Met dit soort uitstekende producties van @nieuws.nos.nl kan ik mijn werk als @datagraver.com mbt het Nederlandse klimaat binnenkort stoppen. Echt heel goed gedaan: app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...

Sooo we ran out of red said France and they weren’t talking about the wine.

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

En werden er in Frankrijk een paar all-time temperatuur records verbroken. coolwx.com/record/europ...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

As Elon Musk finally begins to sweat over the up to 14 million condemned death by his USAID cuts, we must remember that these cuts are ongoing and could actually be reversed. These people could be saved

www.rtl.nl/rtl-nieuws/a... Oud bericht, ze hebben er niet van geleerd blijkbaar

Zeg, Nederlandse pers, zullen we de komende dagen eens niet griezelig hoge temperaturen en 'Code Rood'-koppen gepaard laten gaan van met in het water spelende kinderen of andere vrolijke foto's?

Ik hoop dat iedereen zich realiseert dat dit de normale gang van wordt (en eigenlijk al is) door klimaatverandering. Klimaatverandering zorgt voor meer energie in de atmosfeer en daardoor heftiger weersomstandigheden. Schade door noodweer in delen van het land - nos.nl/l/2619396

46 degrees… This stopped being funny a long time ago.

Never ever do this. Close the tab. The website has been compromised.

War crimes up war crimes upon war crimes

Een 975 jaar oud iconisch klooster brandt vanochtend in Kyiv. Raketten op flats, ziekenhuizen en kerkgebouwen: met barbaarse terreur probeert Poetin zijn oorlog toch nog te winnen. Pak Poetins schaduwvloot aan. Steun Oekraïne meer. En dwing Rusland naar de onderhandelingstafel.

that many, huh

No to a US tech deal: The mistrust of Trump and US big tech is spreading. “European leaders increasingly view reliance on U.S. technology as a threat to the region’s economic and geopolitical future” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/t...

Yes. Also Iain M. Banks was the first SF author who made me *feel* how our tech sucks vs how it could be.

It really is dystopian that this Nazi is going to become a trillionaire this week while he pushes an openly fascist party to takeover the UK.

So when your investing in indexfunds (except S&P 500), you can't avoid SpaceX stock and the AI financial bubble. It looks like they want to make the SpaceX stock too big and important to fail. We will see if it is enough when the inevitable financial bubble will pop. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/t...

Signaal tussen de ruis...

OK, here is a thing that happened on Tues 26 May 2026 at one of the longest-lived weather stations on planet Earth.

“All of France’s central government agencies have to come up with plans to move away from US tech—across office software, antivirus, AI, databases, and more—by this fall. On April 23, French officials also announced the country will move its health data platform away from Microsoft”

Dit kan niet genoeg worden herhaald.

I remember seeing the ISS or an Iridium telecom satellite in 2015 and 2016 - they were quite rare to see and hard to spot. But now Starlinks are in the night sky constantly =(

It's quite shocking how many more satellites are visible by eye now than just a few years ago, especially as Starlinks are in much more light-polluting orbits. 🔭 You can now usually see a few in the sky at the same time, and it's only going to get worse. 🫤

Ultrarechts 'nationaal protest' tegen azc's is totale afgang, wel grotere tegendemo's www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Even over 'Wij zijn met meer'. Ik heb nu tientallen fascistische demo's gezien en een handvol zelf bezocht (als tegendemo of journalist). De fasco's waren nóóit in de meerderheid.* De vraag is niet wie met meer is, maar hoe de lieve meerderheid de hatende minderheid terug haar hol in gaat jagen.

All this because of one black actress. Racism clearly is a powerful drug…

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

Trump throws Taiwan under the bus

56 of our wonderful colleagues at in the #Physics & #Astronomy department in Nottingham (UK) received “at risk of redundancy” letters. Their University is planning to reduce the size of the Physics department by a third. Consider sign the open letter: 🔭 nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Trump will drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.7 billion fund to "compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration." ie. he can dole out the money to terrorists for personal favors. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

D66 en CDA steunen een motie van GroenLinks-PvdA (Pro) om de 281 miljoen euro aan verruiming van de aftrek ongedaan te maken, maar Heinen zegt nee tegen dit 'gratis' geld.

Update. Volkskrant onthult dat Telegraaf ingezonden brieven plaatst van mensen die onder valse naam opereren. www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-medi...

The US uses its Visa Waiver Programme to literally dictate EU policies. Now it demands near-unlimited EU-US data transfers, violating EU law. However the US does not even meet the criteria for EU visa free travel. Time for EU to play hardball: suspend visa free travel for Americans first, then talk

having the internet be de-facto controlled by a single US corporation continues to be a really bad thing I'm glad that I mostly degoogled this year, and I strongly encourage others to do the same. "Do no evil" stopped a while ago

I think I have shared this before, but it's so delightfully bizarre that I have to share it again. Behold, the most ?!?!? email I've ever received:

Smoke cloud from wildfire near ‘t Harde visible in Amsterdam?! Wind is blowing from that direction…

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

Wanneer gaan bewindspersonen en politici stoppen met X , er lijkt geen grens te zijn , alles wat Musk doet op zijn platform lijkt acceptabel voor hen... Bereik van X neemt af, het wordt steeds extremer, er zijn alternatieven! 🙄 @robjetten.bsky.social @d66.nl @d66.nl @vvdonline.bsky.social

Rake Loesje!

Onderstreept: de 26 PVV’ers* die 18-12-25 voor de Novelle inzake strafbaarstelling illegaliteit stemden die volgens de PVV in de Eerste Kamer onaanvaardbaar zou zijn * de groep Markuszower was nog niet afgesplitst

Of ze het bij het doodschieten van kinderen willen houden.

Well done UK 🤩! 🚭 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/21/bill-banning-people-born-after-2008-from-buying-tobacco-clears-uk-parliament #smokefree #smokefreegeneration

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Naar aanleiding van de stemming zojuist een analyse getikt: Na twintig jaar PVV slaagt de eenmanspartij erin om haar eigen succes moedwillig te saboteren. Geert Wilders laat Den Haag in chaos achter en maskeert daarmee zijn eigen paniek. www.groene.nl/artikel/waar...

Ik had een betere analyse verwacht van NRC. Dit is een blessing in disguise voor D66 want de achterban is opgelucht. Slim gespeeld in de onderhandeling want zo kon de coalitie naar buiten toe doen alsof ze heus wel streng waren terwijl ze allang wisten dat de wetten (terecht) konden sneuvelen

RFK Jr. wants tens or maybe even hundreds of millions of Americans to die because he considers them genetically inferior, and I just want to be clear that's not a good plan. For, you know, a number of reasons.