Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer
@frankwunderli13.bsky.social
Journalist, technology, spaceflight, batteries, BatterySky
Misheard: Sadistical Significance.
I think it was still correct within a Sadistical Standard Deviation or two.
I think it was still correct within a Sadistical Standard Deviation or two.
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Misheard: Sadistical Significance.
I think it was still correct within a Sadistical Standard Deviation or two.
I think it was still correct within a Sadistical Standard Deviation or two.
Ich sollte einfach mehr Einstein lesen.
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ich sollte einfach mehr Einstein lesen.
According to the IPCC, the uncertainty range of the warming between 1951 and 2012 is 0.4 K.
For the range between 1880 and 2012, extending the range by 70 years with much worse instrumental records and a world war or two in-between, the uncertainty increases to ... 0.41K
How is that possible?
For the range between 1880 and 2012, extending the range by 70 years with much worse instrumental records and a world war or two in-between, the uncertainty increases to ... 0.41K
How is that possible?
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
According to the IPCC, the uncertainty range of the warming between 1951 and 2012 is 0.4 K.
For the range between 1880 and 2012, extending the range by 70 years with much worse instrumental records and a world war or two in-between, the uncertainty increases to ... 0.41K
How is that possible?
For the range between 1880 and 2012, extending the range by 70 years with much worse instrumental records and a world war or two in-between, the uncertainty increases to ... 0.41K
How is that possible?
Black Rock, die Firma für die Kanzler Fritze Merz arbeitete, ist wegen gefälschter Kreditbewertungen in ernstem Schwierigkeiten, weil ihre Collateralized *Loan* Obligations Reihenweise abgeschrieben werden müssen. Die hießen 2008 noch CDO Collateralized Debt Obligations. youtu.be/p7AwVOzuMBo
BlackRock FAILS Credit Test For $1.7 Trillion Debt TIME BOMB
YouTube video by Stoic Finance
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Black Rock, die Firma für die Kanzler Fritze Merz arbeitete, ist wegen gefälschter Kreditbewertungen in ernstem Schwierigkeiten, weil ihre Collateralized *Loan* Obligations Reihenweise abgeschrieben werden müssen. Die hießen 2008 noch CDO Collateralized Debt Obligations. youtu.be/p7AwVOzuMBo
Total policy failure visualized. People go away because the government failed to provide people with adequate living conditions and future perspectives for life and raising children.
This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss.
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Total policy failure visualized. People go away because the government failed to provide people with adequate living conditions and future perspectives for life and raising children.
15 years and still gaining relevance with every passing month. youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
YouTube video by pigwiththefaceofaboy
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
15 years and still gaining relevance with every passing month. youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...
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For all the frenzy about how the Europeans or Ukrainians were doomed four days ago or speculation about what Russia is up to, nothing in concrete terms has changed for the moment for both sides of this war
Instead it's the Americans who ceremoniously shot themselves in both feet
Instead it's the Americans who ceremoniously shot themselves in both feet
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
For all the frenzy about how the Europeans or Ukrainians were doomed four days ago or speculation about what Russia is up to, nothing in concrete terms has changed for the moment for both sides of this war
Instead it's the Americans who ceremoniously shot themselves in both feet
Instead it's the Americans who ceremoniously shot themselves in both feet
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Apparently Jakarta has surpassed Tokyo in urban area pop and is the biggest city in the world now. That’s so nuts considering Tokyo had been the world’s biggest city for my entire life.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Jakarta is now the world's largest city dwarfing Australia's entire population
For decades Tokyo held the title of the most populous city on the planet. Yet the Indonesian and Bangladeshi capitals have overtaken the Japanese megacity.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Apparently Jakarta has surpassed Tokyo in urban area pop and is the biggest city in the world now. That’s so nuts considering Tokyo had been the world’s biggest city for my entire life.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
That's basically the same size of project that were announced in 2022/3. Except that this time, the lithium price isn't in the stratosphere and there is very little chance that those projects get cancelled because the lithium price unexpectedly fell by 80%.
