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CECOT in El Salvador is a concentration camp. We should call it what it is:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps
I've walked the grounds of Dachau. No one should have any doubt about the direction and intent of this administration.

Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters,
the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said,
warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.
Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK),
said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict,
and that in its current state Germany w…

LOL, what?! Germany is now having its own 'Veterans Day'?! 🤦‍♀️
https://www.dw.com/es/alemania-celebra-el-primer-día-de-los-veteranos/a-72890966?maca=spa-rss-sp-inter-1008-rdf

Hierzulande wenig beachtet: Heute unterzeichnete #Deutschland einen 10 Jahre dauernden Liefervertrag für #Erdgas mit #Aserbaidschan
Der deutsche staatliche Versorger SEFE kauft beim aserbai…

Germany puts rail first in €500bn investment spree (Anne-Sylvaine Chassany/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f719dcd-1df0-4b45-af3b-b08ff548537c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p19#a250613p19

🇳🇴 Norway is supporting the construction of potentially the world’s biggest electric container ships 🚢🔋, amongst other vessels. The two ships, which are capable of carrying 850 containers, will sail between Norway, Sweden and Germany with a 100 MWh battery.
https://

Verdens største elektriske containerskip | Enova
Enova gir rundt 362 millioner kroner i støtte til sju elektriske fartøy og fire ladeanlegg. Blant prosjektene er det som kan bli verdens største batterielektriske containerskip, et gjennombrudd for utslippsfri skipsfart.

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin
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.

Gevonden foto’s – een ruimtereis https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2025/06/12/gevonden-fotos-een-ruimtereis/

Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-ceo-says-quantum-comp…

What is it that makes some Germans love genocide so much? Any ideas? First the Holocaust and now Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people… It’s like they just can’t get enough of it.
#israel #germany #Holocaust

No doubt: #Israel is the #aggressor
The #EU but individual member states, Germany, Austria, France etc. should impose strict sanctions against

This is why you don't vote for CDU.
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Our Berlin CDU mayor ladies and gentleman:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

Germany hands Vodafone $51 million fine over data privacy violations https://therecord.media/germany-privacy-regulator-fines-vodafone

Demonstration of the Major #LunarStandstill with two cell phone pics taken 5 months apart in 2025 in the very moments when the (practically) full moon culminated at maximum and minimum elevation, respectively, over Bochum, Germany. This time there were no clouds on both days (the evening on 12 Jan and the morning of 12 Jun), while the same experiment in 2024 had had some problems: https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/113653916761501298

Actually it was Europe getting liberated from Nazi Germany. Not Germany from the Nazis because almost all Germans were Nazis.
This is important because many Germans act as if the Nazis had descended on the Germans like aliens. In fact, people wanted fascism. Quite ordinary people. That's the scary thing.
https://

Gernot Wagner (@gwagner@fediscience.org)
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Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
https://www.

Have you ever seen an apple with two stems?

More evidence for the claim that “everyone outside the Fediverse is pro-Israel & ignores #Gaza”: In #Germany,
- 43% are in favour of limiting arms supplies,
- 30% are for a complete stop,
- 73% find the civilian casualties unacceptable,
- 63% are in favour of increased politi…

Umfrage zum Gazakrieg: Mehrheit in Deutschland für Begrenzung oder Stopp von Waffenlieferungen an Israel
Nicht nur in der Bundesregierung wird die Kritik am israelischen Vorgehen im Gazastreifen lauter. Auch die deutsche Bevölkerung blickt zunehmend skeptisch auf die israelische Regierung, wie eine neue Umfrage zeigt.

Grist.org: Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?
https://grist.org/energy/balcony-solar-took-off-in-germany-why-not-the-us/

Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?
From breaker-masking to voltage mismatches to building safety codes, America’s grid isn’t ready for balcony solar power — yet.

#Dobrindt, #Merz und #Klingbeil testen, wie weit das heute schon in Deutschland geht.

