Mercedes' George Russell bounced back in style by claiming pole ahead of Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and championship leader Kimi Antonelli.
ROSMALEN (ANP) - Tennisser Daniil Medvedev is er niet in geslaagd om de finale van het Libéma Open te bereiken. De 30-jarige Rus moest in de halve finale zijn meerdere erkennen in Kamil Majchrzak. De Pool won in twee sets (7-6 (4) 6-1) en neemt het in de finale op tegen de Australiër Alex de Minaur.
De eerste set trok Majchrzak, de nummer 76 op de wereldranglijst, in de tiebreak naar zich toe. In de tweede set had Medvedev geen antwoord meer op het sterke spel van de Pool. Majchrzak, die vrijdag ook de Canadees Félix Auger-Aliassime uitschakelde, gunde de mondiale nummer 8 slechts één game en benutte zijn tweede matchpoint.
Medvedev, die het grastoernooi in Rosmalen nog nooit won, had eerder op de dag nog zijn kwartfinale tegen Marin Čilić uit Kroatië uitgespeeld: 6-2 3-6 6-1. Dat duel werd vrijdag vanwege de regen na de tweede set bij een gelijke setstand gestaakt.
De Minaur rekende in zijn halve finale in twee sets af met Adrian Mannarino uit Frankrijk: 6-4 6-0.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - President Donald Trump heeft gezegd dat volgens de planning de ondertekening van de verwachte deal tussen zijn land en Iran zondag is. Hij claimt op sociale media dat dan de Straat van Hormuz "meteen open is voor iedereen".
Bemiddelaar Pakistan heeft aangegeven dat dat mogelijk is, afgaand op het succes in de onderhandelingen. Maar Iran heeft tegengesproken dat er zondag al iets wordt getekend. Pakistan werkt aan een procedure om een akkoord elektronisch te ondertekenen. Eerder afgelopen week waren er geruchten over een bijeenkomst in Genève.
Trump claimt ook dat de VS te zijner tijd verrijkt uranium van Iran gaan overnemen. Dit is in tegenspraak met berichten uit Iran. Het beoogde akkoord moet als memorandum van overeenstemming de basis zijn van het einde van vijandelijkheden en het heropenen van de zeestraat. Tal van andere kwesties zoals het verrijkte uranium van Iran zouden in een onderhandelingsproces dat maximaal zestig dagen duurt, moeten worden geregeld. Teheran heeft zaterdag laten weten zondag geen ondertekening te verwachten en dat het nu ook geen gezanten naar Islamabad of Genève stuurt.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Het Kennedy Center heeft de naam van president Donald Trump van de gevel verwijderd. Een rechter had de culturele instelling daartoe bevolen.
In een juridische verklaring zei directeur Matt Floca dat "alle fysieke borden op het gebouw en het terrein van het Kennedy Center" met de naam van Trump zijn verwijderd.
Trump nam na zijn terugkeer in het Witte Huis de leiding van het prestigieuze culturele centrum over, dat is vernoemd naar de in 1963 vermoorde president John F. Kennedy. Vorig jaar besloot het bestuur Trumps naam toe te voegen.
Tussenkomst
Een Amerikaanse rechter besloot eind mei dat de naam van Trump moest worden verwijderd, omdat de naam niet kon worden gewijzigd zonder tussenkomst van het Congres. Het centrum kreeg veertien dagen de tijd om alle verwijzingen naar Trump van fysieke borden en officiële materialen te schrappen. Vorige week werd zijn naam van de website gehaald.
Na de uitspraak zei Trump de leiding van de instelling op te geven.
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Continue reading...US president says in online post he reserves ‘ultimate alternative’ if Tehran refuses to sign agreement
Donald Trump said on Saturday that the US is set to sign a new agreement with Iran the following day, claiming that the deal would prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as well as reopen the strait of Hormuz to international shipping.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that Iran “no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement”.
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It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:
Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under the authority. The tool officially lapsed at the end of the day on Friday. What happens now?
