December 1983, een signeersessie van het nieuwste Sjef van Oekel stripboek in een Alkmaarse boekhandel. Elke week keek ik naar De lachende scheerkwast, Wim T.

Horizontaal: 1. Wateropnemer 5. ‘Voormalig Ajacied Nemanja __ vertrekt na zeven seizoenen bij Sevilla ’ 9. Iris 10. Eeuwenoude stad in Duitsland 11. Binnenkomertje 12.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, de negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken, én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

SF Gazetteer, Cydney Hayes: Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?

The machine Owen encountered is called a Patronscan Guard+, a biometric and personal data collection device made by Servall Data Systems, a surveillance tech company headquartered in Alberta, Canada. Mix is one of at least three bars in the Castro, including Badlands and Toad Hall on 18th Street, that wheel out the Patronscan kiosk each night to collect the personal data of every customer that comes through the door, including names, addresses, genders, and even how they behave inside the bar. [...]

Management from Mix, Badlands, and Toad Hall did not respond to requests for comment about when or why they first started using the surveillance tech in their businesses, so I stopped by Mix last Thursday night to check things out for myself.

Like most private surveillance cameras, the Patronscan kiosk at Mix hides in plain sight. In the dim light of the bar, the black machine is easy to miss. I was also not instructed to face the camera when I handed my ID to the bouncer; when I asked if I would be photographed, the bouncer told me the camera had in fact already taken my picture. They said Mix bouncers are not required to verbally tell each patron that they're being photographed by the Patronscan device. Instead, they rely on a small informational plaque posted to the kiosk below eye level to inform customers what data is being collected and how it will be used.

"It's posted signage," the bouncer shrugged on Thursday, when I suggested tipsy customers might not read the fine print on their way inside. [...]

Owen, however, sees potential for serious privacy risks. In today's political climate, she said, "it's really not great to have lists of gay people."

(Gee, ya think?)

In 2023, Illinois residents filed a class action lawsuit against Patronscan for violating an Illinois biometrics privacy law by collecting biometric data from eventgoers without first obtaining their consent, calling the technology "Orwellian."

In 2019, when the Board of Supervisors banned the use of facial recognition software by city agencies, including the police, the measure was widely supported by locals and inspired similar policies nationwide. That policy does not apply to private businesses like the Castro bars, but the reception at the time signaled widespread distrust toward surveillance tech companies. But now as the technology grows more normalized and a new generation of AI boomers flood San Francisco, the attitude toward Big Brother is shifting in the city.

The morning after we chatted in the Castro, Gonzalez told me over Instagram DM that he was unaware Mix could share patron data with neighboring businesses but did not see a problem with it. "I think it's cute that they share it amongst other bars," he wrote. "It's like a little cybersecurity community."

Oh, how cute!

As George Orwell famously wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a shrug emoji stamping on a human face -- forever."

This is so much worse than the usual techbro "disruption" of bars that features here so often; it's even worse than the company that tried to sell bars' security cameras back to them.

If you think these photos, videos and dossiers of personally-identifiable information won't be turned over to ICE at the drop of a hat by this Servall Data Systems, you have not been paying attention. ICE, I must remind you, now has a budget exceeding the entire military budgets of all but 15 countries. Bigger than Israel; almost as big as Canada and South Korea.

The Brownshirts will be in the Castro soon enough.

Commodore (or some entity now calling itself Commodore) is releasing a flip phone.

Smartphones are mindlessly seamless by design. Callback is built around a simple research-backed finding: remove features designed to pull you back in, & reintroduce physical friction like a speed bump for the mind.

We turned these principles into a phone you can live with every day. And like any great multi-tool, when you're done using it, you snap it shut -- a deliberate endpoint instead of another invitation to scroll.

Close the phone. Open your life.

Headphone jack; removable battery; microSD; no AI; blocks web browsers and social media. From the FAQ:

• Can the browser or social media blocks be turned off?
No. Callback is built around those blocks. That is the point.

I never became fluent in T9, but now I think I shall.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

⚽️ Kick-off time: 8pm local/11am AEST/2am BST/9pm EDT
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In the latest who-cares-the-rapture-is-coming-soon-anyway news Johnny Child continues to turn left for global warming.

As a result of the huge distances the New Weather Institute has described this World Cup as “the most polluting event ever”, estimating that it will generate about 9 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Air travel is responsible for about 7.7 million tons of that carbon estimate, more than four times that of the average for World Cups held from 2010 to 2022.

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Voters have also been casting ballots in Alabama and Washington DC, where for the first time in over 10 years, the city will elect a new mayor in November

With the first 20% of the ballots counted in the Republican primary in Georgia to be the party’s candidate for governor in November, the Trump-endorsed candidate, Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, trails healthcare executive Rick Jackson by nearly 20 points: 59.4% to 40.6%.

Jackson has spent over $100m on his campaign.

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Starting in 2027, France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, effectively forcing government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to phase out older cryptographic systems. Reuters reports: Samih Souissi, ANSSI's chief of staff, said at the France Quantum conference that the agency would halt such certifications from 2027, and that businesses should be buying only quantum-safe products by 2030. ANSSI approval is required for use in French government agencies and critical infrastructure, making the policy a de facto phase-out of older encryption.

"It's not only a technical issue," Souissi said. "It's a matter of governance, industrial planning, regulation, and sovereignty." The move reflects concern that attackers may store encrypted data now and unlock it later when quantum computers become strong enough to crack today's protections, a risk known as "harvest now, decrypt later."

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 17-06-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.0°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.8°C / Max 24.2°C | Kans op neerslag 5%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.8°C, Max 24.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 296°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 03:00: 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 04:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 201°
• 05:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 06:00: 17.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°
• 07:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 214°
• 08:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 09:00: 18.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°
• 10:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1018.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• 11:00: 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1018.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• 12:00: 19.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1019.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• 13:00: 20.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1018.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 18 juni: Min 17.7°C, Max 24.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• vrijdag 19 juni: Min 19.0°C, Max 29.7°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ↘️ -4.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 220°
• zaterdag 20 juni: Min 21.5°C, Max 31.9°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 4.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1018.9 hPa ↗️ +4.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.1 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°
• zondag 21 juni: Min 19.1°C, Max 25.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1025.6 hPa ↗️ +6.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.6 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: → 278°
• maandag 22 juni: Min 18.2°C, Max 28.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ↘️ -4.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.6 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ← 68°
• dinsdag 23 juni: Min 21.5°C, Max 33.2°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ↘️ -6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 108°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 18.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 18.1°C (+0.1°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 2.5 km/u (0.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 296°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 9.0 km/h (2.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 61%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 24.4 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:21 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 22:03

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 60 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 31.0 μg/m³
• PM10: 37.6 μg/m³

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