The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into Snapchat for failing to protect children, including assessing its age verification measures (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-probes-snapchat-for-fa…
Word of the Week: Backpfeifengesicht
Do you ever look at someone and feel like punching them in the face?
Well, Germans have a unique word for that face: a Backpfeifengesicht
— a face that’s badly in need of a fist.
https://germanyinusa.com/2019/02/22/wo
Google Maps in Germany now publishes how many reviews of restaurants etc were removed due to “defamation”, i.e. legal action from the owners of the criticized businesses. There’s now a Chrome extension that adds 0 ratings for every removed rating and then averages that with the provided rating.
https://github.com/Ennui92/…
Germany discovers a treasure trove beneath an old gas field: 43 million tons of lithium have been found beneath the Altmark region, bringing Europe closer to the great battery revolution
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/germany-discovers-a-treasure-trove-beneath-an-old-gas-field-43-million-tons-of-lithium-have-been-found-beneath-the-altmark-region-bringing-europe-closer-to-the-great-battery-revolution/31164/
Loyola's student newspaper issues apology over Sheridan Gorman story -- for correctly calling alleged killer an 'illegal immigrant' (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/25/us-news/loyolas-student-newspaper-issues-apology-over-sheridan-gorman-story/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p140#a260325p140
"Germany off track to deliver 2045 climate goal"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange
I was told today that "capitalism" or, more accurately, German "Kapitalismus" is a leftist "Kampfbegriff", essentially an idiological term to influence public opinion, as I understand it.
I have never even thought about capitalism as something other than a normal word meaning a specific thing. Of course, people have different attitudes towards capitalism itself. Left-leaning people would regard it as negative.
German Mastodonians, am I completely off…
Redaktionspause https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10358
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/cohere-aleph-alpha-germany-ai-euro…