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Verdachte zorgverlener Wierden nog negentig dagen in de cel

ALMELO (ANP) - Een medewerkster van een zorginstelling in Wierden (Overijssel) blijft negentig dagen langer in de cel. Dat heeft de raadkamer van de rechtbank Overijssel bepaald. De vrouw zou drie bewoners van een instelling opzettelijk insuline hebben gegeven, zonder medische noodzaak. Hierdoor zouden bloedsuikerwaarden bij hen mogelijk zijn gedaald naar (levens)gevaarlijke waarden, meldde het Openbaar Ministerie eerder.

De vrouw werd op 19 januari aangehouden. De incidenten zouden zich hebben voorgedaan bij woonzorglocatie 't Wedervoort van zorgorganisatie ZorgAccent. Die meldde in maart een verdacht incident bij de Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ), politie en het OM. De verdachte is daarna op non-actief gesteld.

Volgens de zorgaanbieder richtte het onderzoek zich op "meerdere incidenten in de afgelopen jaren", meldde de organisatie eerder. Ook zou er nog geen verband zijn aangetoond tussen het overlijden van een aantal bewoners van de locatie en het handelen van de vrouw.


China: EU discrimineert met onderzoek windmolenbedrijf Goldwind

BEIJING (ANP/RTR) - De Europese Unie heeft "discriminerende" maatregelen genomen door een diepgaand onderzoek te beginnen naar het Chinese windmolenbedrijf Goldwind over mogelijke staatssteun voor de onderneming. Dat zei het Chinese ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken woensdag in een reactie op het besluit dat dinsdag door Brussel werd aangekondigd.

Volgens de Europese Commissie is er mogelijk sprake van oneerlijke concurrentie door Goldwind dankzij overheidssubsidies. Het bedrijf levert windturbines in de EU. Ook zou Goldwind belastingvoordelen hebben gekregen. Het bedrijf zou zijn windturbines daardoor voordeliger kunnen aanbieden op de Europese markt, met een betere concurrentiepositie tegenover concurrenten zoals het Deense Vestas en het Spaans-Duitse Siemens Gamesa.

Beijing beticht de EU van "protectionisme" en zegt dat toekomstige Chinese investeringen bedreigd kunnen worden door de zaak, bijvoorbeeld omdat Chinese bedrijven minder vertrouwen hebben in Europa.


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Moscow Court Jails Stand-Up Comedian Nearly 6 Years for Alleged Joke About War Veterans

Artemy Ostanin was arrested after a group known for publicly denouncing Russians accused him of mocking veterans who lost limbs fighting in the war against Ukraine.

The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

‘The right has won the family’: why are there so few lefty momfluencers?

The most popular mom content tends to be rightwing tradwife propaganda or just apolitical – pushing progressive creators out of the algorithm

For someone who doesn’t have a marble island in their kitchen I spend a disproportionate amount of time staring at marble kitchen islands, slack-jawed, brain turned half off. That’s because I consume a lot of videos from mommy bloggers, mom influencers, and the like. In kitchen “closing shift” videos, they wipe down their islands and reset by lighting luxury candles, the glow accentuating their respectable cosmetic procedures. Other times I watch them waltz through their morning routines: getting kids out the door, sweating it out in boutique fitness classes, showing off Amazon hauls, or explaining their children’s matching holiday photoshoot outfits.

For better or worse, this is how I have chosen to spend my one wild and precious life: consuming blissfully low-stakes motherhood content on my phone. It is domestically competent ASMR that also satiates my desire to peek into everyone’s bathroom cabinets. I nod in unsolicited approval as a TikTok mom I follow shares her green juice order. Fascinating. I should drink something like that. Another posts timestamps of her baby’s night-time sleep schedule. I, who lives between walls that have never heard the wail of an infant, ingurgitate the entire video.

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Nigel Farage made ‘non-apology’, says school contemporary who accused him of racism

Film-maker Peter Ettedgui responded to BBC interview in which Reform leader apologised for any hurt caused

Nigel Farage has been accused of making a “non-apology” by a school contemporary who accused him of racist and antisemitic behaviour, after saying he was “sorry” if he had “genuinely” hurt anyone.

