Reposted by Gunnar HillertMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16hI am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 10154491411860
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Es ist traurig, dass die Überlebenden nun auch noch miterleben müssen, wie der Faschismus weltweit wieder erstarkt. 110
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Best thing to watch on Friday at 5pm (Hawaii time). Hilarious!! #LGTM 000
Reposted by Gunnar HillertChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My mother -- otherwise very polite and cultured, a Green-voting Christian -- never called the man Schröder. She always said "Schröder that political whore". I was puzzled back then, he was the centre-left, modern, reformist hero of the late 1990s. I was 18. Mothers. Always right. 615532
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We're not that far off from "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg" 😥 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is #Kona #IRONMAN week. Time to get the bike 🚴 out after a while for a 30km ride right around sunset. #Hawaii. 040
Reposted by Gunnar HillertMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1991866709
Reposted by Gunnar HillertMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. 10176091091
Reposted by Gunnar HillertMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. 299145782859
Reposted by Gunnar HillertEmber @ember-energy.org · 30/09/2026The fossil fuel share of final energy has already peaked across most of China’s industrial sectors. In light manufacturing, electricity now supplies THREE-QUARTERs of the sector’s final energy consumption ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat... 03313
Reposted by Gunnar HillertScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.scientificamerican.comHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruitAnd how they might have helped save the future of American apples 401124389
Reposted by Gunnar HillertDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 28/10/2025🧵You cannot make this shit up. Michael Velchik, alum of Harvard and Harvard Law, lead DOJ lawyer arguing Harvard tolerated antisemitism, is exposed as a fan of Mein Kampf and Hitler. He was the sole lawyer arguing before Judge Allison D. Burroughs forward.com/fast-forward...forward.comTrump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism, report saysMichael Velchik reportedly praised 'Mein Kampf' after graduating from Harvard, where he also wrote an essay from Hitler's perspective. 20263170
Reposted by Gunnar HillertDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism 301077328
Reposted by Gunnar HillertJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When the Cincinnati Post shut down, it oddly had an effect on local elections. Fewer people ran for office, voter turnout fell, and incumbents became more likely to win. That's useful context for Trump's choice to ban 3 news orgs from the White House newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-econo...newsletter.platypuseconomics.comWhat Economists Know About Kicking Out ReportersTrump banned three news organizations from the White House last week — and there’s a research literature on exactly where that leads. 12537236
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Of course tied to #Hawaii 😳. Some related reporting by @civilbeat.bsky.social from 2020. Martin Kao must have really "liked" #SusanCollins, as he made all his family + company/foundation board members donate $5,600 to her. www.civilbeat.org/2020/02/tang...civilbeat.orgTangled Web Of Campaign Cash Connects Hawaii To MaineTens of thousands of dollars in contributions have flowed from a Hawaii defense contractor, his family and employees to a Maine Republican senator. 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Doing some #SpringIntegration work this morning and stumbled upon a nostalgic Spring Integration / Oracle #Coherence presentation by John Davies (then at C24). I still wish C24-iO Studio’s graphical mapper had been open-sourced back in 2013, with its its channel adapters for the financial industry. 000
Reposted by Gunnar HillertRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. 351103274269
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One of the best technical talks I have ever seen—period. Cliff Stoll is killing it in “Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 Years Later” at #DefCon34 @defcon.bsky.social. It totally made my day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6560...youtube.comDefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff StollYouTube video by DEFCONConference 1168
Reposted by Gunnar HillertDonald Raab @thedonraab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I upgraded #EclipseCollections builds immediately to JDK 28 EA the same day JDK 27 was released because every version of #Java needs Eclipse Collections running with it. Next week is climate week. Are you using Eclipse Collections yet? More features, less waste. 👇 donraab.medium.com/save-memory-...donraab.medium.comSave Memory in Java by Making Memory Efficiency Your Top PriorityLeverage Java libraries and frameworks which focus on memory efficiency. 053
Reposted by Gunnar HillertDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future. 201444722
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent State of the Union speech by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu. It would be quite a strategic move if Canada 🇨🇦 became the first associate member of the European Union 🇪🇺! Lots of brownie points for delivering the speech in three languages!! #French #German #English www.youtube.com/live/trxiYZ3...youtube.com🔴LIVE: EU State of the Union: Von der Leyen Speaks as Mark Carney Attends in Strasbourg | AC1WYouTube video by News Central 021
Reposted by Gunnar HillertMarkus Eisele @myfear.com · 16/09/2026Java 27 is only boring on the surface. - Mostly nerdlessmostlynerdless.deJava 27 is only boring on the surface. - Mostly nerdlessJava 27 seems to be boring; the JDK only got some new defaults, but the most consequential change is the removal of the JVM Compiler Interface. 151
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One cool thing about #AI-assisted software development is that I can use my software “in the field” and, when I encounter functional gaps, address them immediately—without having to endure much context switching. The speed at which you can round-trip between using the software and improving it is 🔥. 000
