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-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-…
Auch sehenswert: German Guilt, eine dreiteilige Dokumentation des ZDF, in der Thilo Mischke zusammen mit Katja Riemann und Ronja von Rönne einer potentiellen Nazi-Vergangenheit der jeweiligen Familien – einschließlich seiner eigenen – hinterher recherchiert. Rundfunkbeitrag bei der Arbeit.
https://www.zdf.de/reportagen/ge…
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
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is the most unpopular democratically elected head of government along with French President Emmanuel Macron in second place:
https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/13/german-chancellor-merz-…
Slides for my talk "Using class" at the "German Perl Workshop in Berlin":https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/ https://domm.plix.at/talks/us…
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…
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.
Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs.
These plug-in or balcony solar panels start shaving off part of a homeowner's or renter's utility bill right away.
⭐️The panels are already popular in Germany, where more than 1.2 million of the small plug-in systems are registered with the German government.
For the panels to become more widely available in the U.S., state lawmak…
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…