OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised $50M in a Series A extension, after raising $34M in August 2025 (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility to all who celebrate 🏳️⚧️
I am grateful for all the trans folks who stand visible, who talk openly about their experiences and life despite the danger to themselves. Your voices are so important because I don't think the imagination of cis people (even well-meaning) can truly capture the struggles and the joys of trans lives. I promise to stand…
Internet Restrictions Spur Russians to Openly Question Putin's Moves (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/world/europe/russia-internet-restrictions-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eVA.8Tse.cuIPtd_oYKoo&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p4#a260429p4
Offener Brief der Deutschen Filmakademie zu dem scheinbar geplanten kulturpolitischen Eingriff in die Leitung der Berlinale
https://openletter.earth/die-deutsche-filmakademie-positioni…
hmm when there is a book in #Openlibrary (to add it to #bookwyrm) but I only find the english edition but not the german (which also has a different ISBN -- should I add it as a separate book?
This time even the german an english title are the same.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Duke Ellington:
🎵 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (Live @ the Olympia Theatre, Paris)
#DukeEllington
https://open.spotify.com/track/31gWGv93OBNLPdvu5eLYr6
How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Trump actions and an ICE shooting (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
My indiekit blogroll plugin now supports feeding a blogroll page/widget from OPML URL, OPML FILE, Microsub and Feedland
the first two are a given, but the microsub source basically reuse the already subscribed feed from my indiekit microsub implementation and display them as blogroll items and Feedland is more or less the same idea but the source here is a feedland server providing the dynamic OPML input.
US secretly plotting ground attack despite message of diplomacy
-- Iran's parliament speaker says
Iranian state media have published a message from Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf marking 30 days since the start of the US-Israeli war.
“The enemy openly sends a message of negotiation and secretly plans a ground attack,”
Ghalibaf, who has served as speaker of the parliament since 2020, wrote in his message carried by the Tasnim news agency.
As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/world/europe/russia-internet-restrictions-…