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Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage rail equipment in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/16/proukrainian-partisans-sabotage-rail-equipment.html

Erasmus is back.
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme?CMP=Share_An…

Milchbauern protestieren gegen 99-Cent-Butter vor Lidl-Lager | ndr.de
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/kiel_neumuenster_ploen_rendsburg-eckernfoerde/milchbauern-protestieren-gegen-99-cent-butter-vor-lidl-lager,regionkielnews-1112.html
'Lidl begrijpt de zorgen van boeren, maar wijst op de dalende wereldmarktprijs en een overaanbod aan rauwe melk. Volgens Lidl kan dit overaanbod er zelfs voor zorgen dat de prijzen nog verder dalen.' (vert Google)
Hoeveel rekent de Lidl hier?
Bij de Jumbo zie ik prijzen vanaf zo'n €9,50/kg (2,39/pakje)
Verklaring Lidl:
https://unternehmen.lidl.de/pressreleases/2025/251205_butter-nr.-8

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Un texte pédagogique qui vaut quelques minutes :
Simon Tremblay-Pepin, « Savoir lire en sciences humaines »
https://crits.ustpaul.ca/crits/blogue/savoir-lire-en-sciences-humaines?

Savoir lire en sciences humaines — École d'innovation sociale Élisabeth Bruyère
En janvier 2026, ça fera dix ans que j’enseigne à l’École d’innovation sociale Élisabeth-Bruyère de l’Université Saint-Paul. Cette expérience m’a amené à participer à la création de programmes à tous les niveaux universitaires, à y enseigner et à superviser des recherches d’étudiant·e·s aux deuxième et troisième cycles. Les étudiant·e·s de notre école ont des parcours...

The community in Sololo, Papua New Guinea, is safeguarding their rainforest by partnering with Cool Earth to resist logging and oil palm expansion, ensuring a sustainable future and preserving vital ecosystems. https://www.coolearth.org/news/best-rainforest-protectio…

How one community is protecting 16,500 hectares of rainforest
Local people have safeguarded the Papua New Guinea rainforest for generations. With a steady income stream, communities can refuse loggers and invest in what they most need.

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

New leadframe preservation concept: solder the DUT to a QFN breakout board, apply rubber masking material and kapton tape to the board surface to protect as much as possible of the FR4.
Then "partial-decap" the part without actually masking off any of the top of the device.
In theory I should get a die on a paddle and skeletonized leadframe soldered to a breakout board.