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Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/14/german-…

German startup Synera lands $40M to automate engineering workflows with AI agents - SiliconANGLE
German startup Synera lands $40M to automate engineering workflows with AI agents - SiliconANGLE

Weil mich die am alten #Brompton P-Lenker von Mr. #Winterbrompton immer schrãg sitzende Gummiband-Halterung fürs #Garmin genervt hat und ich die schon vor 'ner Weile bestellte GoPro/Garmin-Halterung v…

Germany's Merz Says He Won't Advise His Children Work in US (Arne Delfs/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/germany-s-merz-says-he-wouldn-t-advise-his-children-work-in-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p35#a260515p35

Mastodon announced it will add five much-needed features and improvements
thanks to funding from the German government’s Sovereign Tech Agency.
The five deliverables include:
🔸Blocklist synchronisation
To improve moderation and safety, Mastodon servers will be able to subscribe to shared blocklists to block offending servers or suggest servers to block automatically.
🔸Remote media storage
Mastodon will add support for the Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provide…

Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency
The Sovereign Tech Agency, commissioned by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, has awarded hundreds of thousands of Euros to Mastodon to address key infrastructure challenges faced within the fediverse ecosystem.

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

Der Wedding bekommt einen neuen, grünen Platz https://weddingweiser.de/der-wedding-bekommt-einen-neuen-gruenen-platz/

The Nakba-denial in all western countries, especially Germany, must be studied for decades. The fact such a catastrophe could happen in front our very eyes, just as the genocide in Gaza is happening today, only for political pundits to deny or warp historical facts merely for geopolitical interests, is one of the most morally bankrupt things of our time.
I remember politics today, so I'll recognize intentional amnesia once it's history.

Diverse Jewish cultures
– from the Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) of Azerbaijan, to the mellahs and haras of North Africa, to the shtetls of Eastern Europe
– have been supplanted by an increasingly homogenized and diminished Israeli colonial culture modelled on German “high culture”.
Rich creolized languages such as Ladino, Krymchak, Kayliñña, Judeo-Arabic, Yevanic, Gruzinic, and Yiddish are now endangered or extinguished,
eroded in part by the imposition of German-acce…

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue
Israel bombed Tehran’s Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism’s willingness to treat Jewish life as disposable in the service of its ideological project.

The number of competitive House districts is getting smaller and smaller (Jessica Piper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/how-a-year-of-gerrymandering-has-further-slashed-competitive-house-seats-00922028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p28#a260515p28