#Digitalsteuer für Datenkraken-Konzerne bzw. "Plattformsoli": Unisono kritisch äußerten sich die nicht wenigen deutschen Digitalwirtschaftsverbände. Sowohl beim eco-Verband als auch beiBitkom und BVDW zahlen die Google Germany GmbH und die Facebook Germany GmbH (bzw. Meta Platforms, Inc.) jeweils Mitgliedsbeiträge. An Lobby-Ausgaben sparen sie weder in Brüssel noch in Deutschland…

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 3. Juni 2025 – Die Digitalsteuer-Debatte
... die der neue Kulturstaatsminister Weimer anzettelte, nimmt Fahrt auf. Digitalminister Wildberger legte auf zwei ausgesprochen unterschiedlichen Konferenzen erste Auftritte hin.

The Krasnov effect in full swing.
https://newsie.social/@Tendar/114659229321173173

Tendar (@Tendar@newsie.social)
Attached: 1 image According to the Levada center Russians consider the following 5 nations as the most hostile nations: 1. Germany (55%) 2. UK (49%) 3. Ukraine (43%) 4. USA (40%) 5. Poland (37%)

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.

3400 BC: The oldest evidence for the use of the wheel and wagon originates from Northern Germany
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/051-wheel-tracks

3400 BC: The oldest evidence for the use of the wheel and wagon originates from Northern Germany
A new publication documents Stone Age wheel tracks on a burial site near Flintbek.

Democratic governments* should ALL be against AI - if not for the obvious moral issues, for the fact that
LLMs *pay no taxes*.
When you fire somebody making €60k/year in Germany and replace it with an LLM subscription, you're effectively removing 25K or so from state coffers (because, c'mon, you don't believe OpenAI et al are going to pay taxes, are you?).
* not kleptocracies, of course

Taurus missiles for Ukraine 'within the realm of possibility,' Germany's Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/taurus-missiles-for-ukraine-within.html

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings:
“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

Smashing! 😻
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

Continuing the series #Bochum, Germany, #sunset, from 11 June: long picture series - with #sunspots, identified in https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1120784560089937, and atmospheric optics ... and common swifts galore - in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0m3ZmXb1CoX1JnekSsGCiAEELvkSHoFZMudTSU4YNQQv5h6MQibeRMGJydjaGhojTl

Balkonkraftwerk is the German success story of plug-in solar energy (one or two solar panels, inverter with 🔌), which can be self-installed by apartment dwellers and has democratised solar energy. There are now officially over one million of these installations in Germany.
(cartoon ©️ Til Mette)
https://www.…

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

Testing inter-electronic interaction in lithium-like tin
Jonathan Morgner (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), Vladimir A. Yerokhin (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), Charlotte M. Konig (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), Fabian Hei{\ss}e (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), Bingsheng Tu (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), Tim Sailer (Max-…

Israeli protester says Israel ‘complete copy’ of Nazi Germany
https://youtube.com/shorts/cURcHIrNod0?si=iiKPfalVjXJCOmXV

Have you ever seen an apple with two stems?

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology
Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics), Peter Kaufmann (German National Research,Education Network, DFN), Jochen Kronj\"ager (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Stefan K\"uck (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Tara Cubel Liebisch (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Dieter Meschede (University of Bonn), Susanne Na…

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology
The recent breakthroughs in the distribution of quantum information and high-precision time and frequency (T&F) signals over long-haul optical fibre networks have transformative potential for physically secure communications, resilience of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and fundamental physics. However, so far these capabilities remain confined to isolated testbeds, with quantum and T&F signals accessible, for example in Germany, to only a few institutions. We propose the QTF-Back…

CFP> World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069799/world-genealogy-knowledge-kinship-and-…

Arrest of Kurdish politician Yüksel Koç in Germany. By Jürgen Klute.
https://medyanews.net/arrest-of-kurdish-politician-yuksel-koc-in-germany/

Germany's Merz Secures Long-Awaited Trump Meeting on June 5 (Arne Delfs/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/germany-s-merz-secures-long-awaited-trump-meeting-on-thursday
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p29#a250531p29

The govenment of Germany needs an awful lot of money. One way of getting it could be krautfunding.
(Not to be confused with taxis)

I think I'm nearly finished adding all fire hydrants 🚒 💦 in #Unterkirnach ⛰️ 🌲 via @…! I found 37 or so, so far.
#OpenStreetMap

In America, when things go from bad to worse, people are sad. But in Germany when things go from Bad to Wurst, you are having a lovely time.

