MOSKOU (ANP/AFP) - Het Europese tegenvoorstel op het Amerikaanse vredesplan voor Oekraïne is "op het eerste gezicht niet constructief en werkt niet" voor Rusland, stelt Joeri Oesjakov, topadviseur van het Kremlin.

"Niet alle, maar veel bepalingen" van het Amerikaanse plan lijken volgens hem "acceptabel". De topadviseur voegde eraan toe dat over sommige punten in detail moet worden gesproken. President Vladimir Poetin zei vrijdag dat het Amerikaanse 28-puntenplan mogelijk de basis zou kunnen vormen voor vrede in Oekraïne.

Ingewijden zeggen dat Frankrijk, Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk het tegenvoorstel hebben opgesteld. Het Amerikaanse plan is als basis gebruikt. Onder meer de punten over de NAVO en grondgebied zijn flink gewijzigd. Zo wordt NAVO-lidmaatschap niet meer uitgesloten en krijgt Rusland ook geen Oekraïens grondgebied meer.

HILVERSUM (ANP) - De verdachte die vrijdag werd aangehouden omdat hij een valse bommelding deed in een trein, moet komende vrijdag voor de rechter verschijnen in een snelrechtzitting. Het gaat om een 44-jarige man uit Amersfoort, meldt een woordvoerder van het Openbaar Ministerie Midden-Nederland.

De man is maandag voorgeleid en blijft twee weken langer vastzitten, laat een woordvoerder van de rechtbank Midden-Nederland weten.

De valse bommelding werd vrijdagmiddag gedaan. Daarop werd de trein stilgezet bij Hilversum Sportpark. De trein werd na inspectie veilig verklaard.

Drie mensen zijn aangehouden. Een van hen bleek niets met het voorval te maken te hebben. Een andere man, die met de verdachte reisde die riep een bom bij zich te hebben, zou een bedreiging hebben geuit. Hij is vrijdagavond met een boete naar huis gestuurd.

ZÜRICH (ANP/AFP) - De Zwitserse nationale omroep SRG schrapt de komende drie jaar ongeveer negenhonderd banen, om de kosten te verlagen "te midden van de omwentelingen in het medialandschap". Volgens de publieke omroep moet de reorganisatie een kostenbesparing van 270 miljoen Zwitserse frank (290 miljoen euro) opleveren tegen 2029.

Bij SRG, die kanalen beheert in de vier nationale talen van Zwitserland, werken nu ongeveer 7100 mensen. "We betreuren deze ontslagen", zei SRG-topvrouw Susanne Wille in een verklaring. "De politieke beslissingen en de context waarin ons bedrijf opereert, laten ons geen andere keuze", vervolgde ze.

De SRG wees op "grote uitdagingen", waaronder het besluit van de Zwitserse overheid om de publieke omroepbijdrage te verlagen. Die bijdrage vormt een groot deel van de inkomsten van de organisatie. Ook kampt SRG met dalende advertentie-inkomsten.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag met winst begonnen aan de verkorte handelsweek. De Amerikaanse financiële markten zijn donderdag gesloten vanwege de viering van Thanksgiving. Op de dag na Thanksgiving, die bekendstaat als Black Friday, is Wall Street slechts een halve dag open. De handelsvolumes op de beurzen zullen naar verwachting relatief beperkt blijven.

De hoop dat de Amerikaanse centrale bank de rente dit jaar toch verder gaat verlagen om de economie te stimuleren, bleef zorgen voor optimisme bij beleggers. Vrijdag veerden de beursgraadmeters in New York al op door uitlatingen van Fed-bestuurder John Williams. De president van de Federal Reserve in New York zei ruimte te zien voor een derde renteverlaging dit jaar.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,2 procent hoger op 46.356 punten. De S&P 500-index won 0,9 procent op 6661 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq klom 1,6 procent tot 22.624 punten.

