2025-09-27 06:56:59
Love someone like Germany loves genocide.
https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE/Pressemitteilungen/2025/09/202…
Love someone like Germany loves genocide.
https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE/Pressemitteilungen/2025/09/202…
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
German Chancellor: US Not Longer Respects Its Laws - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/german-chancellor-us-not-longer-respects-its-laws/
Finally, a German opposition to a ban that I can support!
Germany wants to keep the names 'veggie burger' and 'vegetarian sausage'. The latter was invented by the 'greatest German of all time', Konrad Adenauer, so it should be considered part of German cultural heritage.
https://www.
A German in the Legion: “I have known about this war since 2014 and couldn’t stay on the sidelines.”: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/25/a-german-in-the-legion.html
My grandmother would always ask every German the question "You knew what was happening, why did you not do something?" The question was about the Nazi concentration and death camps. And it was a valid question.
Today we know about what ICE and DHS are doing, we know our country is going fascist and is trying to create Gulags and concentration camps and the kind of social fear that would be the pride of the East German STASI.
Here's a prime example - California Cit…
Es ist nun wieder Ende des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/german-firm-campaign-lift-louvre-heist-bocker
Today, I gave a presentation at the German OWASP Day @… about security issues with the EU's electronic invoices🧾💶.
The EU has introduced requirements for "standardized" machine-readable electronic invoices, initially for government procurement, increasingly they'll be required for B2B as well. In principle, not a bad thing, but security …
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 40254 nodes and 190279 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…
Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first, community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipulation an…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sam Taylor-Wood:
🎵 I'm In Love With A German Film Star
#NowPlaying #SamTaylorWood
https://kompakt.bandcamp.com/track/im-in-love-with-a-german-film-star-gui-boratto-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NT7jidpDWSaiZe73A5nRs
German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/german-police…
Germany charges man over cyberattack on Rosneft subsidiary https://therecord.media/germany-charges-cyberattack-rosneft
SwissGPC v1.0 -- The Swiss German Podcasts Corpus
Samuel Stucki, Mark Cieliebak, Jan Deriu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19866 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1986…
Die Autowaffe als Drohne jetzt auch bald auf unseren Straßen.
Und als Bonus: Autos, die quasi fahrend parken während sie auf den nächsten Kunden warten.
#auto
Es ist nun wieder Ende des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:
Last weekend, Yale University had a “viral German-style pudding event” where students gathered to eat pudding with a fork
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/09/viral-german-style-pudding-event-set-for-saturday-w…
Russia reportedly flying drones over US arms routes in Germany: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/russia-reportedly-flying-drones-over.html
This is another example of why the German 'Eichrecht', a set of rules that far exceed those of the EU, is a major obstacle for the EV ecosystem and mostly harms EV drivers.
https://www.electrive.net/2025/08/15/berliner-stadtwerke-nehmen-…
Merz restrictions push German arms export approvals to Israel to zero
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/merz-restrictions-push-german-arms-055636330.html
RE: #Merz during visit in
I recently researched the etymology of two interesting German words:
- "nonchalant" (informal, relaxed, casual, carefree, easy-going): I found that interesting because it's obviously a negation and I never read the non-negated form "chalant". Turns out that the non-negated form goes back to latin "calēre" (warm, to be hot, to be alarmed, to be fired up)
- "verschollen" (lost, missing, nothing has been known about the whereabouts of sth. or sb. for a long time). I found it weird because I couldn't make any sense of "schollen". This might be related to "verschallen" (stop making noise) and might go back to old high German "skellan" (which is also related to German "Schelle", a small bell). So, "verschollen" can be seen as a euphemistic expression because stop making noise is used to refer to being lost (and maybe dead).
#etymology #linguistics #German
Nextdoor:
"I'm having an operation in January which will take 2-3 months to recover from & I have just found out that my German Shepherd girl is pregnant (due late December).
I'm looking for someone who can look after her & also the puppies when they are born until the end of February when I have recovered.
