Kees Stavenuiter (73) fietste al 1.381 keer rond het IJsselmeer, een route van 200 kilometer waar vakantiegangers vaak een week over doen. Kees rijdt het in een dag, weer of geen weer. „Bij het duizendste rondje hadden ze me opgewacht met gebak.”

Met de sluiting van drie van de zes cellencomplexen van de Rotterdamse politie gaan de aanrijtijden voor het vervoeren van verdachten omhoog. De politiechef zegt daar meer ‘blauw’ op straat voor terug te krijgen. „Een dronken iemand hoef je niet meteen aan te houden.”

De keuze van de NPO om in 2027 een Nederlandse artiest naar het Songfestival te sturen, maakt veel los. Er zijn nog veel vragen over de invulling. „We hebben er vertrouwen in dat het tijdig lukt om een kandidaat te vinden die ons land vertegenwoordigt in Burgas.”

Delicate waves, mysterious fissures, and diffused lightning set some of the scenes in Sarah Lee’s dreamy landscape paintings. Moons with strangely direct beams of light and supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism. Most of the works seen here are part of Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Deeper at Albertz Benda, in which the artist highlights different ecosystems and the nature of clarity and concealment. She often titles her works in reference to the colors she employs, such as “Emerald Sky” and “Red Meadow in Mist.”

These apparently “empty” landscapes nod to the romantic Western tradition of seascapes and broad, open expanses that pandered to a problematic colonialist mindset, such as that of Manifest Destiny. John O’Sullivan, who coined the term, wrote that Americans possessed the fundamental right to “to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us…” In Lee’s oil paintings, a gallery statement says, “the landscape pushes back.”

In the misty, fuzzy edges of glaciers, glowing skies, and mountain peaks, the artist imbues a nuanced sense of the uncanny. “There is a distinct feeling that more is hidden in the scene than what meets the eye: in the recesses of the water, underneath the ice, obscured by an outcropping of coral,” the gallery says. The light perhaps shines a little too brightly or a gap opens up ominously in a field of ice. “Before Dark” draws our attention to the serene surface of a lake, and what we can see is beautiful, yet one wonders if we’re witnessing the calm before the storm.

Lee harnesses the power of the unknown, examining the way nature both nourishes us and is the ultimate authority. Humans need clean water, food, and fresh air, and we rely on these things even as our collective actions cause the environment harm along with, paradoxically, ourselves. The artist’s paintings provide a kind of filter through which to see this contradiction, as the land and water are elements we fundamentally rely on but cannot control.

Deeper continues through October 10 in New York. See more on the artist’s Instagram.

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Centenarian accused of being accessory to multiple murders at Stalag 326 VI K in west Germany, as judiciary race to prosecute suspects before they die

A 105-year-old man is under investigation on suspicion of being an accessory to multiple murders at a Nazi prisoner of war camp, German prosecutors have said.

The case, which is being handled by the public prosecutor’s office in Dortmund, centres on the Stalag 326 VI K camp in western Germany, in what is now the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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US president’s suggested 90-day export ban before midterm elections could bring even higher fuel prices across Europe

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The EU has warned Donald Trump against plans to ban US diesel exports to the global market, saying the move would negatively affect Europe and the US.

The European Commission has reacted with “concern” to reports this week that the US president could prevent diesel from reaching the global market.

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Clip of the former Tory MP staring intently at fellow panellist is shared widely online

Rory Stewart has been an Afghan NGO leader, a Conservative leadership candidate, a Harvard professor, a popular podcaster, and the deputy governor of an Iraqi province. This week, he created a moment that drew wider attention than any of them: he fixed a beady gaze on a fellow Newsnight panellist for the longest four seconds in television history.

Stewart, who now co-presents The Rest Is Politics with Alastair Campbell, appeared on the BBC programme on 18 September – but in the last few days, a clip of the moment in question has taken on a life of its own on social media.

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Spike Island, Bristol
Inspired by the shacks and sheds of the American south, Buchanan’s exceptional sculptures combine folk art and minimalism to memorialise the survival of enslaved people

When she was a kid, Beverly Buchanan visited tenant farmers and sharecroppers across the American south-east with her dad. There in the fields she saw shacks and sheds, shanties and shotgun houses. More than 100 years after the abolition of slavery, she saw in this rough improvised architecture a symbol of survival and perseverance, of a people making their own way against the odds.

Buchanan spent the rest of her life – a life marked by multiple chronic illnesses before she died in 2015 – translating that architectural heft into art. This show at Spike Island is filled with ramshackle, half-broken, semi-dilapidated little sculptures, each one based on the buildings of the south. There are houses made of scrap wood, churches made of cardboard, tiny barns hammered together and splashed with paint or covered with buttons. The one large sculpture here is great, a shed seemingly on the verge of collapse, but Buchanan’s physical condition forced her to work on a smaller scale as she was often stuck at home for long periods.