Een lift die toeristen in een oogwenk op het strand van het Indonesische Kelingking zou neerzetten, moet worden afgebroken. Het glazen bouwsel vernietigde volgens critici het ongerepte karakter van het gebied.

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Sebastian Foster is thrilled to present its 2025 Fall Print Set, marking the 13th anniversary of the collection since publishing the first set in 2012. The new release features 20 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters from around the world.

The prints in this set have all been published as relatively small editions, hand-signed, and numbered by the artists. Encompassing an eclectic array of mediums and themes, the collection showcases work from artists previously featured on Colossal, including Jeremy Miranda’s dreamy oil paintings, Kenny Harris’s delicately rendered moka pots, and Grant Haffner’s trippy landscapes in bold color palettes.

Based in Austin but operating solely online, Sebastian Foster shifted focus from a traditional brick-and-mortar gallery handling original work to working with artists to make their paintings into limited print editions, publishing more than 1,000 editions since opening in the late 2000s.

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Today's links

• Cooking in Maximum Security: A companion volume to "Prisoners' Inventions."
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Cursed house; Randall Munroe's stick figures; Reverse engineering a gig work platform; Barbie surveillance toy teardown; Labor and large firms.
• Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Cooking in Maximum Security (permalink)

Cooking in Maximum Security is a slim volume of prisoners' recipes and improvised cooking equipment, a testament to the ingenuity of a network of prisoners in Italy's maximum security prisons:

https://halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-maximum-security/

Cooking in Maximum Security has a new English translation from Half Letter Press, who also publish the classic Prisoner's Inventions, which is one of my favorite books of all time, a collection of keenly observed, beautifully drawn material improvisations from America's prisons:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/king-rat/#mother-of-invention

Prison cookbooks are a genre unto themselves, with "underground" classics like Jailhouse Cookbook:

http://jailhousecookbook.com/

And slick coffee-table books like Prison Ramen:

https://www.eater.com/23900359/gastropod-instant-ramen-prison-ramen-recipes-stories-maruchan-cup-noodle

But Cooking in Maximum Security drills down much deeper on the method than those other books, elevating the makerish improvisation of the chefs whose work it reproduces. They explain how to make an oven out of a wooden stool lined with cigarette foil and draped with heavy blankets, into which a small gas burner is introduced:

https://www.cookinginmaximumsecurity.com/tools/

Or how to turn a toothbrush handle and the razor blade from a pencil-sharpener into an all-purpose paring knife:

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-l4sjfhdy/images/stencil/2048×2048/products/771/3042/CookinginMax4__83959.1762438870.jpg?c=2

These field-expedient gadget improvisations are incredibly satisfying. They have the vibe of a good episode of Scrapheap Challenge, or the high-stakes duct-tape ingenuity of Apollo 13. And while these recipes and build notes were collected in the 2010s, the pencil/charcoal illustrations have a classic 1970s feel, like the illustrations out of the Moosewood Cookbook or The Joy of Sex. If you love the kind of clever repurposings that filled the pages of Make magazine, you'll love this.

Plus, the food sounds incredible. Mouth-watering. Fresh bread whose dough was warmed and risen by setting it atop the heat-radiating surface of a CRT television!

One thing that sets Cooking in Maximum Security apart from other prison cookbooks is the unique character of Italian maximum security prisons, in which visitors are allowed to bring a fairly large variety of goods to inmates, and where the commissary is stocked with an incredible variety of basic ingredients, including things like goat and beef livers (the book reproduces an entire commissary menu, with prices, as an appendix). Prisoners have access to beer and wine, and find endless uses for old beer cans. The book also drops in casual clues about life in an Italian prison, for example, when it suggests getting your wooden stirrer by taking down a crucifix and using that.