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, Frank Neffke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in 80 million GitHub commits (2018-2024) by 200,000 developers and track how fast--and where--these tools take hold. By December 2024, AI wrote an estimated 30.1% of Python functions from U.S. contributors, versus 24.3% in Germany, 23.2% in France, 21.6% in India, 15.4% in Russia and 11.7% in China. Newer GitHub users use…

Oh great... employee department had a project to create a company cookbook. Since we're a very international company we have people from more than 60 countries and first cookbook turned out really great. Now where to get those partially "exotic" ingredients in Germany...

Top500: the US retains the top three supercomputers with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora; the US has 173 of the top 500 to Europe's 163 and China's 46 (Doug Black/InsideHPC)
https://insidehpc.com/2025/06/top500-e

TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC
The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

Being young in Germany is when government construction plans are so far ahead that you can’t even imagine yourself by then.
Middle age is when you think you might still see the final thing.
Being old is when you know you’d be dead by then.
#germany

Netanyahu says „Free Palestine is just today's version of Heil Hitler” — on the same day it has just become illegal in Germany to ask “Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust?” in regards to Palestine, as German courts deemed it trivialization of the holocaust.

The reason I’m so fixated on Rudolf Rocker is that he understood authority and centralized control as inherently oppressive structures that suppress individual freedom and the collective ability to self-organize.
He argued that true freedom arises not from legal or political institutions, which often serve to maintain domination, but from the voluntary, free association of people resisting all forms of coercion and hierarchy.
For Rocker, political rights are not granted by govern…

A democracy is – how Pratchett puts it in Small Gods – a system where everyone distrusts the government, so everyone is somehow (un-)happy about it. And this is how it is meant to be and where checks and balances comes in.
And now there is a Trump administration where a alarming number of people just trust everything done by them regardless of what it is.¹ If we needed another sign² of Trumpism being far from being democratic: here it is.
I really hope people in Germany continue …

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

"In America, the wealthiest 1% are protected by the law but not bound by it, and the bottom 99% are bound by the law but not protected by it." Pop quiz: in which other countries that same thing is true? ->
Galloway: 'I don't think there's that much difference between us and Germany in the 20s and 30s'
https://…

Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science].
We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️
https://bsky.app/profile/abazajian.n…

Kev Abazajian (@abazajian.net)
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany: "Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪

Random find of the day:
The DTrace pony appearing for anti surveillance protests in Germany.
https://dtrace.topicbox.com/groups/dtrace-discuss/T4b5b1a33e2f46f4b-Mdaa8c3d2e99d645944556c92

Best radio station in Germany!
📻 Check out Aircooled in Eter!
https://eter.apparentsoft.com/stations/Aircooled/868AA5EF-D136-49FC-A443-E762E435D861

Void Gazer – Breath Of Rain
#ambient

from my link log —
How to sync anything.
https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything
saved 2025-04-06

Dense clumps survive in the vicinity of R136 in 30 Doradus
M. T. Valdivia-Mena (Departamento de Astronom\'ia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germany), M. Rubio (Departamento de Astronom\'ia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile), V. M. Kalari (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab, La Serena, Chile), H. Salda\~no (Instituto de Investigaciones…

Dense clumps survive in the vicinity of R136 in 30 Doradus
Context: The young massive cluster R136 at the center of 30 Doradus (30 Dor) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) generates a cavity in the surrounding molecular cloud. However, there is molecular gas between 2 and 10 pc in projection from R136's center. The region, known as the Stapler nebula, hosts the closest known molecular gas clouds to R136. Aims: We investigated the properties of molecular gas in the Stapler nebula to better understand why these clouds survive so close in projection to R1…

Wikipedia article states
> was born [...] in what was then West Germany.
I am happy that this user decided to add a topic to the talk page rather than edit the main article:
> It's still West Germany, so the addition of "what was then" is misleading. Well, it's factually wrong.
#Wikipedia

Die mutige Prinzessin, die den Nazis trotzte: Catherine Duleep Singh
The Sikh Princess who helped Jewish Families escape Nazi Germany
#Erinnerungskultur #GegendasVergessen #Frau

Die mutige Prinzessin, die den Nazis trotzte
Die indische Prinzessin Catherine Duleep Singh lebte offen mit einer Frau, kämpfte für Frauenrechte und rettete Jüdinnen und Juden vor den Nazis - mutig und ihrer Zeit weit voraus. Ihre Geschichte wirkt bis heute.

