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It’s monstrously presumptuous? Unforgivably glib? Perhaps. But this stylised drama is the show we all need right now
If you are looking for a break in the clouds from this terrible news cycle, can I direct you towards Love Story, the nine-part series executive-produced – but crucially, not written! – by Ryan Murphy, which documents the love and untimely deaths of John F Kennedy Jr and his wife, Carolyn Bessette. You might think this isn’t for you, that it’ll be too tabloidy or that you’re not interested in JFK Jr. But while Love Story, which takes us back to a very particular version of early-1990s New York, might not seem like the show we want right now, it is exactly the show that we need.
This probably sounds like a heartless summary of a true story that ends in the terrible deaths of two young people (in 1999, while flying his wife and her sister from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard, Kennedy crashed his light aircraft, killing everyone on board). But that tragic end only suffuses the preceding nine hours of storytelling with a kind of pearly, nostalgic light, just the thing to see off the iron-grey wash of today’s reality. The New York of Love Story isn’t the city’s current iteration, with its impossible rents and charmless finance bros ruining downtown. Nor is it the 1990s New York of, say, Home Alone 2, in which Donald Trump strides through the Plaza Hotel and Central Park is a crime-ridden disaster.
Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
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Continue reading...Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
A war engulfing the Middle East has cleared the region’s skies, forcing airlines to make drastic rerouting plans and leaving a massive void in usually busy global airspace.
With Israel and the US bombing Iran day after day – and Tehran responding with waves of missiles and drones attacks – airlines have been forced to divert their passenger jets away from the Gulf or risk a catastrophic accident.
Continue reading...Plan, which aims to preserve jobs in clean tech and low carbon sectors, could include UK if there is reciprocal market access
The European Commission has proposed a “Buy EU” plan to boost domestic low-carbon industries and help the continent compete against China.
The commission published a draft regulation – called the Industrial Accelerator Act – on Wednesday, setting demands for EU-made and low-carbon content on bodies spending public money. The rules mark a major shift in economic thinking from Brussels, long a bastion of open markets.
Continue reading...Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the bugs & irritations”. So onto some things that you folks can actually use.
When I launched the KDO Rolodex last July, it was a simple list of five recommended sites on the front page of the site. You could refresh to see more sites, but you couldn’t see the whole list all at once. Fun, but lots of room for improvement.
Over the weekend, I launched the full list of sites (186 at the moment) for your perusal. Any visitor to the site can see the sites & people I read to help make KDO. I’ve written before about why this is important to me:
I love linking out to other sites. The strength of the open web is in its many connections between nodes…the more, the better. Links are the whole goddamned point of the web! I want to send people away from kottke.org to learn something new or have a chuckle and then come back the next day for more. The goal is connection, knowledge, and sharing — I proudly have no competitors in this endeavor, only collaborators.
I loved seeing the whole list. So I kept pushing made something I’ve had on my todo list for awhile: I turned the Rolodex into a tiny RSS feed reader. Which I love even more. The feed reader feature is a bit rough around the edges, so I’m making available only to members while we beta test it. Here’s what it looks like:
The three latest posts from each site or person are listed below their name; clicking on a post title will open the post in a new tab. You can obviously click on the name of the site/person to open that in a new tab too. Sites are sorted by most recently updated (this is true of the public listing as well). If you’re a member, please check it out and kick the tires.
For the curious, some details about the implementation. I use Feedbin as my feed reader and they have a pretty good API. So I built a sync system that adds the URLs of the sites in the Rolodex (if they have associated feeds) to Feedbin and tags them with “Rolodex”. Once the feeds are associated with sites, I can just retrieve new entries from those Rolodex-tagged feeds (every 30 min currently). There are a few sites causing problems — for instance, Beehiiv newsletters don’t appear to have RSS feeds by default?1 — and there are some other bugs, but I’m working on it. I’m not including posts from social sites (Bluesky, Mastodon) for now because that’s another level of velocity.
But like I said, I am loving this casual wee feed reader so far. No read/unread statuses, no counts, no folders, no pressure to catch up, no 3-pane view. I’d say 90-95% of the sites on the list work fine — and it doesn’t need to be 100%. Try it out, lemme know what you think.
Thanks to KDO members for helping to fund new features like this. If you’d like to help support the site, check out your membership options here. ✌️
If you try adding Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day newsletter (hosted by Beehiiv) to Feedbin, it can’t find an RSS feed because there’s no link tag for it. The front page of the site doesn’t link to the feed anywhere. But if you dig around in the source code… ah, there it is. Same deal with Bobby Solomon’s new Horstman newsletter, except the RSS feed address isn’t anywhere in the source. 🤷♂️ So posts for those sites won’t show for now. ↩
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BRUSSEL (ANP) - De buitenlandchef van de Europese Unie Kaja Kallas stelt dat Iran voor zijn eigen ondergang zorgt als het willekeurig buurlanden blijft aanvallen. Volgens haar lijkt het de strategie van Iran "om chaos te zaaien en de regio in brand te steken", zei ze woensdag.
Daarbij doelt ze ook op de Iraanse raket die is neergehaald onderweg naar Turkije. Volgens een Turkse bron zou de raket niet voor Turkije, maar voor EU-lid Cyprus bedoeld zijn geweest. Cyprus is momenteel de voorzitter van de EU en heeft al meerdere bijeenkomsten van EU-ministers afgezegd vanwege de veiligheidssituatie. Een Britse basis op het eiland werd begin deze week geraakt door een Iraanse drone. De basis kan ook door de VS worden gebruikt.
Kallas hamert er verder op dat de wereld Oekraïne niet uit het oog verliest door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Hoewel Rusland door de oorlog geen beroep kan doen op Iran als bondgenoot, zou Moskou wel kunnen profiteren van de stijgende olieprijzen door de oorlog, waarschuwde ze.
