A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself, has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.But let's be clear eyed about where this leads.A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable. And there is another truth. If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships.Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty.

The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied – the WTO, the UN, the COP – the architecture, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy, in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.

But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless

AkademikerPension verwaltet nach den Angaben auf seiner Webseite zufolge ein Vermögen von insgesamt 164 Milliarden Dänischen Kronen. Dies entspricht umgerechnet knapp 26 Milliarden Dollar oder etwa 22 Milliarden Euro. Der Verkauf der US-Anleihen betrifft damit einen vergleichsweise kleinen Teil des Gesamtportfolios, hat aber eine hohe symbolische Bedeutung.

Es handele sich um Papiere im Wert von rund 100 Millionen Dollar

The study also considers future scenarios. If 15% of this spending were retained within the European economy by 2035, around 500,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs would be created, benefiting the European economy.

80% of total spending on cloud software and services for business use in Europe went to US companies, representing a volume of €265 billion.

This spending, relating exclusively to cloud software and services for business use, represents approximately 2 million direct, indirect, and induced jobs in the US.

programma: Czkawka. Het is Pools voor “hik”

Waarom ik nooit opruimde#Eerlijk? Omdat ik het niet meer overzag.Als je één map hebt met rommel, ruim je die op. Maar als je tien mappen hebt, op zes verschillende plekken, met allemaal dezelfde soort inhoud - waar begin je dan? Welke is de “echte”? En wat als je per ongeluk iets weggooit dat je nog nodig had?Dus startte ik iedere keer dapper met opruimen. En stopte dan weer net zo snel.

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destroying an emergency lifeline that historically coordinates rescue operations when all other forms of communication fail.

The most terrifying aspect for operators worldwide is how our most sacred tradition has been weaponized as an indictment. Our QSL confirmation cards and logbooks are being treated as criminal evidence of foreign contact.

If this crackdown had reached me when I was still active in the country, my own call sign would have certainly placed me in front of a firing squad

But logic does not exist in a state ruled by technical savages. To them, the fact that you can solder an antenna, track a weather satellite, or understand the physics of wave propagation makes you an existential threat

The charges they face are staggering. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty

we watched our colleagues – Andrey Repetiy (EW1ABT) and Nikita Krasko (EW1AEH) – being forced to publicly repent for the “crime” of technical curiosity and international communication. They were coerced on screen to renounce their own technical expertise as something harmful. Vyacheslav Benko (EW1ACE) remains behind bars alongside them.

ollowing the purge of Wikipedia editors and independent researchers, the regime has launched the “Radio Amateurs Case.” This chilling title deliberately echoes the infamous “Doctors’ Plot” of the Stalin era, where an entire group of the country’s best specialists was designated as enemies of the state.

You can’t reform a concentration camp regime. You have to dismantle it and replace it. We have a thousand ways to do it. And most U.S. citizens—particularly white ones—have the freedom to act, for now, with far less risk than the many people currently targeted.

without a complete dismantling of the targeting and detention systems we’ve created, we’re bound to return to this again and again. If it isn’t stopped, it can and will get much worse. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Still, just as the U.S. has a heritage of oppression, it also has a vast inheritance from those who believed and worked for the best that the country could become

if you happen to be thinking, “Well, Japanese American detention camps were stopped. America refused all that,” I would answer that in that case, the camps were stopped within that critical three-to-five year period I’ve been discussing today. (And that camp system was never quite dismantled even then, but for decades continued to remain a closer call than you might imagine.)

People often think the Nazi system was a single static thing. But it evolved over time, just as our system of detention is evolving right now. It was in November 1938, just over five years into Nazi rule and Dachau’s existence, that the Nazis first swept tens of thousands of Jews en masse into camps in Germany and its territories during Kristallnacht.

The way camps work is that they come into being in a police state and help the police state to become more of a police state. Camps ratchet up the speed and the efficiency of harm the state does, particularly killing.

Congress has already allocated funding that will create a camp system that could, on its own, surpass our existing (massive) prison system. The state is already trying to use modern surveillance methods to control communities both outside and inside the camps. Concentration camp systems take the worst abuses of the existing system then expand and weaponize them.

Slave patrols combined a quasi-official role with citizen vigilantism. At the far end of the spectrum, the U.S. government has had an overt and vicious history of harming civilians from its founding, with Native genocide and chattel slavery.

both the international history of camps and domestic U.S. history are critical to understanding what’s going on and where we are in the current process.

Again, we need to do more than stop the construction of additional facilities, more than just get ICE agents to behave more politely. We need to dismantle the current system and remove the possibility for it to exist again. In my opinion, that is what “Abolish ICE” should mean.

we’re on the verge of entrenching a massive system, which is a very bad place to be. It’s my opinion that we have a limited window in which to act. What happens this year will be critical for significantly dismantling the existence of and any future capacity for building the extrajudicial camp network the government is constructing today.

We may already be living in a concentration-camp regime, but it hasn’t yet hardened into the kind of vast system that becomes the controlling factor in the country’s political future.

But Trump has since returned to office. And if we count the Biden administration as simply a pause on the Trump agenda in several ways, the U.S. is currently approaching the end of that three-to-five year window.

More often, as in the early years of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, the struggle over concentration camps took place between competing powers within the solidifying police state. Under Hitler, nearly three years into Nazi rule, the pro-camps faction of that struggle won, leading to an expanded camp system, which eventually blanketed the country then the continent.

In other cases, the external pressure applied is different. Three years into mass detentions in Chile in the 1970s, the situation was volatile enough that the U.S.—the major state supporting Pinochet’s dictatorship there—pressed for changes to DINA, the Chilean secret police. The organization was eliminated and replaced. That subsequent force was still abhorrent and continued to practice arbitrary detention. But one byproduct of the shift was that any expansion of mass detention into a broader, permanent camp system was halte

Sometimes the power struggle that determines the future of a camp system is external—for instance, defeat in war. Four years into the Khmer Rouge’s complete destabilization of Cambodia, Vietnam invaded.

In most cases, there’s a three-to-five-year window after a ruling party or leader or revolutionary brigade comes to power and asserts the right to arbitrarily detain and punish civilians. At some point toward the end of that window, a struggle typically begins over whether to massively expand the quasi-legal sites of detention into a more permanent system.

In the U.S., we currently have the existing brutality of the carceral system, cultural acceptance of disparate treatment for people of color, forced Native American exile to reservations, the long echoes Japanese American internment during World War II, the continuing operation of places like Guantanamo, and the willingness of both major political parties to use a detention-based punitive approach to immigration. These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.

Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now.

I’ll make clear that not all concentration camps are death camps

And also keep in mind that the U.S. is currently holding three times as many people as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security, in its language and images in press releases and on social media, is directly aping Nazi propaganda.

A recent report from the American Immigration Council counts some 66,000 people in immigration detention at the end of 2025. That’s an increase of almost 75% since Trump returned to office. But it falls far short of the goal the government had hoped to reach, having planned to expand capacity to more than 100,000 beds and fill them.

As far as we know at present, seven people have died in immigration detention this year. Two died by suicide (despite facility responsibility to prevent self-harm). Two died of heart issues. One is said to have died from fentanyl withdrawal, and one was reportedly choked to death by guards. One more was found unconscious and unresponsive, with details of his death yet to come.

Today I’ll write about how a society comes to concentration camps, the process we’re already deep into, why the ways we’re talking about events in the U.S. may be unhelpful, and how we can undo it this mess.

What I’m saying is that the camps have already taken root and are on a fast-track to get exponentially worse. We’re already deep inside the process.

It’s critical to recognize that each of the societies that has had camps underwent a lengthy process. This process is often easier to see happening in your own country if you first look at an example in another one.

we need massive reform to the way in which ICE and DHS are currently conducting themselves.” Note that the “massive reform” mentioned is to the way that the agencies conduct themselves, not to the bad-faith mission of these agencies.

Uiterlijk 11 februari – bewust een week voor het begin van Chinees Nieuwjaar, als China twee weken feestviert – doet de rechter uitspraak.

De Nederlandse staat beschikt zelfs over informatie dat Wingtech zelf bij Beijing zou hebben aangedrongen op de industrie-ontwrichtende exportbeperkingen van chips uit de Chinese Nexperia-fabriek. Deze Chinese maatregel, die inmiddels is versoepeld, was vorig jaar reden voor wereldwijde paniek bij onder andere autofabrikanten.

Intussen heeft de belangrijke Nexperia-fabriek in de Chinese provincie Guangdong zich feitelijk afgesplitst van de rest van het bedrijf. Daardoor is de productie van Nexperia-chips nog altijd verstoord.

Wing, zo betogen de advocaten van Nexperia, koos liever voor een vlucht naar China dan macht op te geven.Wingtech ontkent dat er sprake was van het leegtrekken van de Europese tak van Nexperia. De grootschalige aankopen om WingSkySemi te helpen zouden passen bij de strategie om Nexperia’s aanvoerlijnen diverser te maken – extra urgent met het oog op mogelijke Amerikaanse sancties. In plaats van ‘bruusk’ en ‘eenzijdig’ in te grijpen, hadden de minister en de Nexperia-bestuurders eerst het gesprek moeten aangaan, aldus een advocaat.

Nexperia wilde rugdekking van het ministerie van Economische Zaken. Daarvoor moest het zijn bedrijfsstructuur zo aanpassen dat de Chinese invloed kleiner zou worden. Anders was het overtuigen van de Amerikanen volgens het ministerie een onbegonnen zaak.

Dit alles gebeurde tegen de achtergrond van dreigende Amerikaanse sancties vanwege Nexperia’s banden met China.

Deze Chinese fabrikant maakt wafers, de siliciumschijven waarvan chips worden gefabriceerd. Ook Nexperia’s Europese fabrieken, in Hamburg en Manchester, maken wafers.

Nexperia was al klant bij WingSkySemi. Maar vorig jaar wilde Wing er een bestelling van 200 miljoen dollar plaatsen, ruim 100 miljoen dollar meer dan Nexperia nodig had. Volgens de bestuurders wilde Wing zo de diepe zakken van Nexperia misbruiken om zijn eigen, verlieslatende waferfabriek overeind te houden.

De Ondernemingskamer moet nu bepalen of er een onderzoek naar Wings handelen komt en of zijn schorsing in stand blijft. Wing, zo betogen de advocaten van Nexperia, wilde het chipbedrijf ‘volledig afhankelijk’ maken van China en een ander bedrijf waarvan hij zelf eigenaar is: WingSkySemi.

Wing is er woensdag niet bij. Al maanden is zijn verblijfplaats onbekend.

Wing is er woensdag niet bij. Al maanden is zijn verblijfplaats onbekend.

Zhang Xuezheng, ook wel bekend als Wing, de geschorste Chinese CEO van Nexperia en eigenaar van Wingtech

Volgens zijn medebestuurders was Wing stiekem bezig de Europese activiteiten van Nexperia over te hevelen naar China. Hij zou technologie laten verplaatsen en bijna de helft van het Europese personeel willen ontslaan. Daarom stapten drie bestuurders, die waren ontslagen nadat ze kritiek hadden geuit, op 1 oktober naar de Ondernemingskamer.

Die greep ongekend snel in en schorste Wing nog diezelfde dag als CEO. De aandelen van Nexperia werden tijdelijk onder curatele geplaatst

Een nog altijd voortslepend conflict met China was geboren, zeker omdat demissionair minister Vincent Karremans (Economische Zaken) een dag eerder ook al de bevoegdheden van Wing had ingeperkt.

Die greep ongekend snel in en schorste Wing nog diezelfde dag als CEO. De aandelen van Nexperia werden tijdelijk onder curatele geplaatst

Small, focused diffs have almost always served me better. They have several advantages:

Small, focused diffs have almost always served me better. They have several advantages:

Avoid wandering through the code

Generally, doing less is faster and easier! Depending on the task, you may be able to soften the requirements.

Software, like writing, can benefit from a rough draft

How good should this be?

600.000 bedrijven hangen aan Exact Online, wat op AWS draait. Exact is zelf ook een Amerikaans bedrijf tegenwoordig, overigens.

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. “Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. “I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

Reading in the Brain legt Stanislas Dehaene

Ze zijn gestandaardiseerd in Unicode (kijk vooral eens op Emojipedia) en beschikbaar op elk platform. Je hoeft niemand uit te leggen wat 📗 of 👥 betekent. Het zijn kant-en-klare visuele bouwblokjes.

Jefta Bade

Tony Buzan had dit al vroeg door. Hij is de bedenker van het fenomeen mindmaps die hij terecht zag als cognitieve architectuur.

Want mijn gebruik van emoji is fundamenteel anders. Ik plaats emoji niet ín de tekst maar ervóór, als eerste toegangspunt. De emoji staat aan het begin van een bestandsnaam of aan het begin van een regel. Het brein hoeft niet te schakelen tijdens het lezen, want de emoji is al verwerkt voordat het lezen begint. Ik gebruik emoji als visuele ankers. Als herkenningspunt. Precies zoals het brein fijn vindt.

Hier ontdekte ik iets interessants: recent onderzoek naar emoji-verwerking in tekst laat zien dat emoji in lopende zinnen de cognitieve belasting verhogen, niet verlagen. Eliza Barach [4] en haar collega's zagen dat emoji in zinnen je leestempo vertragen. Het brein moet schakelen tussen twee verwerkingsmodi binnen dezelfde leeshandeling. En elke keer als het brein moet schakelen kost dat energie en calorieën. Daar waar het kan moet je dat proberen te vermijden.

Expres zo volledig mogelijk om lezers het volledige beeld ervan te geven. Ruim vierduizend woorden over emoji en bestandsnamen en waarom ik dingen noem zoals ik ze noem en waarom ik doe zoals ik doe. Het stuk werd beter gelezen dan ik had voorzien

🎉 Emoji zijn goed voor je brein. De meeste mensen laten dat flink onbenut 🤷‍♂️

lecture: Marinus van Dijk - Naar een regionaal LoRa netwerk Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe ziet kansen voor een regionaal LoRa netwerk. Daar is de afgelopen jaren al hard aan gewerkt met ruim 30 gateways. Het waterschap gebruikt die zelf, maar stimuleert ook het gebruik door anderen. We vertellen over successen, uitdagingen en ideeën. En we verkennen met u graag de mogelijkheden om hierin samen op te trekken.

workshop: Andries Lohmeijer - RF / Antenna workshop During this workshop you can design your own antenna system. I will also bring RF measurement equipment to test you own DIY projects or discuss RF topics in general.

lecture: Andries Lohmeijer - Building antennas for experiments The performance of radio systems can be enhanced by using an appropriate antenna. With DIY market materials and 3D printed parts you can build high gain antennas.

hackathon: Diana - Word deel van een mesh communicatienetwerk In deze hackathon bouwen we apparaatjes waarmee je kunt communiceren zonder dat je internet of telefoonnetwerk nodig hebt. Van peer naar peer, zonder tussenkomst van andere partijen. Dat is handig in noodsituaties, maar ook leuk in rustiger tijden. Heb je nog geen meshcore station? Dan kun je de heltec t114 bestellen bij tinytronics, en we hebben er een paar beschikbaar voor overname.

Cloud computing is essentially local computing with extra, quite pricy steps today for consumer use scenarios. Unless the economics of local hardware truly does fall off a cliff somewhere down the line, I can't see Bezos' vision of a cloud-only future coming true any time soon — even for casual PC users.

There's a hard cap on the amount of chips the human race can physically produce at any one time, at least as of writing. With nation states effectively printing money to outbid consumer tech companies on basic components, I'm not sure demand will come down any time soon. That is, of course, unless those investors and nation states stop believing AI can deliver anything more impressive than repackaged reddit answers, memeslop, and blog posts for the vast majority ...

That means DRAM, but also increasingly other components too. SSD storage is the next component expected to hit a shortage, battering consumer prices hard in the process.

Is it really so far fetched to imagine that most people would most likely be "fine" with renting their full computing solutions from companies like Microsoft and Amazon?

The vast majority of apps and services people engage with online are all entirely cloud-based

Hundreds of millions of us have already given away ownership over music, TV shows, and movies to cloud companies like Spotify and Netflix — both of which run on Amazon Web Services. Cloud gaming products like Amazon Luna, NVIDIA GeForce Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming are all seeing steady growth, too — but it's not just about these niche scenarios.

The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription

U komt uit Amerika. Hoe kijkt u naar de Europese behoefte aan soevereiniteit? „In gesprekken met klanten valt me op dat er niet één definitie is van soevereiniteit. Er is een aantal trends. Ze willen zekerheid over waar data staan, operationele autonomie, weerbaarheid, bestuur, transparantie. Dat bieden we volgens mij allemaal met de ESC.”

