Es ist mir immer mehr ein Rätsel, wie manche Behinderte (zumeist Tokens) zu dem Schluss kommen, dass nur weil es ihnen an Sonderschulen gut ging, es diese Schulform und die damit einhergehende Aussonderung (sprich Diskriminierung, Abschiebung, Unsichtbarmachung) benötigt und nicht das Schulsystem ansich angefasst und verbessert werden muss.
Literally niemand sagt „Sonderschulen abschaffen“ ohne auch Kritik an Regelsystemen zu üben, weil das gar nicht geht.
Grrrr.
Blogpost zur Reise kommt später, aber das TL;DR: mit dem Schiff im Herbst auf der Donau — allein die 35km durch die Wachau sind die Reise wert.
Samsung’s AirPods Pro look-alikes have fallen to their best price in months
Samsung’s high-end Galaxy Buds 3 Pro offer great noise cancellation, an IP57 rating, and the ability to automatically switch between a host of Galaxy devices.Brandon Russell (The Verge)
Donald Trump's Justice Department Keeps Losing In Court
Bad faith arguments, blatant misrepresentations, illegal appointments and politicized prosecutions are turning judges against Trump’s DOJ.The Big Picture
SGANARELLE: But when a great lord is a wicked man, it is a terrible thing.
[Mais un grand seigneur méchant homme est une terrible chose.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 1 (1665) [tr. Waller (1904)]
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SGANARELLE: But when a great lord is a wicked man, it is a terrible thing. [Mais un grand seigneur méchant homme est une terrible chose.] (Source (French)). Other translations: But a great Lord, a wicked Man, is a terrible thing. [tr.WIST Quotations
Jannik Sinner vola ai quarti del Masters 1000 di Parigi - LiberoReporter
Jannik Sinner vola ai quarti del Masters 1000 di Parigi dopo aver battuto Francisco Cerundolo in due set. L’azzurro ora sfiderà Ben Shelton per un posto in semifinaleBre-news (LiberoReporter)
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Like the captain going down with the ship, all company layoffs should include the hiring managers for anyone laid off, and anyone approving the mass layoff.
Likewise, any job replaced with "AI" should also replace the person making the decision.
It's all about externalities being paid for by those who cause them.
"Efficiency" layoffs are a feature, not a bug. If you can still achieve the same results with 10% less staff, that's typically rewarded in a capitalist environment.
The irony here is that these are most certainly layoffs in anticipation of an economic downturn, masked as "efficiency" layoffs with AI as the magic efficiency provider.
Hmm, was going to look for flooding in NYC and instead got this treasure
NBC New York: GIANT PIGEON TAKES OVER WEST VILLAGE TOWNHOUSE
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Giant pigeon takes over West Village townhouse
There’s a new Halloween display cooped up in the West Village — one that is drawing spectators from all around for its gigantic pigeon — and…NBC New York
TypeScript Overtakes Python to Become GitHub’s #1 Programming Language in 2025
TypeScript now ranks #1 on GitHub, while Python and JavaScript continue to grow strongly across AI and web projects.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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event: #CanettesDeRuelle 2025
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Apple delivers strong quarter despite iPhone sales slowdown and ongoing artificial technology issues
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Providence Bay
Manutoulin Island
The Inukshuk located on the shore of Providence Bay on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, is a significant and symbolic stone structure. Manitoulin Island, the largest freshwater island in the world, has a rich cultural and natural heritage. The Inukshuk on Providence Bay is one of the most notable landmarks on the island.
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Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says
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Neuigkeit zu Petition:
Lieber SWR: "Eisenbahn-Romantik" soll weiterbestehen.
Unterstützung vom Marktführer Märklin für Eisenbahn-Romantik.
Mit einem Sonderwagen unterstützt nun auch die Traditionsfirma Märklin die Initiative zum Erhalt der Kultsendung „Eisenbahn-Romantik“ und hilft gleichzeitig beim Wiederaufbau der Bw Crailsheim AG.
Der weltbekannte Modellbahnhersteller Märklin aus Göppingen bringt gemeinsam mit der Initiative „Eisenbahn-Romantik muss bleiben!“ einen exklusiven Sonderwagen heraus. Mit diesem Projekt setzen Märklin und die Initiatoren Hagen von Ortloff, Ulrich Klumpp und Jürgen Oßwald ein starkes Zeichen für Zusammenhalt und gelebte Eisenbahnleidenschaft.
Der Wagen erscheint im Design der Initiative „Eisenbahn-Romantik muss bleiben!“ und ist verbunden mit einer Spendenaktion zugunsten der Bw Crailsheim AG, deren historischer Lokschuppen vor Kurzem durch ein Feuer schwer beschädigt wurde.
