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Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Bijna 50 jaar poppentheater op het Binnenwegplein: 'Bepaalde dingen kunnen niet meer'

"Janus, Janus, kom je nog een keer?" Het vertrouwde geluid galmt weer over het Rotterdamse Binnenwegplein. Sinds deze week zijn de luiken van het poppentheater weer open. Al 46 jaar staat Jacobus Wieman, ook wel Koos genoemd, hier van mei tot oktober bijna elke week om Rotterdammers te vermaken.
2026-05-08 12:23:15

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Gijzeling gaande bij een bank in het Duitse Sinzig, politie in groten getale aanwezig

In de Duitse plaats Sinzig vindt sinds vrijdagochtend een gijzeling plaats bij een bank. De politie spreekt van meerdere daders en gijzelaars en is in groten getale aanwezig.
2026-05-08 12:22:51

Kijk uit voor radicaliserende middenklassers

In Utrecht wist iedereen dat er op een dag niet genoeg elektriciteit meer zou zijn voor iedereen. Bedrijven en de overheid probeerden daarom jarenlang om het stroomnet uit te…
2026-05-08 12:10:35

Wel.nl

Minder lezen, Meer weten.

NOC*NSF wil spoedoverleg met VWS over subsidieregeling clubs

ARNHEM (ANP) - Sportkoepel NOC*NSF heeft bij het ministerie van VWS aangedrongen op een spoedoverleg naar aanleiding van de problemen die sportverenigingen momenteel ervaren rondom de BOSA-subsidie (Stimulering Bouw en Onderhoud Sportaccommodaties). Dat meldt een woordvoerder van de sportkoepel aan het ANP.

Honderden amateursportclubs zouden zijn gedupeerd door de chaotische verdeling van miljoenen aan overheidssubsidie. Via de BOSA-regeling kunnen amateursportverenigingen subsidies aanvragen voor onder meer onderhoudskosten van accommodaties en de aanschaf van sportmaterialen. Het grote aantal aanvragen zorgde voor een storing bij het onlineloket, waardoor het niet meer mogelijk was om te achterhalen welke aanvragen eerst waren gedaan. Daarop werd besloten de aanvragen per loting te behandelen, tot onvrede van de verenigingen.

"Dit levert voor onze achterban grote problemen op", meldt NOC*NSF. "Er zijn verenigingen die van deze BOSA-aanvraag afhankelijk zijn voor hun voortbestaan, bijvoorbeeld doordat er grote aanpassingen of nieuwbouw nodig is. NOC*NSF wil dus heel snel met VWS om tafel om te verkennen welke oplossingen er op korte termijn zijn."


2026-05-08 12:20:49

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Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)


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The Drawn & Quarterly cover for Lee Lai's 'Cannon.'

Lee Lai's "Cannon" (permalink)

Lee Lai's Cannon is an extraordinary graphic novel that turns out a beautifully told, subtle and ambiguous tale about Lucy (Lucy -> "Loose" -> "Loose Cannon" -> "Cannon"), a queer Chinese-Canadian chef at a Montreal restaurant whose messy family, work, personal and sex life are all falling apart in ways that are powerfully engrossing:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/cannon/

This is the second outing from Lee Lai, whose debut, Stone Fruit, swept many of the field's awards and won major critical acclaim. When a debut comes out that strong, it's sometimes followed with the dread "second book syndrome" in which a creator who has poured everything they ever thought about putting in a book now has to write another book, from scratch. But Cannon avoids any hint of that second book malaise; rather, it is jammed with dense and densely connected ideas, character beats and graphic signifiers that are brilliant in so many ways:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/stone-fruit

Cannon is a thirtysomething chef in a Montreal restaurant run by Guy, an instantly recognizable hustler who praises Cannon for her culinary abilities and her pliability, talks over her, demands the impossible from her kitchen colleagues and periodically breaks out into soliloquies about his own martyrdom to the hardships of entrepreneurship.

Cannon cares for her grandfather, who has been abandoned by her mother, who has been traumatized by the abuse he meted out to her during her upbringing. Now in decline and unable to care for himself, Cannon's grandfather continues his abusive ways, scaring off all of his home help, which means Cannon must devote even more time to him (she can't bring herself to put him in a care facility that will inevitably be full of white people who don't speak Chinese).

These familial duties leave Cannon isolated, with only one important friendship: Trish, an up-and-coming novelist whom Cannon has known since their school days in Montreal's suburban Eastern Townships, where they were the only queer Chinese girls either of them knew. Trish owes her professional acclaim to her own neurotic social instincts, which she polishes on the page with the help of an old writing teacher who serves as her mentor. Trish may be Cannon's oldest and best friend, but she's not actually a very good friend, and now that they're both in their 30s, neither Cannon nor Trish is entirely sure where they'd make new friends.

