BERGEN (ANP/DPA) - De Duitse krijgsmacht is van plan om volgend jaar zijn eerste drone-eenheid op te zetten. Dat heeft defensieminister Boris Pistorius gezegd bij een bezoek aan het militaire oefenterrein in Bergen. De eenheid gaat volgens hem uit maximaal zeshonderd personen bestaan.

Pistorius omschrijft het nieuwe regiment als "een onafhankelijke eenheid voor onbemande systemen". Duitsland wil het gebruik van drones in het leger opvoeren, kijkend naar de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. Daarbij is duidelijk dat drones voor Oekraïne een sleutelrol spelen in de gevechten met Rusland.

De nieuwe eenheid is volgens de minister bedoeld om "expertise te bundelen". "Wie op het land de overhand wil krijgen, moet het gebruik van onbemande systemen gewoon onder de knie hebben." Pistorius kondigt aan dat de eenheid gaat werken met zowel onbemande luchtsystemen als systemen voor op het land.

Tegen een 24-jarige vrouw uit het Limburgse Geleen is vijf jaar onvoorwaardelijke celstraf geëist. Na haar arrestatie voor een gewelddadige roofoverval in Dordrecht vond de politie op haar telefoon ook bewijs voor betrokkenheid bij aanslagen op de Vlaardingse loodgieter Ron van Uffelen.

Duitsers kiezen steeds vaker voor AfD. In het meestal zo zonnige Saksen-Anhalt, bijvoorbeeld. Of in Mecklenburg-Voor-Pommeren. Reden genoeg om in Thüringen diep na te denken over de wortels van de onvrede, introspectie zoals introspectie bedoeld is. Waarom voelen al die mensen zich ontheemd? Waar komt al dat  Bas Heijniaanse onbehagen vandaan? Nee, grapje. Wel reden genoeg om in het deelstaatparlement van Thüringen de vraag te stellen: moet AfD worden verboden? Een staaltje extrospectie incoming.

NOS was bij hoorzitting. Beroepsgrappenmaker Hape Kerkeling mocht spreken. Hape vertrok overigens uit Berlijn omdat de stad te homofoob werd. Kerkeling heeft voor ons op de kaart gekeken en hoopt dat specifiek in Thüringen AfD verboden wordt: "Uitgerekend hier, waar in 1930 de eerste NSDAP-minister aantrad en waar Buchenwald ligt." Kerkeling begint overigens met de disclaimer dat hij geen expert is. Wie zijn wij om daar als niet-expert wat van te vinden?

Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte - een soort Justice for Prosperity, maar dan met meer vrije tijd -  publiceerde onlangs een rapport, waarin volgens de NOS 2500 voorbeelden van ongrondwettelijke uitspraken en plannen van AfD zijn verzameld. Interessant omdat 1 van de 7 auteurs Valentina Chiofalo spreektijd kreeg. Nou, zo’n rapport zal vol staan met bruine drek. U hoort de laarzen al marcheren. Wij kijken. Het rapport lijkt vooral een verzameling smakeloosheid. In esthetische zin een nobel streven om dat te verbieden, maar dat betekent ook het einde voor kringverjaardagen. Of de wave bij het Nederlands elftal. Of Crocs. Of het een goed idee is om op basis van deze 2500 BEWIJZEN AfD te verbieden, oordeelt u lekker zelf.

Hele rapport: HIERRRR.

### Waarom AfD verboden zou moeten worden, part 1/2500

0 Prozent Ramadan - 100 Prozent sicheres Würzburg! pic.twitter.com/6UA9ox5uH6

— Daniel Halemba (@halemba_daniel) February 28, 2026

### Waarom AfD verboden zou moeten worden, part 964/2500

#Ramadan bedeutet auch Wassermangel. Man muss sich fragen, ob ein muslimischer #BVG Fahrer, der den Ramadan befolgt, tagsüber überhaupt noch fahrtüchtig ist, und nicht die Sicherheit der Fahrgäste gefährdet @BVG_Kampagne . https://t.co/sx90PpRwLD

— Gunnar Lindemann MdA (@AfDLindemann) May 18, 2018

### Waarom AfD verboden zou moeten worden, part 1789/2500

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### Waarom AfD verboden zou moeten worden, part 2385/2500

Het kleine groot maken en het grote klein. Schrijfster, cabaretier en programmamaker Paulien Cornelisse kon het als geen ander. Zeven hoogtepunten uit het NRC-archief.

Als een leerling overstapt van basisschool naar middelbare school vindt er meestal een ‘warme overdracht’ plaats, waarbij scholen informatie uitwisselen. Maar met die kennis over de leerling wordt te weinig gedaan, stelt de Inspectie van het Onderwijs.

De inwoners van Bosnië en Herzegovina gaan zondag naar de stembus. Het land zit ruim dertig jaar na de oorlog muurvast in een complex politiek stelsel. Weinigen hebben hoop op verbetering. „We hebben goede politici nodig die de huidige machtsstructuur kunnen doorbreken.”