Heute ist wieder #SchiffsSamstag, dieses Mal mit einem #Segelschiff unter tschechischer 🇨🇿 (!) Flagge. Die LA GRACE IST der originalgetreue Nachbau einer Brigg aus der Zeit um 1760. Beim genauen Hinsehen erkennt man, dass sie gerade mit einer Kanone Salut schießt. Mehr über dieses bemerkensw…

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…

Comparing the current situation in #Blatten after the massive landslide is of course difficult. But you CAN compare official reactions with other (natural) disaster in, let’s say, Germany:
- A plan on how and where to rebuild 🏗️ the village will be announced on June 12. THIS YEAR!
- Single trees are removed from the “lake” and the landslide by helicopter 🚁 to ensure the water can run…

✨European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information 2025✨ in Bochum, Germany:
- 47 courses & workshops
- 4 exciting evening lectures
- social events
- explore the Ruhr area
Early bird registration deadline: May 31!
#esslli2025 #esslli #logic #linguistics #compSci #nlproc #summerSchool #rub https://2025.esslli.eu/
Edit: Boosts appreciated 🤗

🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).

One happy white #stork (Ciconia ciconia) family in #Bochum, Germany, photographed - often with digital zoom at the limit - from the approriate distance: one adult and four youngsters, one pretty big already. A lot of interesting behavior observed in one hour: more pictures in #BirdsOfMastodon

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

Angela and the electric dipole response -- giant and pygmy, hot and cold, isoscalar and isovector
Peter von Neumann-Cosel (Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Technische Universit\"at Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, Norwegian Nuclear Research Center and Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
https://arxiv.org/a…

Angela and the electric dipole response -- giant and pygmy, hot and cold, isoscalar and isovector
The impact of Angela Bracco's work on the electric dipole response of nuclei is discussed using three examples of current nuclear structure problems: disentangling different contributions to the decay width of the giant dipole resonance, the equivalence of photo-absorption and -emission and the nature of the pygmy dipole resonance.

What proportion of EU households have a smart meter?
57.6%.
However, this average has been pulled down by Germany, the largest Member State, which has one of the lowest shares. Without Germany, 72.4% of European households are already equipped with smart meters.

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.

"Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content."
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governm

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

CFP> World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany)
https://ift.tt/3R79DJV
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Dynamical mass of the Serpens intermediate-mass young stellar system EC\,95 with DYNAMO--VLBA
Jazm\'in Ord\'o\~nez-Toro (Instituto de Radioastronom\'ia y Astrof\'isica, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico), Sergio A. Dzib (Max Planck Institut f\"ur Radioastronomie, Germany), Laurent Loinard (Instituto de Radioastronom\'ia y Astrof\'isica, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico, Black Hole Initiative a…

Dynamical mass of the Serpens intermediate-mass young stellar system EC\,95 with DYNAMO--VLBA
We present dynamical mass measurements, obtained from multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations, for the young multiple stellar system EC\,95, located in the core of the Serpens star-forming region. Our dataset includes both archival data and more recent observations obtained as part of the \textit{Dynamical Masses of Young Stellar Multiple Systems with the VLBA project} (DYNAMO--VLBA), totalling 32 epochs over 12 years of observation. The observations span more than hal…

$g$ Factor of Boron-like Tin
J. Morgner (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), B. Tu (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, Shanghai EBIT laboratory, Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China), M. Moretti (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), C. M. K\"onig (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), F. Hei{\ss}e (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Hei…

Long weekend in Germany (some Christian bank holiday tomorrow that is co-opted as "Father's Day") and a Friday that should be slow at the office since most have taken a day off.
Ready to binge the new #Andor season!

