As so many in Europe tend to forget, keep on saying what needs to be said:

Someone explain to me what a "false lie" is.

Q: Can you explain the computer log in issue? Your lawsuit contends you were not able to log in

PATEL: Survey -- how many of you people believe that's true?

Q: Did you communicate that you thought you were fired?

PATEL: It never happened. You are lying.

Q: The lawsuit says the opposite!

Oh, to be a Tyranid bullet hitting a Guardsman square in the face!

Meerderheid Kamer wil beheer DigiD bij Solvinity weghalen bij Amerikaanse overname Volgens GroenLinks-PvdA kan er nog dit jaar gehandeld worden en is die keuze aan de politiek.

Weer goed nieuws over DigiD. Er staat nog steeds een Nederlandse koper klaar. Het contract met het bedrijf dat dreigt overgenomen te worden door de Amerikanen loopt al in augustus af en er is een moedige klokkenluider opgestaan, waardoor we meer goeie info hebben. Snel debat 🙏 nos.nl/artikel/2611...

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

EU foreign ministers reject proposal to suspend association agreement with Israel A part suspension was tabled by Ireland, Spain and Slovenia but did not receive enough backing from other member states

Can now formally say the EU is genocidal.

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Emperor's Children are the only ones that look perfect though.

Tweede Kamer wil af van DigiD-contract bij Amerikaanse overname Als het bedrijf dat achter DigiD zit, Solvinity, inderdaad in Amerikaanse handen komt, moet het contract met dat bedrijf zo snel mogelijk worden opgezegd. Dat vindt de Tweede Kamer. Kamerleden zijn ba...

Stop de Amerikaanse overname van DigiD! Je kunt nog steeds de petitie tekenen: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st... 🔥

In de Tweede Kamer zetten we de strijd tegen de overname voort! Gaat de deal toch door? Dan stoppen we alle overheidscontracten. Lees hier @rtl.nl #DigiD www.rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

The manifesto makes a straightforward case that government and Silicon Valley power must be fused in order to defend Western values - which are superior to others - with hard rather than soft power. For many, this sounds like techno-fascism.
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Funny how when transit prices go up, the feds aren't falling over themselves to give transit users a break. Despite the fact that by using transit, I'm doing a hell of a lot less harm to society than drivers are doing when they drive.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

the roadmap to technological fascism is both terrifying and deeply insufferable

our wannabe overlords are evil, and dangerous, and also total dweebs

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Jip van den Toorn in de VK van zaterdag...

The Netherlands: "kids don't play outside enough"

Also the Netherlands: "let's let a megalomaniac billionaire beta test whether his "Full Self Driving" 2000 kilogram death traps can see kids on a little bike"

The Netherlands selling our safety out to US billionaires

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Lieghitsen met Thomas van Groningen en Wierd Duk - Frontaal Naakt Peter Breedveld Nieuws van de Dag is racistische hits-televisie in optima forma en het zou verboden moeten worden. Peter Breedveld Illustratie: Kyoko Okazaki. Volgens Wierd Duk is Nederland door de “m...

Nieuws van de Dag is racistische hits-televisie in optima forma en het zou verboden moeten worden.

The New Yorker, "Wondering why people are pining for old technologies - CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What's behind our longing for inconvenience?"

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Sigrid Kaag: ‘Je wordt ontmenselijkt waar je bij staat’ Vrouw en politiek: Oud-minister van Financiën en -vicepremier Sigrid Kaag kijkt in een openbaar interview met Jutta Chorus terug op haar politieke carrière en de vrouwenhaat waar ze mee te maken kreeg...

Kaag zegt dat de ‘manosphere’ uit Amerika is overgewaaid. Dat is onzin. Ten eerste - ze signaleert het zelf - was Nederland altijd al seksistisch en ten tweede waren GeenStijl, Johan Derksen etc. er lang voordat het begrip ‘manosphere’ gemunt werd.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.

We all have days like this

I know how to open an app and type in “make a image of the muppets at january 6” wtf are you people actually talking about

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Male Common Grackles (bronzed subspecies) strutting their stuff on the boardwalk.