I am happy to offer either a puppy or £1000 to cover food and lodging."
That's how you get your dog, her puppies & your money all…
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Langer, Bartók and Mendelssohn
The German Symphony Orchestra performs Elena Langer's opera suite after Mozart, 'Figaro gets a Divorce,' and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. Plus Bartók's 2nd Violin Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jjb4
Odd etymological question: I was interested today in whether the Soviet word for a labour camp, Gulag, was related to the Nazi-era German word for a prisoner of war camp, Stalag. Gulag is apparently a contraction of 'Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й', where the last word transliterates as 'lageréy', while Stalag is a contraction of 'Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager'. So: what is the root of 'lager', and how does it end up in both Ru…
I just read RFC 2119 which defines those uppercase words (MUST, SHOULD) that are used in Internet standards. The interesting thing about translating these, at least when translating to German, is this: must = muss (like in "this is a law you must follow") but "must not" ≠ "muss nicht". What is a prohibition in English turns into a lax "you don't need to do this, this doesn't have to happen" in German when both words are translated literally.
"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953
It's not unusual to run into people who live in Berlin but speak no German. Even when they work in bars, restaurants, at reception desks.
Just came across a person running an event including welcoming participants who replied "Not my preferred language though" when asked whether she speaks German.
Maybe not the best place to be then?
#FunFact about Whitehorse - Germans love the town. Germans are the 2nd largest group of tourists, after the U.S., to visit the Yukon capital. There are German speaking tours and excursions and, during peak travel periods, direct tour flights from Frankfurt to Whitehorse.
#Tourism #Whitehorse
https://www.rubyrange.com/yukons-charisma-the-german-connection/
ChatGPT violated copyright laws, German court rules.
Are we surprised?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/11/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules
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 1689 nodes and 6491 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
"German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers"
https://www.theguardian.com/world…
An alliance of media and digital organizations file a complaint with Germany's Federal Network Agency against Google's AI Overviews for violating the DSA (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/german-media-groups-…
I go to 3DJake.ie and it asks me in German if I'm at the right webshop, and tries to send me to the US one
I mean, looking at my last 22 years, it's a valid thing to check
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Nietzsxhe/115600337055717985
My disgust knows no boundaries ... this stock market website has used the expression "fear of peace" - regarding losses for German weapons dealers should the Russia-Ukraine war end ... prematurely? - already for the second time: https://www.boerse-express.com/news/articles/hensoldt-aktie-friedensangst-nur-ein-strohfeuer-788203 and https://www.boerse-express.com/news/articles/rheinmetall-aktie-friedensangst-schockt-anleger-842841
Accidentally misgendered an Austrian yesterday by asking him if he was German, oops.
Early Modern Europe reacted with dismay to the potato, which was believed to be poisonous and to incite wickedness. Hence the German word for it - "kartoffel" - a compound of Karotte (carrot) and Teufel (the Devil)
#LLMTrainingData
Heute feiert unser #Partnerverband #DeutschesCompetitiveIntelligenceForum (#dcif) sein 20-jähriges Bestehen – zwei Jahrzehnte voller Wissen, Austausch, Engagement…
Capitalism is just one witty ad campaign after another until we suddenly find ourselves extinct due to self-inflicted habitat loss. https://mastodon.online/@pluszysta/115428982968522861
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.
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We just had so much fun at home reading the most recent and some older german"#Jugendwort des Jahres" (words of the youth) - sorry, article in german:
If you've been wondering how the poltiical situation in DE & across the EU is developing, some new research shows how the normalisation of the far-right . both by parties & the media has enabled their successes across the EU:
«The research highlighted the need for mainstream political parties to carve out their own discourses, said Saldivia Gonzatti, particularly when it came to topics such as migration and integration, rather than constantly trail after the far right»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Amazing.
