14 November 1925 | Dutch Jew, Meijer Ensel, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He did not survive. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland 📸 Allison Michael Orenstein #womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #otd

43 years ago Back from Samoa is the debut full-length album by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans, released in November 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #angrysamoans #backfromsamoa #history #punkrockhistory

Optimal Frustration Life Lessons for Modern Families in the Age of the Symbiotic Relationship 🤔

Nijmegen railway station is being redeveloped to boost train and passenger capacity and add a new large bike parking garage. One of the bike tunnels under the station is closed for works, so one of the car tunnels has been repurposed as a temporary route for cyclists and pedestrians.

Pluribus is promising. – Your Slow Horses hype has made me a bit cautious. But Vince Gilligan obviously knows how to write and shoot a good story, and Rhea Seehorn is a good actor. So, thumbs up.

Grateful for being able to go on that trip to Seoul.

Idiots

Good morning. View from my bed (2025-11-04)

Hotel WiFi in Korea. About a 100 times faster than in Frankfurt.

ArXiv is restricting its policy regarding review and position papers. They must now be peer-reviewed and accepted. The main reason: the flooding of insubstantial and inconsequential genAI papers. GenAI, a plausible lie generator machine, is severely damaging research blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Slow Horses S5 gets a 2/10 from me. They should just feature Jackson Lamb and team in Slough House on a Monday morning, it would make more sense.

Introducing CommonsDB Explorer, a public interface to the CommonsDB registry and transparent, accessible infrastructure for rights-aware reuse of Public Domain and openly licensed works. Blog post via @openfuture.bsky.social www.commonsdb.org/blog/introdu... Registry explorer registry.commonsdb.org

And the live-stream of the Twelfth Session of the WIPO Conversation: Intellectual Property and Synthetic Media: www.wipo.int/meetings/en/...

hahaha yes

Les Vampyrettes - Biomutanten [Germany, Minimal, Synth-pop, Experimental] (1980) Minimalist, post-punk side project by Konrad Plank (producer for Kraftwerk's early albums) and Holger Czukay https://redd.it/13329mf https://youtu.be/-D-QgbSUslo

Am 28. Oktober 1942 wurden die Berliner Malerin Julie Wolfthorn und die Übersetzerin Luise Wolf, ihre Schwester, mit dem "68. Alterstransport" nach Theresienstadt deportiert. 🧵

Could we not please have a 25h day all year?

When the average small city retailer plays AI music and tells you that this way they don't have to pay the creators, you realise that it's already too late for the music industry. The decisions they made were wrong. Still.

Reddit accused the AI search engine of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit's content from Google search results, allegedly dodging anti-scraping methods that require substantial investments.

We're excited to announce an experimental feature on at://work: user-intents. This lets you publicly declare how your professional data and activity should be used. This puts you in control over privacy preferences that travel with your identity across the network.

This storm came out of nothing.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The dark side of the tomato.

New filing: "UMG Recordings v. Suno (Music labels sue Suno over training and outputs of music AI)" Doc #150-1: Exhibit Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68878608

Deafheaven, Sunbather (2013) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"I’ve stopped calling them mistakes. – They’re emergent behaviours now."

Be the inflatable unicorn you want to see in the world

Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular. n.pr/3WJyZn9

They'll find out, I guess.

"Train crash"

Germany in a nutshell.

"Das adaptieren von Geschichten wird einfacher (auch durch KI) und schneller. Die Story wird weniger zu einem literarischen Werk mehr zu einem Mittel zum transaktionalen Zweck." WTF!

"Car crash" – My first and last experience with AUDI. My god, how bad can software be. Do the dudes drive their own cars?

The German understanding of road construction: when you simply close the lanes, the construction work will magically be done on its own. You don’t need to actually work. Simple.

Harrison Ford on 3D Printing vm.tiktok.com/ZGdaxLhRQ/

Every time we speak about "blobs" this come to mind 😅 vm.tiktok.com/ZGdaHPow3/

It's him, this year. #nobel

Is anyone aware of a domain-sharing bug in Bluesky? When following an external link to a webpage and then attempting to share that page back into Bluesky, the app crashes. Seems reproducible when returning from an in-app browser session.

Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon (2025) bookshop.org/p/books/shad...

The 24 new books out today include titles by Thomas Pynchon, Chris Kraus, Cory Doctorow, and more!

Europe’s Digital Markets Act: Conflict and Confusion | "Three years ago, Europe enacted a revolutionary regulation designed to rein in digital 'gatekeepers.' It's causing transatlantic tensions." William Echikson

Nearly a third of all tracks uploaded to Deezer are now fully AI generated, says platform. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nearly-a-thi...

Me, coming out of that 3 day meeting --> vm.tiktok.com/ZGdaus9KF/

#Ukraine: French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed by a drone in Donbas. This is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/10...

On Day 1 of European Galaxy Days, Titusz Pan presented The ISCC Discovery Protocol: Decentralized signing, timestamping, and discovery for the International Standard Content Code (ISCC). Read more: https://iscc.foundation/ @hhrhotz.bsky.social ##discovery ##EGD2025 ##decentralized ##iscc (1/2)

These exquisite band trolleys from Lucknow are just a few of the many treasures to be found in Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING. Releasing in December! Pre-order now for a discount! It's the perfect Christmas gift for graphic design buffs and type geeks! www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Excellent post!