Es musste natürlich eine Kiste Karlsberg sein

Heute am Morgen am Burbacher Waldweiher in Saarbrücken. Wie sieht es denn bei Euch aus?
#schnee #Saarland #winter

To combat illegal parking in their neighborhood, 66 households in Shenyang installed a massive chain lock made with 66 personal padlocks to their gate—each resident can open the gate w/ their own keys. This turns out to be a true, decentralized, free *blockchain*

The impossible landscape of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China. Pillars of rock rocketing up from deep rugged canyons create an impenetrable land that looks like they might be floating on another planet. Photo from my book #VanishingAsia #Zhangjiajie #China

Debugging Tactics...

This is worrying: there is a rapidly growing need for more in-depth knowledge about China, for people who speak the language and have spent time studying and working in China. How to turn this trend? economist.com/china/2020/11/…

The main hospital in Saarbrücken is on top of a hill - and occasionally on top of a sea of clouds

Chinese battery producer to invest 2 billion euros in a new factory in Saarland, Germany

Emmanuel #Macron on European digital autonomy: “Europe needs to build its own solutions in order not to depend on American or Chinese technologies”

Herrlicher Tagesbeginn - hier der Blick über den Stadtwald Saarbrücken (wt)

The Jiangnan Examination Hall, in Nanking, China, c1913.
The largest examination hall for imperial examination in ancient China.
Originally built in 1168, reached zenith during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1348 - 1911), there were totally 20,644 examination rooms. Visualising China

This too shall pass. In northern Myanmar, a statue of Buddha sits in contentment while the pagoda around it crumbles and decays. Photo from my book #VanishingAsia #Buddha #Myanmar

Blick vom Panorama-Pfad am Erlebnisort Reden (wt)

Heute im Bliesgau (wt)

Someone left a note as a 'Hubei peasant worker' to the Dongguan (Guangdong) library😭
'I've lived in Dongguan for 17 years and been visiting this library for 12 years. Books make one wise and sensible. Now the pandemic has made many businesses shut down. As a peasant worker

Phones made us antisocial h/t Fipi Lele

Assisted by artificial intelligence tools, a vlogger has brought the old Beijing back to life by colorizing and restoring footage of the Chinese capital captured in the 1920s.

In these Corona times, handshakes are out; maybe, these old greetings will come back

Great call with the Prime Minister of Saarland, Tobias Hans, to thank him for a useful delivery of gowns and masks, which arrived for the NHS today: “ich rühm‘ Dich, Du freundliches Land an der Saar“! The Saarland anthem rings true for us today!

”A brilliant tower, tall and erect; an endless archipelago of construction sites; and between them all, a sea of old-style homes and communities, waiting their turn to be torn down. What gorgeous photos they would make.”

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