🚀 Opening new frontiers with the first major in-the-field demo of practical quantum communications!
Read in the latest issue of the Nature Magazine about the first practical demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) within commercial telecom networks - a breakthrough in the field, achieved by a team from Toshiba Europe, GÉANT, PSNC, and Anglia Ruskin University.
A major step towards a scalable, secure, and practical quantum internet.
Learn more:

Toshiba Europe, GÉANT, PSNC and Anglia Ruskin University announce the first demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution within commercial telecommunication networks | GÉANT CONNECT Online
As reported in Nature, GÉANT, Toshiba Europe limited, PSNC and Anglia Ruskin University came together to work on the first major in-the-field demonstration of practical quantum communications using telecoms standard equipment and infrastructure. The experiment was conducted in Germany, with access to the network infrastructure provided by GÉANT. Communication was established over a link spanning

Looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.social/@karlgroves/114534519629700177

Right now: Tegernsee, Gmund #Bavaria #Germany. Pre Alps in the background.
(shot from inside a moving car)
#photography #amateur #lake #Deutschland

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

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

World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069800/world-genealogy-knowledge-kinship-and-ancestor…

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

I’m buying computer parts from Germany thanks to the peculiar political choices of the nearby island

Stock Market Telepathy: Graph Neural Networks Predicting the Secret Conversations between MINT and G7 Countries
Nurbanu Bursa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01945

Stock Market Telepathy: Graph Neural Networks Predicting the Secret Conversations between MINT and G7 Countries
Emerging economies, particularly the MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Türkiye), are gaining influence in global stock markets, although they remain susceptible to the economic conditions of developed countries like the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). This interconnectedness and sensitivity of financial markets make understanding these relationships crucial for investors and policymakers to predict stock price movements accur…

Germany in a nutshell:
There is no law that regulates how old tires on a normal car can be before they have to be replaced. Meaning: You can drive 300km/h on the Autobahn with 12 year old tires as long as they have enough profile.
BUT: If you have a trailer which is licensed to be towed with up to 100km/h you have to change tires every 6 years, else you are only allowed to tow it with 80km/h

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

World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany)
https://ift.tt/3as6Lt5
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Diffraction phase-free Bragg atom interferometry
V\'ictor J. Mart\'inez Lahuerta (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover, Germany), Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siem{\ss} (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover, Germany), Klemens Hammerer (Leibniz University Hanover), Naceur Gaaloul (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover, Germany)

Nice climb up the grade over Breckenheim past Wildsachsen to Bremthal, then back—woosh!—down to Auringen, through Medenbach, and across the multi-use recreation paths to Nordenstadt (home). Taunus foothills, greater Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
#seniorfitness #nogym

Post-processing of wind gusts from COSMO-REA6 with a spatial Bayesian hierarchical extreme value model
Philipp Ertz, Petra Friederichs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22182

Post-processing of wind gusts from COSMO-REA6 with a spatial Bayesian hierarchical extreme value model
The aim of this study is to provide a probabilistic gust analysis for the region of Germany that is calibrated with station observations and with an interpolation to unobserved locations. To this end, we develop a spatial Bayesian hierarchical model (BHM) for the post-processing of surface maximum wind gusts from the COSMO-REA6 reanalysis. Our approach uses a non-stationary extreme value distribution for the gust observations, with parameters that vary according to a linear model using COSMO-RE…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

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

Nice climb up the grade over Breckenheim past Wildsachsen to Bremthal, then back—woosh!—down to Auringen, through Medenbach, and across the multi-use recreation paths to Nordenstadt (home). Taunus foothills, greater Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
#seniorfitness #nogym

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…

Belgium is the third largest market for electric cars in Europe after Germany and France, which are much larger. The tax regime for company cars, which are a standard employee benefit alongside meal vouchers, has made this huge rise possible.
https://www.

Anticipation 🚄
#travel #rail #Deutschland #DeutscheBahn #Germany #luggage

Dissenter Update: June 2, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-update-june-2-2025/

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt?
What's the goal of this staged deployment of border control police by helicopter at one of the hundreds of border crossings between Germany and the Netherlands, ostensibly for 'random' checks other than a pissing contest?

Met heli’s op zoek naar illegale migranten bij Nederlandse grens: Duitsland wil ‘onvoorspelbaar’ zijn
Terwijl Geert Wilders in Nederland pleit voor fors meer grenscontroles, voert Duitsland de strijd tegen ‘illegale migratie’ steeds verder op. Om de controles nóg onvoorspelbaarder en effectiever te maken, worden langs de grens met Nederland zelfs helikopters ingezet. De kritiek op die massale politie-inzet zwelt aan.