Roel Groeneveld

Ran the Zevenheuvelenloop 2025 (15K race in the Netherlands): https://glass.photo/roelgroeneveld/5c1oOI7d4G6HLhjqOEwaqt

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

NerdVote.NL Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.

Gestemd! 🗳️ Natuurlijk op een kandidaat met veel digitale ervaring. Vind je dat ook belangrijk, check dan even @berthub.eu’s Nerdvote voordat je gaat stemmen: https://www.nerdvote.nl/

Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚

Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers MEP Alexandra Geese argues that Europe needs its own infrastructure, social networks, and software. Rising US authoritarianism means the clock is ticking.

In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament):

"“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html

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Small mushroom on a fallen tree

Another mushroom on bark

Mushroom on the forest floor

Bunch of small yellow mushrooms

Brought the camera with me on a stroll through a nearby forest last weekend. Amazin fall colors, and a wealth of mushrooms dotting the forest floor and fallen wood. 🍄

Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. An entertaining heist story set in a Medieval city that resembles Amsterdam, with a dash of magic. Good fun. 📚

Leaves on a tree in fall colours: purple, red, yellow and green.

Fall colors

I started reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Rainbow in a pink-blue morning sky, reflected in a window.

Earlier this morning… 🌈 🌅

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

"We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html

Surveillance as a service.

I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

Om te snappen hoe online cultuur ons leven beïnvloedt lees ik Ryan Broderick. Ook over hoe Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme:

"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html

A Memory Called Empire

I started reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚

AI gebruiken? Ethische handvatten uit de natuurfotografie: https://roel.io/2025/07/27/ai-gebruiken-ethische-handvatten-uit.html

Meanwhile, the small sandwich shop I'm at in the UK is begging people to pay cash because their card fees were GBP320 last month.

Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.

@etienneverhoeff.bsky.social Misschien een leuke voor de #advoetbalpodcast: anecdotes over winnaars die een replica van een beker ontvingen omdat er ‘iets’ was gebeurd met het origineel? 😉

Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica

In a timeline defined by absurd headlines, this one might actually take the cake.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...

Spelersmakelaar zonder licentie regelt de voetbaltransfers met Rusland Nathan van Kooperen is de enige voetbalagent in Nederland die sinds de inval in Oekraïne in 2022 nog zaken doet met clubs in Rusland. Afgelopen winter begeleidde hij spits Manfred Ugalde voor een milj...

Na Feyenoord meent ook FC Twente dat het oké is om zaken te doen met Rusland. Dat voetbalclubs uit NL gewoon zaken willen doen is de beste propaganda die Poetin kan krijgen. Achter die handel met Rusland schuilt één voetbalmakelaarskantoor, het Amsterdamse Muy Manero 👇
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...

Nog zoiets, als de politieke werkelijkheid belangrijker is dan de echte werkelijkheid:

Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden

Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisis

Better living through technology:
"Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

25 jr links demoniseren terwijl rechts en extreem rechts met fluwelen handschoentjes wordt aangepakt.
Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.

Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten | VRT NWS: nieuws De nulgradengrens in de westelijke Alpen is gestegen naar een hoogte van 5.400 meter. De Franse weerdienst noemt dit "uitzonderlijk" voor juni. Het betekent dat ook de hoogste top, de Mont Blanc, aan ...

Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Went for a photo break after an early start. Just getting outside before it gets hot (35° Celsius). 📷

Dutch train on a platform, with people waiting to get in. In black and white.

Commuting by train today

but… isn’t the point of drinking coffee to sit there and read a book while you do?

the decline of reading for fun is maybe the single most depressing thing about the technological era we’re living through

Really liked Maria Farrell’s keynote at the Public Spaces conference this year. Of course she spoke about the importance of rewinding the internet.

Camera’s are a lot like software applications: we use them often, but overlook the less known features. Today I tried the timelapse feature on my camera for the first time. It was a lot of fun! https://roel.io/2025/06/18/cameras-are-a-lot-like.html

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.