For the first time since the row broke following a Guardian investigation, the Reform UK party leader appeared to indicate some remorse for the impact of his alleged behaviour while at Dulwich college, a private school in south London.

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De bacteriofaag als wapen tegen gevaarlijke ziekenhuisbacteriën

Bijna een eeuw geleden zorgde de ontdekking van penicilline voor een revolutie in de gezondheidszorg. Voor het eerst konden infecties effectief worden behandeld. Maar nu staan we


Aanhoudende Russische aanvallen op OekraĂŻense bevolking werpen de vraag op: is dit genocide?

OekraĂŻne beleeft de zwaarste en koudste winter sinds de Russische invasie van 2022, vanwege de aanhoudende aanvallen op burgerdoelen en de energievoorziening. Veel OekraĂŻners zien de Russische terreur als genocide.

Bezuinigen op de zorg? Het meeste valt te halen in de spreekkamer

Bezuinigingen in de zorg nopen tot keuzes in het gesprek tussen patiënt en arts. Maar hoe gaat dat eigenlijk? We klampen ons vast aan kleine kansen, stelt internist Yvo Smulders.

Het goede leven is meer dan alleen maar ‘leuk’ of ‘nuttig’

Wat maakt het leven de moeite waard? Niet alleen geluk en betekenis doen ertoe.


The Register

Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward

Microsoft is no stranger to things breaking unexpectedly – and now one of its engineers has added a Raspberry Pi to the list.


Formula 1 News

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Why Hadjar’s mum knew about Red Bull seat before he did

Isack Hadjar has revealed that his mum found out about his promotion to the Red Bull team before he did, having received a phone call about the news prior to her son.

10 quiz questions on the latest Formula 1 news

Test your knowledge of the Formula 1 news from the past seven days...

Slashdot

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Why Google's Android for PC Launch May Be Messy and Controversial

Google's much-anticipated plan to merge Android and ChromeOS into a single operating system called Aluminium is shaping up to be a drawn-out, complicated transition that could leave existing Chromebook users behind, according to previously unreported court documents in the Google search antitrust case.

The new OS won't be compatible with all existing Chromebook hardware, and Google will be forced to maintain ChromeOS through at least 2033 to honor its 10-year support commitment to current users -- meaning two parallel operating systems running for years.

The timeline itself is messier than Google has let on publicly, the filings suggest. Sameer Samat, Google's head of Android, called the merger "something we're super excited about for next year" last September, but court filings describe the "fastest path" to market as offering Aluminium to "commercial trusted testers" in late 2026 before a full release in 2028.

Enterprise and education customers -- the segments where Chromebooks currently dominate -- are slated for 2028 as well. Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.

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Pluralistic: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (04 Feb 2026)


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The Harpercollins cover of Justin Key's 'Hospital at the End of the World.'

Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (permalink)

Justin C. Key is one of the most exciting new science fiction writers of this decade and today, Harpercollins publishes his debut novel, The Hospital at the End of the World:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-hospital-at-the-end-of-the-world-justin-c-key?variant=43822999928866

I've followed Key's work for more than a decade, ever since I met him as a student while teaching at the Clarion West writers' workshop in Seattle. At the time, Key impressed me – a standout writer in a year full of standouts – and I wasn't surprised in the least when Harpercollins published a collection of his afrofuturist/Black horror stories, The World Wasn't Ready For You, in 2023:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/19/justin-c-key/#clarion-west-2015

This is virtually unheard of. Major genre publishers generally don't publish short story collections at all, let alone short story collections by writers who haven't already established themselves as novelists. The exceptions are rare as hell, and they're names to conjure with: Ted Chiang, say, or Kelly Link:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/13/the-kissing-song/#wrack-and-roll

But anyone who read World Wasn't Ready immediately understood why Key's work qualified him for an exception to this iron law of publishing. Key is an MD and a practicing psychiatrist, and he combines keen insights into personal relations and human frailty with a wild imagination, deep compassion, and enviable prose chops.

Hospital at the End of the World is Key's first novel, and it's terrific. Set in a not-so-distant future in which an AI-driven health monopolist called The Shepherd Organization controls much of the lives of everyday Americans, Hospital follows Pok, a young New Yorker who dreams of becoming an MD. Pok's father is also a doctor, famous for his empathic, human-centric methods and his scientific theories about the role that "essence" (a psychospiritual connection between doctors and patients) plays in clinical settings.

