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Women earning 62% of all degrees. Is this “equity”?









🇩🇪 The AfD just hit 29% in Germany's latest INSA poll, an all-time high. One party now equals the SPD, FDP, and Greens combined. Germany's political establishment didn't lose ground gradually. It collapsed it all at once. This is the same wave reshaping France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Austria. The difference is Germany's establishment has spent years calling it a crisis of extremism. Voters are calling it a crisis of governance.


Phew, Grok Build is really thorough, pretty incredible. Relay feature for PasteLocal is done, pushing to Github now. And if you want to know what this adds, here's a bit more about it, this is a feature I really wanted in there, and honestly didn't really expect to have done this week. • Per-peer E2E encryption: clipboard data is encrypted individually for each paired device using X25519 + HKDF + AES-GCM (no plaintext ever leaves the client) • Durable persistence: relay state is now stored in an atomic state.json with proper TTL handling and compaction. Pending clips survive relay-server restarts • Safe compaction: fixed unsafe map mutation during expiration/compaction that could cause data loss or undefined behavior • Full bidirectional CLI: new commands: pastelocal relay send, inbox, fetch, and status, plus pastelocal-remote --relay --peer --send • Auto-sync: when watch.enabled + relay.auto_upload are on, meaningful clipboard changes are automatically pushed to paired devices • Improved DX: doctor checks are now only shown when relay is enabled, and the TUI shows basic relay status • Multiple review cycles: went through full implement → review → fix → re-review (effort 4), plus a final targeted regression fix round Try it out and please send any and all feedback!