Die Bw Crailsheim AG ist die Werkstatt der DBK Historische Bahn e.V., die ausgehend vom Großraum Stuttgart Sonderfahrten an interessante Ziele organisiert und die derzeit noch wegen Unwetterschäden gesperrte Schwäbische Waldbahn betreibt. Der Lokschuppen soll nach einem Großbrand vom 4. Oktober 2025 aufwändig wieder aufgebaut werden.
Die zweite Wagenseite zeigt ein Motiv der Bw Crailsheim AG – als Symbol der Solidarität mit den Ehrenamtlichen, die dort seit Jahren historische Eisenbahnfahrzeuge reparieren und instandhalten.
„Mit diesem Wagen möchten wir zeigen, dass Eisenbahn-Romantik lebt – auf der Modellbahn wie im echten Leben“, erklären die Initiatoren. „Der Wagen steht für Bewahrung von Geschichte, Begeisterung für Technik und Zusammenhalt in der Eisenbahngemeinschaft.“
Wer den Sonderwagen kauft, schreibt ein Stück Eisenbahngeschichte und unterstützt zudem den Wiederaufbau des historischen Lokschuppens in Crailsheim.
Der Sonderwagen mit der Artikelnummer 44294 wird über den Fachhandel und den Märklin Online-Shop erhältlich sein. Er kostet 24,99 EUR (UVP), darin sind 5,- EUR Spendenanteil entalten.
Auf der Messe Faszination Modellbau in Friedrichshafen (31. Oktober – 2. November 2025) werden erste Handmuster des Sonderwagens zu sehen sein.
An dieser Stelle ein ganz herzliches DANKE an inzwischen über 28.500 Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützer dieser Petition.
Eisenbahn-Romantik muss bleiben!
Mit den besten Grüßen
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King Charles has stripped his brother Prince Andrew of all royal titles, honours, and privileges amid growing backlash over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Buckingham Palace confirmed the 65-year-old will no longer be known as Prince Andrew or the Duke of York, but instead as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He has also been ordered to vacate his Windsor residence, Royal Lodge.
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King Charles Strips Prince Andrew Of All Royal Titles, Privileges Over Epstein Scandal
King Charles removes Prince Andrew’s royal titles and Windsor home amid Epstein scandal, renaming him Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.Victor Sosu (TownFlex)
Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/nvidia-is-reportedly-investing-up-to-1-billion-in-poolside/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside | TechCrunch
Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in it's $500 million Series A round in 2024.Rebecca Szkutak (TechCrunch)
Gov. Josh Shapiro blasts DOJ for trying to seize young trans patients’ private medical records
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/gov-josh-shapiro-blasts-doj-for-trying-to-seize-young-trans-patients-private-medical-records/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gov. Josh Shapiro blasts DOJ for trying to seize young trans patients' private medical records - LGBTQ Nation
He and 15 attorney generals are fighting back against Trump's attacks on gender-affirming care.Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ Nation)
In the UK?
The Hack is just coming on the filth of Mudroach taking another airing!
BUT
If you are listening they are naming lots more, those that cringe under the table
A brilliant piece of work do watch it!
Thank you all for joining in with tonight's #MakersHour.
It has been wonderful with shared stories of things that have made us happy.
Thinking about Q4, things we might like someone else to make (or do), perhaps that could be a thing we could nurture and do for each other.
Like a Secret Santa, but not Santa, and not secret, so if one person just needs something making or doing, and someone else is happy and able to oblige, it should happen.
We could do this, yeah?
Anyway, see you all next week for another #MakersHour.
xx
Apple's China Sales Miss, AWS’ Strongest Growth in 3 Years, More
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Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple Pay, Apple TV, Apple Music, and iCloud, up 15% YoY to $28.75B, vs. $28.17B est. (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
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Apple Sales Up 8% Driven By Growth in Services Like Apple TV - TheWrap
Services revenue grew 15% in the period, outpacing iPhone salesLoree Seitz (TheWrap)
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Italia, amica di stati canaglia che espellono MSF.
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Libya orders MSF to leave country
Libyan authorities have directed the humanitarian medical organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to exit the country by November 9. A move the aid organization says lacks justification or transparency.Sou-Jie van Brunnersum (Infomigrants)
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I was denied SNAP because of my GFM for years of out-of-state medical care Medicare/Medicaid won’t fully cover
I can’t switch to the Medicare plan with food assistance as it doesn’t cover out-of-state clinicians
Donate to individuals! Many of us fall through the poverty cracks
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⛔️🇺🇸Trump Just Lost The Trade War With China (Mallen Baker VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
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I'm a little late in blogging about Spirit City's newest DLC - All Aboard - but I'm enjoying that and the new Halloween update!
