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Missing Link: Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.

"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.

The glue is the work
Tech orgs only function thanks to people who volunteer for thankless "glue work." This is the space where UX lives; for the field to get respect we need to make this work visible.

»Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs:
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.«
Das WWW ist einiges mehr als nur die populären Social-Media's, die deren Nutzer*innen in ihrem virtuellen Garten festhalten. Ein freies Netz (ausser Propaganda) ist u.a. auch die Freiheit der Menschen.
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Missing Link: Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog https://cdm.link/moog-messenger-with-e

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog - CDM Create Digital Music
Moog Messenger is something new. Because that's the first major product entirely developed under new owners inMusic*, that might make you nervous. But this synth is full of surprises—and could be the Moog synth your rig has been missing. Moog's Erik Norlander, Director of Keyboard Product Development, walked us through the synth. I think it might wind up being his biggest hit since the Alesis Andromeda.

heise | Silent-Tastatur Be Quiet Dark Mount im Test: So leise kann mechanisch sein
Kein Klicken, Klappern oder Kratzen: Akustisch überzeugt die Dark Mount Silent Tactile von Be Quiet. Was die mechanische Tastatur leistet.

Social media isn't the problem.
"Engagement maximizing" algorithms deciding what you see is the problem.
This has been true for 20 years now, and we still haven't addressed the real problem.
We've been subject to the "paperclip maximizer" AI threat for 20 years, and most people still don't realize it. The few that do have been bribed to not realize it.
(Preaching to the choir on Mastodon, I imagine, but still...)

British photographer, 60, shot by police at #LA riots. ”I had a press ID round my neck, a large camera, a video camera … I was making a point of making myself visible as media,” he told The Times.

British photographer, 60, shot by police at LA riots
Nick Stern said that he was covering the anti-ICE protest when what doctors believe to be a ‘sponge bullet’ hit his thigh

Klimafreundliches Magnesium: US-Start-up setzt auf Elektrolyse von Meerwasser
Magnesium ist ein wichtiger Rohstoff für viele Industrien. Ein kalifornisches Start-up will das Leichtmetall nun klimafreundlich aus dem Meer gewinnen.