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• Swimmer wins 200m gold at Asian Games with 39C fever

• Says Covid helped him rest and ‘was a good thing’

The Japanese teenager Shin Ohashi said a bout of Covid helped him smash the men’s 200m breaststroke world record in a time of 2min 4.83sec at the Asian Games on Thursday.

The 17-year-old won his second gold of the Games in Tokyo despite running a temperature of about 39C just days before the competition began.

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Locals hope agreement signed this week is step towards independence and end to US threats to annex island

Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and Múte B Egede, the foreign minister, received a hero’s welcome when they landed back in Nuuk from New York on Wednesday night – and a nation took a collective sigh of relief.

Colleagues, friends and members of the public turned out to greet them at an airport where, just 20 months ago, the landing of a Trump-branded plane containing Donald Trump Jr had kickstarted a geopolitical crisis that the people of Greenland now hope is over.

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How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby elephant needs a mother to run to. And the fact is that the mother is a 30-year-old Nigerian man right now.”

Former President Dmitry Medvedev announced the creation of the Committee on Digital Development and Artificial Intelligence.

De democratie is in gevaar, we moeten weerbaarder worden, extreemrechts komt voor uw kinderen, vijf voor twaalf, etc. Dat hoort u steeds vaker, en niet in de laatste plaats van onduidelijke stichtingen met onduidelijke financieringen en onduidelijke werkwijzen. Elsevier deed onderzoek naar deze stichtingen en concludeert dat clubs als Justice for Prosperity 'ongefundeerde bangmakerij' de wereld in slingeren. 

Bij JfP staat Jelle Postma aan het roer. Jelle is een ijdele talkshowplucheplakker van wie iedereen met gezond verstand snapt dat je daar niet naar moet luisteren, oftewel de ideale talkshowgast. Een stuiver in het hobbelpaard en het begint te stamelen over extreemrechtse groeperingen en politici die bij demonstraties aanwezig zouden zijn geweest. Een glad hoofd met niet zo gladde praatjes. Het blijft helaasjammerdebammer niet bij gestotter aan talkshowtafels. Binnenlandse Zaken heeft Jelle betaald voor een onderzoek en D66-Kamerlid Joost Sneller baseert zich bij het aanvragen van debatten op de rapporten van Jelle.

Daar heeft BBB-opperhoofd Vermeer dan weer vragen over gesteld aan BZK-minister Heerma. De vragen gingen niet alleen over de kwaliteit van de onderzoeken; ook het toezicht op deze clubs en de financiering achter dit soort clubs verdienen uitleg. En hee. Heerma heeft toegezegd ernaar te kijken. Wij zijn: benieuwd.

Eh. Hm. Nou. Eh. Ja. Ga ik nu niet zeggen.

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🧵 Onderzoeksplatform Justice for Prosperity (JfP) publiceerde op 4 september 2026 onderstaand artikel waarin het onder andere schreef:

"Ruim 50 maal versterkte Ongehoord Nederland (NPO) de afgelopen maanden de propaganda van de Russische ambassade." pic.twitter.com/bvnAfM0aIG

— Raymond van Toor (@Raymond_vT) September 10, 2026

EVENT: HPE and NVIDIA are sending their AI infrastructure leads to a dinner table in Washington where nothing said is on the record. The Register is hosting, our editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff takes the chair, and there is one table, on Thursday 29 October. Most AI programs in regulated industries do not stall on the model. They stall on where the data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as evidence a year from now. Sovereignty is not one requirement either: what can leave a jurisdiction and what can leave the building are different questions with different owners. The proprietary data that makes an AI system worth building is the same data that makes it a risk to build, and the boundary drawn around a pilot quietly becomes the boundary around production. Those calls get made on what people will tell you in private. What a bank had to rebuild. What a hospital group's legal team refused to sign. Which sovereign option somebody paid for and would not buy again. None of that gets said on a recorded webinar, or in a briefing with a deck. So this is neither. Chatham House Rule, three questions, dinner, no slides. Everyone at the table is there as a peer, the vendors included, and the chair's job includes redirecting anyone who starts to pitch. On the table: which infrastructure options actually hold a boundary, what each one costs in capital, in capability or in elasticity, and whether any of it survives the move from first planning to running operations. HPE sends Thierry Pienaar, HPE Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for HPC and AI Worldwide Sales. NVIDIA sends Bert Condensa, Vice President for Enterprise AI Factory Segment Sales. They are there to answer, not to present. The table is for technology, data and risk leaders in healthcare, financial services, research, pharmaceuticals, government and higher education who are making these decisions now rather than next year. Dinner runs from 6.00pm to 8.30pm at Fiola Mare. Places are limited and go by invitation. Request one here. Government and public sector guests: where your agency's ethics rules require it, you can pay your own share and we will provide a receipt. Please say so when you request an invitation.

