Pakket bij de buren of voor de deur ineens weg? Wie betaalt, hangt af van je eigen keuze

Ligt je pakket voor de deur of bij de buren, dan hangt het van je eigen keuze af wie het risico draagt. Beeld: AI (illustratief)

Black Friday valt dit jaar op vrijdag 27 november. Daarna volgen Sinterklaas en kerst. Het zijn de drukste weken voor pakketbezorgers. En dus ook de weken waarin er eens een pakket zoekraakt.

Bij de buren die van niets weten. Of uit de tuin, waar de bezorger het neerlegde. Wie draait er dan voor op?

De winkel is verantwoordelijk

Koop je bij een webwinkel, dan is die verantwoordelijk tot jij het pakket hebt ontvangen. Raakt het onderweg kwijt, dan hoef je niet zelf bij de bezorgdienst te klagen. Je meldt het bij de winkel. Die moet uitzoeken wat er misging en een oplossing bieden.

De bezorger wordt niet als ontvanger geteld. De bezorgdienst heeft een afspraak met de winkel, niet met jou.

Zegt de winkel dat het pakket wel is bezorgd? Dan moet de winkel dat aantonen.

"Je hoeft niet zelf achter de bezorgdienst aan. Dat is het werk van de winkel."

Bij de buren: gaf je toestemming?

Legt de bezorger je pakket bij de buren zonder dat je daarom vroeg? Dan blijft de winkel verantwoordelijk tot jij het ophaalt. Ook als de buren voor ontvangst hebben getekend.

Gaf je bij het bestellen of later wél toestemming voor bezorging bij de buren? Dan ligt het risico bij jou zodra de buren het pakket hebben aangenomen.

Of een vaste instelling in de app van een bezorgdienst ook als toestemming telt, is niet duidelijk geregeld.

Een vaste plek: jouw risico

Veel winkels en bezorgers laten je een plek kiezen waar het pakket mag blijven liggen, zoals de schuur of de garage. Kies je daarvoor, dan ben jij verantwoordelijk zodra het daar ligt. Wordt het gestolen of gaat het stuk, dan draai jij ervoor op.

"Koos je zelf voor de buren of de schuur, dan verschuift het risico naar jou."

Retour: dan ben jij de afzender

Stuur je iets terug, dan draaien de rollen om. Jij bent dan verantwoordelijk tot de winkel het pakket heeft ontvangen. Bewaar daarom altijd het verzendbewijs. Voor dure spullen kun je aangetekend versturen, al is dat flink duurder.

Zo pak je het aan

Is je pakket weg? Meld het schriftelijk bij de winkel, met je ordernummer. Vraag of ze het opnieuw sturen of je geld teruggeven.

Is er geen leverdatum afgesproken, dan moet de winkel binnen 30 dagen leveren. Lukt dat niet, geef de winkel dan schriftelijk extra tijd. Heb je het daarna nog niet, dan mag je de koop ontbinden en je geld terugvragen.

Wie draait ervoor op?

• Kwijt onderweg: de winkel
• Bij de buren zonder jouw toestemming: de winkel, tot jij het ophaalt
• Bij de buren met jouw toestemming: jij
• Op een plek die jij hebt gekozen: jij
• Retourpakket: jij, tot de winkel het heeft

Meer weten?

• Aankoop niet geleverd (ACM ConsuWijzer)
• Wat zijn mijn rechten als ik iets online koop? (Juridisch Loket)
• Is je pakketje kwijt of niet bezorgd? Dit kun je doen (Kassa)

MADRID/SANTA CRUZ (ANP) - De Spaanse regering heeft vanwege de massale illegale migratie naar de Canarische Eilanden daar een 'migratienoodsituatie' uitgeroepen. De Interministeriële Commissie voor Immigratie is dinsdag bijeengekomen onder leiding van de minister voor de landsdelen Víctor Torres.

