Evert-Jan 't Hoen is tijdens de Sport Awards Rotterdam 2025 in Theater Zuidplein uitgeroepen tot coach van het jaar. De bondscoach van Nederland leidde de honkballers naar hun 25ste Europese titel. Tijdens het EK in eigen land bleef het team ongeslagen en versloeg het Italië in een spannende finale (6-5).

Sundance film festival: the documentarian’s feature debut, essentially an extended episode of his HBO series, turns an exploration of concrete into a meditation on change

For those in the know, the release of the Sundance film festival lineup last December contained one perfect, tantalizing log line, for a documentary plainly called The History of Concrete: “After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.”

Wilson, a film-maker from the Nathan Fielder school of meandering, bone-dry observational comedy, is a master of the modern documentary-essay-memoir, with an uncanny eye for the idiosyncratic, unintentionally hilarious and disturbing vignettes hiding in plain sight. Over three near-perfect seasons, his peerless HBO series How To With John Wilson, executive-produced by Fielder, spun spoofs of practical guides (“How to Cook the Perfect Risotto”) into profound meditations on the loudness, loneliness and ridiculousness of modern urban life, each half-hour episode a magic trick of elaborate, bizarre tangents reined in at the last second. For fans of the show – in my opinion, the single best TV series about New York this decade – Wilson’s feature documentary debut, supposedly about the most iconic element of urban life, was a must-see.

The History of Concrete is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution

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Display at President’s House site, residence to George Washington, had information on people enslaved by him

Philadelphia is taking legal action against the Trump administration following the National Park Service’s decision to dismantle a long-established slavery-related exhibit at Independence National Historical park, which holds the former residence of George Washington.

The city filed its lawsuit in federal court on Thursday, naming the US Department of Interior and its secretary, Doug Burgum, the National Park Service, and its acting director, Jessica Bowron, as defendants. The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring the exhibits to be restored while the case proceeds.

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Slecht nieuws voor alle cryptoboys, meisjes die beroemd zijn geworden door hun billen op hun Instagram, meisjes die beroemd zijn geworden door hun borsten op Instagram, meisjes die beroemd zijn door hun make-up op Instagram, jongens die beroemd zijn geworden door hun sixpack op Instagram, voetballers, oud-Formule 1 coureurs, andere proleten, halve zolen, Najib Amhali, tuigvloggers, mensen die niet weten waar ze op vakantie moeten gaan en dus maar naar Dubai gaan, Gordon (oh nee alweer terug helaas), hele criminelen, halve criminelen, kwartcriminelen, criminelen die in kwartjes handelen, Extinction Rebellion activisten die naar de rechter zijn gestapt tegen een gebiedsverbod op Schiphol en andere lieve leuke mensen die regelmatig naar het Midden-Oosten moeten vliegen, maar KLM vliegt "tot nader order" niet meer naar Iran, Israël, Irak en diverse Golfstaten. Iets met sneeuw geopolitiek enzo.

If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys

If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a fraud indictment.…

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From Taner’s Funk Kitchen, a 30-minute set of smooth/chill deep cuts from Daft Punk. As noted in the description, this mix is less of a club vibe and more of a chill listening party.

The DJ is using a Digital Vinyl System (DVS) to play/mix the songs. I’d never heard of this before; from the description:

DVS is a DJ technology that allows you to control digital music files on your computer / smartphone using traditional turntables with special timecode vinyl. It combines the tactile feel of analog DJing with the flexibility of digital music libraries.

I knew many (most?) DJs were playing from digital these days but never knew how. From Wikipedia:

A Digital vinyl system (DVS) allows a DJ to physically manipulate the playback of digital audio files on a computer using turntables as an interface, thus preserving the hands-on control and feel of DJing with vinyl. This has the added advantage of using turntables to play back audio recordings not available in phonograph form. This method allows DJs to scratch, beatmatch, and perform other turntablism that would be impossible with a conventional keyboard-and-mouse computer interface or less tactile DJ controllers.

That’s pretty cool. I guess if I needed another expensive hobby…

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In Hassum, in Kreis Kleve, deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen, net over de grens in Duitsland, is vogelgriep vastgesteld op een pluimveebedrijf. Duitsland heeft een beperkingsgebied ingesteld dat deels in Nederland valt. Daarom is ook door de minister van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (LVVN) een beperkingszone in Nederland ingesteld.

Wind and solar power overtook fossil fuels last year as a source of electricity in the EU for the first time, a new report found. Semafor adds: The milestone was hit largely thanks to a rise in solar power, which generated a record 13% of electricity in the EU, according to Ember. Together, wind and solar hit 30% of EU electricity generation, edging out fossil fuels at 29%.

The shift is especially important with the bloc's alternative to Russian LNG -- Washington -- becoming increasingly unreliable and willing to weaponize economic tools. The US Commerce Secretary threw shade at the bloc's renewable push during Davos, warning that China uses net zero goals to make allies "subservient" by controlling battery and critical mineral supply chains.

Still, renewables now provide nearly half of EU power, with wind and solar outpacing all fossil sources in more than half of member countries. "The stakes of transitioning to clean energy are clearer than ever," the Ember report's author said.

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