"Germany’s coal mines are now Europe’s largest lake district"
#Germany #Environment
https://ww…
Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-o…
I remember watching the 2022 documentary
"Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm"
(Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya
with awe and shame at how much I had not known.
The film looks at the difficult lives of Turkish workers in Germany through the music they produced.
One widely popular song, sung by Yüksel Özkasap, included the lines:
“Germany, everything about you is a lie. You have stolen my life and taken my love.”
The language textbook
"Türk…
Ist jemand von euch heute und morgen bei #GermanCreativeEconomySummit in #hamburg? Mini-TröötUp?
(Sind wahrscheinlich alle nur bei Insta …*heul*)
Germany’s used #EV market is gaining momentum: "between January–April 2025 and January–April 2026, used BEV registrations rose by 77%"
https://theicct.org/publication/europe
You might be delighted to learn about German antifascists' love for humorous #antifa slogans. My attempt at translating some:
“Twitter down, but popular: Mastodon for Antifa”
(pronunciation: 'un-tea fuh, stress on 1st syllable)
“High up there, but popular: aircraft pilots' Antifa”
“Masked and vaxxed, but popular: Covid-19 Antifa”
“Long ago, but popular: B…
So German parliament spent their time on this.
You'd hope they'd be laser-focused on accelerating the transition to cycling, public transport, and electric vehicles.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-bundest
The top US trade representative says a draft German law that would force US streaming services to invest in German film violates the new EU-US trade deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/us-trade-…