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„Frieden wird es erst geben wenn Araber ihre Kinder mehr lieben als sie uns hassen. [...] Wer Israel angreift, bekommt es mit Deutschland zu tun.”
— Cem Özdemir, 20.05.2021 auf einer Pro-Israel Demo, anfangs zitierend Golda Meir, ehemalige Ministerpräsidentin Israels.

Alles in einen Topf
Angesichts der Lage im Gazastreifen wurde auch hierzulande protestiert – und in dem Zusammenhang wieder heftig über Antisemitismus diskutiert. Dabei lohnt es sich, genauer hinzusehen.

from my link log —
The tao of Unicode sparklines.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/
saved 2021-08-07

The Tao of Unicode Sparklines
I’ve long been enamored of the sparkline, a graphical device which its inventor Edward Tufte defines thusly: A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolu…

Translation: Kaspersky forced to cut staff in France as the Russian antivirus software company continues to pay the price for the collateral damage of the war in Ukraine. Revenue at its French subsidiary fell from nearly €30m in 2021 to €22.4m in 2024, and the workforce was reduced by a fifth.

Antivirus : le russe Kaspersky contraint de tailler dans ses effectifs en France
L’éditeur de logiciels continue de subir les effets de la guerre en Ukraine. Il a perdu de nombreux clients dans les administrations et les grandes entreprises.

(2021) Eläköön ihmeellinen monimuotoisuus #luonto #monimuotoisuus

Eläköön ihmeellinen monimuotoisuus | Luonto-Suomi
Luonnon monimuotoisuus on maapallon arvokkain ja vähiten arvostettu ominaisuus, on biologi Edward Wilson todennut. Maailmassa on miljoonia eliölajeja, erityisesti hyönteisiä on hämmästyttävä määrä, ja uusia lajeja löydetään jatkuvasti. Samaan aikaan lajeja kuolee sukupuuttoon huolestuttavaa vauhtia. Miksi luontokadosta pitää olla huolissaan? Entä miten se voidaan pysäyttää? Kerro omia ajatuksiasi aiheesta: milloin olet pysähtynyt ihmettelemään luonnon monimuotoisuutta? M…

Raiders re-sign DE Malcolm Koonce https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-re-sign-malcolm-koonce-defensive-end-2026-nfl-free-agency-transactions

i'm drinking cheap bordeaux and spinning old wax tonight
what are you up to?

from my link log —
Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/
saved 2021-03-05

Los Raiders renovaron al ala defensiva Malcolm Koonce https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-renovaron-al-ala-defensiva-malcolm-koonce

Myanmar releases at least four journalists as part of an amnesty of 7,300 prisoners convicted of terrorism after the military's 2021 coup (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/03/at-least-4-myanmar-journalists-jai…

At least 4 Myanmar journalists jailed on terrorism charges released in amnesty - Committee to Protect Journalists
Singapore, March 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release in recent days of at least four journalists in Myanmar as part of an amnesty of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted of terrorism, but urges military authorities to free all remaining jailed reporters. Those released include Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun, Myat Kalay (Naing Win Tun), Than Htike...

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut Š une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 Š 1994
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/26/rw…

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut à une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 à 1994
Le groupe de chercheurs sur le Rwanda, réuni par Emmanuel Macron pour étudier le rôle de la France, a remis son rapport au président le 26 mars. Il conclut à « un ensemble de responsabilités, lourdes et accablantes », au sein de l’Etat français. Mais il écarte l’idée d’une complicité de génocide.

from my link log —
Fitting cubic Bézier curves.
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/03/11/bezier-fitting.html
saved 2021-03-14 h…

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10731616

Coupang swings to net loss in Q1 amid fallout from data breach - The Korea Herald
US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a net loss in the first quarter amid fallout from a massive customer data breach in South Kor

Sennheisers Kopfhörersparte sucht neuen Besitzer
Nach der Sennheiser-Übernahme im Jahr 2021 vollzieht der Schweizer Hörsystemspezialist Sonova eine Strategiewende und will sein Consumer-Geschäft veräußern.
https://www.

Wonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:

#OTD 2021: Time for the annual bicycle harvest in Utrecht

Ballot Box Scotland: Allan has started profiling parties.
Lib Dems: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-lib-dem/
"The smallest party to be elected to Holyrood in 2021, the Lib Dems have been suffering a second era of near-wipeout in their history. ..…

SP26 Party Profile: Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems have had a decade of stagnation in the Scottish Parliament, born of an oddly FPTP-obsessed strategy for a proportional voting system. This time around that approach may actually bear …

He took Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6.
Now he’s running for office.
Adam Johnson poured Scotch into a coffee mug, logged on to Zoom and steeled himself for his plea hearing.
He concentrated on looking contrite.

Johnson was among the most infamous of the Donald Trump supporters who had roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
He’d found House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and was carrying it into the Rotunda when he waved to a news photographer an…

He took Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for office.
Adam Johnson has rarely voted and embraces his role as clown prince of Jan. 6. Floridians will decide whether a man who tried to upend democracy can help lead one.

Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson is out after 40 years at the publisher; Embracer Group, which bought Dark Horse in 2021, names Jay Komas interim CEO (Chris Arrant/Popverse)
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dark-horse-media-mike-richardson-exit-j…

Dark Horse CEO/Founder Mike Richardson exits after 40 years as new owners bring in new boss from gaming & Lord of the Rings
Embracer replaces Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson with Middle-earth Enterprises exec in leadership shakeup.

from my link log —
Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.
https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/14/writing-a-postgres-sql-pretty-printer-in-rust-part-1/
saved 2021-03-18

I'm going to talk about my work today... to 4 year old kids at my daughter's school :)))
I hope my wet lab skills are good enough to isolate a DNA from banana!
#science #dissemination

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/…

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

There are a few sites using the UK government API for fuel prices, but I suspect, based on military choices, the crowdsourced "availability" reports may actually be the thing that's critical.
(Not sure why availability wasn't part of the API, given the chaos of September 2021.)
https://checkfuelprices.co.uk

Check Fuel Prices – Find the Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Near You
Live UK fuel prices from thousands of petrol stations including Shell, BP, Gulf, and more. Compare prices for E10, E5, B7, and SDV near you using our interactive map or postcode search.

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

How BuzzFeed went from a $1.7B digital-media darling in 2016 to the brink of bankruptcy, as an early investor blames mismanagement following a 2021 SPAC merger (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-buzz

from my link log —
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/
saved 2021-03-19 https:/…

from my link log —
An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/
saved 2021-12-01

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Mafia & Fluxy:
🎵 Rocking Time (Horns version)
#Mafia #Fluxy
https://irieites.bandcamp.com/track/rocking-time-riddim-2021-mix-instrumental
https://open.spotify.com/track/54qg6erhj10hpSbpg8aulm

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…