Massive 20 GWh #Sodium-ionBattery manufacturing plant announced in China.👍
#Energysky #renewables #Batteries
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/24/m...
#Energysky #renewables #Batteries
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/24/m...
Massive 20 GWh sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant announced in China
After last year’s slowdown, investment in China’s sodium-ion battery sector is rebounding in 2025, and one of the biggest projects yet has now entered the development pipeline.
www.pv-magazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
That's basically the same size of project that were announced in 2022/3. Except that this time, the lithium price isn't in the stratosphere and there is very little chance that those projects get cancelled because the lithium price unexpectedly fell by 80%.
"GPUs measured in Gigawatts", with no relation to computing anything, is about as big a red flag as you could get. And it's going to get worse.
the next big scandal is going to be "gpus sitting in warehouses" i'm sure of it
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"GPUs measured in Gigawatts", with no relation to computing anything, is about as big a red flag as you could get. And it's going to get worse.
Langfristig gibt es damit immerhin mehr Grund für dauerhafte Investitionen in den Bau von Fabriken für Strom-Infrastruktur, statt einfach nur ein paar mehr Arbeitsschichten einzuführen.
70 Prozent der ukrainischen Stromerzeugungskapazitäten hat Russland zerstört. Die Anlalet in Europa weniger werden.
"Renewed Russian strikes on the energy system this fall are worse than ever, and after nearly four years of attacks, spare parts in Europe are scarce."
"Renewed Russian strikes on the energy system this fall are worse than ever, and after nearly four years of attacks, spare parts in Europe are scarce."
Destroy. Fix. Repeat: Russia is creating a devastating doom loop inside Ukraine’s energy system
Within weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion, Oleksiy Povolotskiy found himself suddenly in charge of the recovery office at one of Ukraine's largest energy companies. His task: source replacements fo...
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Langfristig gibt es damit immerhin mehr Grund für dauerhafte Investitionen in den Bau von Fabriken für Strom-Infrastruktur, statt einfach nur ein paar mehr Arbeitsschichten einzuführen.
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"Import solar panels from China, stick it on the moped, carry it into the countryside, and just put it up...If your energy use/capita is low, & you don't have an entrenched fossil system, you build your electricity system right first time"
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Import solar panels from China, stick it on the moped, carry it into the countryside, and just put it up...If your energy use/capita is low, & you don't have an entrenched fossil system, you build your electricity system right first time"
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
Those are not trolls. Find a better name for them. Propagandists would be one place to start.
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
X’s About This Account reveals the scale of its foreign troll problem, confirming that many MAGA accounts aren’t actually American.
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Those are not trolls. Find a better name for them. Propagandists would be one place to start.
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Reposted by Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Seems like another COPV failure destroyed the Starship booster. It's the second one for Starship and the fourth one for SpaceX overall (two destroyed Falcon 9s early in its flight history). SpaceX is pushing its equipment too hard and its people too, from all we hear.
www.youtube.com/shorts/gKtmb...
www.youtube.com/shorts/gKtmb...
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Seems like another COPV failure destroyed the Starship booster. It's the second one for Starship and the fourth one for SpaceX overall (two destroyed Falcon 9s early in its flight history). SpaceX is pushing its equipment too hard and its people too, from all we hear.
www.youtube.com/shorts/gKtmb...
www.youtube.com/shorts/gKtmb...
More people need more water. Either you provide it, or you'll run into problems. Iran ran into problems. Not because the climate changed, but because of a lack of adequate preparation for the climate it has - which includes serious droughts. The current one merely being the worst in 50-ish years.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
More people need more water. Either you provide it, or you'll run into problems. Iran ran into problems. Not because the climate changed, but because of a lack of adequate preparation for the climate it has - which includes serious droughts. The current one merely being the worst in 50-ish years.
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And I can't help myself. But this really is the quintessence of our society that revells in unavoidable catastrophe and sees science and technology as a "technofix", a false solution that can only make things worse. Despite all scientific and historic evidence to the contrary.
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And I can't help myself. But this really is the quintessence of our society that revells in unavoidable catastrophe and sees science and technology as a "technofix", a false solution that can only make things worse. Despite all scientific and historic evidence to the contrary.
