The Art of the Deal TRUMP: Give up your uranium. IRAN: No. TRUMP: OK. Open the Strait of Hormuz. IRAN: No. TRUMP: OK. What if we end our blockade, and you can charge for passage through the Strait? IRAN: Only if you give us BILLIONS of dollars and pull out all your forces. TRUMP: OK. Deal.

If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....

En weer verdwijnt er een stukje geschiedenis. Haarlem is een stad van slopers. www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/35995...

Cloudflare’s CEO explains why despite over 30% revenue growth, they are laying off 20% of staff. He argues that there are 3 types of workers; builders, sellers and measurers (middle managers, legal, HR, operations, etc). AI makes it possible to automate the last group and he expects everyone will

Hoop doemscenario's nog in dit helemaal niet slechte artikel van Keulemans. Maar toch ook wel goed nieuws, want dat het meest extreme scenario nu afvalt komt door de vooruitgang die de afgelopen jaren geboekt is. www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/d...

Trump’s Iran “endgame” is surrender dressed as strength. They mocked Obama’s deal, which cut Iran’s enriched uranium by 98% and centrifuges by two-thirds, then tore it up and handed Netanyahu a worse outcome: Iran stronger, Hormuz in play, America walking away. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Hardwerkende Nederlander staat nu al twee weken fulltime in Loosdrecht te demonstreren met een blik bier in z'n hand

Toch leuk voor de Ajax-fans dat ze nog een paar extra wedstrijden van hun helden kunnen genieten.

Deze opmerking van @lisawesterveld.bsky.social spookt me al een paar dagen door m'n hoofd. Ik kan er niks aan veranderen, maar het vat wel samen wat er mis is met de vaderlandse politiek.

Good post from Noah - Europe now alone in major powers taking China to task on trade "I expect member states to dial up pressure on Brussels to reconsider its refusal to host an EU-China summit this year unless Xi Jinping shows up" Brussels insists no Xi, no summit - this'd be quite the climbdown

Zou @minister-president.bsky.social een voorbeeld aan kunnen nemen.

"walking away now could seem like the least bad option" Ik zou dit artikel maar lezen als ik jullie was.

De perskamer van Gerrit Rietveld werd geroemd om het strakke lijnenspel, kleurgebruik en moderne materialen als linoleum en suwide. Mooi, maar lastig aanpasbaar aan veranderend gebruik. In de jaren tachtig werd ontmanteld. Ze liggen nu bij de RCE: kennis.cultureelerfgoed.nl/index.php/Un...

#5DebutAlbums9599 This is still a stone cold classic, a soundtrack to our current dark, paranoid times….hell is round the corner. Tricky - Maxinquaye, 1995

#5DebutAlbums9599 Leftfield - Leftism

#5debutalbums9599 Haven’t seen this one mentioned yet. Love the rhythms and her voice. Beautiful live shows. Lamb - Lamb

Blijft raar dat een partij als de VVD opkomt voor de hard twerkende Nederlander.

Dit is fascinerend; veel draagvlak voor oorlogsvluchtelingen, vrij weinig voor arbeidsmigranten van buiten de EU (expats?). Waarom zou de VVD toch zo graag over asielzoekers praten?

Super fun interactive tool by @vicnaum allows you to see which cities are "latitude buddies" with your city. Did you know that Buenos Aires and Adelaide are latitude buddies? Or Los Angeles and Teheran? Have a play here: buff.ly/FATl1Mi

Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

WIE ZIJN DIE MENSEN?

It’s just a radio button. We really don’t need two component libraries, ARIA role remapping, and client-side JS to do what HTML already does.

Kiezen voor markt en consumenten om mee te kunnen helpen bij de oplossing is niet alleen een goedkopere en snellere optie, het creëert ook meer weerbaarheid. Bovenstaande toont de zwakte van beperkende keuzes, overigens ook bij het tijdelijke alternatief:

Messages like this about the strain the Dutch grid is under due to renewables drive me nuts because NOBODY is talking about using demand-response. E.g. by locational marginal pricing. It's all hand wringing and useless television spots about not charging your car in the evening x.com/AukeHoekstra...

NEW from me: The US is building a record amount of power infrastructure, especially solar & batteries, and has broken out of a 15-year period of grid stagnation Yet this hasn’t been enough, and America has a widening electricity shortage that’s driving up prices 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/americas-e...

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Ik was gisteren in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag en het was prachtig.

Alles wat je weten wil over stablecoins.

Film you've watched more than 6 times with a gif.

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Dit is echt geweldig

Koddig

No Cards, huh?

Wij zijn in ons nopjes.

Waanzinnig goed.

The building of the Cooperative Union, Vilnius, built in 1979 r/brutalism

Tufekci's keynote here remains the best framing for how to think about AI, IMO. The key changes will be in what things become cheap/easy and what things remain expensive/hard. AI will remove a lot of friction. Some of that friction is load bearing. bsky.app/profile/zey....

De toeslagenaffaire houdt nooit meer op.

some bright minds at work here as.ft.com/r/b0ed5f53-6...

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

Drill baby drill

uh what TRUMP: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, UNITED STATES NAVY WILL BEGIN PROCESS OF BLOCKADING ANY AND ALL SHIPS TRYING TO ENTER, OR LEAVE, STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

Tellen patatten mee?

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification: - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

I am not Roman Catholic but Pope Leo is an inspiring figure in many ways and I am genuinely grateful for his intervention.