Intelligence collection under FISA's Section 702 is authorized annually by a federal court — and the law allows for that collection to continue for the duration of the court's authorization, even if the law lapses before the court's next approval. That means companies — electronic communications service providers, in this context — will still be legally required to turn over material to intelligence agencies.
Still, some lawmakers worry that the companies compelled to turn over communications may attempt to challenge the law in court, possibly leading to an indeterminately long window during which they stop providing intel. Advocates on all sides of the surveillance fight believe those challenges are ultimately likely to fail, but those closely linked to the intelligence community emphasize that even a small pause comes with risks ahead of major events like America's 250th celebration and the World Cup.
Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under the authority. The tool officially lapsed at the end of the day on Friday. What happens now?
Intelligence collection under FISA's Section 702 is authorized annually by a federal court — and the law allows for that collection to continue for the duration of the court's authorization, even if the law lapses before the court's next approval. That means companies — electronic communications service providers, in this context — will still be legally required to turn over material to intelligence agencies.
Still, some lawmakers worry that the companies compelled to turn over communications may attempt to challenge the law in court, possibly leading to an indeterminately long window during which they stop providing intel. Advocates on all sides of the surveillance fight believe those challenges are ultimately likely to fail, but those closely linked to the intelligence community emphasize that even a small pause comes with risks ahead of major events like America's 250th celebration and the World Cup.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Today's links
- Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable.
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- Object permanence: Msft v Linux geeks; James Joyce scholars v Joyce estate; iPod sweatshops; Pratchett initiates assisted suicide; Lego-making machine made of Lego; Laid off workers v gag clauses; The ACCESS Act.
- Upcoming appearances: LA, Menlo Park, Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Edinburgh, South Bend.
- 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.
Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (permalink)
It's been 55 years since Milton Friedman – cursed be his name – published his NYT editorial, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits," in which he invented the idea of shareholder supremacy out of whole cloth and declared it to be a universal, freestanding, inarguable truth:
Friedman's editorial railed against the idea of "corporate social responsibility," arguing that corporate managers should confine the exercise of their consciences to projects involving their own money and resources. At work, managers must harden their bleeding hearts and do nothing except increase the returns to their shareholders.
Friedman wasn't merely arguing that this would give rise to better companies – the crux of his argument was that by adopting this "fiduciary duty" standard, it would be easy to determine whether a company was being well-managed or run into the ground:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/18/falsifiability/#figleaves-not-rubrics
Friedman argued that "being a good person" was a squishy, undefinable standard that could never be objectively measured. But "maximizing shareholder value" was a crisp, bright-line test that could be readily evaluated by any reasonable person. "Did this manager make as much money as possible for the company's owners?" feels like the kind of question we can all agree on, while, "Did this manager behave in an ethical way?" is much harder to answer.
But even a few moments' thoughts reveal the flaw in this line of reasoning. We can all agree whether a manager made money for the shareholders – but how can we know whether the manager made as much money as possible?
Think about how much "corporate social responsibility" cashes out to performative and insincere nonsense and/or cynical marketing. Target didn't stock Pride merch because they love their LGBTQ friends. They stocked it because they thought they could sell it (same goes for BP marketing its "green" gasoline). Google supports its coders' environmental/queer/antipoverty efforts because being the "don't be evil" company lets you hire in-demand workers who might otherwise go to work for Meta, and every engineer a Silicon Valley firm hires adds an average of $1m to the company's annual bottom line.
Further: it would be absurd to hold managers to the "make as much money as possible" standard in a competitive market, because in that market, there will always be a company that comes in second. If "as much money as possible" is the standard and you're Chairman of the Board of the number two company, with $10b in profit, while the number one pulled in $11b, "as much money as possible" demands that you fire the C-suite immediately, since they objectively could have done 10% better.
