Zelfrijdende techniek lost veel problemen van de auto op. Minder ongelukken, minder uitstoot, minder tijdverspilling. Maar hij neemt nog net zoveel ruimte in. En dat wordt een steeds groter probleem. Mijn artikel in @decorrespondent.nl

De Correspondent@decorrespondent.nl · 6d ago

De zelfrijdende auto zou het verkeer veiliger, duurzamer en efficiënter maken. Misschien. Maar dat is buiten de keerzijde gerekend: met een zelfrijdende auto gaan we méér, niet minder kilometers maken. En dat kost ruimte. Veel ruimte.

this is great stuff because the surface story is “man responds to personal tragedy with initiative to help others” but the subtext is “bleak, stupid country structures daily life in a way that kills people constantly”

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w ago

In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Incredible stuff here

Klimaat enorm aan het drammen met talloze overstromingen en hitterecords #despeld

Klimaat enorm aan het drammen met talloze overstromingen en hitterecords

Steeds meer mensen ergeren zich aan het gedram van het klimaat. Met hittegolven in Europa, bosbranden in Canada, Zwitserland en de Canarische Eilanden, en aardverschuivingen in Colombia voelt het voor veel mensen alsof het klimaat echt over de schreef gaat.

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well this is all totally outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

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“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

NYT investigates US car bloat: “About 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Zelfde groepje actievoerders te zien bij 48 asielprotesten door hele land

Zelfde groepje actievoerders te zien bij 48 asielprotesten door hele land

De NOS analyseerde beschikbaar beeld van protesten en 7000 Facebookberichten om te kijken of er sprake was van een vorm van organisatie, zoals ook de AIVD onderzoekt.

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Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

We don’t often get NYT column reprints, but I was very glad to see this from @jamellebouie.net in today’s print StarTribune. Really strong piece warning of the dangers of Dems just trying to go back to “normal” after Trump. It’s among Bouie’s best (which is saying something)

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

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You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.

Woke up this morning wanting to swallow your own tongue? Here, then, I wrote this for you!

I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.

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Read Kevin Schoenmakers' review-essay on "workers' literature" in translation: chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...

China’s middle classes are anxious about the economy, and to make sense of what is happening they are turning to workers’ literature. I reviewed two recent books that have been translated into English.

China Books Review@chinabooksreview.com · 3mo ago

Once a socialist genre beloved of Mao, laborers’ or “battler” literature has seen a revival in the era of the gig economy. Two new books in translation illustrate the mass appeal. Read Kevin Schoenmakers review-essay: chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...

For my latest feature, I wrote about the Chinese math kids turned AI superstars: their (and my) STEM education, their allegedly boring life, aspirations for an AI-powered world, and anxieties over money and politics. restofworld.org/2026/chinese... via @restofworld.org

The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley

Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.

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1/ Totally fascinating story from NYT on how homeowners associations and private property are spaces for political resistance in China: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/w...

Inside a Fight by Homeowners for Control of Their Community in China

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Formosa Review: Beijing expels New York Times correspondent Vivian Wang over Taiwan row – ’as she was outside the country reporting from Seoul’

BREAKING: Beijing expels New York Times correspondent Vivian Wang over Taiwan row

Exclusive: Visa denial followed Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s appearance at NYT’s DealBook summit.

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THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

New from me: No increase in global coal power generation after Hormuz closure - solar and wind growth covered the fall in gas-fired generation. The record buildout of clean energy in 2025 helped mitigate the impact of the Hormuz closure.

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air@creacleanair.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth ⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power...

“Most of my published work appears already to be inside these models, shaping their outputs in ways I never agreed to and will never fully understand. Grammarly just had the bad manners to put my name on it.”

Ella Dawson@brosandprose.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Grammarly curated a list of real people, gave its models free rein to hallucinate plausible-sounding advice on their behalf, and put it all behind a subscription. That's a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them, and it sucks." @caseynewton.bsky.social

New NBER paper finds that US crash deaths rise by ~15% on dates of major album releases. Distraction from smartphones is a likely culprit. www.nber.org/papers/w34866

More than a dozen children—most of whom were born to surrogate mothers—were found in an L.A. mansion. Ava Kofman reports on the mysterious couple behind this story. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VOPv86

The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion

A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?

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Particularly when CBP agents have already been caught wearing Meta glasses to immigration raids even without facial recogntion www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency t...

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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 6mo ago

Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

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