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German lawmakers call on Merz to increase aid to Ukraine, Bild reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/german-lawmakers-call-on-merz.html

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

Verbündete Rivalen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9962

Many people do not understand how cooked the German “left” is.

AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch

Logging in here or the first time in a while to wish @… a very heartily fuck you for inviting a racist to give a keynote at #RailsConf.
What a way to sully your legacy and that of the conference, putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
There's a German expression for this—a "Griff ins Klo" (reaching into the toilet and pulling something out).
I hope y'all step on Lego bricks daily.

In German, the letters 's', 'ss', and 'ß' all represent a voiceless 's' sound,
but their usage depends on the preceding vowel's length and the word's structure.
Generally, 's' is used when the vowel before it is long,
'ss' is used after a short vowel,
and 'ß' (eszett or sharp s) is used after a long vowel or diphthong. 

edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 11715 nodes and 80547 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

😝
#USpol

The German public news programme #Tagesschau just reported that, how surprising, Ukrainian tanks provided by Germany have been destroyed (throughout the war).
Yeah… they weren't meant to be exhibited in a museum, y'know. 🙄 Only in the last sentence, they stated that #russia has lo…

"German lawyers who work with any of the nine U.S. law firms that made deals with the Trump administration could be in breach of the German legal professional code of conduct, the German Bar Association (DAV) has warned."
German Bar Association Warns That Working With Yellow-Bellied Firms Could Violate Professional Codes Of Conduct - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/german-bar-association-warns-that-working-with-yellow-bellied-firms-could-violate-professional-codes-of-conduct/

For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living

Architektur: Wie Architekten Gespräche lenken – und Macht verteilen
Gute Architektur verbindet Menschen, schlechte trennt sie. Wer die Gesetze des Bauens kennt, kann Politiker zusammenbringen – und sogar den Lauf der Geschichte verändern.

Wels has become the German #gravy.

Befreiung ohne Befreier https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9964

Nearly Half of America's Murderers Get Away With It (German Lopez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/murder-solve-rate-louisville.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU8.LbXM.ICjC_SRSkoKD&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p45#a250706p45

"Guide to German Facial Expressions" based on extensive field work by @…: https://linguistgoneforeign.wordpress.…

Me when a meme in German shows up in my timeline, then I proceed to fight the translator for a bit to actually get what it means, and finally laugh at the funny

The five genders:
Misses
Mister
Good day
Mr. Diverse
Mrs. Diverse

Some people are annoyed their city doesn't repair a pedestrian bridge like they promised, and are now Guerilla-Woodcafting their own. For the second time in a month
(article in german, should be fairly well auto translatable)
https://www.

Illegale Brücke über die Lahn gebaut - schon zum zweiten Mal
Die Sanierung einer maroden Brücke in Biedenkopf geht Unbekannten offenbar nicht schnell genug: Sie haben heimlich einen Holzsteg über die Lahn gezimmert - und das schon zum zweiten Mal. Der Bürgermeister ist vom Ersatzbau wenig begeistert.

edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 44388 nodes and 217681 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Ransomware gang attacks German charity that feeds starving children https://therecord.media/welthungerhilfe-german-hunger-relief-charity-ransomware-attack

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…

Zelensky, German FM discuss supplying IRIS-T air defenses, joint weapons production, strengthening Russia sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-german-fm-discuss-supplying.html

From a German lagerstätte, which means "hold my beer". https://tech.lgbt/@DelilahTech/114617249507331663

@… @… Yes, I have the same problem with German! I can never remember exact spellings or umlauts, and I used to be able to trust the computer to help me out.

Namibia observes first official Genocide Remembrance Day, marking the closure of German-run concentration camps in 1908.
This commemoration honors the victims of the Herero and Nama genocide, perpetrated by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908. During this period, tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were killed through mass executions, forced displacement, and starvation.
Namibia to hold first official commemoration of german clonial-era genocide

Namibia to hold first official commemoration of german clonial-era genocide | Africanews
The upcoming commemoration is seen as a significant step in Namibia's efforts to acknowledge and remember this painful chapter of its history.

