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3D-Druck: Start-up erzeugt preiswerte Streichinstrumente mit Studioklangqualität
Streichinstrumente in traditioneller Holzbauweise sind teuer. Es muss doch auch preiswerter bei gleicher Klangqualität gehen. Die Lösung ist 3D-Druck.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

NFL Week 15: Bears, Chiefs among 5 playoff contenders facing most pressure https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-15-bears-chiefs-among-5-playoff-contenders-facing-most-pressure

Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!

Voor wie nog niet slapen wil: vanavond waren 2 afleveringen op de BR te zien van Donna Leon.
Donna Leon - Feine Freunde
#crimi #krimi #DonnaLeon

Annual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…

PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
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AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

⚡US PRESSURE: White House demands surrender of UNOCCUPIED lands! Putin’s bluff and Afghan lessons: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/us-pressure-white-house-demands.html

Meta Quest: Preiserhöhung und längere Release-Zyklen geplant
Meta will sein VR-Geschäft nachhaltiger ausrichten und plant, Meta Quest teurer zu machen sowie größere Pausen zwischen neuen Gerätegenerationen einzulegen.