Er wordt onmiddellijk ruim 15 miljoen euro extra beschikbaar gesteld voor meer opvang van migranten op de eilanden en voor de overplaatsing van migranten naar het Spaanse vasteland, aldus de Spaanse publieke omroep.

De immigratiecommissie heeft ook gezegd dat er een extra schip naar het eiland El Hierro wordt gestuurd om er migranten uit zee te redden. Het eiland van nog geen 270 vierkante kilometer met 10.000 inwoners wordt sinds september overspoeld door migranten die uit Afrika overzee komen. Het is het zuidelijkste van de Canarische Eilanden. Volgens regiopremier Fernando Clavijo zijn er alleen al deze maand met bootjes 7500 mensen vanuit West-Afrika op El Hierro geland.

NEW YORK (ANP) - Het aandeel Nvidia ging dinsdag verder omlaag op de beurzen in New York met een verlies van 4 procent bij aanvang. De grootste verkoper van AI-chips ter wereld kwam vorige week donderdag al onder zware druk te staan door de verkoopgolf in de AI-sector. Die volgde op de angst voor strengere regulering van AI na de ruime overwinning van de Democraten bij de midterms.

De meeste AI-gerelateerde aandelen, met name die van chipbedrijven, herstelden maandag van die klap. Nvidia zakte maandag echter nadat topman Jensen Huang had bevestigd vreemd te zijn gegaan. The New York Times berichtte vorige maand al over de affaire van Huang met een vrouw, die volgens de Amerikaanse autoriteiten mogelijk een Chinese spion is.

De algehele stemming op Wall Street was terughoudend na cijfers over de Amerikaanse inflatie die iets hoger uitvielen dan verwacht. De Dow-Jonesindex verloor kort na opening 0,4 procent tot 52.207 punten. De brede S&P 500 zakte 0,6 procent tot 7507 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq daalde 0,8 procent tot 25.061 punten.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - PRO-partijleider Jesse Klaver heeft wel gesprekken met coalitiepartijen, maar er is nog geen deal over het belastingplan. Dat zegt hij dinsdagmiddag voorafgaand aan de stemmingen in de Tweede Kamer. Klaver ging niet in op verdere vragen. "Want ook als ik zeg met wie ik wel of niet praat, zegt dat iets over het proces en dat maakt het allemaal nog complexer."

Zijn partij heeft samen met Volt een aanpassingsvoorstel ingediend om lasten te verschuiven van werk naar vermogen. De VVD is daar uitgesproken tegenstander van. De PRO-leider zegt dat hij praat "met coalitiepartijen", als hem gevraagd wordt of hij met alle coalitiepartijen praat.

Dat amendement wil PRO mogelijk nog aanpassen naar aanleiding van gesprekken, maar "vandaag niet, we gaan eerst het debat afwachten". Dinsdagavond debatteert de Kamer verder over het belastingplan.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De rechtbank in Den Haag heeft dinsdag op de derde zittingsdag van het Tarwekampproces naar negentien slachtofferverklaringen van nabestaanden en slachtoffers geluisterd. Bij de verwoestende explosie op 7 december 2024 kwamen zes mensen om het leven en raakten vijf gewond.

Een familie die de explosie overleefde, waarbij hun huis werd verwoest, sloot de reeks van emotionele slachtofferverklaringen af. "De explosie beschadigde mijn huis. Maar de grootste schade zit op een plek die niemand kan zien", zei een van de vier familieleden. "Ik weet inmiddels dat ik waarschijnlijk nooit meer dezelfde zal zijn als vóór die ochtend."

De vader van het gezin, dat bij de explosie een geliefde buurman verloor, ging in zijn verklaring in op de financiële schade. "Ondanks onze verzekeringen kom je er snel achter dat niet alles gedekt is. Sterker nog: zelfs wanneer je goed verzekerd bent, zijn er nog zoveel extra kosten waar je je simpelweg niet tegen kunt verzekeren", aldus de vader. "Ik vraag de rechtbank dan ook om onze traumatische en emotionele ervaringen goed te wegen in deze zaak en in uw veroordeling."

