
2025-07-06 13:58:50
German lawmakers call on Merz to increase aid to Ukraine, Bild reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/german-lawmakers-call-on-merz.html
German lawmakers call on Merz to increase aid to Ukraine, Bild reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/german-lawmakers-call-on-merz.html
“Wels” is the German word for catfish (the fish, not the deceptive online action). After a giant catfish nibbled on the the toes of bathing people in Bavaria, police shot the fish dead. Now there’s a second catfish on the loose. This is all very exciting in a country that sees relatively few police shootings of dangerous fish. Also, “Wels” is a fun word to say and sounds similar to “Welt” (world), great pun potential.
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_
Verbündete Rivalen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9962
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
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
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.
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
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
📣 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.
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,
--…
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…
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…
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…
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/
'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.
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
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
🇺🇦 #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
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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:
[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
Solche Nachrichten machen Hoffnung
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/16/german-court-sentences-syrian-torture-doctor-to-life-imprisonment
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…
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…
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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🔊 #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, …
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