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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (08 December - 14 December 2025):

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Brazil’s BNDES announced to invest $71M in FS Indústria’s corn-ethanol BECCS project.
hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/12/b…

Altitude, EcoGaia, and Emisiones Neutras purchased 165,000+ t CDRs from Argentina
altitudecarbon.com/news/altitude-…

Holcim and 44.01 launched world's first pilot to mineralise CO₂ at UAE cement plant.
4401.earth/blog/holcim-an…

Microsoft signed deal with C2X for 3.6M t carbon removal over 12 years.
datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/micros…

Google prepurchased 3,500 t CO₂ removal from Ebb Carbon.
businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley set to build UK’s first full-scale CCS at Padeswood, aiming to generate 800,000 tCO₂/yr by 2029.
mhi.com/news/251208.ht…

Durable carbon removal market exceeded 1M credits delivered by 117 suppliers in 28+ countries.
linkedin.com/posts/cdr-fyi_…

Onnu and ReGenEarth partnered to integrate pyrolysis with anaerobic digestion in UK, producing 2,266 t biochar and removing 4,300 t CO₂e per year.
biochartoday.com/news/onnu-and-…

CURA secured investment to decarbonize cement.
curaclimate.com/cura-secures-i…

NatWest bought 500 CO₂ Removal Certificates from The Carbon Removers.
thecarbonremovers.com/natwest-pilots…

BeZero Carbon partnered with Chloris Geospatial to improve forest carbon measurement.
linkedin.com/posts/bezero-c…

Boomitra, Aves Argentinas, and BirdLife International partnered to scale a soil-carbon project from 30,900 ha to 200,000 ha in the next 2 years.
boomitra.com/boomitra-aves-…

Brodie Biomass in UK received Puro.earth certification.
linkedin.com/posts/accendca…

Ebb Carbon partnered with the Saudi Water Authority to integrate CDR into desalination plants.
ebbcarbon.com/news/a-new-cha…

EnEarth partnered with Heidelberg Materials for Bulgaria’s first large-scale cement CCS.
carbonherald.com/enearth-and-he…

Carbon Capital produced 16,291 t certified biochar in Namibia.
biochartoday.com/news/carbon-ca…

Puro.earth gained Core Carbon Principles eligibility under Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market Review.
hubs.ly/Q03XYdHx0

Planboo and Better Cotton Initiative introduced biochar production on Indian cotton farms.
bettercotton.org/better-cotton-…

Verra issued first CCP-labeled Improved Forest Management (IFM) credits
verra.org/verra-issues-f…

Puro.earth launched Puro dMRV Connect.
mondovisione.com/media-and-reso…

Carbon Futures has joined the South East Regional Delivery Alliance to support 109 Net Zero homes in Scotland.
carbonfutures.co.uk/carbon-futures…

Anew Climate and Aurora Sustainable Lands issued first forest credits under next-gen standard
anewclimate.com/news/anew-clim…

ClimeFi opened dual-track RFP for Adyen’s 1% Fund. Applications close 13 Jan
climefi.com/blog-posts/cli…

CarbonCure opened scholarship for undergrad students in Concrete Industry Management. Deadline 31 Jan
carboncure.com/blog/concrete-…

Carbon Capital Lab published a report on funding, offtake, and finance challenges from 74 nature-based carbon project developers.
carboncapitallab.com

ZeoDAC has been granted two US patents for its direct air capture technology.
prweb.com/releases/zeoda…

CDRjobs reported the global median salary dropped to $100,000 in 2025 (13%) from $115,000 in 2024.
cdrjobs.earth/2025-cdr-salar…

CarbonGap released a report explaining the Like-for-Like principle and its role in scaling CDR.
carbongap.org/implementing-l…

CDRterra released a report summarizing ten land-based CDR projects in Germany with their potentials, risks, and challenges.
cdrterra.de/en/news/unless…

Climeworks’ report estimated how much CO₂ can be sustainably removed by 2050 and emphasized combining natural and engineered solutions.
climeworks.com/guide/sustaina…

Symbiosis Coalition, Beyond Alliance, and Emergent released nine policy recommendations to scale private investment in nature-based CDR.
beyond-alliance.org/resources/poli…

Worcester Polytechnic Institute created a carbon-negative building material using enzymes that turns CO₂ into durable, recyclable solids.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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What I wish people would realize about anti-semitism is that it isn't enough to say "it's theoretically possible to harshly criticize Israel without being anti-semitic".

Yes it is. But lots of Palestinian Cause types traffic in anti-semitism and don't face sufficient opprobrium.