Emotie en pijn

"Er is vandaag veel emotie en pijn uitgesproken, maar wel met waardigheid", sloot de rechtbankvoorzitter de dag af. "Bij velen komt terug dat jullie gevoel van veiligheid en rust is afgenomen."

Woensdag worden de overige vijftien slachtofferverklaringen voorgelezen. Het strafproces gaat dinsdag 24 november verder met het bespreken van de persoonlijke omstandigheden van de vier verdachten. Dan zet het Openbaar Ministerie ook het bewijs uiteen en worden de strafeisen geformuleerd.

Sea Lion project in the North Falkland basin threatens to deepen sovereignty dispute

Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland Islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago.

At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Argentinian legal team argued that the oil project must be suspended.

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Ruggedly good-looking and greener than bricks and concrete, Petra Heights are made of three-metre slabs of rough rock. Could they herald a new stone age? Our writer fires up his Flintmobile

There’s been a geological eruption on London’s Finchley Road. Great chunks of pink basalt and igneous larvikite appear to have exploded from the railway cutting, shooting skywards to form teetering towers. Anyone trying to find Finchley Road & Frognal station need wonder no more: just look for the multistorey Stonehenge.

Countless apartment towers have sprouted above London’s stations in recent years, a result of public transport-oriented policies, but none have looked like the Flintstones were in charge.

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Finals have hit California desert after stormy few years and pre-tournament kerfuffle has added to the fun

Towards the end of a positive day for Mirra Andreeva, one of the brightest young stars of women’s tennis, the 19-year-old approached the broadcast cameras to dissect her excellent 6-4, 6-0 win over Elina Svitolina in her first match at this year’s WTA Finals. Andreeva took her place alongside Madison Keys, the 2025 Australian Open champion and a guest reporter for Sky Sports at Indian Wells, who greeted her with a mischievous smile: “Hey, diva!” Keys said.

This was an obvious reference to the kerfuffle on the eve of the tournament, when Jessica Pegula, usually known as one of the most congenial players on the tour, had been caught on a hot mic delivering a series of stinging criticisms about Andreeva in a private conversation with her coach. Pegula, who had just finished a practice set with an angsty Andreeva, described her rival as a “diva” who “needs to be humbled”. Her comments instantly spread to all corners of the internet.

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[CW: rape, sexual assault, victim shaming] Yesterday, Russell Brand was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for rape and three counts of sexual assault - the judge's sentencing remarks. His barrister is under scrutiny for the cross-examination of Brand's victims. New allegations are being investigated. Today, after a joint ITN and Guardian investigation, David Walliams is alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over a number of years.

UK celebrity who sought permanent legal injunction for exploitative sexual behaviour identified.

David Walliams, famous for Little Britain, being a judge on Britain's Got Talent, and children's book author, has been revealed as a sexual predator. (slTheGuardian) CW/TW: the Guardian article is really harrowing so all the caveats about sexual abuse and coercion apply.

The UK Post Office is extending its contract with Fujitsu to give it time to move services to a new supplier, after a scandal that has long marred the relationship between the two. The current contract runs until March 2027, and the publicly owned company has announced a short, time-limited contract extension to cover the transition. Accenture will take over running the Horizon system, which was at the center of a string of miscarriages of justice, from September 2027, after winning a £410 million contract in May this year. Meanwhile, the Post Office is developing a replacement for the aging system to serve its network of 11,500 branches. The Post Office began rolling out the legacy Horizon IT system for accounting in 1999, along with two subsequent upgrades. The electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) and back-end finance system was first implemented by ICL, a UK tech firm majority-owned by Fujitsu in the 1990s and which it fully acquired in 1998. From 1999 until 2015, around 736 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted over Horizon errors, devastating lives in the process. The Post Office, Accenture, and Fujitsu have agreed that Fujitsu will hand over the operation of Horizon to Accenture between 1 June and 1 September 2027, with the final date set to be confirmed in March 2027. Accenture is set to "walk in and take over" the current Horizon system by assuming day-to-day operations from Fujitsu, as well as developing the back-end of the new system to replace Horizon. Post Office CEO Neil Brocklehurst said: "Ending our contract with Fujitsu is a critical milestone in Post Office's transformation, and today's agreement secures the transition away from Fujitsu and over to Accenture safely and responsibly to achieve our target of summer 2027. "In addition to ending our contract with Fujitsu, we are also working at pace with our leading technology suppliers, Accenture, OneView Commerce, and Escher, to build a modern, resilient platform able to make everyday life easier for customers and postmasters for years to come." Fujitsu has also been awarded a contract extension to run the UK Government's Emergency Alerts platform until October 2029. The contract is worth £9.6 million ($12.8 million). The company committed to not bid for new public sector contracts while the inquiry into the Horizon scandal continues. ®

