Hongaars parlement stemt voor wetswijziging om president uit ‘Orbán-tijdperk’ af te zetten

Al sinds zijn verkiezingswinst in april wilde premier Péter Magyar dat president Tamás Sulyok aftrad. Sulyok, die door Magyar werd bestempeld als een „marionet” van de radicaal-rechtse oud-premier Viktor Orbán, weigerde dat.

Datacenter Microsoft gebruikt 1 procent van alle Nederlandse stroom, Google wil geen inzage geven in verbruik

Microsoft geeft als eerste grote Amerikaanse partij inzicht in het stroomverbruik van zijn datacenters in Nederland. Dat is groot, en groeit de komende jaren bovendien hard. Terwijl andere datacenteruitbaters zwijgen, verhardt de strijd om toekomstige aansluitingen op het stroomnet.


Skiën in Japan, coaching in Valencia, of toch maatschappelijke dienst? Het tussenjaar blijft populair. ‘Ik wil mezelf ontwikkelen, ook mentaal’

Ongeveer een kwart van de geslaagden op havo en vwo kiest voor een tussenjaar. Ze willen reizen, sporten, een taal leren, vrijwilligerswerk doen. En ze zijn op zoek naar persoonlijke groei. „Ik weet nog niet zo goed wat mijn kwaliteiten zijn.”


PANIEK! We krijgen: 'FEITELIJKE WATERTEKORTEN'

hoe lang nog drinkwater?

Nederland waterland. Dat ligt niet alleen ontzettend lekker in het gehoor, het ís ook nog eens zo. MAAR VOOR HOELANG NOG? Al tijden wordt gewaarschuwd voor grote watertekorten en zelfs De T. zucht, maar nu brengt Nieuwsuur ons een waarschuwing rechtstreeks van de Landelijke Coördinatiecommissie Waterverdeling, die stelt dat we waterwise zo'n beetje teruggaan naar het jaar 1976 (toen Joop den Uyl nog kraanbeheerder was). We zitten pas een paar dagen in fase 1: dreigend watertekort, maar fase 2: feitelijk watertekort ligt al op de loer. Dat raakt in de eerste plaats scheepvaart en boeren, alleen op een gegeven moment komt ook de burger in de zee van ellende terecht, zeker met die eeuwigdurende hittegolf waar we in zitten. En ja, mogen we dan straks nog wel dweilen? Plantjes water geven? De was doen in een teil? Kan er dan nog muntjesloos gedoucht of moeten we de zweetgeur van Jeroen van sales op kantoor gaan gedogen? Dat worden onsmakelijke toestanden in Nederland. Gelukkig kunnen we in plaats van drinkwater nog altijd aan het bier (toch geldt ook hier: hoelang nog?), verder ziet het er allemaal bepaald niet positief uit.

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Korea’s Coastal Folklore Surfaces in Jeongmin Lee’s Ink Illustrations

Korea’s Coastal Folklore Surfaces in Jeongmin Lee’s Ink Illustrations

Jeongmin Lee is interested in the ways “memory is carried through craft and repetition.” On traditional Korean mulberry paper, or hanji, Lee draws delicate lines in ink and pigments known as bunchae, rendering rippling textures that whirl across the page. Steeped in local folklore and mythology, the Busan-based artist creates surreal scenes that conjure fantastical tales of life by the sea.

“Most of my recent projects begin with reading regional folktales, visiting places connected to those stories, and collecting fragments of history, mythology, and oral traditions,” she says. “I rarely paint a folktale exactly as it’s written; I’m more interested in its symbols, emotions, and the questions it leaves behind.”

a surreal illustration of a nude woman standing atop circular forms

Many of Lee’s compositions focus on women’s knowledge, labor, and resilience and how those qualities emerge through coastal storytelling. Tales of powerful sea gods and the diving traditions of the haenyeo commingle into balanced illustrations that translate the symbols and motifs of the region anew.

While her approach is labor-intensive, Lee enjoys utilizing such a meticulous, meditative technique. “Painting with traditional pigments requires a slow, layered process. The colors are built gradually, allowing the paper and pigments to create subtle textures that wouldn’t be possible with other materials,” she adds. “It gives me space to sit with these stories while I paint them.

Many of the works shown here are part of Daughters of the Sea, an ongoing series recently on view at the SĀBRS Festival in Riga. Lee hopes to expand the project into one that’s participatory and connects similar narratives from across the globe. “I’m exploring ways that folklore can become something people experience and talk about together, rather than something that exists only on a gallery wall,” Lee shares.

She’s also currently working on a graphic novel centering on Busan’s mythology and folklore, which she hopes to complete next year. Keep up with her projects on Instagram.

a surreal illustration of two abstract figures facing each other and then waves on the bottom
a surreal illustration of a snake spliced to reveal a figure's head and flowers
a surreal illustration of a fox with two figures emerging upward
a surreal illustration of a woman surrounded by waves
a surreal illustration of a woman surrounded by waves
a surreal illustration of a nude men playing chicken
a work in progress

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Weird Pi failure mode

I have a Pi 4 B that, after a power failure, seems unable to talk HDMI in any resolution higher than 1024x768. I have tried both ports, multiple cables, multiple monitors, and a known-good CF card.

# xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 7680 x 7680 HDMI-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.00* 800x600 60.32 56.25 848x480 60.00 640x480 59.94 HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I have also tried various permutations of hdmi_force_hotplug, hdmi_group, hdmi_mode, hdmi_force_mode, hdmi_force_hotplug and hdmi_drive in config.txt, and video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60D in cmdline.txt with no change.

Before I toss it in the trash, does anyone know what could have caused this and if it is fixable? Is this a known failure mode of the video hardware scorching itself somehow?

Do not speculate. Do not just google it for me.

Previously, previously.

Tiong Ang @ Lumen Travo

Ik leerde Tiong Ang kennen via Remy Jungerman met wie hij in 2002 een residentie deed in Indonesië. Ik ben zijn werk sindsdien blijven volgen, eerst toen ik meer reisde op afstand en sinds ik [Meer...]

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Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The...

Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The Wadsworth Museum in Hartford, CT in August. Vuong used “portraiture, landscape, and snapshots to document queer and immigrant life in the Connecticut River Valley over two decades”.

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China, Russia and Others Seek To Inflame Debate Over AI Data Centers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of artificial intelligence posed a threat to Americans' physical and financial well-being. A comic strip made to look as if it had been published by a Maryland news outlet -- created with OpenAI's ChatGPT by people in China, the tech company said -- circulated on X this year, blaming data centers for soaring electricity bills. It showed a tycoon smoking a cigar and clutching bags of cash. A video shared on X by a known covert Russian influence operation questioned the viability of a data center that an American company, Firebird, is constructing in Armenia, the small Caucasus nation that has been a focus of Kremlin pressure. "The country's electrical grid instability may render it useless," the video's narrator says.

All are examples of a push by foreign adversaries to seize on what polls have shown is deep ambivalence -- verging at times on hostility -- about the spread of the data centers needed to power A.I. in the United States and elsewhere. China, Russia and, to a lesser extent, Iran have sought to use state media outlets to turn the controversy over data centers in the United States into "a domestic fracture point," according to a new analysis by Alethea, a threat intelligence company, which identified scores of articles and posts on social media this year. These campaigns, whose impact on public opinion remains to be seen, have raised alarms in Washington, where A.I. is seen as a top issue heading into this year's midterm elections.

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densha — study Japanese in a living voxel Tokyo

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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese: jivx.com/densha

Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4