So it seems that #Russia has listened in on a #WebEx call between #German airforce officers where they discussed strategy and related topics on support for #Ukraine, openly discussing confidential topics and strategic tidbits. Russia burned that attack vector by publishing 38 minutes of that call. Interesting.
The mayor of #Berlin accused Yuval Abraham of antisemitism for calling for #Germany to stop enabling Israel's genocide in Palestine and an immediate dismantling the apartheid system during his #Berlinale award speech. This should be a wakeup call for Germans but unfortunately it won't be, because for them #antisemitism is merely an alibi for supporting genocide; #German society routinely hazes any #Jew who refuses to provide that alibi, arresting protestors and smearing us with accusations of antisemitism for upholding the core Jewish duty of opposing #Zionist politics as inscribed in the Gemara of Ketubot 111a:4 of the #Talmud (most explicitly, but also appearing in various shapes and forms across countless other tractates from Berachot to Avoda Zarah)
Small update: 🤖⚔️ #ParzivAI - our #GenAI language model specialized in translating #MiddleHighGerman into modern #German, and explaining the #MiddleAges to students - is halfway done with another round of training...
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#German politicians and mass media keep on fussing about “antisemitism” on the #Berlinale Gala, which virtually were calls for peace and (at the most) fair criticism on Israel.
The German justice minister Marco Buschmann warns that they might be examined under criminal laws. 🤦
I am consitently fascinated with how German actually eliminates vocabulary but in turn actually increases the length of a lot of words, but also makes German a shorter language. My first experience was my first time on the autobahn with Ein/Ausfahrt. In the US it's onramp and exit.
Next was when we were building our kitchen and the building had Ein/ausgang. Entrance and exit. But now I have received a promotion and I am doing more exacting and bureactratic work. Recently it was Ausnahme and Maßnahme. Nahmen is the präteritum conjugation of the verb Nehmen (En: to take). Präteritum vs Present is like take vs took. An aus ( en:out ) nahme ( en:take ). Out-take therefore exception or the grounds for an exception. Maß is measure so a measured take is a step or a procedure.
German makes things very efficient so the word Bundesverfasungsgericht is Federal Constitutional Court ( Supreme Court ) and Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän translates to Donau Steamboat Company Captain. And it gets much much worse. But I can't lie it is quite efficient and actually lowers the bar for understanding. I don't need a large vocabulary just the ability to parse words over 50km in length.
When people say “host your own server” to me I am going to start telling them to represent themselves in court. We all have different skill sets and the bar for entry should not be being a server admin or mastodon is doomed to fail. There is no meaningful growth as it is . I want to see it succeed but chastising me does not make it so
OK, let's keep it simple. If I write: "The State of #Israel is using the same methodologies against the #Palestinians as the then #German#Nazis were using against the #Jews. Hence, the State of Israel is the New #Nazi State". Does such a statement offends against mastodon.world's moderation rules or not?
Well, today some of my posts were removed because of "Holocaust Inversion".
What a load of rot. Claiming that #Israel is doing the same as what was done to the #Jews by the then #German#Nazis is a statement of an observable fact. It is not #antisemitic or implies all of the #Jewish people.
Yes, I did appeal, but to be honest I don't expect much from this.
To me, this removal of my posts is an indication that some person(s) controlling mastodon.social are bowing to #Zionist pressure.
#German police arrested this #Jewish woman at a pro-Palestine demonstration last night on #antisemitism charges, because apparently #Jews supporting #Palestine are antisemites while the Germans locking up Jewish leftists are the Jews of today 💀
@realTuckFrumper I haven't read the article, but seeing the Hakenkreuz (swastika) on the flags and the red robes ... makes me shiver. It is frightening to see this happening in the #USA –
– now, in times when the #German people finally protest against the "clandestine" #Nazis rising as a political party towards the future government.
– once one of the strong allies to win over Hitler and his brethren.
