They finally changed the Thunderbird app icon to match the style of the Firefox icon again. Felt like ages with the two different styles.

Wait, WHAT? There's a pro #cycling Deutschland Tour again, and I didn't even know about it? http://inrng.com/2018/08/the-deutschland-tour-is-back/

Pierogi and pivo time!

Preparing the bike for a little Tour de Silésie over the next 5 days. Finally went full touring mode and got some TT bars as well as a frame bag.

There are more slaves today than ever before in human history. And ~600M people are vulnerable to becoming slaves. Ashes Ashes offers an intro to this situation in their latest podcast episode: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-36-slaves-to-progress-part-1

5 stars, would do again: https://www.strava.com/activities/1767434700

If you ever want to get out of Berlin for some quiet work time in nature, I can highly recommend CoCoNat. Having crowdfunded it years ago, I just came here for the first time yesterday, and it's already on the list for our next company retreat. http://coconat-space.com

If anyone in Berlin is interested in cycling the entire Berliner Mauerweg (~150km) this Sunday, you're welcome to join us! Easy pace. Heading out from Brewdog at 8am: https://www.strava.com/clubs/330026/group_events/366598

"Remotely hacking ships shouldn't be this easy, and yet ..." https://mashable.com/2017/07/18/hacking-boats-is-fun-and-easy/

Interesting thoughts about Slack (or any group chat for that matter) as a group mind, comparing it to brain functions, and explaining how it's more like a herd mind than a hive mind: https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

NASA just announced dates and astronauts for the first-ever commercial crew flights to the ISS. Boeing a bit vague, SpaceX a bit less so: SpaceX Demo-1 (uncrewed): November 2018; SpaceX Demo-2 (crewed): April 2019 https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/