Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the Japanese audio track “becomes the best ‘Space Kurosawa’ movie ever made”.
Microshifting. “From a creativity standpoint, it’s good to take breaks. When you stop thinking about a task is when your best ideas come to you.” This is how I’ve worked for the past decade+…bursts of work throughout the day & week.
Milieudefensie-directeur Donald Pols gaat aan de slag bij Tata Steel Nederland. Hij moet daarom per direct stoppen bij de milieclub.
Pols wordt per 1 juni directeur duurzaamheid bij de staalfabrikant en krijgt tevens de leiding over de communicatieafdeling, heeft Tata Steel in een verklaring laten weten. Het bedrijf zegt ook dat Pols' eerdere kritiek op Tata Steel heeft geholpen bij het aanscherpen van zijn plannen voor groen staal.
Milieudefensie reageert verbolgen. "Wij zijn verrast door het vertrek van Donald Pols en zeer teleurgesteld in zijn keuze om naar Tata Steel te gaan, een van de grootste vervuilers van Nederland", zegt voorzitter van de Raad van Toezicht Marty Smits.
De in 1972 in Zuid-Afrika geboren Pols was sinds 2015 directeur van Milieudefensie. Zelf verklaart hij dat hij zijn ervaring bij Milieudefensie meeneemt "naar binnen". "Bij Tata Steel heb ik de kans om te laten zien dat industriële verduurzaming niet alleen afdwingbaar is, maar ook van binnenuit kan worden aangedreven."
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other major porn sites, announced today that in the UK, iPhone and iPad users will be able to access its sites again, ending an over three month ban that Aylo initially enacted because of the region’s age verification law.
As of Tuesday, following the iOS 26.4 rollout in the UK, users on the new operating system can visit Pornhub and Aylo’s other sites from their iPhones.
On April 29, Apple announced that it would start requiring mobile users to confirm ages on their devices to check if they’re 18 or older: “You can confirm your age with a credit card that belongs to you, or by scanning your passport, driving licence, or one of the following PASS-accredited Proof of Age cards: CitizenCard, My ID Card, TOTUM ID card or Young Scot National Entitlement Card. Debit cards and gift cards aren't supported,” according to Apple. Web content filters and communication safety tools are turned on automatically for children, as well as adults who haven’t confirmed their age, Apple wrote.
Many UK Users Soon Won’t Be Able to Access Pornhub
Starting February 2, many people connecting from the UK will not be able to access the porn site and many others.
Samantha Cole
In January, Aylo announced that starting February 2 it would restrict people visiting the site from the UK. Leadership at Aylo and Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), which acquired Aylo in 2023, said at the time that the UK’s Online Safety Act was a failure. Before January, UK-based visitors to Aylo sites—which include RedTube, YouPorn, Brazzers, and many more—had to verify their ages by entering a credit card or uploading a government ID or other identification to an age estimation system called All Pass Trust. After February, anyone in the UK not already verified was locked out of those sites.
Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver’s license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.
Emanuel Maiberg
Experts say site-based age verification is both ineffective at stopping minors from viewing harmful content as it drives them from lawful sites to harmful, unregulated ones, and also chills adults’ abilities to work online as adult performers and consume legal adult entertainment online. The adult industry has been lobbying for device-based verification and parental controls, which often already exists as an optional feature on most devices children might have access to, as an alternative. Device-level age verification remains controversial among free speech and internet access groups.
In the UK, the Online Safety Act, which went into effect in 2025, requires sites to implement age verification or face millions of dollars in fines and jail—or up to 10 percent of global revenues, whichever is higher. In the US, more than half of states have strict age verification laws in place, and in many of those states, Aylo blocks access and directs users to contact their representatives.
This is the first time Aylo has come back to a market after restricting access to its sites in response to age verification laws.
“As of about 30 minutes ago, we're now live again in the UK, accessible to Apple users who have updated to the most recent version of the iOS,” Alex Kekesi, VP Brand and Community at Aylo, said in a 9:30 a.m. EST call on Tuesday.
Visitors to the sites who are using a Windows PC, Android device, or other non-iPhone or other mobile Apple devices such as iPads that use iOS in the UK will still not have access.
“We have been reaching out to the operating system providers to emphasize the need for a highly effective device based solution, that includes Google, that includes Microsoft and Apple,” Solomon Friedman, partner and vice president of compliance at ECP, said on the call. “And on behalf of ownership, we're obviously delighted to see that Apple has instituted UK wide, effective device based age assurance.”
In November 2025, Pornhub’s parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to support device-based age verification in their app stores and operating systems.
Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has reflected on the Miami Grand Prix as the team show signs of progress.
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."…
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Kim Cattrall shot to fame when she played the sexually liberated Samantha Jones in the TV series Sex and the City. Her film roles span comedy, drama and thrillers including Police Academy, Mannequin and The Ghost Writer. She also appeared to rave reviews in stage productions of Private Lives and David Mamet’s The Cryptogram.
Born in Liverpool, she moved to Canada as a child and now divides her time between New York City, London and Vancouver. Cattrall is the face of a new Designer at Debenhams campaign, a collaboration between the retailer and the British designer Ashish.
Continue reading...In Nariño, guerrilla groups are swapping arms for legal mining as part of the country’s peace accord. But as presidential elections loom, armed rivals and delays threaten to derail progress
Dressed in civilian clothing with Pasto Indigenous motifs across his sleeves, Royer Garzón, a guerrilla commander and delegate at the peace negotiation table, sits alongside about two-dozen combatants on a small stand beside a concrete sports field in one of Nariño’s state-recognised Indigenous collective territories in Colombia.
Most wear military fatigues and rubber boots, matching a huge red-and-white banner reading FC Sur-ELN – Frente Comuneros del Sur, or National Liberation Army, the guerrilla group they once belonged to – an identity they have not lost.
Members of Comuneros del Sur. The group is estimated to have about 250 fighters in the Nariño department
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