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The James #Webb Space Telescope would probably not be your first choice for observing the large open #StarCluster of the #Pleiades but the authors of the paper "JWST imaging of the Pleiades: anisotropy of turbulence in the cold neutral medium" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03672 - did it anyway, to study the turbulent energy cascade in the CNM the cluster happens to move through right now. Here is what they saw, with the NIRCam and the F335M filter - for the four cuts from the JWST pictures at the bottom in detail see fig. 2 of the paper.

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

"A lot of analysts have indicated that oil is what is seen here, but that Trump has made this strike to prevent Venezuelan oil exports being made in other currencies (than $$)."
"Son muchos los analistas que señalan que el petróleo es lo que se ve, pero que Trump ha dado este golpe en la mesa para evitar que las exportaciones de barriles venezolanos acaben comercišndose en otras monedas."
No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China...

No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China, tras el golpe de Estado de Trump en Venezuela
Estados Unidos no puede permitir que el comercio mundial de crudo deje de hacerse en petrodólares o su hegemonía se pondría en peligro, por lo que necesita acabar con la influencia China en países con reservas de crudo.

What’s key to understand in Venezuela is that the US did a coup and got the president Maduro out.
But the regime is still there. The VP took power. Chavismo is still in charge. The armed forces, paramilitary, everyone is still around. The opposition, that likely won the last election, is still not in charge.
It’s really unusual. And shows the US, as usual with Trump, might not have much of a plan.
Good article on the new president Delcy Rodríguez

USA tar Venezuelas president. "SOON" postar närstående till Vita huset om Grönland. Tre imperier. En ordning som faller. Europa manar till återhållsamhet. Det räcker inte. Nu är tiden att agera.
https://carlheath.se/den-starkes-ratt-berattel…

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

Besides the illegality and cruelty, China and Russia will probably enjoy how the US is destroying morale and credibility of it's military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/poli

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?

Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta's new partners include USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

"Canary Media’s top 11 clean energy stories in 2025"
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.<…

Canary Media's top 11 clean energy stories in 2025
From data centers to misinformation peddlers, these are our most essential energy-transition stories from this year.

from my link log —
What we’re talking about, when we talk about data destruction.
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2019/01/what-were-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-data-destruction/
saved 2026-01-0…

What We’re Talking About, When We Talk About Data Destruction
When I wrote my post back in May of last year about Apple’s recycled hardware reuse policy, I found myself frustrated by how hard it was to talk about how well a storage device had been destr…