German police identify TrickBot and Conti ransomware leader "Stern" as Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, believed to be in Russia and shielded from extradition (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/stern-trickbot-identified-germany-bka/
Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin
https://www.wired.com/story/stern-trickbot-identified-germany-bka/
Germany vows to pursue 'every path' to boost Ukraine's air defenses, FM Wadephul says in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/germany-vows-to-pursue-every.html
De Russen
Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/google-maps-cant-explain-why-it-falsely-labeled-german-aut…
This German Town Carefully Reconstructed a 5,500-Year-Old Monument Lifting 13 Tons of Stone https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-german-town-carefully-reconstructed-a-5500-year-old-monument-lifting-13-tons-of-st…
TIL that gerrymandering should be pronounced with a hard g.
(It was a term coined in a newspaper in 1812 combining a name Gerry - the governor - and salamander, which one district resembled.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
A New Cycle of Texas Gerrymandering: Your Questions Answered (Share/Bolts)
https://boltsmag.org/a-new-cycle-of-texas-gerrymandering-your-questions-answered/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p65#a250731p65
NATO reportedly wants 40,000 more German troops for defense against Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/nato-reportedly-wants-more-german.html
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted