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25 Jahre "Deus Ex": Mach doch, was du willst!
Cyberpunk, Transhumanismus, Dystopie – das hat "Deus Ex" schon vor 25 Jahren thematisiert. Auch spielerisch hat der Shooter Akzente gesetzt.
http…

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/23/apple-better-off-taking-tariff-hit/

Kuo: Apple Better Off Taking 25% Tariff Hit Than Move iPhone Production to US
It would be more financially viable for Apple to absorb a 25% import tariff on iPhones sold in the United States than to relocate its assembly...

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

Xelix, which uses AI to automate businesses' accounts payable workflows by connecting with ERP systems, raised a $160M Series B led by Insight Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/21/xelix-160-million-accounts-…

Xelix raises $160M to automate accounts payable
Back office operations fit neatly into AI's strengths.

"Don't do that, Dave"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/?utm_source=semafor

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,046,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Cool
#Linux #Windows # Ubuntu…

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
: It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination

📰 Should the sheep be eaten? We asked 3 hungry wolves for their opinions.

"Don't be a fascist."
https://youtube.com/shorts/n834fdAibAI?si=OnwBHa8jla95HrI3

Still messing around with 3D printed stencils to make signs… playing with some spray paint techniques along the way.
#noWar #protest #resist

America is going to be Trump's 7th Bankruptcy

A Real Life Version of Wallace & Gromit’s Breakfast Machine https://kottke.org/25/05/a-real-life-version-of-wallace-gromits-breakfast-machine

A Real Life Version of Wallace & Gromit’s Breakfast Machine
I love me some Wallace & Gromit and so I was delighted to see that this guy made a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s

#Presseschau

Eine geführte Klickreise in die Welt der Jugend
Der Pfarrkonvent des Kirchenbezirks Bernhausen beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema „Jugendliche Lebenswelten & Seelsorge“. Zum Einstieg gibt es am ersten Abend eine geführte Klickreise.
1. Dopamin
Wir schauen auf Arte eines der vielen Dopamin-Videos und zwar das zu Tiktok. Es gibt auch Videos zu Wh
#Digitalisierung

Wie viele Eingänge wollen sie?
Ja.

What we know about the effect of the Trump regime's attack on Iran: the 'bunker busters' made some holes in the ground and the other bombs flattened some buildings.

Why does #DOAJ have abstracts for articles which are closed access (nonfreely licensed and paywalled)?
https://doaj.org/article/13b03a41fdac43c0b6772f0d7be22ccb (doi:10.101…

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in mood disorders and antidepressant treatments – DOAJ
Levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are reduced in the brain and serum of depressed patients and at least the reduction in serum levels is...

Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/asia/chinese-hackers-microsoft-sharepoint.html

From
"A forever home for your collection #Pocket becomes your permanent library—so even if a page you’ve saved is taken down, you’ll still have a copy of it in Pocket."
to
"Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links."
Thanks for nothing,

Edmund Burke, describing DOGE.

Just to say, this could be expanded to the rest of the population.
https://mastodon.ie/@GurgelSegrillo/114728951805347927

Hey! Stop fighting with me! I have to lick your head.

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain ty...

Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/24/co-op-israeli-products-2/

Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses'
Israeli products should have been removed from all supermarkets a long time ago. The Co-op is leading the way. Others must now follow.

Security Alert - U. S. Embassy Stockholm (June 23, 2025) (U.S. Embassy in Sweden)
https://se.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-stockholm-june-23-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p156#a250623p156

25 years ago this month I joined a most remarkable trip to #Iran, led by U.S. amateur astronomers and a famous astronaut - what a fantastic time that was! Here is a contemporary report by one of the participants: https://web.archive.org/web/20010814214746/http://members.tripod.com/ykChia/

I'm still impressed that #McFly got:
"Hey, there's nothing on Earth that can save us
When I fell in love with Uranus"
Onto daytime #Radio1 tbh
#Stargirl

Hello, fediverse!
I'm Ena, the new PR coordinator hired by the Mastodon nonprofit (@…). I've been recruited to help bring the fediverse to a younger, sexier, more diverse, more cutting-edge audience. According to our polls, using the original creator almost like a mascot is essential to keeping things simple and familiar for how the younger crowd …

See my new Substack post for “Resist and Heal” - Lies About South African “White Genocide“
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/lies-about-south-african-white-genocide?r=4u…

Lies About South African “White Genocide“
The United States is in a fascist political crisis.