So the real standard isn't "make as much money as possible," it's "try to make as much money as possible." And here again, there's no objective way to evaluate managerial performance. Target made a lot of money by selling Pride merch…until they didn't. Do we fire the Target C-suite because they failed to anticipate that 2024 would mark America's transition into the chuddocene, an era in which selling Pride tchotchkes makes you cucked and soy and, you know, gay?
Whether it's "make as much money as possible" or "try to make as much money as possible*," shareholder supremacy can only be evaluated with the aid of a crystal ball…or a time machine.
Which raises a question: what made this nonsensical shareholder supremacy standard so damned attractive to corporate leaders?
Well, what if the ambiguity of shareholder supremacy was a feature and not a bug? What if the function of shareholder supremacy was to absolve the cruelest people for indulging their most sociopathic instincts? What if this "bright line test" was actually a universal excuse, an all-purpose accountability sink that could be used to justify any cruelty or cowardice? "Why didn't I fire my college buddy when I found out that he was sexually abusing his colleagues? Well, he was the best salesman on the team, and I have an obligation to my shareholders. Sorry, my hands were tied."
In other words: Don't get mad at me.
Get mad at Milton Friedman.
Hey look at this (permalink)
- I Am Not a Reverse Centaur https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur
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Network service termination for certain Sony Electronics products https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00398725
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More molly guards https://unsung.aresluna.org/more-molly-guards/
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The Democratic Urge to Lose https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-democratic-urge-to-lose
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Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/please-i-beg-of-you-do-not-use-ai-in-your-business-communications/
Object permanence (permalink)
#20yrsago Microsoft gets Linux geeks evicted from convention center https://web.archive.org/web/20010619154332/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/01/1540231
#20yrsago Stanford prof sues James Joyce estate for right to study Joyce https://web.archive.org/web/20060615203517/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060613/ap_on_en_ot/james_joyce_lawsuit
#20yrsago Inside China’s iPod sweat-shops https://web.archive.org/web/20060616173514/http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14915
#15yrsago Terry Pratchett initiates assisted suicide process https://web.archive.org/web/20110614215922/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8571142/Sir-Terry-Pratchett-begins-process-that-could-lead-to-assisted-suicide.html
#15yrsago Lego-making machine made of Lego https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/forums/topic/56346-review-moulding-machine-4000001-lego-insider-tour-exclusive/
#10yrsago It’s getting harder and harder to use gag clauses to silence laid off workers in America https://web.archive.org/web/20160611202305/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us/laid-off-americans-required-to-zip-lips-on-way-out-grow-bolder.html
#5yrsago The ACCESS Act https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/12/access-act/#interop
Upcoming appearances (permalink)
- LA: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Brian Merchant (Skylight Books), Jun 19
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchant -
Menlo Park: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Angie Coiro (Kepler's), Jun 21
https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow-2026 -
Toronto: The Sovereignty Debate (IAB Canada's State of the Nation), Jun 23
https://iabcanada.com/state-of-the-nation-2026 -
Toronto: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Osler Records/Type Books), Jun 23
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-1991501299998 -
NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html -
Philadelphia: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with David Williams (Fitler Club/Philadelphia Citizen), Jun 25
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-event-tickets-1990110326559 -
Chicago: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Rick Perlstein (Exile in Bookville), Jun 26
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Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales -
South Bend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
Recent appearances (permalink)
- The Enshittification of Life, the Universe, & Everything (Luke Savage)
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-enshittification-of-life-the -
Cory Doctorow's digital jail-break (DW In Focus)
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Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It (Jim Rutt) (RIP)
https://www.jimruttshow.com/cory-doctorow-3/ -
On Enshittification – and what can be done about it (Re:publica)
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EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet (EFF, with Wendy Liu)
https://archive.org/details/effecting-change-enshittification
Latest books (permalink)
- "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce
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"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
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"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).
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"The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).
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"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).
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"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).
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"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.
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"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
Upcoming books (permalink)
- "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)
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"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026
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"The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027
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"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027
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"The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027
Colophon (permalink)
Today's top sources:
Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Third draft completed. Submitted to editor.
- "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.
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"The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.
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A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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