And again, hashtag "not all Palestinian Cause types". Absolutely right. Some strident advocates for Palestinians and even some one state solution types do express proper horror about October 7, Bondi Beach, etc.

But lots of others look immediately to justify and minimize.

And again, they don't face sufficient opprobrium for it.

Remember Russell Rickford, the Cornell professor who said he was "exhilarated" by October 7? He should have been shunned. Confronted. He shouldn't be canceled, but people should stand up to folks who say stuff like that.

Around 1200 BC, the lights went out across the Bronze Age world. Advanced societies vanished. Cities burned. Writing stopped. Empires collapsed.

The sands of time covered much; but questions still linger: What happened? Who were the “Sea Peoples”?

Across the eastern Mediterranean, cities that had anchored civilization for centuries are destroyed or abandoned within a few generations. Palaces burn. Trade routes fall silent. Writing disappears.

Powers that once exchanged diplomats, daughters, and threats across thousands of kilometers — Mycenaean Greece, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, the kingdoms of the Levant — do not decline gradually or transform into something new. They collapsed.

The cause has never been settled. Evidence points in many directions at once: prolonged drought, failing harvests, internal revolt, interrupted trade, and war.

None of these forces alone can explain the scale of the collapse. Together, they suggest something more disturbing — a system pushed beyond its capacity to absorb shock.

📘 Wireless Reconnaissance in Penetration Testing
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⚖️ Ethics, authorization, scope

Two Forces Colliding in Markets: Fear of Technology vs Fear of Not Owning It 🧵

Over the next five years, markets will be shaped less by traditional valuation debates and more by a deep psychological and generational clash.

Not bulls vs bears.
Not growth vs value.

But two fundamentally different fears - embodied by two types of investors. 👇

Investor Type I: Fear of Technology
The first group is older, experienced, and scarred.

They’ve lived through:

The dot-com crash
The GFC
Countless “this time is different” narratives

Their risk framework is shaped by bubble trauma.
To them, any company heavily leveraging a new technology is immediately suspect:

“Too much CAPEX”
“Too high multiples”
“Unproven returns”
“This reminds me of 1999”

They seek confirmation, not understanding.

So when:
Michael Burry expresses skepticism
Bloomberg runs a fear-heavy headline
CDS spreads widen on an AI-exposed company
They react defensively. They sell. They de-risk. They label it “prudence.”

This investor isn’t stupid.
They’re protecting themselves from repeating history.

But here’s the problem:
They’re fighting the last war.

Investor Type II: Fear of Being Left Behind

The second group is younger - or at least mentally younger.

They look at numbers, not narratives.

They see that:
AI efficiency has improved dramatically year after year
Cost per unit of intelligence has collapsed
Task complexity has increased while price has fallen

(OpenAI alone has delivered efficiency gains on the order of hundreds of percent)

They also see:
Massive, coordinated CAPEX from $AMZN, $META, $GOOGL, $MSFT, $ORCL
Infrastructure being built at a scale that doesn’t resemble hype - it resembles inevitability

They understand something uncomfortable (the most important realization I had):

This may be the last chance to own the assets
before the assets begin to own your career.
This investor buys not because risk is low -
but because the risk of not owning productive AI assets is higher out of existential fear.

They buy infrastructure.
They buy platforms.
They buy control points.
They buy every dip.
They buy expensive.
They buy through volatility.

Not out of greed - but out of fear of irrelevance!

//UK Home Router Hardening – Turn Your ISP Brick Into a Fortress (2025 Firmware Edition)

Your Virgin/BT/Sky/Plusnet router is the single biggest hole in 90% of UK homes right now.

2025 botnets (PolarEdge, Mirai-2025) added 300k+ UK devices via default settings.
Just 15 mins 🧵

// Exact steps for every major UK ISP router + proper DNS + IoT segmentation.

Lets lock it down 🔐

// Why this matters – real 2025 threats

- UPnP exploits = 200k+ UK routers pwned this year
- Default admin passwords still “admin” or “password”
- No IoT isolation → one £15 bulb owns your entire network
- ISP firmware updates often 6–12 months late

According to the most recent US @Surgeon_General Report on tobacco, "cigarettes kill 490,000 Americans every year." That seems bad.

The USSG did not write "tobacco products." He wrote "CIGARETTES": Mass-produced combustible tobacco cigarettes.
(1/13) 👇

2/13
25 million US adults smoke. Cigarettes shorten the lives of 50% of lifelong smokers by 10 years. 99% of deaths are over the age of 50.