The tech company attributed the data loss to “critical damage to equipment” and a failure by some cloud customers to maintain external backups on the platform.

AI companies are trying to take the only cool thing their tech has ever done, making me vaguely interested for the first time ever in the concept of open weight models, local AI, etc. Time to take out a second mortgage on the house I don't have to finance a graphics card. Anyways, let's get into it:

‘Reverse Engineer Anything’: AI Companies Crack Down on the Coolest Thing People Were Doing With AI

It was a fun few weeks while it lasted. People using both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex to do AI-powered “reverse-engineering” or decompiling are now hitting guardrails or having their accounts limited while trying to do things like unbrick their internet-of-things devices or remove surveillance ads from their smart TVs.

Several people have reported triggering “safety checks” in Claude Code that prevented them from doing AI-powered reverse engineering; a highly upvoted Reddit post in r/ClaudeCode reads “The Dream is dead. Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is not likely to work with Claude.” A thread in the Reverse Engineer Anything Discord from last week reads, “Claude is refusing to decompile anything,” with multiple users responding saying they have hit similar walls. And X user log4j, who used OpenAI’s Codex to reverse engineer Samsung TVs, reported having their OpenAI account banned for violating its rules on “cyber abuse.” Other users said they asked Codex to reverse engineer hardware or their own code now say they have either been warned by the company or had their accounts restricted. A project called Decomp.wtf that made it easier to reverse engineer software and games has also shut down in recent days.

As we reported last month, Reverse Engineer-Anything has made it easy for people to use AI tools to hack electronics that they own and replace a manufacturer’s software or operating system with an open source or vibecoded one. People have installed new operating systems on their smart TVs, have turned baby monitors into AI assistants, have unbricked internet-of-things devices that were abandoned by their manufacturers, and have installed new software on very old hardware. At the time, I wasn’t sure how I felt about the trend, but as I’ve seen people take ownership and control back over the devices that manufacturers have purposefully bricked, turned into spyware, or have placed artificial limitations on, I have come to see AI-powered reverse engineering of electronic devices as one of the few LLM uses genuinely worth getting excited about. And so big companies have immediately taken steps to restrict this behavior.

The policy tweaks show that big AI corporations will protect other big corporations when their users find ways to use LLMs to circumvent the artificial constraints that hardware manufacturers put on their devices. AI-powered copyright circumvention is OK with big tech when it’s a massive company scraping the entire internet to build their LLMs, but is not OK when people then use those tools to liberate their internet-of-things devices. It’s not the end of AI-powered reverse engineering, but people suddenly getting locked out of their accounts for asking AI to reverse engineer their gadgets suggests that the future of this practice lies in open weight, local, and uncensored models, making it less accessible to the masses and the people who could probably benefit from it most.

Tarun Gogineni, an OpenAI engineer, tweeted that people are not supposed to have their OpenAI accounts restricted for reverse engineering: “these blocks are mostly accidental and a result of difficult decision boundaries; there is no prohibition against reverse engineering with codex. it’s getting fixed,” he tweeted.

