec and Canada).
RIP Jim Miller, Tim Cook, and Alfred Dubuc.

Texas ends American Bar Association oversight of bar exams ...
#Texas #SupremeCourtDecision issued an order this week finalizing opinion that the ABA should "no longer have the final say" on which law school graduates qualify to sit forvbar exam.
Recently

Texas becomes first state to end American Bar Association oversight of law schools
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday finalized a tentative opinion issued in September that no longer requires soon-to-be lawyers to attend a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The power to approve those law schools now rests with the state's highest civil court.

The RAISE Act vs. SB 53: A Tale of Two Frontier AI Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/the-raise-act-vs-sb-53-a-tale-of-two-frontier-ai-laws/
@…

Hey Bandcamp Fridays are fee-free!
The artist gets 100%, 12-12 PST.
Bandcamp Fridays will be continuing in 2026! Find the dates below, and mark your calendars:
February 6th
March 6th
May 1st
August 7th
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
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-- Jay Peach
My bandcamp site is 👇
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Memory prices for higher end memory for consumers more then tripled since September.
This is yet another sign of The Bubble™

"US adds 21.2 GW of solar through September 2025"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

US adds 21.2 GW of solar through September 2025
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reports that the United States added 21.2 GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of 2025, accounting for most of the 28.2 GW of total power capacity added to the grid.

"Austin Peay State University will pay one of its professors $500,000 after initially firing him for a social media post made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing at APSU, was fired by the institution last year after comments on Kirk’s death. In September, APSU moved Michael to suspension before fully bringing him back into the classroom last month."
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/clarksville/apsu-settles-with-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post/

Just got some shots back from a pro photographer we used in September and there's nothing like this to help puff up your chest a bit as a player 🤣
#guitar #LiveMusic #photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Chestnut Bakery:
🎵 September
#ChestnutBakery
https://boringproductions.bandcamp.com/track/september
https://open.spotify.com/track/3dPJbN42D9pJFxlDJnZUGf

No puede ser mšs sencillo configurar #USENET en #neomutt https://aliquote.org/post/neomutt-and-usen…

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im September 2025 über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Lecanemab: Qualitätsinstitut nicht überzeugt von neuem Alzheimer-Medikament
Ein neues Medikament für Menschen, die an Alzheimer-Demenz erkrankt sind, ist seit 1. September in Deutschland verfügbar. Doch der Nutzen ist unklar.

This September saw a historic moment. For the first time, more EVs than fuel cars passed through 🇳🇴 Oslo city's toll ring.
https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/flertall-av-elbiler-i-bomringen-for-forste-gang-1.17615121

Flertall av elbiler i bomringen for første gang
September er første måned noensinne at det var et flertall av elbiler som passerte gjennom bomringen i Oslo. Ifølge trafikktall fra SkyttelPASS og Fjellinjen var 51,2 prosent av bilene som kjørte gjennom de 83 bomstasjonene i Oslo i september, elektriske. I Bergen har de også passert 50 prosent elbil-andel i bomringen. Men mange andre byer ligger langt bak, ifølge bomoperatørene Ferde og Vegamot: Tromsø på 30 prosent, Kristiansand på 37 prosent, mens Stavanger og Trondheim ligger rett…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Raoul Hedebouw ist Vorsitzender der belgischen Partei PTB/PVDA (Parti du Travail de Belgique/Partij van de Arbeid). Sie hat sich in den letzten Jahren einen bemerkenswerten Platz in der belgischen Politik erarbeitet – sowohl auf föderaler, regionaler und kommunaler Ebene. Im September 2024 hat die belgische Zeitung De Morgen ein Interview mit Hedebouw veröffentlicht. nd-aktuell hat das Interview nun auch in einer deutschsprachigen Übersetzung für deutschsprachige Leserinnen und Leser zugängl…

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/ice-shootings-minneapolis-other-cities.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p132#a260107p132

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Olivia Dean:
🎵 Nice To Each Other (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #OliviaDean
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/olivia-dean-nice-to-each-other-dirty-needlz-heartbroken-in-september-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gKxCvTDWwV9wBhdeBbr3l

Apple baut iPhone-Zeitplan um: Nicht mehr alles im September
Aktuell erscheinen die meisten iPhones im Herbst, im Frühjahr gelegentlich ein Einsteigergerät. Laut einem Bericht stehen hier Änderungen an.
https://…

After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit for the “double tap” strike that occurred on September 2.
Why is Hegseth backing off?
Turns out that even Republicans are not so comfy with murdering survivors of a boat strike.
Yesterday, CNN reported that after the initial September 2 strike killed nine people,
a second one 41 m…

A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.

Mein #Selbstzitat des Tages: »Ich bin es längst leid, ertragen zu müssen, wie sich die Dummheit überall für schlau hält. Egal, ob in meinem Umfeld, im Bundestag, im Journalismus oder in den Geisterwisschenschaften«

Erneuerbare Energien lieferten im dritten Quartal 2025 rund 64 Prozent des in #Deutschland produzierten Stroms.
#Windkraft trug 26,8 Prozent bei, #Photovoltaik 24,1 Prozent. Grund ist v…

Dank Ausbau: Zwei Drittel des produzierten Stroms jetzt wieder aus Erneuerbaren
Von August bis September haben erneuerbare Energiequellen fast zwei Drittel zum hierzulande produzierten Strom beigetragen. Kohle ist aber weiter auf Platz 3.

