Kees Stravers

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John Huston’s directorial debut in the 🇺🇸American film noir “THE MALTESE FALCON” starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George and Peter Lorre premiered #OnThisDay in 1941 at The Strand Theatre, New York City

🎬 Warner Bros.
🎞 #FilmNoir

De hoogopgeleide ‘elite’ waar velen zich tegen afzetten, heeft geen macht. We hebben het nooit over de elite in telefonie, internet, verzekeraars, banken, supermarkten: In al die markten maken 3, 4 of 5 grote spelers de dienst uit. Dát is de elite die onze belangen schaadt. ACM slaat er alarm over.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Just fucking use HTML Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

Just fucking use HTML

https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

Fotograaf Debbie Parker legde deze "bliksem" vast in West Virginia.

Trump dag 222: Trump al vier dagen niet gezien, stopt met onderzoeken kinderen met hersenkanker, wil Chinese vredestroepen in Oekraïne, weigert visa Palestijnen voor VN, trekt bescherming Harris in, w... Nieuwe besluiten van Trump en consorten, en nieuwe fallout. Een overzicht van dag 222.

Trump dag 222: Trump al vier dagen niet gezien, stopt met onderzoeken kinderen met hersenkanker, weigert visa Palestijnen voor VN, trekt bescherming Harris in, wil 5 miljard door Congres goedgekeurd budget annuleren, importheffingen grotendeels illegaal: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-22...

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
Good morning, beautiful BlueSky 🦋 friends! Self-preservation is essential. It's okay to pause during life's turbulent moments. Take the time you need. You will soar again after the storm.

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

Fascinating - even if one of the students "suspects university authorities are unaware of how widespread the practice is." They're really not. They (we) just don't know what on earth to do about it.

Flower macro

Flower macro

Flower macro

Grass in mist macro

I went to the castle gardens in Arcen to try a new lens

Bioloog pleit voor verbod op oppompen grondwater vanwege extreme droogte Bioloog Dick van Hoffen wil een ander beleid voor het watergebruik. Volgens hem moet er strenger gekeken worden naar grootverbruikers van grondwater, zoals boeren. Het verbod op het onttrekken van opp...

Het onbeperkt gratis oppompen van grondwater door boeren mag wel stoppen. Bij elke droogteperiode worden burgers op geroepen om minder te douchen. Zo'n beregeningspomp pompt per uur 100 kuub op. Jaarverbruik van een gemiddeld huishouden.

www.gld.nl/nieuws/83327...

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

Van de negen planetaire grenzen zijn er nu zeven overschreden - de verzuring van de oceanen lijkt een feit.

Deze legendarische strijder uit Canada gelooft er niet meer in. “It’s too late.”

Een taboe om te zeggen.

Ongemakkelijk, maar wel goed om het te lezen.

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it Trump is back — and with him, the risk that the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world.

"...Europeans are waking up to the fact that years of over-reliance on a handful of U.S. tech giants have given Washington a winning hand.

"The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers."

You pretty much have zero control over what happens.

Seriously.

You do control your voice.
Which is your vote.

If you have been convinced that “your vote won’t count.”

Congratulations.

You gave them exactly what they wanted.

Your control. Over to them.

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Ben benieuwd!

Zijn smartphones en social media een hele generatie aan het schaden? Verreweg de meeste experts denken van wel. ⤵️
En misschien niet alleen de nieuwe generatie…

This is bleak reading

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Terwijl rechtse populisten zich bekreunen over de prijs van boodschappen, legt @marcialuyten.bsky.social de vinger op de écht gevoelige plek: voedselprijzen blijven stijgen omdat de temperatuur blijft stijgen.
Maar aan klimaatbeleid hebben populisten geen boodschap.
En vergeet 't #gifverraad niet!

The inimitable Marina Hyde sums it up perfectly.

'Lauren announced..“We’re all in this together. We’re so connected.” Agreed. In which spirit, please could Amazon pay full & fair tax..Such an act of connection truly would be your & Jeff’s gift to our planet'

🗞️:
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Drinking coffee linked to healthier hearts and longer lives - Harvard Health A 2022 study found that coffee drinkers were less likely to develop irregular heartbeats, cardiovascular disease, heart-related deaths, and deaths from any cause over a 12-year period, compared wit...

www.health.harvard.edu/staying-heal...

Girl in prehistoric clothing mending a necklace

Girl in medieval clothes spinning

Girl in medieval clothes making a tool

Girl in medieval clothes sorting pottery

I went to the open air museum in Eindhoven “preHistorisch Dorp” to test the Nikon 40mm f2 lens l recently bought for my Z6. The photos are here

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How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch This is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts.

It's never a bad time to take a look at your online accounts and see if you spot a weird device or login.

We have a comprehensive guide on how to check if your Gmail, Apple ID, Facebook, IG, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, etc have been hacked.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/h...

‘Freedom of speech’

Het is een begin. Moties hebben geen wettelijke kracht. Maar hopelijk krijgen ze een vervolg.