The story opens with Pok hotly anticipating an acceptance letter from The Shepherd Organization, and the beginning of his new life as a medical student. But when word arrives, Pok learns that he has been rejected from every medical school in the TSO orbit. In desperate confusion, he works with shadowy hackers in a bid to learn why his impeccable application and his top grades resulted in this total rejection. That's when he learns that someone had sabotaged his application and falsified his grades, and, not long thereafter, he learns that the saboteur was his father.

To make things worse, Pok's father has fallen grievously ill – so ill, in fact, that he ends up in a Shepherd Organization hospital, despite his deep enmity for TSO and its AI-driven practice of medicine. Pok doesn't accompany his father, though – he has secured a chance to sit a make-up exam in a desperate bid to get into med school. By the time he is finished with his exam, though, he learns that his father has died, and all that is left of him is an AI-powered chatbot that is delivered to Pok's apartment along with a warning to flee, because he is in terrible danger from the Shepherd Organization.

Thus begins Pok's tale as he goes underground in a ubiquitous AI surveillance dystopia, seeking sanctuary in New Orleans, hoping to make it to the Hippocrates, the last holdout from America's AI-based medicine and surveillance dystopia. Pok's father learned to practice medicine at Hippocrates, and had urged Pok to study there, even securing a full-ride scholarship for him. But Pok had no interest in the mystical, squishy, sentimental ethos of the Hippocrates, and had been determined to practice the Shepherd Organization's rigorous, cold, data-driven form of medicine.

Now, Pok has no choice. Hitchhiking, hopping freight cars, falling into company with other fugitives, Pok makes his way to New Orleans, a city guarded by tall towers that radiate energy that dampens both the punishing weather events that would otherwise drown the city and the data signals by which the Shepherd Organization tracks and controls the American people.

This is the book's second act, a medical technothriller that sees Pok as an untrusted outsider in the freshman class at Hippocrates med school, amidst a strange and alarming plague that has sickened the other refugees from TSO America who have taken up residence in New Orleans. Pok has to navigate factions within the med school and in New Orleans society, even as he throws himself into the meat grinder of med school and unravels the secrets of his father and his own birth.

What follows is a masterful and suspenseful work of science fiction informed by Key's own medical training and his keen sense of the human psyche. It's one part smart whodunnit, one part heist thriller, and one part revolutionary epic, and at its core is a profound series of provocations and thought experiments about the role that deep human connection and empathy play in medical care. It's a well-structured, well-paced sf novel that probes big, urgent contemporary themes while still engrossing the reader in the intimate human relations of its principals. A wonderful debut novel from a major new writer.`


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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office! https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/postage-is-due-for-companies-sending-email.html

#20yrsago Volunteers ferry 15k coconuts every day to Indian temple http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm

#15yrsago Wikileaks ACTA cables confirm it was a screwjob for the global poor https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/secret-us-cables-reveal-acta-was-far-too-secret/

#10yrsago Laura Poitras’s Astro Noise: indispensable book and gallery show about mass surveillance https://www.wired.com/2016/02/snowdens-chronicler-reveals-her-own-life-under-surveillance/

#10yrsago How to prepare to join the Internet of the dead https://archive.org/details/Online_No_One_Knows_Youre_Dead

#10yrsago Who funds the “Millennials Rising” Super PAC? Rich old men. https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223020/https://theintercept.com/2016/02/04/millennials-rising-super-pac-is-95-funded-by-old-men/

#10yrsago They promised us a debate over TPP, then they signed it without any debate https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/03/countries-sign-tpp-whatever-happened-to-debate-we-were-promised-before-signing/

#5yrsago Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#ess

#5yrsago Organic fascism https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#pastel-q

#5yrsago Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows" https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/citizen-lab/#nso-group


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Latest books (permalink)



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Upcoming books (permalink)

  • "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026

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

  • "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026

  • "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026



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Today's top sources:

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 (1011 words today, 21655 total)

  • "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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Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month ....

Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month. Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives.

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