When Joseph Stalin took the stage, applause wasn’t just standard. It meant your freedom.
As the crowd thundered with cheers, no one dared to break first.
Not after two minutes. Not after four. Not after six.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago,” “It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin.”
Finally, after 11 minutes, one man
— the director of a paper factory
— broke the spell.
And with that one act o…
Morgen soll Cem Özdemir in Stuttgart zum Ministerpräsidenten gewählt werden. Rückblende in einen Wahlkampf, der eigentlich unmöglich zu gewinnen war:
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/cem-oezdemir-gruene-wahlkamp…
In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran,
Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
He’s grown more agitated with news coverage
and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war
— or how he will end it
— that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict,
surging oil prices
and dropping financial markets.
Even some of his supporters are questioning his pla…
Microsoft reagiert auf Anthropics KI-Agenten – und baut sie gleich in Word & Excel ein. „Copilot Cowork“ soll künftig selbstständig Aufgaben erledigen, vom Mail-Sortieren bis zur Präsentation. Laut Christof Kerkmann & Stephan Scheuer zeigt das: KI entwickelt sich gerade vom Assistenten zum digitalen Kollegen. Für 99 $ im Monat.
Amazon raised €14.5B in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency, following a dollar offering on Tuesday that raised $37B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-11/amazo…
My sixth level cleric, Ned, likes to sell swag.
He already has tees and stickers and notebooks:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/ned
But now he’s handing out autographed Woodford Reserve bourbon (signed “N€D #6”).
He ships it in church caravans and will use Det…
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Mac Glocky:
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An award for the Divinity School's Living Village, in recognition of the starring role played by glass "not just as an aesthetic feature, but also as a key contributor to energy goals and comfort," in the words of the judges.
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A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
New Marquette Law School national survey finds high approval of Iran cease-fire, low support for the war, and few who think U.S. goals have been achieved (Charles Franklin/Homepage)
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2026/04/22/new-marquette-law-school-national-survey-finds-high-approval-of-iran-cease-fire-low-support-for-the-war-and-few-who-think-u-s-goals-have-been-achieved/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p43#a260422p43