Depending on Chinese technology for European infrastructure poses risks that not every country takes seriously. So says the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which suggests that the EU needs to do better in helping members assess the risk and take appropriate action to safeguard the entire bloc. The UK-based think tank said in a report today that the EU should develop a new risk assessment framework that applies to all members and strengthens its own powers, without encroaching on members’ rights to set their own national security policies. It must delicately balance the need to secure the union, while maintaining the flexibility that both allows members to set domestic policies and lawmakers to account for different risk profiles across different sectors. The risks affecting telecoms will not necessarily apply to other sectors in the same way. Speaking of telecoms, currently there is only the voluntary EU Toolbox for 5G Security framework – voluntary being the operative word here, as only 10 of 27 members have fully implemented it since it launched in January 2020. On paper, it somewhat sets out to achieve what RUSI is calling for: a harmonized set of standards to mitigate 5G-related security risks affecting member states. Addressing the frustration over the lack of adoption, the European Commission proposed amendments to the Cyber Security Act (CSA) earlier this year that would allow it to build a list of untrusted vendors that members must preclude from the networks of 18 critical sectors. If passed, any countries using equipment from designated vendors would be forced to rip and replace it within 36 months. The EC has already indicated that it would suggest Huawei and ZTE be listed, should the amendments pass. But before the EU gets busy listing vendors it considers high-risk, it first needs to decide what a high-risk vendor even is. There is still no official definition, nor is it a legal category, and at present, it allows countries to wangle their way around these descriptions to buy the tech they want, bypassing whatever scrutiny may come their way should the CSA amendments come into force. RUSI’s researchers used Germany, Spain, and the UK as examples of how three countries can treat foreign tech vendors, such as Huawei and ZTE, very differently. Germany’s most important trading partner is China, a relationship worth €251.8 billion ($284.4 billion) annually, and historically the Bund has opted to preserve these valuable economic ties in favor of reducing supply chain risk. Under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, this is slowly changing, although RUSI does not expect to see a material shift in the makeup of Germany’s 5G RAN stack in the near future. Chinese suppliers accounted for an estimated 59 percent of the country’s 5G RAN in 2024. Chinese equipment accounted for an estimated 32 percent of Spain’s 5G RAN in 2024, although that share is expected to shrink. The debate intensified after last year’s controversy, when Spain awarded Huawei a contract involving the storage of judicial wiretap recordings. Spain’s past procurement decisions have shown it to often favor the most cost-effective option, and its government does not share the same national security concerns about China as the UK or US, or at least not to the same degree. The UK, meanwhile, looks set to completely eradicate Chinese technology from its telecoms network by the end of next year, and has bent to the US’ vehement demands that Huawei is bad, bad news for Western geopolitical security. Real security risks RUSI stated that concerns about Chinese IT vendors “are well-founded,” and that it is true that the Chinese government can empower authorities to exercise control over companies like Huawei. This includes providing the state with data on demand, hosting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) representatives, and reporting activity that signals a threat to national security. There is an additional law that requires tech companies to not just report vulnerabilities to the country’s government within 48 hours of discovery, but also to withhold the same disclosure from China’s overseas counterparts, except for the product vendor. “This converts China’s private sector security research into a state-controlled pipeline that grants intelligence services privileged early access to exploitable vulnerabilities,” RUSI said. Factoring in all of this, the country has also demonstrated the willingness and capability to launch cyberattacks against the critical national infrastructure of political adversaries, according to RUSI. Technical security aside, China’s technological advancements introduce economic risks, too. In some cases, its vendors have developed more capable products than equivalents in the EU or US, and sold them at more attractive prices. This advantage makes it difficult for some countries to justify the extra expense on non-Chinese equipment. In building a global reliance on its products, China could then introduce “unwelcome dependencies,” or cement itself as a dominant player in crucial supply chains, RUSI noted. China has shown in recent years that it is willing to exercise this influence, such as when it threatened Germany with “consequences” for the two countries’ economic ties during the heated 5G debate of 2019. Would a high-risk designation system work? One of the reasons why the think tank is calling for a more considered risk assessment framework for the EU is that there is no guarantee that what the EC is currently proposing in its CSA amendments will have much of an effect. Issuing blanket bans on companies, or countries, does not explicitly address the underlying security issues that make products vulnerable to attack. In other words, even if China were excluded entirely from the EU members’ tech stacks, the other vendors from ‘trusted’ countries have proved that they are unable to deliver penetration-proof software, which would open the door to attacks regardless. Remember, Salt Typhoon’s high-profile attack on US telco networks took place as recently as 2024. It should also be said that CSA-esque designations could apply to US companies, as some countries in Europe see US vendors as similarly risky, albeit for different reasons. Merz’s Germany is concerned about the relationship between the US and EU, for example, and similar concerns about dependence on Chinese technology could easily be applied to vendors in the US, should relations sour. In Spain, US cloud companies dominate, but anti-US sentiment is stronger than many realize, particularly around surveillance concerns. Those, along with higher prices from some non-Chinese suppliers, have reduced Spain’s appetite for ripping out equipment others deem high-risk. “One participant even noted that some officials view US legal instruments such as the Patriot Act as creating equivalent sovereignty risks to China’s National Intelligence Law, a narrative that is flawed when exploring the legislation, but politically convenient,” RUSI stated. The think tank suggested that if it wishes to enact change through policy, the EU must gather “greater economic courage” and a willingness to approach tech procurement as a means to secure its critical infrastructure, rather than “a compliance exercise.” ®

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You have to feel for new Portugal manager Jorge Jesus, a 72-year-old who knows more than most that time waits for no man, but has apparently had a hard time explaining to Cristiano Ronaldo that at the age of 41 and woefully out of form, he cannot expect to start every single game for one of the best international teams in the world.

