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In Deutschland hinken wir mit der Emissionsreduktion, insbesondere bei Gebäude und Verkehr, meilenweit hinterher. Das befeuert nicht nur die Klimakrise, sondern wird auch krass teuer werden!

A little update from Truth & Beauty mailchi.mp/5dab24f1f7e2...

Glad to share the details for our Q1 2026 live training, including that of Cloudbreak, a new course in #selfhosting geared toward those with no prior relevant skills. As with 2025, seats are limited to ensure quality coaching with great outcomes for participants. courses.nikau.io/currently-av...

6 neue #Kernkraftwerke in Frankreich – der erste Reaktor geht frühestens 2038 ans Netz. Die Kosten explodieren: Über 100 Mrd. € sind möglich! Dabei sind die bestehenden Meiler schon 40 Jahre alt. Gut, dass Deutschland auf #ErneuerbareEnergien setzt.

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

Updating my portfolio — does anybody happen to have a photo of my talk at IEEE VIS? Would be much appreciated :)

Habe das angebliche Bekennerschreiben zum Stromausfall gründlich gelesen. Als jemand, der seit vielen Jahren mit Sprache arbeitet & seit Jahren mit Übersetzungstools, bin ich mir bei einigen Formulierungen ziemlich sicher, dass sie NICHT originär im Deutschen verfasst wurden. knack.news/14715

hab gerade einen cdu-politiker entführt. und was soll ich sagen, die lage ist komplex

The so-called "Somali Fraud" explained in one cartoon.

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some excellent advice for presentations:

Squirrels can find 85% of the nuts they hide www.popsci.com/science/squi...

6. The Gall-Peters Projection looks like ass

5. He cynically took advantage of good social movements with a product he didn't invent so he could make money off of people trying to do the right thing while distracting us from material social change.

1. Peters ripped off Gall and took credit. Probably. 2. Peters pretended his was the first equal area map (It wasn't. At all) 3. Peters massively distorts shapes which are also important in geography! 4. His claims reduced geography to a false premise- that size is the only thing that matters.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Africa is so big you could fit a smaller Africa within its borders

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

🚨NEW: AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers🚨 We analyzed thousands of data center operators. We found that newcomers are driving the AI gold rush - and it could have global economic consequences. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

🍊THE WINTER SOLSTICE🍃 Today is 'Tōji' (冬至), the Winter Solstice. On this day we traditionally enjoy 'yuzu-yu' (柚子湯), a bath steeped in yuzu🍊☺️♨️ #Japan #Kyoto #tōji' #冬至 #wintersolstice #yuzuyu #柚子湯

started / going

doing IT consulting is going to be pretty lucrative in ~3-5 years; when there are hardly anyone who remembers how to use a computer anymore

Fahre jetzt acht Jahre E-Auto, brauchte keine Wartung für E-Motor/Batterien und registriere keine Ladeverluste, Desinformationen über E-Autos werden nur von Diesel Dieter gestreut

Ungarn beweist, dass Solarenergie nicht "ideologisch" durchgesetzt wird (wie von der AfD behauptet), sondern sie inzwischen einfach die billigste Stromoption ist.

#AI www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

INGRAPHICS is a „magazine for visual thinkers“ — and I was kindly invited to contribute a double spread. I created a visual overview of the long history of Elon Musk‘s not-quite-materialized predictions on autonomous cars 🤖🚙 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...)

À la fin ? Un dîner où chaque plat raconte une histoire en données 📊🍴 @moritzstefaner.bsky.social nous a accordé une interview exclusive pour cette édition de “Buena Vista Data Club” spéciale food 👉 wedodata.fr/newsletter #dataviz #food #photoviz #infographie #cuisine #data

Dass die Gewinne der Autobranche im 2025 niedrig sind, liegt nicht an einer Regelung, die 2035 in Kraft treten sollte. Es liegt daran, dass sie seit 2017 nicht schafft, ihre Produkte den Bedürfnissen ihrer größten Absatzmärkte (& der Klimakrise) anzupassen www.tagesschau.de/wi...

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply. It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall. 🧵1/13

Man fühlt sich mittlerweile, wie das dümmste Opfer eines Internet-Betrugs Nachdem wir hunderte Milliarden für einen »Herbst der Reformen« gezahlt haben, der uns nur sozialen Abstieg, Armut und Hetze eingebracht hat, sollen wir als Nächstes für »Modernisierung« mit Alt-Autos und Kohlekraft zahlen. 🤔

12:00 PM (EST) → 12:00 PM, each hour will introduce a unique topic related to visualizing animal, plant, and other intelligences and their unique symbiotic relationships. cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... In just a couple of hours! My presentation is at midnight EST (9 PM California)

Ditching Calibri as a “wasteful diversity” font is both hilarious and sad. Here's a quick reminder of what Calibri actually is and why it matters. (1/2)

A group of German journalism students investigated the drone sightings over military installations in Western Europe and in one instance tracked it back to three commercial vessels belonging to Russian services.

🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy - I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'. - It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...

🇦🇹-Klima-Status Ende 2025: 2 von 21 klimarelevanten Maßnahmen im Regierungsprogramm sind umgesetzt (ElWG seit gestern Nacht) oder auf Kurs (PV-Ausbau). ⚠️ Offen: neues Klimagesetz, Beschleunigung des Windkraft-Ausbaus, Ökologisierung klimaschädlicher Subventionen. ➡️ klimadashboard.at/policies/gov...

Envisioning Intelligence, a unique 24H online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team with presentations on visualising various topics #dataviz Presenters include the amazing @moebio.bsky.social and @kimay.bsky.social Check it out: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #macroscope

Great read on #dataviz fundamentals

Quite interesting project (see further below for the OP)

UN report: Investing in planetary health would deliver GDP, fewer deaths, less poverty. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Love the careful considerations and approach in this 1991 video on the design for touchscreen toggles for a smart home appliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWb...

Das fasst das Zeitgeschehen ganz gut zusammen.

Exciting! A German creative used a similar effect to make a 3d map called the Alps of Berlin. I think the max elevation difference in Berlin is ca 50 meters. Also amusing since some district names end in -berg (mountain) eg Prenzlauerberg, Schönenberg, hanshack.com/alpen/berlin/

Au menu de Buena Vista Data Club ce mois-ci : 📸 + 🍅 + 📊 @julesgrandin.bsky.social (Les Échos) vous livre ses secrets pour créer des photoviz avec de vrais aliments 🍷 Data Cuisine : le projet fou de @moritzstefaner.bsky.social qui transforme la data en plats gastronomiques