Es ist wieder #MeerMittwoch in Tateinheit mit. #Mastoart. Heute mit einem "uralten" Gemälde von mir, das zu einem Roman gehört, den ich nie fertig geschrieben habe. Es zeigt eine Fleute (Handelsschiff des 17. Jahrhunderts) unter Hamburger Flagge.

Was mir erst so langsam klar wird - selbst wenn die Zusammenarbeit von Grünen und Linken in der Opposition im Bund reibungslos funktionieren würde: auf die 25 %, die nicht nur für Untersuchungsausschüsse, sondern auch für verschiedene andere Oppositionsinstrumente notwendig sind, werden nicht erreicht. Keine gute Situation.

Well, here's a piece of good news! The #Coop is going to boycott #Israel over the #GazaGenocide.
Support the Co-op, folks!

Linux is when your computer doesn't boot, you think it's a kernel bug, you spend half the day troubleshooting, you identify an actual hardware defect, you go out and buy new hardware, and then you find out it actually was a kernel bug all along.
#linux #kernel

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period https://phys.org/news/2025-07-amazon-degradation-years-deforestation-falls.html

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period
The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the biome jeopardizes the international goals for combating the climate crisis that have been assumed by the country, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this year.

This is such a good summary of "the problem with 'data science'", as it tries to replace any domain expertise with the misguided notion that some form of statistics.
And so you end up with (maybe even well-meaning) researchers that are so far in over their head that they don't even know what they don't know.
Case in point: the authors of the preprint come from mathematics, computer science, physics, and 'future studies' (lol)…
@…

It was great attending Kotlinconf, speaking about the work we're doing in Android Studio with Jewel and Compose, meeting so many great folks!
While you wait for the new talk recording, catch up on the Markdown talk from @… Italy I mentioned today!

The smile on her face when he walks into the trap with, "how did I do that?" (where "that" is a $25 billion increase in funds to United Healthcare)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7j…

I need to work on my car tomorrow. It's so cold that it's sleeting outside right now. Of course, my friend with tools lives in the icebox of the state. How am I going to work in this crap? I got that 0W-10 blood from living in Texas, plus my persistent sweating. It's almost June. How the hell is it still snowing and sleeting?

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-data-once-again-leaked-on-war-thunder-forums/

Classified data once again leaked on War Thunder forums
It has happened again.

Interesting ExpressVPN offering fixed IPs https://www.expressvpn.com/features/dedicated-ip

Where do Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes fall in 2025 fantasy football QB rankings? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506574/2025/07/23/fantasy-football-2025-qb-rankings-burrow-mahomes-jackson/

Grrr CPC's webpage won't log me in, giving me a 'Recaptcha verification has failed' on both Firefox and Chromium, including from a fresh VM boot; it's not even showing me a Recaptcha.

I have a Frequently Asked Questions page!
This covers my process, payment, free stuff and pricing.
If there's a question you have about my work that isn't listed, then please let me know.
#faq #frequentlyaskedquestions

hmm, what do you think the tariffs are on this $26 100mm party diamond? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806863849173.html

Collabora Online 25.04 bringt granulare Änderungsverfolgung und mehr
Die Entwickler haben dem "LibreOffice aus der Cloud" Collabora Online in Version 25.04 zahlreiche Verbesserungen angedeihen lassen.

It was an interesting and fulfilling experience to be part of the @… working group on Winter Science in the Great Lakes. There are so many nuances to how #ClimateChange and development are likely to impact ice and seasonality in the

@… Neither.

Anyone in #Chicago looking for something to do this Thursday, #MaggieSpeaks is playing a 90s set at Willis Tower on their outdoor terrace. 4:30pm, FREE!
Posting it everywhere else for the normies, figured I'd let y'all know too 😎

Willis Tower's Catalog Summer Concert Series 2025
Free live music series on select Thursdays at Willis Tower's fourth floor outdoor terrace, accessible via Catalog off the Jackson Entrance.

Verkehrssenatorin macht Kiezblocks zum Politikum https://weddingweiser.de/verkehrssenatorin-macht-kiezblocks-zum-politikum/

Seltsames Spiel mit dem Bezirk Mitte: Verkehrssenatorin macht Kiezblocks zum Politikum
Es dauert noch gut ein Jahr bis zur Wahl am 20. September 2026. Aber es …

I propose the following contest for the Apple designers and engineers working on the UI:
Round 1: create a folder with two apps
Round 2: after placing the folder at one the side of the screen, add two more apps to the folder.
Round 3: add four more apps to the folder but on the second screen of the folder
Round 4: move top left and 3rd icons from the 2nd screen to another, new folder
Each round should be timed.
If you are proud with your result, all good.

