Gunnar Hillert

YouTube video by BR24 Playing With Fire - Panel about Climate Change with Gavin Newsom | MSC 2026 | BR24

At the @munsecconf.bsky.social (#MSC) @gavinnewsom.bsky.social was impressively on fire 🔥partaking in the panel discussion on 🌐 #ClimateChange. There is some hope that we won't loose all our international credibility. 🙏 you #California for keeping up the momentum.

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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Kaputtmachen ist wohl einfacher: Energiewende, Autoindustrie etc. Wenn diese Schwurbler von der heutigen CDU wenigstes einmal die Woche den @economist.com lesen würden, wüssten sie, dass die Welt schon viel weiter ist.

Nicht so schlimm wie hier bei uns in den USA. Aber, es ist so traurig das D 🇩🇪 die Chancen nicht sieht 😔, z.B. den Science/Techsector drastisch auszubauen durch massives abwerben aus den 🇺🇸 oder mit Macron 🇫🇷 die EU 🇪🇺 endlich zu einem funktionierenden Staat zu einigen. Lieber auf Trump-light machen.

So, Jack Smith working with a subpoena to acquire general phone logs is a breech of privacy but the DOJ can just randomly spy on the congress people and their computer searches for no apparent reason?
The cognitive dissonance of these people never ceases to astonish me.

Kritische Klima-Kipppunkte nah: Forscher warnen vor "Heißzeit" Der Klimawandel ist vielleicht früher da als befürchtet. Mehr noch: Die Erderwärmung könnte sich selbst beschleunigen. Das zeigen Forschungen.

Immer unterschätzt, immer verharmlost - über Jahrzehnte. Physik verhandelt nicht. Gilt ausnahmslos für alle! Die Klimaschutzbremser haben gut gewirkt. Erbärmlich.

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Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended

"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"

"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

🏆 100 Most Watched Java Conference Talks Of 2025 A list of the top 100 Java talks of 2025 ordered by number of views.

A long-awaited compilation of the 🏆 100 Most Watched Java Conference Talks Of 2025 is finally here www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-...! 👇

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Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying
"They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

What gets me is when even journalists and knowledge experts are kind of ignorant: e.g. stating there is no coffee or cacao grown in the US. Even #AI discriminates, e.g. Google's AI summary for: "cacao production usa" - No mention of #PuertoRico 🇵🇷.

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership China’s first 10,000-ton electric containership is beginning sea trials. The shipyard is billing the ship as the largest of its kind and a further bre...

World's larger BEV container ship begins sea trials. "The vessel measures nearly 128 meters (420 feet) in length. It has a capacity of 740 TEU. It is reported to have a maximum speed of 11.5 knots." H/T to Electrify This 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵 maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

Bad Bunny holding a football with musicians holding instruments dancing in a line to his left and right. Flags of the Americas flying just behind them. Further in the background the Jumbotron reads “The only thing more powerful that hate is love”

Bad Bunny reveals the message stamped on the football he has been holding, the message reads “Together We Are America”. The musicians holding tambourines dressed in white dresses or white shirts and khaki pants are overjoyed and still dancing. The flags of the Americas flying in the background.

Bad Bunny named every country in the Americas

“Together We Are America”

… chills

Maybe RAM prices will normalize soon. #AI #Bitcoin

reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month. Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework. I really want to figure out a way to offer LLM-optimized docs that don't make that situation even worse (again we literally had to lay off 75% of the team yesterday), but I can't prioritize it right now unfortunately, and I'm nervous to offer them without solving that problem first. @PaulRBerg I don't see the AGENTS.md stuff we offer as part of the sponsorship program as anything similar to this at all — that's just a short markdown file with a bunch of my own personal opinions and what I consider best practices to nudge LLMs into writing their Tailwind stuff in a specific way. It's not the docs at all, and I resent the accusation that I am not disclosing my "true intentions" here or something. @mtsears4 Tailwind is growing faster than it ever has and is bigger than it ever has been, and our revenue is down close to 80%. Right now there's just no correlation between making Tailwind easier to use and making development of the framework more sustainable. I need to fix that before making Tailwind easier to use benefits anyone, because if I can't fix that this project is going to become unmaintained abandonware when there is no one left employed to work on it. I appreciate the sentiment and agree in spirit, it's just more complicated than that in reality right now.

AI is taking and not giving and it's crushing open-source software projects. Just a month ago, Tailwinds fired 75 percent of its engineers. Why?

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

Great post! Of great relevance for software developers as well. The $2-3K (PER MONTH!) in health insurance alone are killer.

Can’t imagine why reporting on the Jan 6 insurrection wouldn’t be valued by multibillionaire in current political climate

Gleichschaltung - Wikipedia

Germans have a word for this: #Gleichschaltung.
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"Democracy Dies in Darkness"

Nice that will come in handy in a little bit. 🙏 for the pointer. Last time I was really into "email testing" with #Java was using Wiser (subethasmtp) a "few" moons ago. Looks like #GreenMail is another option.

Speaking of empires, even the unified German empire 1871-1918 did not manage to have a unified army, instead there were the Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon, and Württemberg armies. Let's pray that Europe 🇪🇺 gets her act together ASAP and can federalize its armed forces.

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When you get to the point where you need it, #Testcontainers will be there for you. And with #SpringBoot 's @ServiceConnection annotation support, my #PostGIS integration tests stay clean. Good stuff 🎉 #Java.

Volkshalle - Wikipedia

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YouTube video by c't 3003 OpenClaw: Ja, der Hype ist gerechtfertigt

And the video-link on YouTube to the @heise.de video (Maybe watch with automatic CC): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7k...

Anyone experimented with the #OSS #OpenClaw, the "personal #AI assistant", yet? I watched the @heise.de video (in German). That is scary, impressive, wild all in one. Not sure I will dare to install it locally in my DMZ but may somebody tried it on a corporate network 😜.

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Ich wohne hier - das scheint 1/3 der Bevölkerung gar nicht mehr zu erreichen. Wirklich erschreckend, dass weder Epstein noch die ICE Morde zu einem richtigen Aufschrei führen. Wir hoffen auf die Mid-term Wahlen, aber ob die überhaupt noch abgehalten werden (oder fair sind)...ein Trauerspiel.

Bin ich eigentlich die Einzige die befürchtet, dass inzwischen jeder moralische und rechtliche Kompass soweit verschoben ist, dass die Inhalte der Epstein-Akten völlig egal sind.
Ich meine da stehen Sachen von Mord an Neugeborenen, Kindesmissbrauch, etc. und bis jetzt ist das keine große Aufregung.

How the EV pullback is affecting factories and jobs in the South Automakers, suppliers and battery makers were funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into EV-related manufacturing in the U.S. Now it's all in question.

There is zero future for the internal combustion engine but only the US auto industry, manipulated by Trump, is failing to acknowledge that. This will cripple US auto production for decades, ceding the EV market to China.
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Having some fun this weekend importing fairly large data into #Postgres. Refreshing my memory on indexing, including B-tree, GIN, GiST... indexing / querying of JSONB. And doing search queries using the Trigram extension (pg_trgm). And then integrating everything into my #SpringBoot app 🙂. #Java