I don't know if I should be crying out of fright 😢 or from disappointment. 😥 Or anger. 🤬 ⏫
I always get a good laugh over people that think language doesn't change. Gender Neutral is trying to make it's way into german and a bunch of conservatives are just losing their minds. When one of my classmates asked one of my Teachers in German Class in Germany, he replied
"When I was young my teacher said that it is 'Zu Dem' Zum does not exist." and left it at that. Obviously it was in German. Teachers are not allowed to speak any other language. This was for ease.
If you were to drive to the Store, you could say "Ich fahre zum Supermarkt" because zum is now part of common language and taught in schools as formal German.
You can try to resist and mock living languages but the people and the languages will live to mock your stubborness, blindness and blatant conceit. It doesn't matter if it's German, Spanish, English or whatever. Languages change. Strict adherence to the Duden or whatever just makes you look like an asshole.
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born #OTD, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from #HistoricalFiction to #ScienceFiction – he is one of the most important #Scottish writers of the #20thcentury
Regina Erich compares the original #German#translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy published in the #GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany
The #German Chief of Defence, Carsten #Breuer, said in a meeting with General #Syrksyj that #Germany will provide #Ukraine an additional 100 million in military equiptment.
The #German government is preparing for a possible nationalisation of #Rosneft's German activities, including its stake in the #Schwedt refinery, two government sources said on Wednesday.
#Berlin placed Rosneft's German assets, including its 54.17% stake in Berlin's Schwedt refinery, under a trusteeship in September 2022 in the wake of #Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine.
The chart below summarizes how very little time #Hitler needed to abolish democracy and have the first #Jews deported to a #ConcentrationCamp: 👉less than only three months!👈
This is a bit off-topic, but today, I can proudly announce that I'm the new owner of a larger #Norwegian#ExLibris collection. Since I was a child, I've been intrigued by this art form & during my years in Berlin, I was part of the ExLibris society's exchange events.
It's a great honour & a great responsibility to own such a collection. There is no collector/artist scene in Norway for ExLibris, but perhaps my work w/ the collection can be an incentive. #Woodcut#Linocut#BookHistory#ArtHistory
I'm establishing a new routine called #ExLibris#Friday. Every Friday, I will post 1 ExLibris from my collection, the #NationalLibrary of Norway, or the #UniversityLibrary's digital collections.
Where possible, I will say a bit about the artist, the owner & the collection or how it came into my possession.
I start with an Exlibris made for me by #German artist & friend of my grandfather's, Willi Richter. I only have one copy, and I doubt more exist. It was a gift more to my grandfather than me.
The boycott against Germany's complicity in #IsraelTerroristState genocide of Gaza is having an effect. Total boycott of german culture, products, relationships became urgent in the face of german government and several (almost all) institutions' support of #IsraelWarCrimes.
“This change is the result of actions taken by a large number of people on the ground in Berlin, and around the world,” Strike Germany wrote in a statement posted on Instagram. “By adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, the policy would have penalized those who criticize the state of Israel—at a moment when Israel is engaged in a genocidal assault on #Palestinians in #Gaza.”
Unidentified #hackers reportedly accessed the Berlin International #Film#Festival’s (#Berlinale) Instagram account and posted infographics calling for a #ceasefire in #Gaza. Though the organization immediately deleted the posts and published a notice disavowing the statement, screenshots had already gone viral on social media, adding fuel to the festival’s controversy as several #German officials have publicly denounced several category winners for calling for a ceasefire in their closing ceremony speeches.
A number of Berlinale’s own workers issued a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza earlier this month, followed by over 100 participating filmmakers across various categories signing off on a list of demands for the festival to acknowledge the artists who withdrew their entries and to “confront censorship and the silencing of critical perspectives in the cultural sector in Germany,” among other points. https://web.archive.org/web/20240227013740/https://hyperallergic.com/873838/berlinale-film-festival-hacked-with-pro-palestine-posts/