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Monkey Island: Gold-Master ist 35 geworden
Bei "Monkey Island" dürfte vielen eine warme, wohlige Erinnerung aufkommen. Vor 35 Jahren hat Ron Gilbert den Gold-Master erstellt.
https://www.he…

#TGIQF: Das Monkey-Island-Quiz für Piratenanwärter
Vor 35 Jahren erschien "The Secret of Monkey Island" und gilt bis heute als eines der witzigsten Point-and-Click-Adventures. Bestehen Sie die Anwärterfragen?

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

🤾⛹️‍♂️🏃‍♂️ #DHB verlor das zweite Testspiel gegen Island vor der EM knapp und zeigte noch Schwächen – im Angriff oft zu unpräzise, in der Defensive anfällig. Das war vor zwei Tagen besser. Zehn Wochen vor dem Turnierstart in Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen gilt: Grundordnung stärken Stabilität finden.
#Handball

Oha!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/rare-cuckoo-sighting-long-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.h-rs.BT8TA0bludos&smid=url-share

A Rare Visitor to Long Island Is Driving Birders Cuckoo
A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

The tourism industry in Iceland has failed to impress upon visitors that this country can be deadly.
You need to respect it, not in a quasi-spiritual way, but rather by understanding that scenery is impressive because it has been shaped by powerful forces that could easily kill you.
#Iceland

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Monkey Island: Gold-Master ist 35 geworden
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UK anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson thanks Musk after being cleared of terrorism charge (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-anti-islam-activist-tommy-robinson-thanks-musk-after-being-cleared-terrorism-2025-11-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p50#a251104p50

PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Hamdy Mubarak, Majd Hawasly, Abubakr Mohamed, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02550

PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture
Large Language Models (LLMs) inherently reflect the vast data distributions they encounter during their pre-training phase. As this data is predominantly sourced from the web, there is a high chance it will be skewed towards high-resourced languages and cultures, such as those of the West. Consequently, LLMs often exhibit a diminished understanding of certain communities, a gap that is particularly evident in their knowledge of Arabic and Islamic cultures. This issue becomes even more pronounce…

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/