A proposal to make KDE an "AI-native" desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors.* Last weekend was KDE's annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE. We noted that it seemed likely to polarize the audience. It looks like this was a considerable understatement. In the days since, a debate over proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions descended into bans and a deleted thread. An outside campaign called for KDE to prohibit AI altogether, a GNOME developer proposed a similar policy for that project, and KDE developer Nate Graham apologized for his role in the uproar. The Akademy talk was titled "A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" and the slide deck [PDF] is now available. It ends by saying: "The question is not whether AI. It is how. You choose how much AI – and which." It seems almost calculated to provoke an argument rather than invite discussion. We do not know if the authors intended this – we attempted to contact both of them, but they have not yet responded. Graham opened a discussion on Invent, KDE's GitLab instance, about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions. Although we are not a member, we watched this with some interest over the weekend. It rapidly became heated. Moderators issued warnings, restricted further comments, and eventually removed the thread. There is an archive of the discussion, but we warn you, it contains some highly offensive language, albeit censored by the member who quoted another member's tweets on X. As events unfolded, the participant who drew attention to the posts was banned first. The author of the offensive material was banned later after their identity was verified. The discussion is gone, but the argument continues. One response was an outside initiative called KDE for People, which called on the KDE project to adopt a No-AI policy. Around 250 people signed it before its organizers closed it to further signatures. GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has also published The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want, proposing that LLMs be barred from creating or modifying anything submitted to GNOME or hosted on its infrastructure. This mentions the recent ballot on AI usage in Debian. We reported on the developer referendum about a month ago, noting that the broad spread of anti-AI options in the ballot was likely to split the vote. (This likelihood was dismissed in the comments.) Well, as The Register's Asia-Pacific desk reported a few days later, Debian did not ban AI contributions. Graham subsequently explained his involvement in a post titled KDE and AI, and you, and me. He opens by saying: "So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that." He notes that the Akademy talk met "what I'm told was a fairly chilly reception" and that "the next day, a workshop was held about the topic, also receiving a chilly reception." Every couple of years, the KDE project sets three goals for the next two years. Earlier this week, after Akademy, it chose its latest three: you can see them in the last column of the goal-setting Kanban board. The ones chosen are: KDE for Enterprise and Deployments (Issue #5) Better documentation (Issue #2) Next Generation Styling for KDE (Issue #3) We see no mention of AI in there. In context, that may come as a relief to parts of the community. Bootnote *A tip of the black Borsalino to the late great Terry Pratchett, for two different "house on fire" references we combined. ®

​Rob Jetten heeft zijn dagen in New York rond de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties ten volle benut. Zo zag hij kans om wereldleiders in korte, informele onderonsjes naar hun mening te vragen. “What do you think: Klaver or Eerdmans?”, vroeg hij aan de Braziliaanse president Lula da Silva, die zich kwam voorstellen. “Left or right?”

Ook Emmanuel Macron moest eraan geloven. De Franse president, die graag met Jetten wilde overleggen over de Russische dreiging, kreeg een spervuur aan vragen van de Nederlandse premier over zich heen. “PRO or JA21? I prefer PRO, but Dilan doesn’t want that. So maybe JA21?” Macron zuchtte luid en liep door naar Pedro Sánchez.

“The minority coalition doesn’t really work”, zei Jetten. “I don’t know, what do you think?”, vroeg hij aan Donald Trump, die vervolgens aan een lange tirade over minderheden begon.

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The shortlist is here; Angine de Poitrine won the whole shebang.

Winner(s): Angine de Poitrine Nominees: Aquakulture Begonia Beverly Glenn-Copeland Bibi Club Charlotte Cornfield Les Louanges Peaches Rochelle Jordan Tanya Tagaq Canada has two distinct music awards: the Junos, which tend to celebrate more mainstream Canadian artists, and the Polaris, which celebrates the weirder more diverse artists.

MADRID (ANP) - Meer dan 10.000 mensen zijn in Madrid spontaan de straat opgegaan in protest tegen de alsmaar duurder wordende huizenmarkt. De demonstratie kwam op gang nadat Maricarmen Abascal woensdag uit haar appartement werd gezet. De 87-jarige vrouw had daar 71 jaar in gewoond. Dit meldt de Spaanse krant El País.

Abascals verhaal leidde tot veel verontwaardiging en frustratie in de samenleving over de huidige Spaanse huizenmarkt. De politie had al drie keer eerder geprobeerd de vrouw uit het appartement te zetten, omdat zij een enorme huurverhoging niet kon betalen. Buren en activisten probeerden haar uitzetting te voorkomen. Abascal werd uiteindelijk op een brancard door de politie naar buiten gebracht. Ze ligt momenteel in het ziekenhuis, waar ze wordt behandeld voor uitputting en stress.

De demonstratie in Madrid vormde het middelpunt voor een bredere beweging. Het platform #Niudeshuciomás, wat 'geen enkele uitzetting meer' betekent, riep op tot protesten in andere Spaanse steden.