This is where Cannon starts, as Cannon tries to resolve all these bad situations, each of which is only worsening. Trish disapproves of Cannon's sexual affair with the new front-of-house woman at the restaurant – even as Trish begins a friends-with-benefits arrangement with a guy from her fitness club who clearly wants more than the odd tumble. Guy the restaurateur positions Cannon as his hatchet-woman and confidante, driving conflict in the kitchen that she is meant to hold the bag for. Her grandfather enters a terminal decline, and still her mother won't answer her calls and texts about it. And then, Cannon discovers that Trish has violated her in a way that is intimate and appalling.

These may sound like the beats that you'd find in a melodramatic soap opera, but Cannon's affect is so stoic, and her interiority is so beautifully and inventively depicted – Lai deploying the unique strengths of the graphic novel form here with total virtuosity – that the vibe is more David Lynch than Dallas.

The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.

It's a magnificent, sensitive and innovative work of storytelling.

Hey look at this (permalink)


A shelf of leatherbound history books with a gilt-stamped series title, 'The World's Famous Events.'

Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago Ebay paying newspapers to run listings in the classifieds section https://web.archive.org/web/20010506063910/http://www.business2.com/news/2001/05/ebaypapers.htm

#20yrsago Airline spoons of the world photo-gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/airlinespoons

#20yrsago Coach passengers arrested for moving to first class http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4980364.stm

#15yrsago Hidden cognitive costs of doing stuff https://web.archive.org/web/20110507154653/https://us.lifehacker.com/5798202/the-cognitive-cost-of-doing-things

#15yrsago Syria’s man-in-the-middle attack on Facebook https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-against-facebook

#10yrsago Weird erotica author who was dragged into Hugo Awards mess pulls off epic troll https://web.archive.org/web/20160506175535/http://www.dailydot.com/lol/chuck-tingle-trolling-hugo-zoe-quinn-genius/

#10yrsago FBI has been harassing a Tor developer since 2015, won’t tell her or her lawyer why https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html

#10yrsago 2,000 US doctors endorse Sanders’ single-payer healthcare proposal https://web.archive.org/web/20160506095034/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/05/2000-doctors-say-bernie-sanders-has-the-right-approach-to-health-care/

#10yrsago Community college evicts daycare center to make room for Goldman Sachs https://www.golocalprov.com/news/daycare-center-being-moved-out-of-ccri-for-goldman-sachs

#10yrsago Data-driven look at America’s brutal, racist debt-collection machine https://www.propublica.org/article/so-sue-them-what-weve-learned-about-the-debt-collection-lawsuit-machine

#10yrsago Homeland Security wants to subpoena Techdirt over the identity of a hyperbolic commenter https://www.techdirt.com/2016/05/06/homeland-security-wants-to-subpoena-us-over-clearly-hyperbolic-techdirt-comment/

#5yrsago NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

#5yrsago Ed-tech apps spy on kids https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#i-spy

#5yrsago Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#up-your-nose

#1yrago The Adventures of Mary Darling https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/06/nevereverland/#lesser-ormond-street

Upcoming appearances (permalink)

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A screenshot of me at my desk, doing a livecast.

Recent appearances (permalink)


A grid of my books with Will Stahle covers..

Latest books (permalink)


A cardboard book box with the Macmillan logo.

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/)

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

  • "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

  • "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027

  • "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027


Colophon (permalink)

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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.

  • "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

  • A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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2026-05-08 12:19:36

kottke.org

Jason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext products

It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday...

It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday today! One of my few genuine heroes.

2026-05-08 12:19:00

Colossal

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In ‘Reverence,’ Three Decades of Paul Nicklen’s Remarkable Photographs Exalt Nature

In ‘Reverence,’ Three Decades of Paul Nicklen’s Remarkable Photographs Exalt Nature

Known for his stunning photos of wildlife and landscapes, as well as co-founding SeaLegacy alongside fellow conservationist and photographer Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen has traveled the globe to not only highlight our planet’s phenomenal biodiversity but also to shed light on its increasing vulnerabilities due to the ongoing climate crisis.

Nicklen’s most ambitious project yet gathers myriad images from a career exploring the corners of the earth for more than three decades. Forthcoming from Hemeria, Reverence marks the most comprehensive collection of his work to date. The book features 160 photographs, including some of Nicklen’s most enduring images alongside others previously unpublished.

A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a lion cub

From the root-like system of the Colorado River delta to narwhals feeding on cod in the Arctic Bay off Baffin Island, Nicklen’s photos illuminate the vast and resilient beauty of the natural world. “Reverence is what we feel in the silent presence of a whale beneath the ice, in the fierce gaze of a polar bear, in the timeless dance of ocean and light,” says a statement. “It is what the natural world evokes when we stop long enough to truly see it.”

Reverence is slated for release on July 28, which is also World Conservation Day, and pre-orders are open now.

