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Vakantie vieren, veel, beetje tuinieren en knutselen in Frankrijk, een hobby zoeken voor als ik echt stop. En nadenken wat ik tot mijn aow wil doen, door, iets anders, niks...
Maar de komende 7 maanden geen beroepsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering nodig, dus stop.
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Terwijl het helemaal misgaat in Loosdrecht kunnen we concluderen: natúúrlijk hebben we een joekel van een asielcrisis in Nederland. Het is al waar links tot rechts over praat ende kletst. Asiel asiel asiel, asielzoekers asielzoekers asielzoekers. En zelfs als je vóór asielzoekers bent is het mogelijk om tégen asielzoekers te zijn; als ze in je achtertuin komen bijvoorbeeld. Want die mensen in Ter Apel die voortdurend last hebben van al die winkel- en fietsendieven zijn racisten, maar als de asielzoekers in uw achtertuin gestationeerd worden bent u gewoon een bezorgde burger. Ofzo! Tom Staal dus maar weer eens met de hand aan de knuppel naar het hoenderhok, vragen of we een asielcrisis hebben - wordt-ie keihard gemansplaind door Jesse Klaver. Want Jesse Klaver ruikt bloed. EXTREEMRECHTS BLOED. Welnu: iedereen die van mening is dat er in Nederland sprake is van een asielcrisis moet juridisch bindend PREMIUM LID worden van GeenStijl. Slechts 50 euro per jaar (2.580 Oekraïense grivna, 6.500 Syrische pond)!
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Pierre Salvadori’s whimsical period farce about a fake medium and a grief-stricken painter has charm and elegance, but its romantic fantasy never quite ignites
This year’s Cannes menu begins with something left over from the sweet trolley: a gooey, glutinous and slightly flat confection, a comedy about art for which not everyone has the palette or the palate. A fake spiritualist at the time of France’s picturesque belle époque pretends she is in contact with the dead lover of a grieving and creatively blocked artist – but she has been secretly put up to it by the painter’s wily agent, convinced that his client’s ecstatic contact with this amour from beyond the grave will inspire him to recommence the production of hugely expensive paintings.
The film is directed and co-written by Pierre Salvadori and the result is something like a moderate mid-period Woody Allen or Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit – though Allen and Coward would surely have followed the obvious narrative possibility of the dead person disconcerting the conspiracists by actually speaking through this bogus medium. In fact, this movie is not unlike Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time from last year’s Cannes, though with more strained comedy and farce.
Continue reading...Labour leader remains UK prime minister despite mounting calls to step down before state opening of parliament
As the afternoon faded in Westminster, final preparations were being made for Wednesday’s state opening of parliament, where King Charles will set out a year-long legislative programme for a government that even its most ardent allies fear might not last the week. Once again, here we are.
Keir Starmer is still the UK’s prime minister. It is even possible he might be in a few months from now. But after two days punctuated by confusion and drama on a scale that belies Labour’s promise to end years of political upheaval, his authority appears shredded. What is less certain is what exactly that means.
Continue reading...Downing Street insiders suggest health secretary does not yet have the support for a leadership push
Keir Starmer was increasingly confident that he had seen off the immediate threat to his job on Tuesday after a challenge from Wes Streeting failed to materialise despite several of the health secretary’s allies quitting the government.
Downing Street insiders suggested that the health secretary did not yet have the required support from the 81 MPs he needed to formally launch a leadership bid after Starmer issued a ‘put up or shut up’ ultimatum to his cabinet.
Continue reading...The OpenAI chief rejects claims he deceived Elon Musk as high-stakes AI trial nears its end
The OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, took the stand on Tuesday to defend himself and his company against a lawsuit by Elon Musk. Altman is set to be one of the final witnesses in the trial, which has pitted two of the tech industry’s most powerful men against each other in a dramatic courtroom showdown.
Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI of breaking the AI firm’s founding agreement by restructuring it into a for-profit enterprise, alleging that Altman essentially swindled him into co-founding the company and providing tens of millions in financial backing. Musk also claims Altman unjustly enriched himself in the process and is seeking the CEO’s removal from OpenAI, the redistribution of $134bn to the firm’s non-profit and the undoing of its for-profit conversion.
Continue reading...“So, at about 14, I became the team’s unofficial basketball musician,” writes Theocharis Papatrechas. “A big shot earned a triumphant snare drum roll with a resolving crash. And if someone missed badly — an airball — I’d drop in a ‘du-ba-dum’”.
Bij de opvanglocatie in het gemeentehuis ontstond brand nadat demonstranten fakkels en vuurwerk richting het pand gooiden. Het vuur is inmiddels geblust.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: EBay on Tuesday rejected a $56 billion takeover bid from the much smaller GameStop over financing doubts, calling the proposal "neither credible nor attractive." EBay, which has roughly four times GameStop's market value, also underscored that its turnaround efforts under CEO Jamie Iannone have boosted growth, with its stock returning 201% since Iannone took the position six years ago.
"We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive," eBay Chairman Paul Pressler said in a statement. "eBay's Board is confident the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth." He also pointed to concerns with GameStop's bid, including its financing, its impact on eBay's long-term growth and the leadership structure of a potentially combined company. Last week, GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen delivered one of the most memorable CNBC interviews in recent memory... initially disinterested, then increasingly hostile, with little eye contact, few real answers to basic questions, and repeated robotic deflections to "check the website." It's worth a watch if you have a few extra minutes.
"We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive," eBay Chairman Paul Pressler said in a statement. "eBay's Board is confident the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth." He also pointed to concerns with GameStop's bid, including its financing, its impact on eBay's long-term growth and the leadership structure of a potentially combined company. Last week, GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen delivered one of the most memorable CNBC interviews in recent memory... initially disinterested, then increasingly hostile, with little eye contact, few real answers to basic questions, and repeated robotic deflections to "check the website." It's worth a watch if you have a few extra minutes.
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