Reposted by Gunnar HillertChris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A piece worth reading, featuring photography of nineteenth-century Tehran’s gardens and showing how older Iranian horticultural traditions evolved alongside new technologies, plants and influences arriving from across the world.ajammc.comGardening with the Times: Horticultural Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Tehran - Ajam Media CollectivePersian gardens have long been a potent symbol of Iranian cultural identity, imagined as a timeless, unchanging tradition. But photographs of the gardens of Tehran in the 19th century reveal a landsca... 083
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If you speak #German (via VPN) - www.ardmediathek.de/serie/babylo...ardmediathek.deBabylon Berlin - Staffel 5 der Serie - jetzt streamen!Die fünfte und letzte Staffel der Erfolgsserie in der ARD Mediathek. Die Drehbücher beruhen auf dem Roman 'Märzgefallene' von Volker Kutscher . Die Autoren und Regisseure der Serie, Henk Handloegten,... 010
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wirklich informatives Interview mit Christian Bauckhage vom @fraunhoferiais.bsky.social / @unibonn.bsky.social über #KI, geführt von Daniel Jung. #MaschinellesLernen #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5c...youtube.comProf. Dr. Christian Bauckhage (Fraunhofer IAIS): KI - Wir haben noch gar nichts gesehen!YouTube video by Mathe by Daniel Jung 010
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As someone who grew up in East-Germany: This @quietriotpod.bsky.social podcast episode with @annettedittert.bsky.social is the best English-language explanation I’ve seen yet of WTF 💩 happened in #SaxonyAnhalt #Germany. #fascism 27731
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thanks 🙏 for pointing out this study. Very informative! 150
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Als ich mir in den 90ern Unis in #Berlin anschaute, war mir nie bewusst, dass die Humboldt-Universität bis 1933 das #Harvard der Welt war. Ich glaube, vielen Deutschen ist nicht bewusst, wie fundamental unser Uni-System 33-45 zerstört wurde – und dass es diese Spitzenstellung nie wiedererlangt hat. 46320
Reposted by Gunnar HillertSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel... 441067197
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Remember the socialism with the prefix "national"? Look at the history of the early Volkswagen GmbH. 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We have tried to work with #Hawaii lawmakers to get #Hawaii join the #PSYPACT compact for several years. Services here are so limited but it never even came to a vote in the State Legislature. #frustrating - Maybe the folks at @civilbeat.bsky.social could do a story sometime. . 110
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For several years my wife and I tried to get #Hawaii to join #PSYPACT, the The Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact which is an interstate compact between US States. It is a total no-brainer but it never even got to a vote in HI congress just died in committee. If that is any indication 😱 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This #AI talk by #BruceSchneier at @defcon.bsky.social was superb! The usage of LLMs to find loopholes in the tax code, our political institutions etc. was quite eye-opening. Our institutions have to adapt fast. I am a little concerned about that… www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv...youtube.comDEF CON 34 - Hacking AI - Bruce SchneierYouTube video by DEFCONConference 1167
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just wonder how negatively the #Iran war will affect global food production in 2026/2027 as we also deal with #ElNino (climate) and #Ukraine (grain exports / fertilizer) Source: www.globalpetrolprices.com/diesel_prices/globalpetrolprices.comDiesel prices around the world, 07-Sep-2026 | GlobalPetrolPrices.comDiesel prices by country using official data sources. 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Since #diesel prices in the #USA 🇺🇸 are going through the roof it is interesting to note how cheap Diesel in the US still is compared to the rest of the world. 100
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026How many palms 🌴 fit into a crew cab 🙂? My annual pilgrimage to Jeff Marcus of #Floribunda. Jeff is THE leading authority on cultivating palms on this planet. Bill Baker, John Dransfield & colleagues from @rbgkew.bsky.social even named a palm after Jeff: Chrysalidocarpus marcusorum. #plantcollector 001
Reposted by Gunnar HillertJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In country after country we start to see EV sales up and ICE down. The lines cross in an X typical for transitions. Norway in 2019. Sweden and Nepal in 2023. Denmark and Singapore in 2024. Belgium and the Netherlands in 2025. Finland is crossing now. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in... 1724892
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I wonder if in their minds they would rather have this version of the arch. #fascism 000
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In some unnamed company devs were not supposed to ever use Maven Central but were instead required to build every direct & 3rd (maybe even 4th) party dependency from source & add that to an internal repo. The wording around that sounded similar to #TrueSource ...weirdly OSGi just crossed my mind 🙃. 100
Reposted by Gunnar HillertErik C. Thauvin @erik.thauvin.net · 02/09/2026TornadoVM 6.0.0: JVMCI-Free, JDK 21–27 Compatible, Zero JNI, and a Leaner Core #ai #cuda #gpu #hpc #java #jdk #opensource #tornado www.tornadovm.org/blogs... 062
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I hope this is not what I think it might be. This definitely needs clarification, as the wording in the article is highly ambiguous! 100
Reposted by Gunnar HillertJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...janrosenow.substack.comThe car industry didn’t see this comingFrom Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests. 36615208
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Great episode by @mercoglianos.bsky.social from #Hawaii 🤙 on the disruptive events in #shipping ⛵. The channel is on my weekly “must-watch” list for following current events and making sense of the crazy world we live in right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9K...youtube.comUnderstanding Global Shipping Risks: Black Swans, Black Jellyfish & Black ElephantsYouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping? 010