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…

"Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary"
jfc we have all been there, if you haven't then it doesn't mean you're perfect it probably just means you haven't done ops enough.
This is what hugops are for.
"Post-mortem of the September 2 Matrix.org outage"

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

ITV reports January-September 2025 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.8B and digital ad revenue up 15% YoY, but warns the late UK Budget is causing advertiser pullback (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e9d56e0d-0759-49e6-8f8e-30c0cdcc302c

Dank iPhone 17: Apple erwartet bestes Weihnachtsquartal – wieder Umsatzrekord
Apple hat am Donnerstagabend seine Quartalszahlen für Juli bis September vorgelegt. Der Umsatz landet bei 102,5 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Republican regime still hasn’t seated our representative that we elected in fucking September

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

"The US Is after our oil & gas" - Venezuelan President Maduro, September 10, 2025
#venezuela #oil #trump

"China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies"
#China #EV #ElectricVehicles

China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies
HONG KONG (AP) — China has reported that its electric vehicle exports doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded further into overseas markets. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Tuesday that exports of “new energy vehicles,” which include battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, jumped 100% last month to 222,000 […]

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

September 2025 war weltweit der drittwärmste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut dem #Copernicus Climate Change Service lag die globale Durchschnittstemperatur bei 16,11 °C – 0,66 °C über dem Mittelwert von 1991–2020.
In #Europa betrug die Abweichung sogar 1,23 °C. Solche

Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend "at least $600B" (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-plans-600-billio…

Disney : Preiserhöhung auch für Bestandskunden
Die jüngste Preiserhöhung von Disney aus dem September soll bald auch für Bestandskunden gelten. Nutzer werden darüber aktuell per Mail informiert.
https://www.

US added 119K jobs in September after August decline, delayed report shows (Sylvan Lane/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5614582-us-jobs-report-september/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p70#a251120p70

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Sinclair Q3: revenue fell 16% YoY to $773M, a $1M net loss, vs. net income of $94M a year ago; CEO Chris Ripley calls Disney-Google dispute an "antitrust issue" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sinclai…

Sinclair Reports Q3 Revenue Drop, Net Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
Sinclair saw a significant drop in revenue and swung to a net loss for Q3 2025. In September, the TV station group's ABC affiliates had preempted 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' over the host's Charlie Kirk comments.

Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ra…

Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature
just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.

Glen Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges
related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program.
Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud…

Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison
Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

"England Extends Ban on Burning in Peat Bogs to Protect Wildlife and Climate"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Environment

England Extends Ban on Burning in Peat Bogs to Protect Wildlife and Climate | Happy Eco News
England extended its ban on burning in peat bogs on September 9, 2025, expanding protections to 676,628 hectares of deep peat. The new rules, effective September 30, curb carbon emissions and habitat loss from traditional moorland management. Conservationists say the move marks a major step in restoring the UK’s rare peatlands.

Der #SmartMeter-Rollout in Deutschland schreitet voran, aber viele kleinere #Netzbetreiber hinken hinterher.
Während bundesweit im Schnitt 20 Prozent der Pflichtfälle bis Ende September erfüllt wurden, lag die Quote bei rund 600 Stadtwerken mit weniger als 30.000 Messstellen bei nur 8…

Smart-Meter-Rollout: Hunderte Betreiber verpassen offenbar gesetzliches Ziel
Die Stromnetzbetreiber haben das erste Etappenziel beim Smart-Meter-Rollout erreicht – allerdings nur im Mittel. Hunderten Stadtwerken drohen nun Zwangsgelder.

A new, disturbing detail in the
“drug boat” controversy that has enveloped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the past week
calls the purpose of the entire operation into question.
According to an exclusive report from CNN,
the alleged narco-trafficking boat that the U.S. military targeted on September 2 in a “double tap” strike, which killed 11 people,
⭐️wasn’t even heading to the U.S.
Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who was in charge of the operatio…

The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report
This new detail eviscerates Pete Hegseth’s argument.

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Future reports revenue down 6% YoY to £739.2M in the year to September 30, pre-tax profit down 11% to £91.9M; CEO Kevin Li Ying wants to cut its Google reliance (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/maga…

Future takes action on 'Google Zero' as revenue declines
Future focusing on engaging audience without relying on Google.

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app got 1M downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813533/openai-sora-android-launch

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android
OpenAI has launched Sora on Android, giving more people access to its AI-generated video feed.

Der neue #Solarpark in Aach speist seit September Strom ins Netz und versorgt rechnerisch rund 4.500 Haushalte.
Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus #Aach, #Eigeltingen und

SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5…

Some of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …

Hepatitis B Vaccine, Once a Public Health Win, Is Under Threat From RFK Jr.
Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. An influential panel is scheduled to vote Thursday on eligibility for the vaccine.

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

The Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/the-economist-rothsch…

The Economist reveals revenue growth as Rothschild stake up for sale
The Economist revealed revenue and profit growth for the past six months as potential buyers expressed interest in a 27% stake in the business

Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacšn, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization o…

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

Amazon plans to release its new $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10; the company announced the devices in September (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/838282/amazon-kindle-scribe-colorsoft-release-date

Amazon’s new color Kindle Scribe launches on December 10th
Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe will be available to purchase starting December 10th.

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813533/openai-sora-android-launch

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android
OpenAI has launched Sora on Android, giving more people access to its AI-generated video feed.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

IoT security device maker Verkada hit a $5.8B valuation after new funding, source says totaling $100M, led by CapitalG; it passed $1B in annualized bookings (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/verkada-capitalg-valuation-security.html

Security startup Verkada hits $5.8 billion valuation in latest funding round led by CapitalG
In September, Verkada rolled out over 60 new AI features and platform updates, including tools like "AI-Powered Unified Timeline."

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/eric-schmidt-x…

German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1acae2af-c0da-4be3-9cd9-af6120d1f7aa

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, calling them "reasoning-first models built for agents", after releasing V3.2-Exp in September (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…