> US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Pussycat:
🎵 Georgie (German Language Version)
#Pussycat
https://exkrementumvoices.bandcamp.com/album/georgie-ep-2018
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TGHuWWHnOlhcexGAJbc9I
German Fediverse lights up because John Oliver has stumbled upon "Bernd das Brot", a depressed loaf of bread made for a German kids TV channel.
https://berlin.social/@mina/115248002512105997
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.
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German parliamentarian urges officials to investigate Hungary for spyware abuse https://therecord.media/german-parliament-hungary-spyware
18 October is an auspicious day to strike against authoritarianism
#nokings #nofacists
@…
@…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Kent Nagano conducts works by Ustvolskaja, Mozart and Beethoven
The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin performs Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23 and Galina Ustvolskaya's Composition no 1 for piccolo, tuba and piano.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcmb
Investigating Bias: A Multilingual Pipeline for Generating, Solving, and Evaluating Math Problems with LLMs
Mariam Mahran, Katharina Simbeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17701 htt…
"This tragedy could have been prevented": Russia kills 25 Ukrainian civilians with missile produced with US, German, Dutch parts (VIDEO) - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/19/this-tragedy-could-have-been-prevented-russia-kills-25-ukrainian-civilians-with-missile-produced-with-us-german-dutch-parts/
The winner of the 2025 #KarlSchwarzschild Medal - #FredHoyle ... who has been the winner of the very same medal (the highest award by the German astronomy community) 33 years ago. #ag2025goerlitz
Sources: PayPal to take over Carlyle's stake in Shopware, a German provider of e-commerce tools to merchants, with PayPal's stake increasing to ~41% from ~11% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…
"A US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany published a list of food banks in the area that could help soldiers and staff as part of its “Shutdown Guidance,” the subtext being that soldiers and base employees might need to obtain free food from German government services during the government shutdown."
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sam Taylor-Wood:
🎵 I'm In Love With A German Film Star
#NowPlaying #SamTaylorWood
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Pussycat:
🎵 Georgie (German Language Version)
#Pussycat
https://exkrementumvoices.bandcamp.com/album/georgie-ep-2018
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TGHuWWHnOlhcexGAJbc9I
German army chief calls for 100,000 more active troops to face Russian threat, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/german-army-chief-calls-for.html
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 338714 nodes and 607087 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…
OpenAI partners with SAP to launch OpenAI for Germany, bringing its AI tools to Germany's public sector through SAP's Delos Cloud (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/openai-pairs-with-sap-to-bri…
“Openness to technology is not industrial policy” – interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp
https://www.electrive.com/2025/10/23/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interviw-with-man-ceo-alexander-vl…
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…
Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/
Multilingual Hope Speech Detection: A Comparative Study of Logistic Regression, mBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa with Active Learning
T. O. Abiola, K. D. Abiodun, O. E. Olumide, O. O. Adebanji, O. Hiram Calvo, Grigori Sidorov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20315
At some point, DOPs should stop going for even shallower depth of field or even weirder anamorphic lens distortion. I'm feeling like an old guy complaining about how "you can't see anything on the screen! It's too dark". Only I'm like "nothing is in focus anymore you doofuses!"
Yes, this is a subtoot about #Brick on
German extremist arrested over operating alleged darknet assassination marketplace https://therecord.media/german-extremist-arrested-darknet-assassination-market
German defense giant Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine with Skyranger 35 air-defense systems: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/german-defense-giant-rheinmetall-to.html
ProSiebenSat.1 appoints MFE-MediaForEurope CFO Marco Giordani as its new CEO, succeeding Bert Habets, as MFE integrates the German TV group into its business (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/prosiebensat-sha…
RE: https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115608472552263429
Don't let anybody tell you that your vote doesn't matter. Brussel sprouts have beaten spinach by 4 votes in German Mastodon's vegetable tournament! 🥬
Edit: round of 16. not the finals just yet.
…
Apple may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe due to "intense lobbying efforts" in Germany and other countries over alleged anticompetitive conduct (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-d
German finance minister 'sure' that EU will find more ways to use Russia's frozen assets: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/german-finance-minister-sure-that.html
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…
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.
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A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g
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…