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Spirit City: Trains, Lofi Girl, and Halloween
A couple months back, Spirit City Lofi Sessions released a new DLC whereupon you left your cozy house and got to chill and focus while riding on a train.aywren.com
Why I RSS - a site I love that updates like once a year just posted about cool Casio watch mods and I saw it within minutes.
⚡️🇺🇦President Zelensky: “A few hours ago there was a strike on the Slovyansk Thermal Power Plant – a strike with (VIDEO and more) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #russiaUkraineWar
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A few hours ago there was a strike on the Slovyansk Thermal Power Plant – a strike with Russian bombs. Sadly, two people were killed. My condolences. There are also wounded. This is outright terror.Telegram
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Paesi Bassi, anche i populisti piangono: la frenata a sorpresa di Wilders e l’ascesa dell’europeista Jetten
Lo scrutinio al fotofinish vede il sorpasso degli europeisti di D66 rispetto all’ultradestra, che perde 11 seggi a due anni fa. Un cambio di ... Scopri di più!Simone Martuscelli (Domani)
Karibikstaaten beginnen mit Räumungsarbeiten nach Hurrikan "Melissa"
Abgeschnittene Orte, nicht versorgte Einwohner, enorme Zerstörung: Jamaika, Kuba und weitere betroffene Karibikstaaten kämpfen mit den Folgen des Hurrikans "Melissa", der nun nahe Bermuda vorbeiziehen soll.
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Belle explains how to survive a zombie hoard invasion or the collapse of civilization, take your pick
Wow! So... this is an issue I've been dealing with professionally with a multitude of libraries. I felt it might a little too "Inside Baseball" to talk about elsewhere but, ya know, when the 404 is covering the collapse of a major supplier of library materials? It's not just a professional issue anymore, it's fully public.
Libraries are going through a lot right now, beloved. This is just part of it. Please... support intellectual freedom. Support your local libraries.
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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation.One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.
“You might notice some delays as we (and more than 6,000 other libraries) transition to new wholesalers,” the Jacksonville Public Library told its community in a Facebook post. “We're keeping a close eye on things and doing everything we can to minimize any wait times.”
The libraries that do business with the distributor learned about the shut down earlier this month via Reddit.
Upon learning of her company’s closure, Jennifer Kennedy, a customer services account manager with Baker & Taylor, broke the news on October 6 on r/Libraries Reddit community.
“I just wanted the libraries to know,” Kennedy told 404 Media. “I didn’t want them to be held hostage waiting for books that would never come. I respect them too much for all this nonsense.”
Kennedy’s post prompted other current and former B&T employees to confirm the announcement and express concern for the competitors about to be inundated with requests from the libraries who would be scrambling for new suppliers.
B&T in Memoriam
Baker & Taylor has been in the book business just short of 200 years. Its primary focus was distributing physical copies of books to public libraries. The company also provided librarians with tools that helped them do their jobs more effectively related to collection development and processing.But the company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership, and was sued by a competitor earlier this year for alleged data misuse and was almost acquired again in September, this time by a distributor that works with mass-market retailers like Walmart and Target. That deal fell through.
On October 7, Publishers Weekly reported B&T let go of more than 500 employees the day the internal announcement was made. At least one law firm is currently investigating B&T for allegedly violating the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, and it took the company weeks to let account holders know.
Since the internal announcement, Kennedy says customer service staff at B&T have not received guidance on how to respond to inquiries from libraries, leaving them on the frontline and in the dark on issues ranging from whether existing orders would be fulfilled to securing refunds for materials they may have already paid for.
“Some libraries didn’t realize we are much closed as of right now,” Kennedy added.
B&T did not respond when asked for comment.
Kennedy has been with B&T for 16 years. At a time when it's uncommon to remain with one company more than a few years, that’s exactly what many of B&T’s employees have been able to do, until now. The same was true of the libraries who did business with them. Andrew Harant, director of Cuyahoga Falls Library had to consider the library's longstanding business relationship with the company against the roughly 20 percent of books the library had ordered from the beginning of the year they had never received.
“For us, that was about 1,500 items,” which Harant told 404 Media that for a small library is a lot of books they were ordering and not receiving.
Release dates for new books come and go on B&T’s main software platform for viewing and managing orders, Title Source 360. Better known as TS360, Harant realized the platform was updating preordered books never received to on backorder, which was “not sustainable”.
In September, Cuyahoga Falls Library canceled all outstanding orders with B&T.
“We needed to step up and make sure that we’re getting the books for our patrons that they needed,” he said.
Cuyahoga Falls Library was fortunate to have an existing account with the other main distributor on the scene, Ingram Content Group. This has been true for many of the libraries 404 Media reached out to for this story.