But people who are doing AI-powered reverse-engineering suggest that they are moving away from big companies’ models to alternatives where they aren’t going to have their accounts disabled or have to figure out how to work around AI company guardrails.

“My general experience about reverse-engineering getting blocked has been more or less 100% correlated with the ‘cyber’ category blocks I have received. My take is that the lab[s] are probably under pressure to not have their models take part in some kind of criminal hacking activities and their cyber guardrails are erring on the side of being too strict,” Matt Brown, principal consultant at Brown Fine Security and someone who has been using AI to reverse-engineer devices, told 404 Media. “I am investing in hardware and trying to stay up to speed because the frontier labs guardrails will randomly change without warning on the same model. For my security research and pentesting work I really don’t want to invest tooling and energy into an ecosystem that will eventually lock me out. These guardrails on the frontier side have come at the same time as open weight models from (mostly) China are getting better and better.”

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The biggest thing going on in tech right now is Jensen Huang’s apparent affair with an executive at the data center company Megaspeed who is an alleged Chinese spy. This isn’t the type of thing we cover very closely normally, and Sam mentioned it in the newsletter yesterday, but the latest is that the company is now getting sued over this. The AI slop You Can See Everything memes are out in full force. The incel looksmaxxers have weighed in (if you don’t understand this sentence, I won’t corrupt you). So on and so forth. If you’re curious why any of this might matter, The New York Times has a scoop that the U.S. Department of Commerce killed an investigation into a Megaspeed after Nvidia intervened. Cool government we have here. Anyways, moving on.

ICEd out: The Department of Justice said that it no longer has enough attorneys available to respond to every habeas corpus challenge, and will begin letting judges rule on cases with no government opposition. Basically this suggests that ICE has detained so many people illegally that it no longer has enough attorneys to argue in these cases. Alarming, but also means that enough people are challenging their detentions that ICE is beginning to cry uncle. Also, I would normally never suggest you go watch a Bari Weiss x Ross Douthat joint, but parts of the 60 Minutes interview with Trump were SO WILD. Perhaps this guy doesn’t really stand for anything? Hmm.

Help Court Watch: Our friends over at Court Watch are doing a subscriber drive. Court Watch grabs court records off the notoriously expensive PACER document system and makes them available for free and finds extremely interesting and important cases all the time. We partner with them on a bunch of stories so go check/help them out.

Enough: The best Raspberry Pi on the market now costs $385. I remember when the whole point of a Raspberry Pi was that it cost, like, $20. This is, of course, due to the RAM/memory/everything shortage caused by AI data center buildout. If you know what people are doing with these top-end Raspberry Pis, let me know?

SLOPPED: Actors alarmed to learn that they had been replaced by AI in the Return of the Living Dead sequel they were set to star in.

DOGE’d: The government’s IT systems are really fucked up, argues our friend Karl Bode in a piece aptly called “U.S. government IT systems are completely compromised and will require a total rebuild.”

The surveillance state, now for kids: The Atlantic has a deep dive on what constant surveillance is doing to children. I haven’t had time to read the full thing yet, but have been waiting for a piece like this for a long time.

They Rickrolled a printer: … They Rickrolled a printer.

It was a fun few weeks while it lasted. People using both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex to do AI-powered “reverse-engineering” or decompiling are now hitting guardrails or having their accounts limited while trying to do things like unbrick their internet-of-things devices or remove surveillance ads from their smart TVs. 

Several people have reported triggering “safety checks” in Claude Code that prevented them from doing AI-powered reverse engineering; a highly upvoted Reddit post in r/ClaudeCode reads “The Dream is dead. Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is not likely to work with Claude.” A thread in the Reverse Engineer Anything Discord from last week reads, “Claude is refusing to decompile anything,” with multiple users responding saying they have hit similar walls. And X  user log4j, who used OpenAI’s Codex to reverse engineer Samsung TVs, reported having their OpenAI account banned for violating its rules on “cyber abuse.” Other users said they asked Codex to reverse engineer hardware or their own code now say they have either been warned by the company or had their accounts restricted. A project called Decomp.wtf that made it easier to reverse engineer software and games has also shut down in recent days.