I really hadn't realized how important it is that light is neither just a wave or just particles, but a wave that interacts in quantized amounts of energy.
Such light-waves can go through a part of space with particles and gain or lose energy, without disappearing, dispersing or changing direction.
Such light-waves can go through a part of space with particles and gain or lose energy, without disappearing, dispersing or changing direction.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I really hadn't realized how important it is that light is neither just a wave or just particles, but a wave that interacts in quantized amounts of energy.
Such light-waves can go through a part of space with particles and gain or lose energy, without disappearing, dispersing or changing direction.
Such light-waves can go through a part of space with particles and gain or lose energy, without disappearing, dispersing or changing direction.
The map of the world around the beginning of the 1850-1900 reference period for pre-industrial global temperatures.
Highlights include an imaginary mountain chain in Africa (the "source of the Nile"), no Antarctica, no Australian interior.
But global temperatures known down to 1/10th of a degree.
Highlights include an imaginary mountain chain in Africa (the "source of the Nile"), no Antarctica, no Australian interior.
But global temperatures known down to 1/10th of a degree.
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The map of the world around the beginning of the 1850-1900 reference period for pre-industrial global temperatures.
Highlights include an imaginary mountain chain in Africa (the "source of the Nile"), no Antarctica, no Australian interior.
But global temperatures known down to 1/10th of a degree.
Highlights include an imaginary mountain chain in Africa (the "source of the Nile"), no Antarctica, no Australian interior.
But global temperatures known down to 1/10th of a degree.
They just can't not explode their starships.
What else needs to happen until the cultists start to have some doubt?
What else needs to happen until the cultists start to have some doubt?
It may not have been a massive fireball, but SpaceX now has more work to do before it can kick off this next-generation version of Starship.
SpaceX's upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing | TechCrunch
It may not have been a massive fireball, but SpaceX now has more work to do before it can kick off this next-generation version of Starship.
techcrunch.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
They just can't not explode their starships.
What else needs to happen until the cultists start to have some doubt?
What else needs to happen until the cultists start to have some doubt?
Women made up 16.5% of all first authors. So it's not a big gap in the first place and I don't know how reliable and significant the difference even is. Multiple retractions is also just a function of number of authors.
Also: Scientific conduct is unacceptable regardless of gender.
Also: Scientific conduct is unacceptable regardless of gender.
for less "Fake science news", choose women: "The gender gap was even more pronounced in misconduct-related retractions, where women first authors accounted for only 11.5% of all cases. Women were also significantly less likely to have multiple retractions." 😀👏
2025. Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows phys.org/news/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Women made up 16.5% of all first authors. So it's not a big gap in the first place and I don't know how reliable and significant the difference even is. Multiple retractions is also just a function of number of authors.
Also: Scientific conduct is unacceptable regardless of gender.
Also: Scientific conduct is unacceptable regardless of gender.
Imitation buckwheat? This is going too far!
• Lavrov nearly dies of autoerotic asphyxiation (Bonus: On a plane)
• Kremlin PR stunt puts a Putin in a grocery store
• The Duma complains about Shawarma
• Imitation buckwheat
• Kremlin PR stunt puts a Putin in a grocery store
• The Duma complains about Shawarma
• Imitation buckwheat
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Imitation buckwheat? This is going too far!
15% more thrust at liftoff, 25% more in the 2nd stage and reusable fairings (should get payload to the ~45t LEO) and the announcement of a larger 9-engine variant (pictured) with 70t capacity to LEO. Basically the rocket that SpaceX should have build, but probably won't, out of spite and hurt pride.
Overviewing Blue Origin's announcement on New Glenn's evolution path:
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/blue...
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/blue...
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
15% more thrust at liftoff, 25% more in the 2nd stage and reusable fairings (should get payload to the ~45t LEO) and the announcement of a larger 9-engine variant (pictured) with 70t capacity to LEO. Basically the rocket that SpaceX should have build, but probably won't, out of spite and hurt pride.