📣 On Saturday 21 June, it's going to be a very busy night in Göttingen - the Night of Science! This channel is going to be equally busy, with a daily countdown giving you previews of activities you'll find at our location. These posts will predominantly be in German.
If this is a bit too verbose for you, you can mute or filter the hashtag #ndwgoecountdown to not see th…

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a… | Jaap Burger
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. Thank you, Felix Hamer, for drawing attention to this recent slide from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V. The title suggests that EV charging would only cost the same as filling up a diesel or petrol car for the same distance in an 'Extremszenario…

I only took one more picture today as my little vacation with my friends is coming to an end. We had a great time.
Using a Linux phone was surprisingly boring. I mean that in the most positive way. Using a phone should be boring, because it should just work.
It wasn't perfect. All images look vintage, I had to rotate them all manually, and there was no way to select multiple files for sending. It crashed a few times, too.
I'm happy overall.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--German police ID Trickbot's "Stern,"
--BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack,
--Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians,
--Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw,
--China's quantum satellite Micius has a severe security flaw,
--Russia's GRU Unit 29155 has a hacker team,
--…

Law enforcement took down cybercriminal malware testing service AVCheck
German police ID Trickbot's "Stern," BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack, Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians, Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw, China's quantum satellite Micius has a security flaw, Russia's Unit 29155 has a hacker team, much more

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…

This German Town Carefully Reconstructed a 5,500-Year-Old Monument Lifting 13 Tons of Stone
Archaeological work in the forests has identified ten settlements from the time, which may explain the monumentality of Küsterberg.

aus der reihe "lebensnahe forschung" heute: "A Transfer of Language and Culture: German Bread and Pastries and Their Names in Kosovo". https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2024-0014 🍞🥐🥖🥯🥪🥨🫓🙃

LLMs for Legal Subsumption in German Employment Contracts
Oliver Wardas, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01734 https://arx…

LLMs for Legal Subsumption in German Employment Contracts
Legal work, characterized by its text-heavy and resource-intensive nature, presents unique challenges and opportunities for NLP research. While data-driven approaches have advanced the field, their lack of interpretability and trustworthiness limits their applicability in dynamic legal environments. To address these issues, we collaborated with legal experts to extend an existing dataset and explored the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and in-context learning to evaluate the legality of cla…

Report from Deutsche Welle.
As the great Bernard Katz said, when I said to him in 1992 that he must welcome reunification, "Hmmm let's wait to see what crawls out from under stones"
"Nazi slogans trigger scandal at German school"
https://www.dw.c…

Nazi slogans trigger scandal at German school
A report of an antisemitic incident in a high school coincided with the arrest of teenage rightwing extremists last week. This has triggered a debate over whether Germany's youth is embracing Nazi ideology.

Die Rüstungsregierung im Amt https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9961

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
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) – At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.
https://www.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

Right outside the secure zone at Sioux Falls airport, there was a German Shepherd and two girls holding a large sign with glittery lettering: WELCOME HOME FROM PRISON RYLEE

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

German rejections of asylum-seekers at the border are unlawful, court rules   - Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/german-rejections-of-asylum-seekers-at-the-border-are-unlawful-court-rules/

Archive of all German detective novels above Cafe Sherlock, Hillersheim, Eifel.
#books #detectives #library

ETH Zurich published a fact sheet with their current insights about the devastating collapse of the Birch glacier and the destruction of Blatten last week...
Article (German):
https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstalt

Was ETH-Gletscherforschende über den Abbruch des Birchgletschers wissen
Am Mittwoch brach der Birchgletscher unter der Last von Fels- und Schuttmassen ein, die von Felsstürzen am Kleinen Nesthorn stammten. Nach einer Begehung vor Ort erläutern ETH-Forschende die Hintergründe des Abbruchs, der Blatten verschüttete, in einem aktualisierten Faktenblatt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Susan Spain-Dunk, Douglas Bostock & South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim:
🎵 Suite in B Minor for String Orchestra: II. Interlude
#SusanSpainDunk
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MT0xu2MXuft567CdBG152
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Das größte Aufrüstungsprogramm https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10005

My mom finished all of the German lessons in Duolingo ... after a few years. I've been telling her that I'll find her a #German night class in #Milwaukee. I'm not terribly sure where to start.

Huh. In Philip P. Peterson's "Transport" SciFi series, the 5th book (currently only available in German), there was a "plague" in the 2020s that grounded all space missions for a long while. That book was published 15.05.2020, #COVID became "public" December 2019, only 6 months ago - kinda short publishing period. So either Peterson quickly rewrote that part and pu…

NATO reportedly wants 40,000 more German troops for defense against Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/nato-reportedly-wants-more-german.html

If you identify as autistic and share an interest in anarchism and syndicalism, you will likely find Rudolf Rocker's writings both accessible and engaging.
Rocker was a prominent German anarchist thinker and activist whose struggle I share common ground with, especially in how he saw the family and marriage as forms of authoritarian control that limit personal freedom.
You can find his collection of writings here:

Heard a loud noise over the house, and it was... THE GERMANS?!
It must be stopping at Shannon to get refuelled as it's scheduled to go onto Zaragoza, France.