As we reported last month, Reverse Engineer-Anything has made it easy for people to use AI tools to hack electronics that they own and replace a manufacturer’s software or operating system with an open source or vibecoded one. People have installed new operating systems on their smart TVs, have turned baby monitors into AI assistants, have unbricked internet-of-things devices that were abandoned by their manufacturers, and have installed new software on very old hardware. At the time, I wasn’t sure how I felt about the trend, but as I’ve seen people take ownership and control back over the devices that manufacturers have purposefully bricked, turned into spyware, or have placed artificial limitations on, I have come to see AI-powered reverse engineering of electronic devices as one of the few LLM uses genuinely worth getting excited about. And so big companies have immediately taken steps to restrict this behavior. 

The policy tweaks show that big AI corporations will protect other big corporations when their users find ways to use LLMs to circumvent the artificial constraints that hardware manufacturers put on their devices. AI-powered copyright circumvention is OK with big tech when it’s a massive company scraping the entire internet to build their LLMs, but is not OK when people then use those tools to liberate their internet-of-things devices. It’s not the end of AI-powered reverse engineering, but people suddenly getting locked out of their accounts for asking AI to reverse engineer their gadgets suggests that the future of this practice lies in open weight, local, and uncensored models, making it less accessible to the masses and the people who could probably benefit from it most. 

Tarun Gogineni, an OpenAI engineer, tweeted that people are not supposed to have their OpenAI accounts restricted for reverse engineering: “these blocks are mostly accidental and a result of difficult decision boundaries; there is no prohibition against reverse engineering with codex. it’s getting fixed,” he tweeted. 

But people who are doing AI-powered reverse-engineering suggest that they are moving away from big companies’ models to alternatives where they aren’t going to have their accounts disabled or have to figure out how to work around AI company guardrails. 

“My general experience about reverse-engineering getting blocked has been more or less 100% correlated with the ‘cyber’ category blocks I have received. My take is that the lab[s] are probably under pressure to not have their models take part in some kind of criminal hacking activities and their cyber guardrails are erring on the side of being too strict,” Matt Brown, principal consultant at Brown Fine Security and someone who has been using AI to reverse-engineer devices, told 404 Media. “I am investing in hardware and trying to stay up to speed because the frontier labs guardrails will randomly change without warning on the same model. For my security research and pentesting work I really don’t want to invest tooling and energy into an ecosystem that will eventually lock me out. These guardrails on the frontier side have come at the same time as open weight models from (mostly) China are getting better and better.” 

Brown posted a YouTube video last week explaining how he found hidden Bluetooth commands in an internet-of-things gas monitor attached to his propane tank with the open weight model GLM 5.3. He has explained in various posts that the guardrails big companies are putting on reverse engineering are why local AI and open weight models are important.

AI-powered reverse-engineering isn’t going anywhere, but it does look like it’s going to become much harder to use the most popular frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic for it. It’s unclear how much longer it will be possible for you to open an OpenAI Codex window, ask it to find a smart TV hooked up to your network, and tell it to install a new operating system on it. Moving forward, it looks like this type of work will be best done with open source, open weight, uncensored, and local models. That’s a bummer, because one of the things that was so exciting about the Reverse Engineer-Anything trend was how easily accessible it had become.

Last month, researchers and law professors at Cornell Tech, Columbia University, and New York University published a paper about how cheap, AI-assisted reverse-engineering is challenging big manufacturers’ dominance over the devices their make, and is challenging existing intellectual property law. 

“AI systems can identify hardware components, extract firmware, decompile object code, and clone entire apps. The resulting struggle between technology vendors and reverse engineers will challenge a wide range of laws, including trade secret, copyright, anti-circumvention, computer misuse, and contract,” they write. “The law of reverse engineering was built for a world where opening a device took time, tools, and rare expertise. That friction is vanishing as agents whittle endless, precise picks for the many little locks that fill our digital lives.”

