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Ik kom er net achter dat Beth Gibbons (Portishead) in 2019 meedeed aan een uitvoering van Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Echt heel mooi (vind ik).
"Gibbons is not a powerful singer in the athletic sense—she’s never going to threaten the structural integrity of a chandelier. But her grainy, sour wail, coated with streaks of dried spilled coffee and nicotine stains, strikes deep chords of clammy fear, of desperation, of vulnerability."
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📢 Bundesverwaltungsgericht kippt "Hammerskins"-Verbot
Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot der rechtsextremen Gruppierung "Hammerskins Deutschland" gekippt. Das Gericht in Leipzig gab mehreren Klagen einzelner Mitglieder und regionaler Chapter der Neonazi-Gruppierung statt. Die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser (SPD) war 2023 gegen die "Hammerskins" vorgegangen.
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Bundesverwaltungsgericht kippt Verbot der "Hammerskins"
Vor zwei Jahren wurden die rechtsextremen "Hammerskins" von der damaligen Innenministerin Faeser verboten. Nun hat das Bundesverwaltungsgericht die Entscheidung gekippt - aus formalen Gründen.

Were they perchance inspired by the Dutch government? (The shameful false accusations of childcare benefit fraud, which all but ruined numerous families, known in the Netherlands as the #toeslagenaffaire – still not fully resolved and remedied.)

Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
Exclusive: Scale of government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Cory Doctorow, uncharacteristically humorous (rather than just sarcastic).
Also, as an American, I support his proposal.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam…

The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access (Nicholas Henriquez/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new…

The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
Subscribers now have easier, unlimited access to every article, cover, and issue published in the magazine, as it marks its hundredth anniversary in print.

📢 „Es gibt kein Recht auf Nazipropaganda“ – mit dieser deutlichen Forderung startet Matthias Heinrichs die Petition „Keine AfD-Hetze in den Räumen der Stadt Darmstadt“ an OB Hanno Benz (SPD). Sie fordert die fristlose Kündigung des Mietvertrags für den AfD-Neujahrsempfang, weil die Kriterien des § 17c erfüllt seien. Öffentliche Orte sind kein Freifahrtschein für demokratiefeindliche Mobilisierung!📍#FR

Guten Morgen, Freunde des gepflegten Humors.

Love this quote from MSNBC. What an idiot.
"The American president, however, continues to insist that StŸre is lying, that the Norwegian government is secretly in charge of the [Nobel] honors, and that all of this has something to do with Greenland, which is a territory of an entirely different Scandinavian country."