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The Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, has found herself in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country without a legal government. Despite financial and logistical isolation, Manizha Bakhtari is defying the Taliban to continue her fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls as an ambassador. Through her Daughters´ Programme, she enables secret education to Afghan schoolgirls while organising political resistance against the Taliban as an ambassador. Under increasingly difficult conditions, she becomes one of the most important international spokespersons for the women of Afghanistan, true to her motto ‘peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.
Sprache und Kulturkampf: Gendern ist keine moderne Erfindung.
Viele betrachten Gendern als Verhunzung der Sprache, besonders bei Werken der Dichter und Denker. Dabei ist die Annahme, dass es sich hierbei um eine moderne Mode handelt, völlig falsch: Bereits in der deutschen Klassik wurde kräftig gegendert.
(…) everybody seems to expect answers that are closely tailored to their particular situation, level of understanding and so on, and to get the answers now. And, many of them are willing to give up guarantees of quality and reliability in exchange of ease-of-use and customised responses.
Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie.
In Icelandic, personal names have four forms, one for each of the grammatical cases of Icelandic nouns.
Misleading title.
You no longer need JavaScript,
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
Malle Antifa 1-2, by Kommando Internet (via taz.de).
Das Kommando Internet bringt zehn Ballermannsongs für einen Partysommer mit Links. Sie sind unerträglich. Und unerträglich gut. Die rechte Ecke meckert.
(…) about a month ago, I was reflecting on Twitter about the differences I experienced parsing JSON in statically- and dynamically-typed languages, and finally, I realized what I was looking for. Now I have a single, snappy slogan that encapsulates what type-driven design means to me, and better yet, it’s only three words long.
Germany's private internet censorship organization gives up (via lobste.rs).
A group of major corporations blocked domains in Germany without courts. That ends now.
Quincy Jones, 1933–2024.
Few producers in music history have had the impact of Quincy Jones, the man behind some of the biggest records of all time, who died on 3rd November aged 91. Steve Lukather, best known as one of the founding members of Toto, was Jones’ go-to guitarist in the ’80s, contributing to his crowning achievement, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. He remembers his friend and collaborator, the man he called ‘Q’
Leben wir im Technofeudalismus?
Der Technofeudalismus ist ein Märchen, das die wahre Geschichte verschleiert: Mit der unangefochtenen Vorherrschaft der Techgiganten kommt ein Prozess zum Abschluss, der vor 70 Jahren begann.7 Hand in Hand haben die Wall Street, das Silicon Valley, das Pentagon und die CIA systematisch auf die Zermürbung aufmüpfiger Länder hingearbeitet, die nach echter technologischer und wirtschaftlicher Souveränität strebten. Dass Staaten heute Geld für die Bereitstellung digitaler Souveränität – Stichwort Sovereignty-as-a-Service – ausgeben müssen, ist eine Ironie des Schicksals. Aber keine Sorge: Microsoft, Palantir und Co. werden alle Bedürfnisse zu einem erschwinglichen Preis erfüllen.