“The German government’s failings in protecting Muslims from hatred and discrimination start with a lack of understanding that Muslims experience racism and not simply faith-based hostility,” said Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch.
“Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany and strong data on incidents and community outreach, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.”
RT @dwnews :
Björn Höcke, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Thuringia, is aiming to take the reins in 2024. Analysts fear far-reaching consequences. https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-fascist-soon-head-a-german-s…
“my host understood and could speak the old German of the Frontier, Militärgrenze-Deutsch, an amalgam of Slav and German phrases, the most repeated of which, uttered every two minutes, was Ist gefällig, a linguistic corruption of Izvolite, a Serbian phrase which could be translated as ‘Please, after you’, and the Austrian gefällt’s dir, meaning ‘Are you happy?’ or ‘Do you like it?’”
— Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
Digitale Souveränität ist eigentlich ein definiertes Ziel der Ampelregierung. Doch wird genau an dem Thema gespart und stattdessen werden Hunderte von Millionen in Microsoft-Produkte investiert. Trotz massiver Bedenken der US-Behörden bezüglich der Sicherheit der Microsoft-Lösungen.
#Microsoft #Deutschland
German has many hyperspecific words and yet it’s surprisingly difficult to translate “equity” (the concept around justice, not finance).
Ramona Kühn is presenting the current state of ontologies for rhetorical figures, "Status Quo der Entwicklungen von Ontologien Rhetorischer Figuren in Englisch, Deutsch und Serbisch".
GRhOOT ontology: https://github.com/kuehnram/GRhOOT-Ontology
GRhOOT ACL pap…
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…
The Russians apparently managed to record a conference call of the commanding general of the German Air Force discussing delivery of Taurus missiles with his immediate staff. And published the entire recording on Telegram.
Best I can tell, they tapped the hotel room of the general while he was on a trip in Singapore.
Ouch.
One wonder what else they are recording if they can simply publish this call.
@… not exactly an answer to your question, but it's available on Amazons german site, so at least it isn't US-exclusive
https://amzn.eu/d/4GO68fQ
Security breaches are most of the time about failing humans, bad operational security. This is a good example,
"One of the German air force officials whose call on Taurus was allegedly intercepted by Russia and leaked had, reportedly, dialled into the Webex call from Singapore over an unsecure phone lines"
#cybersecurity
> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine
I guess if German car drivers can't believe it's not a road for them, it's decent cycling infrastructure.
#Utrecht
An article series (in German, I expect soon in English as well) with lots of charts details the deepening labour shortages in Switzerland - and what plans are underway to deal with it.
Wie die Schweiz dem Arbeitskräftemangel begegnen will - SWI swissinfo.ch
Guardian: Ethiopia hails return of its first plane, stolen by Mussolini in 1930s
"Built in 1935 during the reign of Selassie, the aircraft was a collaborative effort between the German pilot Ludwig Weber and Ethiopian engineers. [...] The aircraft was requisitioned and taken to Italy after Mussolini occupied Ethiopia"
Good Morning #Canada
In addition to Oktoberfest, German culture has contributed another important annual event - Groundhog Day. Canadian rodent weather prognosticators are historically more accurate than their American counterparts (don't Google that, I made it up) and as a group the rodents are only 30% accurate. But "only" is perhaps unkind since groundhogs typically don't ha…
Happy Anniversary to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, which premiered on this day in New York in 1981.
Due to the age rating ( I was 15), I tricked my father into believing it was a Western so that he would accompany me to the cinema. That was easy because the German title was "Die Klapperschlange" (The Rattlesnake).
#FilmAnniversary
Did you know? The German for “Nate Silver” is Dampfplauderer which means “steam chatter”.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112355281152423448
German AfD wants to dismantle EU, turn into confederation of nations
#StuffYouLoveToSee
Germany’s top cybersecurity agency on Tuesday called on thousands of vulnerable organizations in the country to patch out-of-date Microsoft Exchange software.
According to a report by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), at least 17,000 servers are vulnerable to one or more critical bugs, and cybercriminals and state actors are already actively exploiting several of these vulnerabilities to deliver malware and carry out cyberespionage or ransomware attacks.
T…
I’ve always wanted someone to tell me I autocomplete them.
:awesome:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/aral
(That feeling when someone makes a Node package with your name. Hey, at least it’s not a German petroleum company…)
When an American writes “Zeitgeist” into their essay it's impressive and shows great skill, even with complex words, but when I do it, it's “lazy writing” and “confusing English and German words”
I will never forget, Ms. Gannon
Went to pick up something from a farmer in my state. I got there and there was a big German Shepherd, who was an absolute doll, and a herd of cats and chickens that the shepherd *would not approach*. It was adorable. Many scruffs were given :-)
#FarmAnimals
#Caturday
Ramona Kühn is presenting the current state of ontologies for rhetorical figures, "Status Quo der Entwicklungen von Ontologien Rhetorischer Figuren in Englisch, Deutsch und Serbisch".
GRhOOT ontology: https://github.com/kuehnram/GRhOOT-Ontology
GRhOOT ACL pap…
You’ve heard of negative polarity items, but have you heard of positive polarity items? Delightful read, especially the list of PPI candidates in the appendix. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110216158.197/html
> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine
„To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger,” Abraham told the Guardian.“
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’ | Film | The Guardian
What is this sorcery going on in my Mac's dock?
Oh, by the way: German speakers "switch" (schalten) where English speakers "leap".
If you have another L1: What do you do?
