Anime & Manga Media MonitorWelt | Gamescom & DoKomi: Mekka für Nerds
https://www.pressreader.com/germany/die-welt/20250416/281870124279649
#Paywalled #DoKomi #Gamescom #Düsseldorf #Köln #Anime #Manga #Cosplay
Genealogie-NewsStiftung Warentest hat fünf Anbieter von DNA-Tests zur Ahnenforschung geprüft
#DNAGenealogie. Der Vergleich zeigt Stärken, Schwächen und Datenschutzrisiken bei Herkunftsanalysen und Verwandtschaftsmatching.
#paywalled #Ahnenforschung #StiftungWarentest #Ancestry #MyHeritage #23andMe #FamilyTreeDNA #LivingDNA #DNA #Ethik #Datenschutz #Strafverfolgung #Völkerwanderung #Ethnie #GEDCOM #Test #Vergleich #DNATest #DSGVO #AGB #Herkunftsanalyse
@ahnenforschung
Ajour | Der Aarberger Jack Sparrow: „Cosplay“ ist seine grosse Leidenschaft
https://ajour.ch/de/story/587979/der-aarberger-jack-sparrow-cosplay-ist-seine-grosse-leidenschaft
#HeuteVor10Jahren: Cosplayer:innen ziehen in die WG von Köln 50667 ein
RTL II | Köln 50667 | Folge 574
https://plus.rtl.de/video-tv/serien/koeln-50667-1000002446/2015-4-953351/episode-574-koeln-50667-1000149074
Mainpost | Mittelaltermarkt und Fantasyfest in Gaukönigshofen: 7 Menschen verraten, was die Faszination ums Mittelalter ausmacht
https://www.mainpost.de/regional/wuerzburg/mittelaltermarkt-und-fantasyfest-in-gaukoenigshofen-7-menschen-verraten-was-die-faszination-ums-mittelalter-ausmacht-art-11751229
Berliner Morgenpost | Berlin von Cosplayern erobert – „So lebe ich meine Farben aus“
https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article408776357/so-lebe-ich-meine-farben-aus-cosplayer-erobern-berlin.html
#Paywalled #MegaMangaCon #MMCBerlin #MMCBerlin2025 #Berlin #DCM #DCM2025 #DeutscheCosplayMeisterschaft #Anime #Manga #Cosplay
petersuberUpdate. "Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency. White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted."
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency
(#paywalled)
"President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the #climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (#NOAA)…The administration is also preparing to ask for deep cuts to #NASA’s science programs."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
ferrie=differentieel 
Elon Musk moet niet gek opkijken als hij, net als de Russische ceo’s, vroeger of later in de cel belandt | Het #Parool
Die angst zit er bij Russische ondernemers goed in. Musk moet niet gek opkijken als ook hij vroeger of later in de cel belandt. Zeker als Trump verder in het nauw komt is hij – net als Poetin – tot alles in staat.
sorry #paywalled
Update. Phillip Levine lists the 77 US #universities that stand to lose the most from three kinds of funding cuts threatened by the #Trump admin: (1) capping indirect costs for #NIH grants at 15%, (2) cutting the #NSF budget by two-thirds, and (3) endowment taxes.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-77-colleges-have-the-most-to-lose-from-trumps-cuts
(#paywalled)
PS: Note that there are other kinds of cuts that Levine does not bring into this calculation, like withholding funds from targeted institutions because of their DEI or antisemitism policies.
#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Kevin Karhan 
#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!
It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.
It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!
I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.
Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.
I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools
- Public Chat? IRC!
- Group Voicechat? Mumble.
- #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
- 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
- E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
- E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
- Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
- …
Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.