“The easier part is re-ordering the book,” Shellie Cocking, Chief of Collections and Technical Services for the San Francisco Public Library, told 404 Media. “The harder part is replacing the tools you use to order books.”
Integrated Fallout
Of the ancillary services B&T offered customers, TS360 was Cocking’s favorite. It helped her streamline collection development tasks, for instance, anticipating how popular a title might be or determining how many quantities of a book to purchase, which for larger libraries with dozens of branches, could be complicated to figure out manually. Once titles were ordered in TS360, B&T shared a Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) record that was automatically shared with the library’s API integration using data derived from B&T’s record set. This product, BTCat, was the subject of a lawsuit brought by OCLC earlier this year.OCLC owns WorldCat, the global union catalog of library collections that lets anyone see what libraries own what items. OCLC alleged in a U.S. district court filing that B&T misused their proprietary bibliographic records to populate its own competing cataloguing database. OCLC also accused B&T of inserted clauses into its contracts where there was overlap with the businesses and customers, requiring libraries to grant B&T access to their cataloging records so the libraries could then license the records back to B&T for BTCat. B&T has denied these claims, accusing OCLC of stifling fair competition in an already consolidated marketplace.
Marshall Breeding, an independent consultant who monitors library vendor mergers has been following all of this rather closely. He says B&T's closure creates a number of bottlenecks for libraries, the primary one being whether suppliers like Ingram or Brodart can absorb thousands of libraries as customers all at once.
“Maybe, maybe not,” Breeding told 404 Media. “It’s going to take them a while to set up the business relationships and technical things that have to be set up for libraries to automatically order books from the providers.”
But one thing is evident.
“Libraries are kind of in a weaker position just scrambling to find a vendor at all,” he added.
Less competition in the market makes for more challenging working conditions all around. Just ask Erin Hughes, director of the Wood Ridge Memorial Library in New Jersey, made the move over to Ingram after a series of negative experiences with B&T in 2021 from late and damaged deliveries to customer service calls that went poorly, to say the least. Hughes worries her experience with B&T will happen again, only this time with Ingram.
Since the Reddit announcement, she's noticed it's a little more difficult to get a rep on the phone and the number of shipments to the library is smaller. But the other way Hughes is seeing the problem play out involves the consortium her library belongs to. While she may have foregone B&T years ago, her network hasn't, which affects the operability of InterLibrary Loan lending.
“The resource sharing is going to be off for a bit,” Hughes told 404 Media.
Amazon Incoming
If Ingram’s service stagnates due to the B&T cluster, Hughes says she'll use Amazon, which recently launched its own online library hub, offering competitive pricing. One downside, says Hughes, is that it's Amazon.“No, we do have a little bit of pause around Amazon,” she added. “But we’re at a point now where Ingram actually does supply most of the books for Amazon. So we’re already in the devil’s pocket. It’s all connected. It’s all integrated. And as much as I personally don’t care for the whole thing, I don’t really see a lot of other options.”
It's hard not to think this outcome was predictable and also preventable. We know what happens when private equity gets involved with businesses not expected to generate high growth or returns, as well as what happens when there's too little market competition in any given sector. It can't be a cautionary tale because market consolidation is in itself a cautionary tale.
But it’s also worth acknowledging how the timing could not be worse. Library use is way up right now, which is indicative of the times. People are buying less for various reasons. People also seem to like the idea of putting a little friction between their media consumption habits and Big Brother, even at the expense of a little convenience.
“We kind of made our own bed a little bit because we didn’t branch out,” said Hughes. “We didn’t find other solutions to this, and we were relying essentially on two giant companies, one of which folded so quick it was not even funny.”
Key findings about Americans and data privacy
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
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"75% of scientific researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country" - must-watch if you haven't fully grasped yet the attack of Trump on US science.. It's somehow more impactful to see actual testimonies instead of facts and numbers:
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The whole #Trump thing is sad but the long-term damage of what he is doing against research and science, not just in the US but worldwide, is horrible. Just like the damage on the planet, it is not too late to resist of and fix it though! Universities should stick together, people should come out in support of scientists, PIs should come out of their silence - as in this video - to alert the public on the ongoing destruction.
Quoting @Nonya_Bidniss:
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in reply to Casey • • •Mein heutiges Lieblingsquatschargument der Verfechter*innen von diskriminierenden Systemen: In einer Klasse mit 30 Kindern ist kein Platz für individuelle Förderung, aber in Klassen mit 8 Schwerbehinderten dafür umso mehr.
Oh boy, wo fang ich da an? Schüler*innen mit Behinderung bedeuten idR einen erhöhten Betreuungsaufwand, ja. Aber der ist so individuell und unterschiedlich, auch bei Nichtbehinderten, dass sowas zu sagen doch einfach gar keinen Sinn ergibt?