How Intuitive Machines came to the assessment that the mission of #Odysseus was an "unqualified success" in the end: in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-2-2024/#Feb28 a detailled summary - in German - of today's press conference. New pictures in https://www.intuitivemachines.com/_files/ugd/7c27f7_90794d5877434b46a9ba1dffea3307aa.pdf and the thread https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1762919213155381756. 350 MB telemetry and data were sent to Earth, all through the Low Gain Antenna. The battery will be down in a few hours, Odysseus wlll be sent to sleep - and in 2 to 3 weeks attempts will be made to revive it.
Hot take: The best toilets (of the plain non-accessible ones) on European high-speed trains are in German ICEs. Rectangular and spacious, no acrobatics needed to take a backpack with precious things with you. No weird cramped triangular shape or tilted roof.
RoboCup German Open 2024: Mehr als Roboterfußball
Wer RoboCup hört, denkt meist an Roboter, die Fußball gegeneinander spielen. Doch es gibt noch weitere Kategorien, in denen sich Roboter miteinander messen.
http…
«Five principles for building generative AI products» @…'s keynote title for #CollabW24 🙄
tl;dr:
1. no decisions: use "AI" as 'assistive technology’
2. design for failure, consider the cost of getting it wrong
3. have it be grounded in reality
4. make it invite only: opt-in to using it
5. leverage: “explain like it's me”: personalize responses to personal knowledge level
(My 6. obvious addition: as we say in German: “wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing”)
Fairness in AI: challenges in bridging the gap between algorithms and law
Giorgos Giannopoulos, Maria Psalla, Loukas Kavouras, Dimitris Sacharidis, Jakub Marecek, German M Matilla, Ioannis Emiris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19371 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19371
arXiv:2404.19371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we examine algorithmic fairness from the perspective of law aiming to identify best practices and strategies for the specification and adoption of fairness definitions and algorithms in real-world systems and use cases. We start by providing a brief introduction of current anti-discrimination law in the European Union and the United States and discussing the concepts of bias and fairness from an legal and ethical viewpoint. We then proceed by presenting a set of algorithmic fairness definitions by example, aiming to communicate their objectives to non-technical audiences. Then, we introduce a set of core criteria that need to be taken into account when selecting a specific fairness definition for real-world use case applications. Finally, we enumerate a set of key considerations and best practices for the design and employment of fairness methods on real-world AI applications
9600 kHz: Radio Romania International bending the S-meter w/ German nx that Romania (and Bulgaria) have entered #Schengen zone today 🙂 #shortwave
Did you know? The German for “Nate Silver” is Dampfplauderer which means “steam chatter”.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112355281152423448
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, with soloists and the Berlin Radio Chorus in a performance of Beethoven's mass. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ygvh
_"Jugendweihe happens when a child turns 14. It involves a similar ceremony, party, and gifts, marking the next stage of growing up. With all the negativity heaped on adolescents, there’s something to be said for this way of celebrating young adulthood."
https://time.com/3720541/how-to-parent
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation
Huy Hien Vu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19505 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19505
arXiv:2404.19505v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite significant improvements in enhancing the quality of translation, context-aware machine translation (MT) models underperform in many cases. One of the main reasons is that they fail to utilize the correct features from context when the context is too long or their models are overly complex. This can lead to the explain-away effect, wherein the models only consider features easier to explain predictions, resulting in inaccurate translations. To address this issue, we propose a model that explains the decisions made for translation by predicting coreference features in the input. We construct a model for input coreference by exploiting contextual features from both the input and translation output representations on top of an existing MT model. We evaluate and analyze our method in the WMT document-level translation task of English-German dataset, the English-Russian dataset, and the multilingual TED talk dataset, demonstrating an improvement of over 1.0 BLEU score when compared with other context-aware models.
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…
At the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G). Various exhibitions. Starting with this one about governmental architecture and art in such buildings in both German states from 1950.
For years, historians thought decimal points emerged when German mathematician Christopher Clavius began using them while writing about astronomy in 1593.
But new evidence suggests the decimal point may be 150 years older than previously thought:
A 15th-century Venetian merchant named Giovanni Bianchini appears to have used the mathematical symbol in documents that date to between 1441 and 1450, according to a paper published this month in the journal Historia Mathematica.
Even if it's true, why reveal it. Scholz is really becoming damaging to europe , germany and security.
"British soldiers in Ukraine helping fire missiles, Olaf Scholz reveals"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202
Good article on how large-scale heat pumps are revolutionising heating in German cities - using the Kiel Fjord, the Rhine or Berlin's (or the small city of Lemgo's) sewage as a heat source to feed into the district heating system.
From the vault...
The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first and only known* dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically.
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…
The first case of a walrus dying from bird flu has been detected on one of Norway’s Arctic islands, a researcher has said.
The walrus was found last year on Hopen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Christian Lydersen, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, told AFP.
Tests carried out by a German laboratory revealed the presence of bird flu, Lydersen said. The sample was too small to determine whether it was the H5N1 or the H5N8 strain.
“It is the first time that bird flu has be…
First, in true German fashion, the rules were outlined:
no alcohol on site, flagpoles capped at three meters, no protesting past 8 p.m.
The demonstration followed, with hundreds congregated in the town square shouting #insults at the incumbent government; cracking jokes at the expense of #refugees, the
@anneroth@systemli.social
![Screenshot of a package called aral on npmjs.com:
aral autocomplete [SHELL]
display autocomplete installation instructions
USAGE
$ aral autocomplete [SHELL]
ARGUMENTS
SHELL shell type
OPTIONS
-r, --refresh-cache Refresh cache (ignores displaying instructions)
EXAMPLES
$ aral autocomplete
$ aral autocomplete bash
$ aral autocomplete zsh
$ aral autocomplete --refresh-cache
See code: @oclif/plugin-autocomplete
aral config
USAGE
$ aral config
See code: src/commands/config.ts…](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/015/479/080/277/880/original/d5df1e93c8d907fe.png)