Cooking in Maximum Security arose out of a project called "MoCa" (a play on the essential moka coffee maker that is the most versatile and widely used tool in this book). Prisoners met with, and corresponded with, outside helpers who put together the entire volume. One collaborator, Mario, died shortly after sending a long letter (reproduced in an appendix) from solitary confinement, and this letter, along with other notes interspersed through the recipes, give a brilliant anthropological account of life in Italian maximum security prisons.

The MoCa project isn't done – they've embarked on "Phase II," which will collect recipes from Spanish prisoners.

It's a remarkable book, and an essential companion to Prisoner's Inventions.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/23/bossware_monitor_remote_employees/

• Morality offsets https://www.metafilter.com/48233/Dumping-the-SUV-guilt#1171485

• Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis | naked capitalism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/nations-largest-landlord-is-encouraged-to-break-the-law-with-measly-fine-for-price-fixing-scheme-that-kept-rents-artificially-high-and-worsened-american-homelessness-crisis.html

• Fran Sans https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Sony rootkit hurts artists https://web.archive.org/web/20051125121608/http://businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051122_343542.htm

#20yrsago Anti-game lawyer loses right to practice law in Alabama https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/11/5613-2/

#20yrsago Tech business niches begging to be filled https://techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/companies-id-like-to-profile-but-dont-exist/

#20yrsago Giving EU air-passenger data to US DHS is illegal https://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1122/70024-eu/

#15yrsago What John Pistole means when he talks about “enhanced” TSA checkpoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrDzMD_BC8

#15yrsago Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock explained in 32 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJKHFPBwDRA

#15yrsago TSA looks at Adam Savage’s junk, misses his two 12″ razor blades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4

#10yrsago What’s inside a “Hello Barbie” surveillance toy? https://www.somersetrecon.com/blog/2015/11/20/hello-barbie-security-part-1-teardown

#10yrsago J Edgar Hoover loved Efrem Zimbalist’s “FBI” https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/23/efrem-zimbalist-fbi-file/

#10yrsago Blankets: New edition of Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/23/blankets-new-edition-of-craig-thompsons-graphic-masterpiece/

#10yrsago Randall Munroe does a Q&A with stick-figure comics https://time.com/4116921/randall-munroe-draws-his-own-conclusions/

#10yrsago On the grotesque obsession with accomplished women’s fertility https://harpers.org/archive/2015/10/the-mother-of-all-questions/?single=1

#10yrsago How browser extensions steal logins & browsing habits; conduct corporate espionage https://labs.detectify.com/security-guidance/chrome-extensions-google-is-tracking-you/

#10yrsago Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/20/lisa-jones-girlfriend-of-undercover-police-office-mark-kennedy-interview

#5yrsago An Especially Cursed House https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/22/especially-cursed/#mcmansion-hell

#5yrsago Guatemala's guillotines https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#guillotines

#5yrsago The power of procurements https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#procurements

#5yrsago Labor and large firms https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#monopsony

#5yrsago A textbook grift https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#racket

#5yrsago Australian predictive policing tool for kids https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#phrenology

#5yrsago Opsec and personal security https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/opsec-and-personal-security/#asl

#1yrago Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hack-the-class-war/#robo-boss

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
  https://www.ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibitions/jailbreaking-canada

• San Diego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
  https://libraryfoundationsd.org/events/doctorow

• Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroscience-ai-and-society-cory-doctorow-tickets-1735371255139

• Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
  https://davidgraeber.institute/poetic-technologies-with-cory-doctorow-and-brian-eno/

• Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
  https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification

• Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
  https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Today in Focus (The Guardian)
  https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/nov/24/enshittification-how-we-got-the-internet-no-one-asked-for-podcast

• Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library)
  https://www.crowdcast.io/c/0wzs9iu1q225

• Tech unions against enshittification (TUC)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11hmiHu6Tc

• It’s not your job to fix the internet (Vergecast)
  https://www.theverge.com/podcast/822822/enshittification-cory-doctorow-interview-vergecast

• Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
  https://newbooksnetwork.com/cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (the-bezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE AND SUBMITTED.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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