Norbert Preining

With the passing of Jane Goodall today, we lost one of the most consequential voices in environmental science and animal behavior. In 2002, she said, “We have found that…there isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.”
(Continued in comments)

When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
thanks for writing this.
@debian.bsky.social you might want to try to read and understand ...
kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-...

Why on earth are SMS between Austria and Japan so unreliable??? It is 2025. My wild guess is of course Japan. Sunday out of order ...

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

And for now, the Supreme Court has signed off on such dubious practices without an explanation. Every American, including those who want tougher enforcement of our immigration laws, should demand that ICE does its job in a way that protects the rights of all Americans.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

The NixOS Conflict in Under 5 Minutes This is my effort to create a short summary of what has caused the Nix community to currently be in conflict.

Wow ... that reads like the " History of #debian " in recent years - only that it is Nix
chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-nixos-...
> Meanwhile, the Nix moderation team became stuffed with ringers from the activism side [...] The moderation team became quite powerfully aligned with the activists...

🗓️ The August 2025 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

Lots of pots are brewing in September...

A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.

Germany and "Free Speech" - not a good combination lina.sh/blog/telefon...

Exactly what a russian asset would do

I wouldn’t say that open access has foundered. I think we’ll actually be very lucky if universities have the kind of success with language models that Cornell has had with the ArXiv. That’s arguably the most successful and influential publication venue in the world right now.

True.

Uploaded (replaced) a paper to arXiv today for the first time in a while.. and discovered some new features! 🤩

✅ You can choose your compiler (incl. pdflatex)
✅ You can select the top-level TeX file
✅ There is a new "Review Files" stages that detects which files are unused!

🥰 and more: ... 1/3

Hi Marc
thanks for the nice words, much appreciated.
Concerning announcement, indeed, we had only a blog post back in 4/2024 blog.arxiv.org/2024/04/18/m... that links to the TeX submission info page.
We will discuss what/if/how to announce.

Thanks, and please keep the feedback coming!

"War Is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." -Orwell, 1984

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

This didn’t age well

This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

Hows them Trump/Kushner Middle East Peace Accords working out for ya? #Trump #Iran #Israel #iranisraelwar #JaredKushner #MiddleEast #War #Peace

Yes, that is what it is .... plan to kill X11 flak.tedunangst.com/post/killing...
#wayland #x11

HansはほとんどLuatexを触っていない、全部Luigiは担当になった。新しい技術などは入ってこなさそうですが、日本開発者が興味があれば、ぜひどんどん進行してください！

YouTube video by Hinterland TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY -- [Available Now!] -- Parts One to Six Recap

You'll also find a video that Recaps the entirety of TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY, the paid expansion DLC for Survival Mode.

youtu.be/7uTWSHWk2fo

metal typesetting tray filled with metal letterpress type. The rectangular frame contains multiple rows of various metal type blocks arranged in horizontal lines. There are spacers of different sizes, as well as mathematical symbols, equation-making blocks and text (Japanese characters).

RE: typesetting.

Wow.
I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum.

(Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)

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US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on invasion of Ukraine The UK and France abstain as the UN Security Council passes a text that does not criticise Moscow.

The New World Order: USA, Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary

What an apex of democratic dictator nations.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Aurora at Forsaken Airfield

@thelongdark.bsky.social #TheLongDark #VirtualPhotography #VPRepost #VPSupport

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

US products are now no longer safe to procure for anyone.

From the other place but VERY IMPORTANT FACT: