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Ziemlich viel Alternativgeschichte in meinem SF-Lesetagebuch der letzten Wochen. Und Silo, Lucifer und Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/11/science-fiction-im-oktober-und-november-2025/

Science Fiction im Oktober und November 2025
Es wird Zeit, etwas zu den in den letzten Wochen konsumierten SF- und Fantasy-Medien zu schreiben, bevor alles zu einem Brei verschwimmt … Nachdem ich mit den ersten Folgen der zweiten Wednesday-Staffel (Netflix) nicht so ganz zufrieden war - und die Dialoge nach wie vor stellenweise arg kunstged

No Kings? bullshit. The Kings rule https://cathode.church/@okadaibro/115392718725342799

Should I be fully exploring these maps in Octopath Traveler?
The random encounters are making back tracking a real pain already at level 8
#videogames #octopath

Can an octopus learn to play a piano? This guy, Mattias Krantz, tried to find out. He rescues a random octopus from a fish market and then tries to work out how to teach it to play. You can skip the training to 15:20 to hear their first duet, but the training is interesting too. https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=BMFFE7

"October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange

October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record
Only October 2023 and October 2024 were warmer.

Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…

Unemployment rate rises, signaling weakness in the economy
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.

i absolutely love going through https://okstupid.lol/ and seeing all the MEN who signed up for "WhiteDate" thinking they could find far right women to mingle yet all it lead to was their insane incel beliefs being leaked alongside their real address and name

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/waymo-se…

Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus…

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it "crossed €100M of ARR in October" (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/fast

Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track | TechCrunch
Flatpay’s bet is that it can challenge larger players by charging small merchants a flat transaction rate to use its card terminals and point-of-sales systems.