roy bendor

go Canada!

#iihfworldchampionship

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Half of Dutch electricity produced from renewable sources last year Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and biomass accounted for approximately half of electricity production last year, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported. A year earlier, it was around 47 per...

not enough, but better than nothing.
#halfglassfull

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Anti-Trump sentiment drives dramatic upturn in fortunes for Canada’s Liberals Ruling party was deeply unpopular but threat of US tariffs combined with prospect of new leader spurs rise in polls

meanwhile in Canada:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

this must be the absolute lunatic cherry on the stupidity cake Trump & Co. have been dishing the world.

despite everything, spring is in the air

Jesus looks suspiciously like Shiva in Kerala, India

except we will all suffer the consequences. fuck, this is maddening.

wolf moon rising over Delft

ABP sells Tesla shares over labor and compensation concerns ABP, the largest pension fund in the Netherlands, has sold all its shares in Tesla, citing dissatisfaction with CEO Elon Musk’s 56 billion dollars compensation plan and concerns about labor conditions...

After divesting from fossil fuels a few years back, ABP (pension fund of Dutch education union among others) dumped Tesla too. Small move but a strong signal. Fuck Musk.
nltimes.nl/2025/01/11/a...

In this, 9th year since Bowie's passing, I'll be watching the BBC documentary from 2017:

I just donated to Wikipedia because fascists ❤️ ignorance.

Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of Air Pollution Foundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests

They knew and the world is burning because of it. If you lost a home to climate catastrophe sue the living crap out of these guys who for years have known it would happen and have only lied and muddied the waters of scientific study to stop action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

show in Amsterdam sold out 😢

Like I Say (I runaway) Nilüfer Yanya · My Method Actor · Song · 2024

I dug this album
open.spotify.com/track/7f57Tz...

And here's another great starter pack.

go.bsky.app/G69gDx3

Looking forward to talking about design and AI on the second day, with @kars.leapfrog.nl, Dasha Simons, and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social

Thousands protest against higher education budget cuts in The Hague The demonstration against planned cuts to higher education funding concluded in The Hague on November 25, 2024, with organizers estimating around 20,000 participants. Students, staff, and educators fr...

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In maliveld because populists❤️ ignorance. stop the cuts in education now!

tree bark braille

Fresh out of dcode-network.eu, and co-edited by Elisa Giaccardi and myself, Rethink Design: A Vocabulary for Designing with AI, offers several critical entry points into the entangled relations between design and seemingly intelligent systems.

Open access:
books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog...

Training my AI to apply.

whisky + church = ?