Those deaths are due to:
36% cancer (29% lung cancer)
36% cardiovascular disease
21% COPD

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Funny thing happened after nicotine vapes entered the US market 18 years ago. Adult vaping skyrocketed and smoking plummeted.

The media ignores adults and focuses on teen vaping. That went up, down, up and then WAY DOWN to a 10-year low... while teen smoking dropped 90%.
cdc.gov/media/releases…

In Sept 2017, Jeffrey Epstein was privately coordinating meetings with a Middle Eastern intermediary tied to a senior Gulf leader.
Not socially, but about logistics. 🧵

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The emails discuss New York vs. Kuwait, avoiding “pomp” (attentions) tight timing, and discreet arrivals.
All back-channel diplomacy talk.

3/
The intermediary repeatedly refers to “my boss” / “my dear old man” (clearly an elderly Gulf leader) while managing schedules and access on his behalf.

🧵Sign of Messiah: Sheikh Najafi loses the challenge of Divine Sign

Najafi challenged Ahmad AS that he could show a sign in 40 minutes

Ahmad AS told him to show one in 40 DAYS instead, and he would do the same

35 days later, Allah manifested the sign of the death of Lekh Ram

https://twitter.com/1971612251972128768/status/1989758096282194335

1) CHALLENGE (1 Feb 1897)

Najafi writes to Ahmad AS and boasts about showing a sign within 40 minutes.

"Well then let him announce a prophecy and we shall give him, not forty minutes, but forty hours. Thereafter if no Sign appears on our side within forty days and he shows-

-a Sign within forty hours, or, indeed within forty days, we shall believe in his spiritual eminence and we shall give up our own claim. But if within the period specified a Sign appears on my side and none appears from his side, this would be the proof of my righteousness."

Tactical Analysis: Chelsea 2-0 Everton

Blues beat Everton at the Bridge again.

Thread

Chelsea goal kicks/Everton high press:

Starting with Chelsea's build up from goal kicks, we saw the usual 4-2-4 set up with Fernandez dropping alongside James as the pivot.

Everton pressed with aggressively with a -1 here, and the deficit came down the right side, where Grealish split the Chelsea right-back (Gusto) and right center-back (Fofana) - purple zone in image 1.

This allowed Everton to have a +1 against Chelsea's two forwards (Pedro and Palmer).

Chelsea deep build-up/Everton high block:

Everton continued to press with a -1 down the left side during Chelsea's deep build-up situations. With Gusto inverting into midfield and dragging his marker (Grealish), as shown in image 1, Chelsea would re-adjust to a 4-2-5 with Sanchez joining the backline whilst Fernandez pushes up.

Folks! We are seeing an increase in viral infections both in clinic and in hospital. Here’s some actionable, evidence-based, interventions you can do now to prevent and treat!

1) N-Acetyl Cysteine 600 mg orally twice a day over a winter season. Reduced symptoms from 79% to 25% in a multi-centered randomized controlled trial of 262 subjects when they developed the flu. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9230243/

2) Harvard study followed solar, radiation, data, and CDC flu index over several years and found that “sunlight strongly protects against getting influenza.” hks.harvard.edu/publications/s…
Getting outside in the sun is more important now when it is most scarce (in winter)!

3) in a Cochrane review Zinc did not show any evidence of preventing a cold, but had modest evidence to show that it could shorten symptoms by two days.

cochranelibrary.com/web/cochrane/c…

One 23-mg zinc lozenge or matched placebo was dissolved in the mouth every 2 wakeful h after an initial double dose. After 7 days, 86% of 37 zinc-treated subjects were asymptomatic, compared with only 46% of 28 placebo-treated subjects (P = 0.0005).

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC18…

More actionable interventions to come!

I’ve heard some people be concerned about NAC causing cancer.

Here’s a recent trial showing that in COPD patients that actually reduced cancer

https://twitter.com/rogerseheult/status/1904053692426240020

More info about NAC!

Putin has lost over 1 million soldiers killed or wounded in Ukraine, but is winning something bigger.
FP columnist Michael Hirsh argues that after nearly four years of war, Putin has succeeded in his core goal: exposing deep fractures inside what used to be called “the West.” 1/

Militarily, Russia failed.

After nearly four years of war, Putin controls only 20% of Ukrainian territory, failed to erase Ukrainian statehood and triggered NATO’s expansion with Finland and Sweden joining the alliance.

This is not a battlefield victory. 2/

But Putin’s strategic objective was broader.

From the start, he bet that NATO unity would fracture under pressure.

Today, the U.S. and Europe openly clash over Ukraine, peace terms, Russia’s role, and even the meaning of “the West.” 3/