https://www.piqd.de/technologie-gesellschaft/community/das-soundcloud-rap-phanomen-die-gesellschaftlichen-kosten-der-kommenden-uploadfilter?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=user_sharing

„NASA scientists announced Wednesday that the Earth’s average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in nearly 140 years of record-keeping and a continuation of an unmistakable warming trend.

“The five warmest years have, in fact, been the last five years,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA group that conducted the analysis. “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.”“

Over all, 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2001.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/06/climate/fourth-hottest-year.html

Die heute bekannt gewordenen Übernahmen von Gimlet und Anchor durch Spotify werden Podcasts langfristig ordentlich durchrütteln. (Spotify plant, noch ein paar hundert Millionen € mehr in diesem Feld dieses Jahr zu investieren.) Meine Gedanken dazu:
https://neunetz.com/2019/02/06/plattformevolution-wie-spotify-macht-was-soundcloud-nicht-gelungen-ist-und-mit-gimlet-und-anchor-zum-youtube-fuer-audio-wird/

„Britain is one of the richest and most advanced democracies in the world. It is currently locked in a room, babbling away to itself hysterically while threatening to blow its own kneecaps off. This is what nationalist populism does to a country.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-collective-madness-behind-britains-latest-brexit-plan/2019/01/31/48d4d67e-2578-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html