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Missing Link: Vor 50 Jahren startete die Concorde in den Liniendienst
Das schlanke Überschallflugzeug Concorde galt als „Königin der Lüfte“. Vor 50 Jahren eröffneten Air France und British Airways gleichzeitig den Liniendienst.

"Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection"
#Oceans #Conservation #Nature

Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection | Happy Eco News
Ocean conservation debt-for-nature bonds have unlocked more than $1.4 billion for marine protection across multiple nations.

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…

Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

After a week of censures, some in Congress are having second thoughts (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/25/congress-censure-reform/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p29#a251125p29

A federal judge has ruled members of Congress are not required to give advance notice when visiting ICE facilities.
A dozen House lawmakers filed suit earlier this year in response to an ICE memo
requiring members of Congress to provide at least a week’s notice if they plan to visit a site where detainees are held.
The suit argues the new policy goes against a U.S. statute that guarantees lawmakers the right to make unannounced visits to facilities for oversight.
“Th…

Members of Congress can make unannounced visits to ICE facilities for oversight, judge rules
A dozen House lawmakers filed suit earlier this year in response to an ICE memo requiring members of Congress to provide at least a week’s notice if they plan to visit a site where detainees are held.

us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…

Tipp: Alte Videos vom DV-Camcorder auf den Mac holen
Mit den richtigen Kabeln und Adaptern lassen sich die Videos von DV-Kameras auf dem Mac ansehen, aufnehmen und weiterverarbeiten.
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X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

Judges plead with Congress for control of crumbling courthouses (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/24/congress/congress-pressed-on-courthouses-00795767
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p96#a260224p96

The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…