Being echt 1980s (graduated high school 1982) seeing U2 here kills me a little, but they brought it on themselves.

Ha ha I have been thinking this about the #fermiparadox most of this year.

Me: Immer gut! Him: they’re just pushing it to the Supreme Court.

Details on the tech are interesting. China next-gen aircraft carrier enters service China announced it has commissioned its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian. With it, China is steadily closing the gap to US naval capabilities in the region […]

The other 19 should boycott mar-a-lago next year. Maybe they could meet in nyc or Chicago. Trump: No US officials attending G20 in South Africa Donald Trump's decision to boycott the annual Group of 20 summit comes just a few days after he said South Africa shouldn't be a part of the group at […]

Trump: No US officials attending G20 in South Africa Donald Trump's decision to boycott the annual Group of 20 summit comes just a few days after he said South Africa shouldn't be a part of the group at all. https://www.dw.com/en/trump-no-us-officials-attending-g20-in-south-africa/a-74670041

If he were working for Putin, what would he do differently? Trump exempts Hungary from sanctions for buying Russian oil Viktor Orban, who has called access to Russian oil and gas a "vital" issue for his landlocked country, had the most to gain from a meeting with Donald Trump at the White […]

Meet me Saturday, 5pm at the Musikbrauerei in Prenzlauerberg! I'm speaking for a foreign university with which I've never been affiliated in my home Kietz! Super cool venue, hopefully the talks won't be too boring either :-) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391792501621235712/

UN Security Council lifts sanctions on Syria's president The lifting of sanctions comes as Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa prepares to travel to Washington to hold talks with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, at the White House […]

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

🇨🇦 Eurovision: - Eurovision confirmed they're in early negotiation with the CBC - CBC confirmed the broadcaster picks the artists - Canada is already an associate member of the EBU like Australia

“The sandwich kind of exploded all over my uniform,” Lairmore said. “It smelled of onions and mustard.” Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff then displayed a photo of the wrapped sandwich lying on the ground and pressed the agent to clarify whether it had really exploded. Lairmore said a piece of the […]

EU investigates Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq derivatives trade The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against German and US stock markets Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq. They're suspected of collusion in the financial derivatives trading sector […]

From 2011-2022 we had so much hope. The only successful Arab Spring. Almost all the diplomatic effort of GPAI 2022 was wasted on trying to persuade Israel to allow Tunisia in. 1/2 Tunisia: Amnesty flags 'horrific' abuses against migrants A new report by Amnesty International details human […]

Poland to offer military training to all its citizens The pilot program aims to train 400,000 people in 2026. The defense minister of Poland, which borders Ukraine, says the initiative is needed due to the threat from Russia […]

Coming to a continent near you.

US troops in Germany told to seek food banks amid shutdown The US Army Garrison Bavaria removed references to German food banks and other discounted food provision services from its "shutdown guidance" web page […]

Present earworm: "Show me what democracy looks like? THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE" chant from #nokingsberlin

Country in free fall.

Let’s all (re)watch the movie and reminisce about that scale of corruption seeming gargantuan. Former US Vice President Dick Cheney dead at age 84 Vice president under George W. Bush, Cheney played a pivotal role in shaping the US "war on terror." […]

I assume Trump is trying to drive up the price of Oil because Putin is in trouble? #nigeria #venezuala Nigeria flaunts religious freedoms after Trump designation The Trump administration re-added the West African country to a US watch list over alleged Christian persecution. Trump later […]

OK I had no idea what the DKs looked like. https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/115461131006801149

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — Then the user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline […]

5 easy lessons for progressive (NOT libertarian) success. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/dutch-voters-positivity-liberals-patriotism-d66-netherlands-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“Iraq is the best it's ever been," said Khudair al-Ali, a young man who works for an oil company… "But we still have problems," he said, "There… are too many cars in Baghdad." "We need more bike lanes," he said, adding that it takes him 15 minutes cycle to work and over an hour to drive. Will […]

Sudan: Foreign ministers decry 'apocalyptic' atrocities The civil war in Sudan has not received enough global attention, the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain and Jordan said. Doctors Without Borders fears for tens of thousands after the fall of el-Fasher in Darfur […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/115470683172630822 showing my age partly because still marvelling that I can finally quote toot from the browser page.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115475691685977038 All saints day can be a drag if you're used to being the only saint around.

https://bsky.app/profile/jeradwalker.bsky.social/post/3m4ldk72h4c2yv via @markgbaxter

Watching a governance school try to self govern has really impressed on me that the two things I most need to communicate when called on to talk about (A)I are quorum sensing and heuristics. Well, and also the limits of computation but I already do that, but those limits are what force us to use […]