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GVG Glasfaser erhält frisches Geld für neue FTTH-Netze
Einst in Schieflage geraten, hat sich die Unternehmensgruppe GVG Glasfaser inzwischen erholt. Die Investoren honorieren das mit frischem Geld.
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Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8280412c-df99-4eb2-b447-f29872d0439d

Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…

The Father, the Don, and the Fed Chair's Post (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-father-the-don-and-the-fed-chairs-post-trump-powell-leo-pope-federal-reserve-tillis-iran-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p43#a260416p43

Steve Bannon, one of the leading figures behind President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies against Pope Francis with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon, a former White House adviser to Trump, told Epstein that he wished to “take down” the leader of the Catholic Church.
In June 2019, Bannon wrote to Epstein: “Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU
– come on brother.”
This exchange came years after Epstein served a lig…

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics
Letters from Leo is a chronicle of how Pope Leo XIV’s papacy intersects with American politics, faith, and the digital age during the presidency of Donald Trump. Click to read Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics, by Christopher Hale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets

Adding even more cameras for a surveillance state: 'autonomous' delivery robots, and 'autonomous' taxis.
Can be combined with facial recognition, of course.
https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robot…

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.

Rheinland-Pfalz: Lernapps wie Anton und bettermarks zum Aufholen von Rückständen
In Rheinland-Pfalz sollen Lernapps wie bettermarks Problem- zu Lieblingsfächern machen. Landeslizenzen wurden verlängert, Lehrkräfte müssen sich qualifizieren.

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography