Wetten en regels, geldzorgen, een slecht imago – veel boeren hebben het zwaar. Melkveehouder Paul Bruggeman ging járen door, tot het zwart werd voor zijn ogen.

Bij het Westelijk Havengebied verrijzen drie nieuwe, hoge datatorens. De kritiek op het immense stroomverbruik en de Amerikaanse digitale dominantie zwelt aan. Voor de vergunning is een handigheidje gebruikt: het is niet één, maar het zijn drie datacenters.

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CARACAS (ANP) - Waarnemend president van Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez heeft zondag aangegeven dat ze genoeg heeft van bevelen uit de Verenigde Staten. Daarmee verwees ze naar de druk die Washington op Venezuela uitoefent sinds de gevangenneming van Nicolás Maduro.

"Het is genoeg geweest met de orders uit Washington aan het adres van de Venezolaanse politiek. Laat ons Venezolaanse politici onze meningsverschillen en interne conflicten oplossen. Het is genoeg geweest met buitenlandse grootmachten", zei Rodríguez tijdens een speech voor oliearbeiders in de staat Anzoátegui.

Rodríguez werd op 5 januari benoemd tot interim-president, nadat de socialistische president Maduro tijdens een militaire operatie door de VS was opgepakt en meegenomen naar New York. Daarop kondigde Trump aan dat Washington tot nader order Venezuela zou "runnen".

Sixth seed marches into quarter-finals with 6-3, 6-4 victory while the defending champion must pay forfeit agreed on with her podcast co-host

While speaking on a podcast before her big match against Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula was discussing their battle last January in the Adelaide final. Keys’s performance, Pegula recalled, had prompted Pegula to accurately predict to their mutual friends that Keys would win the Australian Open two weeks later. It is normal for players to discuss future opponents, but they do not usually do so in conversation with each other. With a chuckle, Keys interjected: “Jess is like, ‘I hope I don’t see that level [tomorrow].’”

She did not. Keys’s reign at the Australian Open came to a difficult end in the fourth round as the defending champion and ninth seed was crushed under the weight of her hefty unforced error count and a spotless performance from Pegula, the sixth seed, who marched into the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win. This was, in some ways, a historic match on Rod Laver Arena: the first grand slam singles match between two podcast co-hosts.

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• Los Angeles Rams 27–31 Seattle Seahawks

• Darnold and Stafford shine in high-class QB duel

• Patriots grind out AFC championship in snow

Sam Darnold threw for three touchdowns, the Seahawks’ “Dark Side” defense came up with a critical fourth-down stop, and Seattle advanced to the Super Bowl, beating the Los Angeles Rams 31-27 in an electrifying NFC championship game on Sunday.

“It’s amazing,” Darnold said. “To be able to do it with these guys in this locker room, though, with this coaching staff, that’s why it means the world to me.”

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This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction

When we talk about our inability to pay attention, to concentrate, we often mean and blame our phones. It’s easy, it’s meant to be easy. One flick of our index finger transports us from disaster to disaster, from crisis to crisis, from maddening lie to maddening lie. Each new unauthorized attack and threatened invasion grabs the headlines, until something else takes its place, and meanwhile the government’s attempts to terrorize and silence the people of our country continue.

So let me break it down. There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian take-over. In Minneapolis an innocent poet and an ER nurse at a VA hospital were both killed in cold blood by federal agents. It is happening now. Toddlers are being sent to detention centers; videos of their gyms for kids recall the youth choruses that the Nazis so proudly showed off at the Terezin concentration camp. Intimidation and violence are being weaponized against the citizens of Minneapolis, some of whom are afraid to leave their houses for fear of being beaten, arrested and shackled, regardless of whether they are US citizens or asylum seekers or people from another country peacefully living and working here for decades.

Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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KDE's "Plasma Login Manager" is apparently dropping support for FreeBSD, the Unix-like operating system, reports the blog It's FOSS. They cite a recently-accepted merge request from a KDE engineer to drop the code supporting FreeBSD, since the login manager relies on systemd/logind:

systemd and logind look like hard dependencies of the login manager, which means the software is built to work exclusively with these components and cannot function without them... logind is a component of systemd that is responsible for user session management...
This doesn't mean that KDE has abandoned the operating system altogether. FreeBSD users can still run the KDE Plasma desktop environment and continue using SDDM, the current login manager that works just fine on such systems.

The article argues FreeBSD users "won't really care much for missing out on this as they have plenty of login manager options available."

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