A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a large colony of penguins
A spread from Paul Nicklen's book 'REVERENCE'
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a wolf relaxing on a mossy boulder
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a lioness and her cubs
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of narwhals gathered in the Arctic Bay
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a grizzly bear charging through the water
A spread from Paul Nicklen's book 'REVERENCE'
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a whale's tale
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a gorilla munching on a leaf
A close-up photograph by Paul Nicklen of a lion seated on top of a rock
The cover of Paul Nicklen's book 'Reverence'

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2026-05-08 12:16:59

The Register

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UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

The UK Home Office is bringing the Police National Database (PND) cloud migration in-house after a transformation program faced an additional £26 million in costs and an 18 months delay. The PND shares information across all police forces, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies. The crucial system was meant to shift to the cloud, but the procurement project was delayed by more than a year, as The Register reported. In a letter to MPs, Home Office Permanent Secretary Gareth Davies said the cloud transition had been based on "delivery assumptions" that had proven incorrect. Davies said the Home Office had expected 80 percent of the code from the system, which went live in 2011, could be reused. In fact, only 20 percent was reusable. As a result, it would miss its June 2025 migration target without significant extra time and funding. "With the support contract expiring in March 2026 and no further direct award available, the programme explored contingency options, but analysis concluded continuation was not value for money ," Davies said in the written response to Parliament's Home Affairs Committee. "The programme decided it would exit the contract, bringing the service into Home Office control and in-house support." The PND was proposed following the 2002 murders of two 10-year-old girls in Soham. The subsequent Bichard Inquiry identified serious weaknesses in police intelligence, including the inability of forces to access potentially important information held outside their own geographic jurisdictions. Those gaps contributed to poor information-sharing about Ian Huntley, who murdered the girls. CGI won the contract in 2009 and the system was launched in April 2011. Elements of the current PND transformation program include a transition to cloud-native architecture, improved usability, and the replacement or updating of obsolete Oracle databases and middleware. A transparency notice published in 2024 said that since 2016, investment in the system was limited to "keeping the lights on" because of the introduction of the National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP). NLEDP imagined the Police National Computer (PNC) would be combined with the PND, creating a single system. "However, between 2016 and 2020 NLEDP faced some significant challenges that impacted progression and delivery ," the notice said. "Upon various reviews of NLEDP the decision was made for a complete reset of the programme, with PND being removed from the scope of work." "The PND transformation is being delivered to address the technological debt in PND which is causing a failing service." According to Davies' letter, the PND program was set up in 2021 but did not commence until January 2024. "By May 2025, around £35.1m had been spent before the transformation was paused," it said. Running, sustaining, and maintaining the live service cost about £24 million a year, amounting to £111.5 million since FY2021/22. Total PND spend over FY2021/22 to FY2025/26 was £146.6 million. Despite the money invested in the program, the Home Office and CGI were unable to agree a revised plan to move it forward. "Both the Home Office and the supplier worked closely together for many months to understand the depth of the challenges ," the letter said. "We [the Home Office] ultimately put our trust in the supplier's expertise and track record in providing and maintaining PND since 23 June 2011. From July to December 2024, the Home Office held workshops with the supplier to agree a realistic revised Initial Implementation Plan… The two sides could not come to an agreement, however, in particular about the contracted scope, time required for testing and allocation of residual risk." The Home Office said it reached a settlement with the supplier but did not disclose the terms. Davies admitted that the cloud migration work did not result in any improvements to the PND because the project was incomplete, although "upgrades have been made to the live system to ensure its security and stability." The Home Office now plans to move the PND from a CGI site to its datacenter, promising "robust governance drawing on prior transfer experience." It promised to mitigate disruption risks resulting from the "age and complexity of the legacy infrastructure." It is promising to make the on-prem system more secure, stable, and available at a cost of £20.3 million. "These upgrades are expected to extend service continuity by 5-10 years by tackling technical debt, improving resilience and capacity, and supporting enhanced analytics and safeguarding," the letter said. "The service remains stable, with customer-facing availability above 99 percent over the past six months, and the team proactively monitors servers and responds quickly to issues, including known legacy software risks. With the control in place with the addition of the stabilisation plans, the risk of major failure is anticipated to be low." ®
2026-05-08 12:16:41

The Guardian

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Labour’s better than expected thrashing may allow Starmer to cling on in No 10

Results are undoubtedly bad but expectations had been set even lower, and any potential challengers are quiet for now

As the local elections results rolled in, a trickle of voices were calling for Keir Starmer to quit – a couple of MPs, a trade union leader, and a Labour peer.

The numbers are undoubtedly bad for Labour, with Reform making sweeping gains across pro-Brexit heartlands in the north and Midlands. These could even be the party’s worst losses for 50 years, with more than 1,000 councillors gone and the potential loss of control of the Welsh parliament.

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2026-05-08 12:15:56

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2026-05-08 12:07:36