After 88 days of near-total blackout, first reactions to the return of partial connectivity were not celebratory
After 88 days of near-total internet blackout in Iran, long-delayed messages, images and poems flooded phones and social media feeds at about 5pm on Tuesday, when still-limited connectivity flickered back to life.
The first reactions, however, were not celebratory. Many new posts were threaded with scepticism, anxiety and anger.
Continue reading...Socialist leader insists no wrongdoing by family and backs former prime minister, but has much to contend with
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is facing a long and difficult summer as corruption cases involving his brother, his wife and his predecessor José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero come before judges over the coming days and weeks.
The socialist leader – who took power eight years ago after using a vote of no confidence to topple the corruption-mired government of the conservative People’s party (PP) – has insisted there has been no wrongdoing by his family. He has also defended Zapatero and his right to the presumption of innocence.
Continue reading...She made millions as a tween and teenager by posting clips of herself and her friends on YouTube. Then the business collapsed amid acrimony. What does her success in the adult industry, at 18, say about surveillance, social media and sexualisation?
‘Honestly, the answer is kind of gross,” says Piper Rockelle, in a recent TikTok video, reflecting on why she is so popular on OnlyFans. In the clip, she fidgets her fingers and swings in her swivel chair. “It’s because I look so young. I mean, I am really young. I’m literally like fresh turned 18 … and people kind of like that, unfortunately.”
This is an accurate and honest assessment. At the end of last year, not long after turning 18, the former child star and teen influencer began an online countdown, telling her millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram that she would be launching herself on OnlyFans on 1 January. Every day or so since, she has posted pictures of herself on the platform, sometimes posing in a typical teenager’s bedroom – a pink cuddly stuffed pig on the bed behind her, fairy lights on the wall – wearing teddy-bear-themed pants and bras, or fluffy underwear decorated with bunny-rabbit faces and floppy ears.
Continue reading...No one’s name appears in the Epstein files more than that of Lesley Groff, his assistant. Reading through the thousands of emails, a troubling question arises: what did she know?
Jonathan Whitcomb, attorney for Lesley Groff, 5 June 2020
“She did not know.”
FBI interview with Lesley Groff, 24 September 2021
Groff met with a headhunter, and he told her that “there was a job to organize one man’s life. This man was EPSTEIN, a Manhattan socialite. GROFF had never heard of EPSTEIN before this.”
Interview with Lesley Groff in the New York Times, 5 February 2005
“It comes down to the bond. I know what he is thinking and I know when I need to be fast. It’s a nice roll we are on.”
Continue reading...The German duo are returning with the results of their whirlwind session with the late dub legend, best heard in a ‘spatial audio’ installation. They explain why such an unexpected move is par for their artistic course
Interviewing Mouse on Mars is no easy feat. Not because the duo are hard to find, even though their current studio is hidden in a courtyard deep in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. Nor because they continue to be notoriously busy, particularly since one half of the band, Jan St Werner (born Jan Stephan Werner), is now a professor in pop music, at the Folkwang University of the Arts in the western German city of Essen. No, a conversation with Mouse on Mars is an exercise in perseverance and endurance.
Which does not mean it is unpleasurable to chat with Andi Toma and St Werner, as well as their unofficial member and longtime collaborator, the percussionist Dodo NKishi. But any answer to a question may end up somewhere entirely different than originally intended, spanning from the quality of the fruit juice NKishi brought to the studio, to esoteric, tech-optimist digressions on the possibility of forensic resynthesising of the past through archival audio.
Continue reading...TEHERAN (ANP/RTR) - De Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde (IRG) heeft donderdag laten weten dat ze een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis heeft aangevallen. Staatspersbureau Tasnim meldt dat dit zou zijn gebeurd naar aanleiding van een Amerikaanse aanval in de buurt van de zuidelijke stad Bandar Abbas.
In de nacht van woensdag op donderdag was het onrustig rondom Bandar Abbas, dat aan de Straat van Hormuz ligt. De VS voerden aanvallen uit op een militaire locatie, terwijl Iran op zijn beurt bevestigde dat het op schepen had geschoten die de Straat van Hormuz probeerden binnen te varen. Ook zouden de VS Iraanse drones hebben onderschept.
De IRG waarschuwt dat elke herhaling van wat zij "agressie" noemen een "daadkrachtigere" reactie zal uitlokken en dat de verantwoordelijkheid voor de gevolgen bij de "agressor" ligt.
De IRG heeft niet gezegd welke Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis zou zijn aangevallen.
Kevin Hall werd bejubeld om zijn onderzoek naar dikmakend voedsel. Tot hij niet meer in het straatje paste van de Make America Healthy-beweging en werd afgeserveerd. In zijn nieuwe boek legt hij uit hoe voeding écht werkt. „Het lichaam past zich verbazingwekkend goed aan.”
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