De 76ste editie van filmfestival Berlinale was nog politieker dan anders, met een open brief over Gaza en ophef over juryvoorzitter Wim Wenders die stelde dat films „niet expliciet politiek” zijn. Winnaar Yellow Letters is dat duidelijk wel.

Het veelbesproken Canadese curlingteam heeft zaterdagavond goud gewonnen, door in de finale Groot-Brittanië met 9-6 te verslaan.

on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:

This image shows the modern main building of the Torikai Hachimangu Shrine located in Fukuoka City, Japan.
The shrine has a history spanning approximately 1,800 years, with roots traced back to Empress Jingu and is known as the home to the deity of matchmaking.
The contemporary architectural design features a striking split-wall entrance framed by traditional stone lion-dog guardian statues.
The shrine grounds also feature a massive 3,000-square-meter wisteria trellis, designated as a Natural Monument of Japan.


The thatched Torikai Hachimangu shrine was designed by Ninomiya Sekkei Architects. Recently completed the compound consists of a thatched structure, wood prayer room, a concrete columbarium (a structure used to store urns containing cremated remains) and an inner shrine constructed in an early, iconic, simple style, similar to the inner shrines of Ise, known as shinnei-zukuri.
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• Great Britain 6-9 Canada

• Mouat’s side take silver after falling short in last end

Sometimes the silvers you win feel more like the golds you lose. After an excruciatingly tense three-hour final, there’s no doubt which way Bruce Mouat and the British men’s curling team will see this one. They were beaten 9-6 by Canada, in a game that took several twists and turns on its way to the very last stone of the 10th end. It is their second Olympic silver medal, after the one they won when they lost to Sweden in Beijing in 2022. After 10 days of competition, the Olympic title is still the one thing in the sport that this world champion team haven’t won, and that will sting.

The British rink had the better start. They forced Canada to settle for one from the 1st end, even though they had last stone advantage. But Grant Hardie is a gnarly competitor and he and his team worked their way into a 4-3 lead at halfway with a couple of double take-outs in the 3rd and 5th ends. In the 4th, when Britain had the hammer, they were made to play the same clearing shot four times in a row, before Hardie finally nailed it. Then Mouat missed with his penultimate stone, which clipped his own guard on its way home.

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Wim Wenders says German director İlker Çatak’s Turkey-set warning against creeping authoritarianism gave jury ‘chills’

Yellow Letters, a drama set in Turkey about creeping authoritarianism, has won the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin film festival, after a 10-day event overshadowed by a row over politics in cinema.

The film by the German director İlker Çatak, born in Berlin to Turkish immigrants, tells the story of two luminaries of the Ankara theatre scene whose marriage comes under severe strain when they lose their jobs after falling out of political favour. Its title comes from the colour of the official dismissal notices.

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Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe (long-time Slashdot reader ReneR) is announcing that their Xorg display server has now restored its XAA acceleration architecture, "bringing fixed-function hardware 2D acceleration back to many older graphics cards that upstream left in software-rendered mode."


Older fixed-function GPUs now regain smooth window movement, low CPU usage, and proper 24-bit bpp framebuffer support (also restored in T2). Tested hardware includes ATi Mach-64 and Rage-128, SiS, Trident, Cirrus, Matrox (Millennium/G450), Permedia2, Tseng ET6000 and even the Sun Creator/Elite 3D.

The result: vintage and retro systems and classic high-end Unix workstations that are fast and responsive again.

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