Heeft iemand dit hier al geprobeerd?

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

The WaPost claims it's all about personal freedom now. Why aren't we seeing stories about how Ellison and Thiel pose fundamental threats to core American freedoms?

This should be a much bigger story than it is.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

@Hansbeerekamp

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

Ik weet dat Teletekst niet eindeloos de ruimte heeft, maar aankondigen dat je je niet meer druk gaat maken over het registreren van misdragingen (lees: terug naar seksisme, wangedrag oftewel de goede oude tijd toen mannen nog mannen waren) lijkt me een fractie belangrijker om te melden.

Gaat echt weer lekker daar.

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Wat een vuiligheid. De bewijslast bij de rechthebbenden leggen, maar zelf eerst lekker alles stelen.

I need to be very explicit: there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI's $1 Trillion in commitments, and that's across the top 10 private equity firms, all US venture capital, and both Goldman and JPMorgan's direct lending funds. This is very bad. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Land of the free.

This has been on my mind since January 20. Trump is not acting like a man who has ANY concern about ANY future election(s). And I think that means exactly what we think it means.

Waarom geeft de reisplanner adviezen voor vertrek in het verleden als je om 'nu' vraagt?

Alles wat er mis is met 'de krant' in één handige melding. Waarom zou in Het Parool (toch een verzetskrant van origine?) content (yuk) _moeten_ staan van Twitter of Meta? Dat lijkt me het laatste wat daarin thuishoort.

I learned so much useful life shit from Golden Girls.

An entire generation has been robbed of the pleasure of discoving something just because it happened to be the only thing on when they were able to watch TV. Because of Nick at Nite and Comedy Central I was able to understand VERY obscure MST3K jokes. This was HISTORY, people!

Goh, da's gek. De ontbrekende stem om zekere bestanden vrij te geven, wordt op z'n vroegst pas over 3 weken ingezworen, terwijl iemand in een soortgelijke situatie binnen 24 uur werd ingezworen. Is natuurlijk allemaal gewoon toeval en zo.

Niet te geloven. Na 30 jaar heb ik *eindelijk* iets aan m'n theorie voor m'n rijbewijs. Militaire colonnes zijn zo zeldzaam dat ze in mijn oefenboekje als een fotomontage (pre-Photoshop) waren voorgesteld.

Yes the 34X convicted felon who pardoned 1600 violent insurrectionists, pardoned soldiers convicted of the most horrific war crimes, tried to fire Inspectors General, & won’t investigate open bribery of his own cronies—is definitely indicting James Comey because he cares so much about law and order.

I am far more worried about the rise of fascism than the rise of autism. Can we look into the causes of that?

Something fun for monday mornings: Mahna Mahna (from the Muppets) covers Bon Jovi's Livin on a Prayer. Sort of. #b3d #parody www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQoz...

Waarom ik niet meer op Twitter zit, deel 67:

Omdat ik altijd vergeet dat berichten plaatsen op vrijdagavond rond 23u niet de beste manier is om gezien te worden, hierbij nogmaals mijn Muppet/Bon Jovi animatie mash-up cover geval.

Omdat er ook leuke dingen nodig zijn op het internet: de cover die ik maakte van Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer, maar dan met Muppets. In Blender #b3d youtu.be/FQozujeg4SE

De opbrengst van AI is niet meetbaar, maar blijf er vooral in investeren met z'n allen.

“General Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the defence staff, has said many times that, for the Kremlin, “non-military means of achieving political and strategic goals” have “exceeded the power of the force of weapons in their effectiveness”.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Ook bij Meta (ettelijke miljarden geïnvesteerd in AI - nu ook in je WhatsApp-chat) verloopt het allemaal supersoepel.

Meer dan 100 (of is het 200?) miljard is er al geïnvesteerd in AI dat - volgens de makers - al op een niveau van universitair geschoolden gesprekken zou moeten kunnen voeren. Ik houd de boot nog even af...

I’m old enough to remember when “cancel culture” was a bad thing?

Het blijft schokkend dat Blender gratis èn Open Source is. #b3d

Pompidom

Het klinkt zo alarmistisch als je dit leest, maar stèl dat deze man gelijk heeft...

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

I want to add my voice and my agreement to those who are saying that what Trump sent to Epstein here wasn’t merely a doodle of an underage girl with pedophile-coded language all over her body, but an underage girl with her arms pulled behind her back as if bound against her will.

South Korea followed US immigration law. The US based Hyundai employers followed US immigration law. The immigrant workers at SC Hyundai plant followed immigration law. And ICE fascists raided them anyway. It was never about “coming here legally.” It was always about advancing white nationalism.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Rechtstreeks uit de Donald Duck

For anybody unaware, Tylenol is known in many places worldwide under its alternative name Paracetamol. Just in case you were confused about how batshit this is.

Timeline cleanse

Da's vast toeval. Dat zou toch noooooit expres zo gepland worden?

@Hansbeerekamp al gezien/gehoord?

Harrie Geelen is afgelopen zaterdag overleden. De man achter de prachtige teksten en liedjes van Oebele en Hamelen. En van talloze geweldige prentenboeken, vaak samen met zijn vrouw Imme Dros. Een lieve en bijzonder man aan wie ik fijne herinneringen bewaar.