auf halbem Wege hält der Dattelschwarm!

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.

The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.

Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.

This is digital sovereignty being taken back

Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316

Kan gewoon. Doe het gewoon. @belastingdienst.bsky.social

Yay! Cool!

Failing Google+ (God rest their soul), here it is for bluesky circles 🥰 🐦🐦
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Lasciate ogni speranza voi che entrate!

Schwarzweiß Foto aus dem "Jahrbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten, 2006" Ein Reihe von Backsteinhäusern in Amsterdam. Bildunterschrift: Amsterdam, Damrak 44 Das schmale Backsteinhaus beherbergte die von Selma Meyer geleitete Firma "Holland Typing Office", wo sich ab Herbst 1937 das Exilzentrum der "Deutschen Jugend-front" etablierte. Im dritten Stock des Gebäudes befand sich das Redaktionsbüro der Kameradschaft. Foto: Klaus Müller, 2006

Dasselbe Haus in der Damrak 44 in Amsterdam, 20 Jahre später am 18. April 2026. Im Erdgeschoss "Durch Pancake Masters". Darüber das Haus aus rotem Backstein mit drei hohen Fenstern nebeneinander. Am Giebel ist eine kleine Kranauslage zu sehen.

Ein Bild der niederländisch jüdischen Widerstandskämpferin Selma Meyer von schräg links fotografiert, den Blick leicht nach oben gerichtet, leicht lächelnd. Die Haare sind nach hinten gekämmt und im Nacken zu einem Dutt gesteckt. Rechts daneben der Flyer zur Veranstaltung: "Solidarische Hilfe - auf den Spuren des Wuppertal Komitees. 90 Jahre Wuppertaler Gewerkschaftsprozesse.

23. April 2016. Ein älterer Herr mit Schiebermütze, Brille und einer dicken blauen Jacke: Dirk Hespers sen. Daneben seine Tochter Nora, eine junge Frau mit langen blonden Haaren und einem dicken Schal. Beide lächeln in die Kamera.

Full circle moment: Gestern war ich in Amsterdam. Anlass war die Erinnerung an das Wuppertal Komitee, dem auch die niederländische Unternehmerin Selma Meyer angehörte. Die Frau, die meinen Großvater maßgeblich darin unterstützt hat, seine Widerstandszeitschrift zu produzieren und verbreiten.

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Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power.

European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!

ist noch nicht verschenkt.

The authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged: Ananas gehört in die Dose, nicht auf dem Pizza.

Grüne regen sich am meisten über andere Meinungen auf, danach AfDler und Linke

Umfrage zur Akzeptanz von Meinungen, die von der eigenen abweichen. Aber bitte nicht aufregen, liebes Bluesky.

Na, wenn die andere Meinung ist, dass Pizza mit Ananas vertretbar ist, ja dann rege ich mich schon auf. Und entschuldige mich nicht dafür!

Have fun!

Sais pas…

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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Survival of the grappigste Er verschijnen gelukkig ook nog altijd wetenschappelijke artikelen die sprankelen van de ideeën

Er verschijnen gelukkig ook nog altijd wetenschappelijke artikelen die sprankelen van de ideeën

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Job Interview with a Cat    Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?  The warmth, perhaps? The security?  Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless?  Feel free to expand if you wish.    I see you have had experience of similar positions.  Can you talk about a time when you got somebody’s tongue?  Or were set amongst the pigeons?  Tell me about a time you’ve had to deal with a difficult situation – for instance, have you ever found yourself in a bag? If so, how were you let out of it?     How would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks?   What about a tin roof of similar temperature?   With reference to any of your past lives,   has curiosity ever killed you?    Finally, where do you see yourself in five years’ time?  In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight?  What’s that? You would like to be where I am now?  Oh, it appears you already are.  Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Job Interview with a Cat’.

David Bowie staring right at you after his arrest in March 1976.

Can I come over and stare at you like this?

It is not a stinging attack. It is simply unhinged bullshit. Call a spade a spade.

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux

"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

Dear 🇩🇪 government, it *is* in your job description to shield us from future energy crises. Not only a French thing.

But 👏 to 🇫🇷

Cartoon by Edwin Tan. It is entitled: Why cats make bad scientists. Two cats in lab coats stand next to a cage with an open door. One cat has an angry face and says: Did you eat the control group?

#Caturday

I am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy!
Deadline: April 15th

The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :)
More details below!

Corruptie is een goede zaak en geeft het mensdom veel vermaak.

Interessant!

Welk rijmwoord komt eerst? Man en kan rijmen op elkaar. Maar er is iets eigenaardigs aan de hand.

Man en kan rijmen op elkaar. Maar er is iets eigenaardigs aan de hand.

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„For instance, take the word shampoo and repeat it 15 to 20 times until it sounds like it’s lost all meaning.“ This quote comes from the @merriam-webster.com newsletter. I think it is true. If so, I wonder why it would be. Is it the de-contextualization?

New Paper with Tongpan Rabo Fwangwar, titled "Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul".

All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations.

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