[german talk recommendation, sorry non-german speakers]
https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-86-impulswahl-zu-dtmf-konverter-in-relaistechnik
ist ein wirklich toller Talk zu einem Impulswahl->DTMF-Umsetzer in reiner Relaistechnik. Klare Emp…

Off-brand IoT devices are still vulnerable to BadBox botnet, FBI says https://therecord.media/iot-devices-vulnerable-to-badbox-botnet-fbi

It is worth reading this week’s European Commission's recommendations on network tariffs. Like the German NRA, they warn that a simple exemption from network tariffs as exists in Germany for large batteries is not a solution.
From: @…

Clean Energy Wire (@CLEW@mastodon.energy)
Attached: 1 image Network operators call for slowing Germany's grid battery boom Requests for large-scale batteries far exceed realistic demand, available grid capacity, operator says https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-network-operators-call-slowing-grid-battery-boom

Solche Nachrichten machen Hoffnung
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/16/german-court-sentences-syrian-torture-doctor-to-life-imprisonment

German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment
Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon.

The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired.
-- It destroyed the Voice of America.
Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years.
Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda,
America’s external voice had expanded to nearly 50 languages,
with a weekly combined audience of more than 350 million people worldwide, watching on TV, listening on radi…

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It’s Gone.
The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired. It destroyed the Voice of America. Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years. Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda, America’s...

Baumschule. Where trees are taught to behave from a very young age.
#nursery #German #Deutsch #language

German court overturns a ban on far-right magazine Compact, accused of inciting hatred against Jews and foreigners, saying it wasn't extreme enough to be banned (Thomas Escritt/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Hm...
I guess a good way to prevent that would be to wipe out the whole fleet of Russian strategic bombers, eh? Too bad we can't do that beforehand...
Oh, wait. Someone else can.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114609055478351645

Germany's data protection commission fines Vodafone a record €45M due to data privacy violations linked to malicious behavior by third-party sales agents (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

100-year Dispute Finally Settles Looting of Last German Emperor–by Building New Museum Collection https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/100-year-dispute-finally-settles-looting-of-last-german-emperor-by-buildin…

100-year Dispute Finally Settles Looting of Last German Emperor–by Building New Museum Collection
The family's many possessions will be managed by 3 members on a 9-member board called the Hohenzollern Art Property Foundation.

China und die Seltenen Erden (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10003

The new month has started and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately eats up a lot of time :blobcatnotlikethis: :boost_requested:
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MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Rameau, Handel, Farrenc and Mozart
Bernhard Forck conducts the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin in works by Rameau, Handel, Louise Farrenc and Mozart, joined by Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp65

So I wake up to hear the news. Yet more #warmongering by #UK and #German governments.
Russia and China do NOT threaten us.

Was looking for a trash can in this Black Forest town, searched in @…, no results, so I walked around and added all trash cans I could find and other stuff I found useful 🗑️
#OpenStreetMap

„Zutaten für einen gescheiterten Staat“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9959

Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its price controls for marketplace retailers likely violate national and EU laws, in preliminary findings (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 8097 nodes and 63809 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, …

How it started… #DB adventures

17½ minutes of primal squatting tonight, catching up on the 1980 German novella "Ein fliehendes Pferd" by Martin Walser. I'll be leading a book discussion group for the Volkbildungswerk on it in three weeks. Sign up! https://www.vbw-ned.de/programm…

„Maximal konfrontativ“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10043

„Gewalt gegen Gewalt“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10002

wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…

Some wear balaclavas. Some wearneck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing upprominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBIagent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedent…

Germany still weighing Taurus missile supply to Ukraine, Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/germany-still-weighing-taurus-missile.html

Verhandlungen in Istanbul https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9998

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 41424 nodes and 73900 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph,…

Ukrainian woman, baby daughter found murdered in Germany, 16-year-old arrested, police say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukrainian-woman-baby-daughter-found.html

Euro gegen Dollar https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9995

Grenzabschottung im Alleingang (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10039

edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 16439 nodes and 120851 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

Die Bodenschätze der Ukraine https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9956

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

Der „Cyber Dome“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10038

„Europa als Weltprägemacht“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9955

Rezension: Industriels et banquiers français sous l’occupation https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10035

Eine neue Ära https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9994

Der Kontinent des Krieges https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9952

Konflikt um das Chinageschäft https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9951

Vom Kosovo nach Litauen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10032

„Das Zeitalter der Patrioten“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9992

Transatlantische Zollschlachten https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9990

„Phase zwei der Zeitenwende“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10030

Rüstungs-Aufholjagd in Indien https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10028

Logistikkonzerne für den Krieg https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9950

Dimensionen der chinesischen Aufholjagd https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9989