Nate BartramJust in case there was any remote doubt in your mind that maybe Palantir wasn't full-stop evil.
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Electronic Frontier FoundationGoogle rompió su promesa. Entregó datos de un estudiante al ICE (Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas) mediante una citación administrativa, sin darle aviso previo para defenderse. Exigimos a las fiscalías que investiguen esta práctica comercial engañosa. https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
Taiwan Maps and DatavizMore than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.
In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.
#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps
Ingwar PerowanowitschSo beeindruckend! Gestern wurde in Helsinki einfach die längste autofreie Brücke der Welt und gleichzeitig die längste Brücke Finnlands eröffnet und das früher als geplant. Auf 1,2 Km verbindet die Kruunuvuorensilta das Zentrum mit den Außenbezirken und erlaubt nur Fußgänger, Fahrräder und die Tram❤️. Was für ein Meisterwerk ökologischer Stadtentwicklung🙏 Können wir uns in 🇩🇪 bitte mal von sowas inspirieren lassen?
taiwanreporterWho is trying to undermine relations between Taiwan and India with ugly xenophobia?
"To assume that an individual is predisposed to sexual violence based solely on nationality is, by definition, prejudice. ... Using crime statistics within India to predict the behavior of Indian migrant workers abroad is fundamentally flawed, as it disregards the legal, socioeconomic and institutional conditions that shape crime patterns within India itself. ..." https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2026/04/18/2003855797
"To assume that an individual is predisposed to sexual violence based solely on nationality is, by definition, prejudice. ... Using crime statistics within India to predict the behavior of Indian migrant workers abroad is fundamentally flawed, as it disregards the legal, socioeconomic and institutional conditions that shape crime patterns within India itself. ..." https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2026/04/18/2003855797
Jen SorensenComic: "Dems should move to the right"
Wren ReillyIf politicians gave a shit about children, the schools would feature:
- HVAC systems that cleaned viruses out of the air
- at least two child psychologists on staff
- age-appropriate lessons to help children identify abuse
- funding for well-paid staff in numbers sufficient for a buddy system to reduce the chances of abuse
- arts education and after-school clubs to provide third spaces for kids
- massive, safe playgrounds
- protected biking and walking infrastructure from the school to residential neighborhoods
Instead we get “parents’ rights”, funding cuts, book bans, and car-centric infrastructure that kills pedestrians and bikers.
If social media is bad for kids, THEY NEED ALTERNATIVES.
David on FormosaRE: https://mastodon.social/@taiwan_maps_and_dataviz/116424182162254107
I only just discovered that Taiwan Maps and Dataviz has an account on Mastodon. I recommend following it for some interesting perspectives on Taiwan's geography.
Unseen JapanEx-idol Wada Ayaka ("Ayacho") of the group Angerme reported on Instagram that she went to Taiwan to marry her Taiwanese partner. W/o revealing her partner's gender, she said they married there b/c Taiwan supports marriage equality & separate spousal surnames.
Yoïn van SpijkThe Old English word for a flower was ‘blōsma’.
While this word survived, becoming modern ‘blossom’, it gave up part of its meaning to a French loanword. Interestingly though, this loanword, spelled both ‘flour’ and ‘flower’ in Middle English, stems from the same root as ‘blossom’.
Moreover, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the spelling variants ‘flour’ and ‘flower’ were differentiated. Each was assigned one of the meanings: “finest part of ground grain” versus “blossom of a plant”.
