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Look, I made a thing! After I saw the awesome blog post on city street orientations, I generated some charts for European and German cities (and refactored Geoff's IPython notebook into a script on the way). If you want to see a map of your favourite city in this style, tell me about it and I'll see what I can do.

https://rixx.de/blog/street-orientantions/

Finnland überlegt, Schulfächer als Konzept abzuschaffen. Spannend! https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/finnland-schulfaecher-sollen-abgeschafft-werden-a-1121123.html

The Escher Cloud: Confusing, mind-bending, can't exist in real space, screws with your head.

You can't take the TODO out of Mastodon.

Talk preparation state: silliness ramping up.

No one celebrates when nothing happens. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/kobayashi-maru-management/

Well, since I abandoned my literary account and you'll have to bear with me here, have a look at this comprehensive take on genre stigma against sci-fi (as Ian McEwan recently demonstrated so beautifully): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/18/it-drives-writers-mad-why-are-authors-still-sniffy-about-sci-fi

Hm, scifi.fyi might be terminally down? Seems very unmaintained – I'm a bit sad about that, I felt that my reading account was in a good place there. I might just start spamming y'all here with my #amReading stuff. Or leave that over at Twitter, hmm.

Wow, ein gefrorenes Fohlen aus der Eiszeit wurde in Sibirien gefunden. Krass gut erhalten, so inklusive Haar, Haut, innerer Organe – soweit, dass sie flüssiges Blut aus dem Herzgewebe extrahieren konnten. Jetzt wollen sie versuchen, es zu klonen.

(Bilder vom Fohlen im Artikel): https://www.nowscience.co.uk/single-post/2019/04/17/Ice-Age-foal-discovered-in-permafrost-with-liquid-blood-in-its-heart

Der #eh19-Fahrplan sieht aber mal ausgezeichnet aus. Sehr viele schöne Dinge dabei.

"Antibiotikaresistente Keime auf jedem zweiten Discounter-Hähnchen" – surprised: nobody.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/haehnchen-vom-discounter-jede-zweite-probe-hat-antibiotikaresistente-keime-a-1262988.html

TIL about nextcloud's federation sharing, this is nice!

Gene Wolfe died yesterday at the age of 87. He was mostly famous for his Book of the New Sun series, but was considered a brilliant authors for his other novels, too.

Man, the weather is excellent, and everything looks so nice and green outside that I'm just itching to go hiking. (But since I just spent a week getting and progressively ripping open a blister, I probably should stay home for a bit.)

At DjangoCon Europe, the brilliant Lily Ryan gave an equally brilliant talk on Victorian usage of arsenic and how it relates to privacy and data protection.

You can find it at the beginning (first 30 minutes) of the current livestream recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAV73PRRWNY If you don't want to watch a video, you can also have a look at my writeup: https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-apathy-and-arsenic-a-victorian-era-lesson-on-fighting-the-surveillance-state/ #djangocon

If you're interested in #Django (the #Python web framework), and can't be at #DjangoCon Europe this week, feel free to check out my blog these threes days – I'll be live-posting writeups at https://rixx.de