Ende des Liveblogs
Wir beenden den Liveblog für heute. Vielen Dank für die Aufmerksamkeit.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-mittwoch-516.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_cam…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew und Moskau vereinbaren Gefangenenaustausch ++
Unterhändler aus Kiew und Moskau haben bei ihren Gesprächen in der Türkei offenbar einen weiteren Gefangenenaustausch vereinbart. Israel und die Ukraine wollen gemeinsam gegen die Bedrohung aus dem Iran vorgehen. Der Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

Ich weiß doch auch nicht!

Sources: Google reduces the budget for Google TV and Android TV by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-smar…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadlin…

Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
Google will deprecate all links created with its URL shortener on August 25th, 2025. All links made with the tool will return a 404 error message after that date.

Putin grants Belarusians residing in Russia right to vote, run in local elections: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/putin-grants-belarusians-residing-in.html

Électrique ou pas, la voiture citadine est un oxymore
https://www.lesoir.be/677186/article/2025-05-22/le-chinois-byd-sattaque-au-marche-de-la-citadine-electrique

Oil price up by little more than $1 per barrel this morning. Market doesn't believe Iran will actually close the Strait of Hormuz.

"Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

My friend Marty was like "Hey man, Fran needs help" and you know what, Fran is an awesome dude and a great asset to Milwaukee, and he gave me a chance to show & sell my work last year so I pitch a bit of money towards him.
And then more people did, and more, and it doubled the same day, and doubled again since last night! Smashed the original goal.
Community. We build it. Be there for each other. Help when you can.
➡️

Donate to Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses, organized by Francisco Ramirez
Hello, I'm Francisco, most call me Fran. I'm a printmaker in Milwaukee, … Francisco Ramirez needs your support for Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses

India arches (top to bottom): Humayun's Tomb (Delhi), Mysuru Palace (Mysuru), Qutub Shahi Tombs (Hyderabad).

Handy RStudio addins for reshaping and navigating in code: #rstats #rstudio

Anti-Zionist Jews Gather at the Birthplace of Zionism
https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/zionist-birthplace-zionism.html

So, my Valve Index arrived. As you may know, it officially supports Linux.
It works, sort of, but dear god what a mess that was to get working.
Within the span of one evening, I have seen it all: GPU freezing, failing to aquire a DRM lease, firmware updates crashing, latency, and some weird swap chain flickering issue.
It works, though. On Linux. And I have a plethora of paths to get it perfect. This weekend will be awesome.

«The original paper confidently and without discussion labelled millions of tweets based on what Dave (and some others) said about the website in the tweet, but the original authors have almost certainly never heard of Dave. […] Dave's opinions must take on a form totally independent of Dave, because the original authors would never have taken this dataset seriously had it been presented as "Dave's thoughts on media." This is the spectacle of computation.»
@…

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

Oil futures surge following US strikes in Iran (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/22/business/oil-futures-stocks-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p72#a250622p72

Handy-Linux postmarketOS: v25.06 setzt auf systemd
Die Linux-Distribution fürs Smartphone setzt in der Version 25.06 auf systemd. 60 Geräte unterstützt postmarketOS nun.
https://www.

Receiving #GoogleAnalytics marketing mail will never cease to be hilarious.

Ist das noch Cat-Content?!!?!
https://idw-online.de/de/news854288

Katzen schlafen am liebsten auf der linken Seite

TIL (lors de la défense d’un mémoire) : Il y a 58 ans que l’on a hissé « un ordinateur géant ultra-moderne » au cinquième étage d’une banque genevois.
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TDG19670613-01.2.8.4

Verkehrssenatorin macht Kiezblocks zum Politikum https://weddingweiser.de/verkehrssenatorin-macht-kiezblocks-zum-politikum/

Seltsames Spiel mit dem Bezirk Mitte: Verkehrssenatorin macht Kiezblocks zum Politikum
Es dauert noch gut ein Jahr bis zur Wahl am 20. September 2026. Aber es …

Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

40 Jahre Amiga – die Wow-Maschine
Mit dem Commodore Amiga 1000 begann 1985 nicht nur das Multimedia-Zeitalter. Die Architektur und ihre Auswirkungen sind bis heute bedeutsam.
https://www.heise.de/news/40-Jahre…

I am hoping to do 1,000 miles on the bike this year. It's still June and I'm at 650 (surpassing the 620 for all of 2024.) I also did 120 this month which is the most miles I've done in a single month. I am glad I started riding and try to do it daily.
#biking #bikeTooter

AI Warfare in Gaza: Targeted Killings, Automated Surveillance (Khalil Dewan)
https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/targeted-automated-surveillance.html

«DOGE has provided a template for complete political and cultural rollback, exploiting AI's brittle affordances to trash any pretence at social contract. What the so-called educational offers from AI companies are actually doing is a form of cyberattack, building in the pathways for the hacker tactic of 'privilege escalation' to be used by future threat actors, especially those from a hostile administration.»
"The role of the University is to resist" by @…
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

Cassidy criticizes RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers (Kelly Hooper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/cassidy-acip-rfk-vaccine-cdc-00419614
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p5#a250624p5

Add highlighting to your quarto presentation using the RoughNotation library: #rstats

@… :-(

Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' note-taking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Kiez-Momente: Micky-Maus im Wedding https://weddingweiser.de/kiez-momente-micky-maus-im-wedding/

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Jahrtausende altes Rätsel gelöst: Enger Begleitstern von Beteigeuze entdeckt

About 24 hours later this fan is up and running again. I’m ready to be a guest on Repair Shop.

Hundreds of Muslims unlawfully expelled to Bangladesh by India, says Human Rights Watch
https://maktoobmedia.com/india/hundreds-of-muslims-unlawfully-expelled-to-bangladesh-by-india-says-human-rights-watch/

Senate GOP to include rural hospital fund amid Medicaid pushback (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/senate-hospital-fund-medicaid-00418648
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p155#a250623p155

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Manipulation: Strafrechtliche Ermittlungen gegen X in Frankreich

I made two pizzas last night and they were amazing…

Ransomware: Großbritannien will staatlichen Stellen Lösegeldzahlungen verbieten
Staatlichen Stellen und Betreibern von kritischer Infrastruktur in Großbritannien soll es untersagt werden, Lösegeld nach Ransomwareangriffen zu bezahlen.

Iran's Promise of Payback Keeps World Powers, Markets on Edge (Ramsey Al-Rikabi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/iran-s-promise-of-payback-keeps-world-powers-markets-on-edge
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p7#a250623p7

‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-boycott-2025-dei-taxes-price-gouging-when-b2775624.html

Neue Übernahme: TDK investiert in Smart-Glasses-Geschäft
TDK übernimmt das kalifornische Start-up SoftEye, das wichtige Bausteine für KI-Brillen der nächsten Generation entwickelt.
https://www.

Two cats on me this morning!? I definitely cannot go to work…

A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/podcasts/the-daily/a-doj-whistleblower-speaks-out.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.xeuA.LlViZgrPUMga&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p152#a250723p152

‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History
https://scitechdaily.com/ammonite-a-mysterious-deep-space-fossil-that-could-rewrite-solar-system-history/

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-funding-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p158#a250723p158

Earth Is Broadcasting Its Location to Aliens – And We Didn’t Mean To
https://scitechdaily.com/earth-is-broadcasting-its-location-to-aliens-and-we-didnt-mean-to/

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/22/bee-disappear-pollinator-federal-lab/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwNTY0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxOTQ3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTA1NjQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjIwZTAxNmEwLThlNGQtNDIxOS1iYTY5LWRiYjNiNDNkMTM4ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMDYvMjIvYmVlLWRpc2FwcGVhci1wb2xsaW5hdG9yLWZlZGVyYWwtbGFiLyJ9.LntYuHdlIZzR_A8kzU2uksRc_vKIiFt0mb_pT6WUqVo&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p73#a250622p73

Aid Groups Blame Israel's Gaza Restrictions for 'Mass Starvation' (Matthew Mpoke Bigg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/middleeast/aid-groups-gaza-starvation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.nSwx.hTV5iu8jLr4c&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p154#a250723p154

6/23/25 ☀️ AM: ... Congress is back this week for what can only be described ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/62325-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p8#a250623p8

Trump administration reaches deal with Columbia University (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/23/trump-columbia-university-agreement-federal-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p159#a250723p159