The independent web is already here, quietly thriving while Big Tech implodes under its own extractive weight. All you have to do is join it.

We must find moments of joy in the horror of our present. Joy is not a prize for getting through it all—joy is a tool that enables us to get through the horror. Our joy is an act of resistance.

This is less about nostalgia than it is survival. Search engines fail and AI floods the void with slop. Human curation becomes essential infrastructure. We need directories. We need blogrolls. We need people pointing to other people.

Google search is collapsing. Between 2021 and 2025, websites experienced traffic losses exceeding 60% from organic search, with quality content creators punished while AI-generated spam flourished. Confirmed algorithm updates decreased from 10 annually in 2021-2022 to just 4 in 2025, yet volatility reached record-breaking levels.

The State of Search (Why This Guide is Needed) Before we dive into resources, we need to talk about why human curation matters more than ever.

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Die aspecten van het trumpisme – wetteloosheid, vijanddenken, leugens, omdraaiingen en geweld – zijn de pijlers van zowel zijn binnenlandse als buitenlandse beleid. Dat is al tien jaar het geval,

The blog won't save us. But it's one of the tools we'll need if we're going to save ourselves.

We're not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.

He kept going because the infrastructure mattered, because how we structure the presentation of ideas affects the ideas themselves.

Virginia Woolf wrote about the importance of having a room of one's own: physical space for creative work, free from interruption and control. A blog is a room of your own on the internet. It's a place where you decide what to write about and how to write about it,

And the fragmentation of social media is actually creating demand for alternatives. Every time a platform implodes (Twitter's ongoing collapse, Instagram's slow retirement // decay into a metaphorical Floridian condo, TikTok's uncertain status, Facebook's demographic hollowing) people start looking for more stable ground. The infrastructure exists. It's waiting.

Newsletters are still a discovery layer, no matter how many people pronounce their untimely death. You can write on your own site and distribute via email, getting the permanence of a blog with the push distribution of a newsletter. The writing lives at your domain; the email is notification infrastructure.

RSS never actually died.

Search engines still index blogs far better than social media posts. A well-written blog post on a specific topic can draw readers for year

I keep thinking about how many interesting folks have essentially stopped writing anything substantial because they've moved their entire intellectual presence to Twitter or Substack Notes. These are people who used to produce ten-thousand-word explorations of complex topics, and now they produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each one optimized for immediate engagement and none of them building toward anything coherent.

Social media flattens all of this into statements: Everything you post is implicitly a declaration

Michel de Montaigne arguably invented the essay in the 1570s, sitting in a tower in his French château, writing about whatever interested him: cannibals, thumbs, the education of children, how to talk to people who are dying. He called these writings essais, meaning "attempts" or "tries." The form was explicitly provisional. Montaigne was trying out ideas, seeing where they led, acknowledging uncertainty as a fundamental feature rather than a bug to be eliminated.The blog, at its best (a best I aspire one day to reach) is Montaigne's direct descendant.

Diderot understood that the container shapes the contents. The Encyclopédie was a collection of facts, yes, but more fundamentally it was an argument about how knowledge should be organized. Cross-references between entries were themselves a form of commentary, connecting ideas that authorities wanted kept separate.

Everything I produce has to compete, in real-time, with everything else that could possibly occupy that user's attention.

When I write a blog post, I'm writing for an imagined reader who has arrived at this specific URL because they're interested in this specific topic; I can assume a baseline of engagement; I can make my case over several thousand words, trusting that anyone who's made it to paragraph twelve probably intends to make it to paragraph twenty.

The platform has no interest in whether your post is found next week or next year; it has a vested interest in keeping users scrolling through new content right now.

But it also produced actual intellectual communities. Remember those?People wrote long responses to each other's posts, those responses generated further responses, and you could follow the thread of an argument across multiple sites and weeks of discussion. The format rewarded careful thinking because careful thinking was legible in a way that it simply isn't on platforms designed for rapid-fire engagement.

And I think the fix, or at least part of it = going backwards to a technology we've largely abandoned: the blog, humble // archaic as it may seem.

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work