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Op de Statenweg in Rotterdam-Noord is donderdagmiddag een touringcar vast komen te zitten in een tunnel onder het spoor. De bus was te hoog voor de tunnel, die duidelijk is gemarkeerd met een maximale hoogte van 3,4 meter.
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De Utrechtse wethouder Eelco Eerenberg (41) is de nieuwe beoogde D66-staatssecretaris op Financiën, heeft de partij donderdag bekend gemaakt. Hij neemt de plaats in van Nathalie…
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De Rotterdamse haven rekent op waterstof om belangrijke industrie voor Nederland te behouden. Maar het kost veel energie om het gas te vervoeren vanuit Brazilië.
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Joe McCann of the Melksham News was tipped off by a contact about the image and raised issue at council meeting
A local newspaper journalist has said he was left “shocked” after a picture of his face was printed out and attached to punchbag at a town hall.
Joe McCann, who has worked for the Melksham News for 10 years, was tipped off by a contact that a print-out of his face had been attached to a freestanding punchbag inside the building.
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Whether retreating from fame or heartbreak, the US musician writes gorgeous songs about the appeal of disconnection, flecked with horror and humour
Last month, Mitski released Where’s My Phone?, the first single from her eighth album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Its raging alt-rock is a more robust take on the lo-fi fuzz of her third album Bury Me at Makeout Creek, while UK listeners might detect a certain Britpoppy swing about its rhythm, and it ends with a guitar solo so jarringly distorted it sounds as if something is wrong with the stream. It was accompanied by a video that featured the singer as a headscarf-sporting rural mother, trying to protect her family from the attentions of the outside world with increasing violence: a milkman gets attacked, her daughter’s potential suitor is beaten bloody. It’s both funny and unsettling; there are references to Rapunzel, Grey Gardens, Grant Wood’s American Gothic and Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle – a litany of the wilfully isolated.
The visuals set the tone for the rest of Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, an album on which you’re never far from its author expressing a longing to disappear; to be, as she puts it on Instead of Here, “where nobody can reach”. On opener In a Lake, she extols moving to the city from a small town, not in search of bright lights and excitement, but obscurity, a means of obliterating your own history: “Some days you just go the long way to stay off memory lane.” On I’ll Change for You, she hymns bars – “such magic places” – precisely because of their anonymity: “You can be with other people without having anyone at all.” And on Rules, she’ll “get a new haircut … be somebody else”. All this is set to beautifully crafted music that splits the difference between alt-rock, country-infused acoustic lamentation and grander ambition: the brilliance of Rules lies in the disparity between the hopelessness of its lyric and the thickly orchestrated, perky, early 70s easy listening backing.
Continue reading...BREDA (ANP) - Net als bij eerdere verkiezingen klinkt ook in aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van maart de oproep stemlokalen toegankelijk in te richten, zodat ook mensen met een lichamelijke beperking er terechtkunnen. De Nationale Vereniging de Zonnebloem heeft daarvoor een checklist opgesteld.
Na de verkiezingen in november kwamen er minder klachten binnen bij het meldpunt Onbeperkt Stemmen en de organisatie erachter, Ieder(in), zag de toegankelijkheid verbeteren. Met de campagne 'Ook onze stem telt' wil de Zonnebloem die verbetering doorzetten en aandacht vragen van burgemeesters daarop toe te zien. De organisatie zegt dat mensen thuisblijven als ze vooraf niet zeker zijn dat de stemlocatie voorzieningen voor hen heeft.
Dat kan voorkomen worden als gemeenten vervoer aanbieden, er een gehandicaptenparkeerplaats is binnen 100 meter van het stembureau en op een drempel hoger dan 2 centimeter een hellingbaan ligt. De deuren moeten breed genoeg zijn en er moet een stemhokje zijn met een verlaagd werkblad, aldus de Zonnebloem.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector's explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacenters, the analysis of 154 statements found.
The research, commissioned by nonprofits including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation, did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google's Gemini or Microsoft's Copilot were leading to a "material, verifiable, and substantial" reduction in planet-heating emissions. Ketan Joshi, an energy analyst and author of the report, said the industry's tactics were "diversionary" and relied on tried and tested methods that amount to "greenwashing."
He likened it to fossil fuel companies advertising their modest investments in solar panels and overstating the potential of carbon capture. "These technologies only avoid a minuscule fraction of emissions relative to the massive emissions of their core business," said Joshi. "Big tech took that approach and upgraded and expanded it." [...] Joshi said the discourse around AI's climate benefits needed to be "brought back to reality." "The false coupling of a big problem and a small solution serves as a distraction from the very preventable harms being done through unrestricted datacenter expansion," he said.
The research, commissioned by nonprofits including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation, did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google's Gemini or Microsoft's Copilot were leading to a "material, verifiable, and substantial" reduction in planet-heating emissions. Ketan Joshi, an energy analyst and author of the report, said the industry's tactics were "diversionary" and relied on tried and tested methods that amount to "greenwashing."
He likened it to fossil fuel companies advertising their modest investments in solar panels and overstating the potential of carbon capture. "These technologies only avoid a minuscule fraction of emissions relative to the massive emissions of their core business," said Joshi. "Big tech took that approach and upgraded and expanded it." [...] Joshi said the discourse around AI's climate benefits needed to be "brought back to reality." "The false coupling of a big problem and a small solution serves as a distraction from the very preventable harms being done through unrestricted datacenter expansion," he said.
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