In recent days, people have started modifying older digital cameras with new, vibe-coded operating systems. In a video about hacking old cameras, the YouTuber Breno Loves Cameras explains why it’s such a big deal and why camera companies don’t like it; that same logic can be applied to any device manufacturer.

“Camera companies have this practice of keeping features to release on newer cameras, and having distinctions [in features] in camera lines,” the YouTuber Breno said in one video. “This is breaking that from those big companies, which are going to lose a lot of money if this becomes a big thing.”

 Through that lens, it’s easy to see why big companies are protecting other big companies. People finally found a thing to do with AI tools that gives consumers a bit more control over the devices they bought; it must be immediately stamped out.

“This vibe-code hacking is only called ‘reverse’ when somebody who lacks a trillion dollars is doing it,” the science fiction author Bruce Sterling tweeted. “When you ‘reverse engineer’ the entire Internet Common Crawl, you just built a nice AI model.”

Nederland telt inmiddels meer dan honderd geregistreerde paardencoaches. Die gebruiken de dieren binnen een therapiesessie, bijvoorbeeld om een familielid uit te beelden. „De één denkt als een paard achter hem komt te staan: die steunt me. En de ander denkt: hij geeft me een duw.”

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We zitten misschien wel in de allerdomste tijdlijn. En zo niet, dan valt er in ieder geval nog te lachen om RTL-presentator Edson da Graça, die door onderzoeksplatform FunX werd geïnterviewd tijdens de Rode Lijn-demonstratie van afgelopen zondag. Na een hoop vaag complotachtig gewauwel over de afwezigheid van Rob Jetten eindigt hij een gesprek bij een protest over de toestand in Gaza (!) met een lofzang op Ibrahim Traoré dictator van Burkina Faso (!). We citeren NRC Handelsblad: 

"De politicoloog wil alleen anoniem spreken (zijn naam is bij de redactie bekend), net als vrijwel alle Burkinezen met wie NRC voor dit verhaal sprak. De risico’s zijn te groot, verontschuldigt hij zich. Wie de afgelopen jaren waagde te tornen aan het imago van Traoré en zijn regime, werd bedreigd, opgepakt of, in meerdere gevallen, naar het front gestuurd waar het Burkinese leger vecht tegen jihadisten.

Het overkwam activisten, journalisten. Zelfs een oud-minister van in de zeventig. Onderwijl zijn politieke partijen geschorst en verschillende internationale media (vooral Franse) geblokkeerd. Lokale journalisten die niet geschorst of opgepakt willen worden, moeten zich aan één gouden regel houden: alleen wat de regering zegt, is waar. Zeker wat betreft de veiligheidssituatie, de raison d’être van Traorés machtsgreep."

En nu vraagt u zich af? Hoe komt Edson da Graça daar nou bij? Het antwoord zal Sander Schimmelpenninck en Pieter Klok behagen. Social media natuurlijk! Hep gestaan in Trouw: "De beelden zijn indrukwekkend. Juichende menigtes in buitenlandse steden betuigen steun aan Ibrahim Traoré, de president van Burkina Faso. De leider zelf houdt vurige Engelstalige toespraken over het pan-Afrikanisme. Foto’s van nieuwe gebouwen in het land, waar arme mensen gratis mogen wonen. Een videotoespraak van de nieuwe paus Leo XIV waarin hij Traoré prijst als ‘zoon van Afrikaanse bodem’.

Ze zijn alleen nep: de juichende menigtes waren eigenlijk demonstranten in Servië, president Traoré beheerst alleen het Frans, de nieuwe gebouwen staan in Algerije en de paus sprak nooit over de president van Burkina Faso."

Ook een leestip voor het RTL-gezicht: Heb je kritiek in Burkina Faso? Dan moet je naar het front. Edson da Graça presenteert het programma Nederlands Domste, maar hij is het dus zelf. Ga maar weer snel over mayonaise posten jongen.

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Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an open world tower defense “game”?