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Today's links

• Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils "may not be reproduced"; DVD Jon v Apple DRM; Unpaid diplomatic parking tickets as index of corruption; Tortured Canadian was not a terrorist; Decarbonization at a distance.
• Upcoming appearances: Brighton, Virtual, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Paris, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Kilkenny, Montreal.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (permalink)

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

From the Magna Carta to the US Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics).

Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to make them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.

If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe. Indeed, Obama's genius was summoning up an army of door-knocking, phone-banking small p political activists and then euthanizing that organization after he won the election:

https://newrepublic.com/article/140245/obamas-lost-army-inside-fall-grassroots-machine

For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise.

He let the bank executives who created the Great Financial Crisis off the hook and encouraged them to foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, the very same public that had bailed them out:

https://theweek.com/articles/624777/obamas-biggest-failure

He shielded the CIA's torturers from scrutiny and prosecution:

https://journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/2009/04/obama-publishes-torture-memos-immunizes-cia-staff/

He reneged on his promise to shut down Gitmo:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo

And his promise to hold the phone companies to account for their complicity in the NSA's mass domestic surveillance:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/obama-on-mass-government-surveillance-then-and-now/

He stepped up secret drone warfare:

https://www.cfr.org/articles/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

And unconstitutional domestic surveillance:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-powers-his-way-out

Whenever I raise this, Obama's apologists come out of the woodwork to tell me that "the president isn't the Green Lantern," and that Obama couldn't act without help from Congress and the Senate, who wouldn't back his plays.

I think that Trump's presidency has shown us how much power the president really has even when the legislature won't play ball. But even if you accept the Green Lantern apologetics, the fact remains that Obama could have had a clamoring army of ardent supporters in the streets, defending his agenda against recalcitrants in his own party and wreckers in the GOP. He chose not to have that army. He sent that army home.

It's like Obama heard the story about post-election FDR telling civil rights leaders, "I want to do it, now make me do it," and concluded, "I don't want to do it, so I'd better not let anyone make me do it":

https://www.quora.com/Did-Franklin-Roosevelt-ever-say-I-agree-with-you-I-want-to-do-it-now-make-me-do-it

Of course, Trump is doing everything he can to extinguish both small p politics and Big P Politics. It's not just his wildly illegal voter suppression tactics. He's banning and prosecuting political groups, invoking anti-terror laws (which Obama supported and promised would only be used proportionately and wisely) to chase his grassroots opposition underground:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

Liberals are often contemptuous of grassroots movements (cf "basket of deplorables," "Green Lantern" scolding), but the right is terrified of them. The right's political leadership is terrified of its own grassroots, and rightly so, because those people are maniacs, and they're the reason the GOP has been pushed into its most extreme positions. The right's grassroots, meanwhile, are afraid of the left's grassroots. The last thing they want is a militant, organized, mobilized base pushing Dem politicians to take the stands that are wildly and widely popular in America, from Medicare for All to an end to ICE – the Mamdani agenda, in other words.

Mamdani is the anti-Obama. He shows what happens when a progressive candidate nurtures and co-governs with their base after the election, using millions of passionate, committed, everyday people to steamroller anyone who gets in the way of his agenda:

https://www.nyc.gov/content/100days/pages/

Of course the downside of this is that when Mamdani reneges on his pledges, he is loudly and furiously held to account for it:

https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/02/19/mamdani-budget-parks-libraries/

Mamdani understood that he would be corralled into compromises if he won the mayoralty and that when he made those compromises, his base would come after him with the unmistakable fury of betrayed idealists. He also understood that any comfort he enjoyed by sidelining his base while in office would come at a price far higher than being yelled at by his supporters: it would cost him the ability to get anything done.

Voting for Mamdani was important. It got him elected. But staying organized – in unions, neighborhood clubs, affinity groups, DSA chapters and mutual aid groups – is what's letting him get stuff done, and stopping him from bailing on his promises as politically infeasible.

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little. The right's leadership understands this very well, which is why they've spent years attacking unions, community organizers like Acorn, and activist institutions like Planned Parenthood. We must defend voting rights – Big P Politics – to the bitter end, but we need to defend organizing – small p politics – just as ferociously.

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity. Turning "politics" into "voting" is absolutely in line with Margaret Thatcher's dictum that "there is no such thing as society." It's the same move that convinced workers that the answer to bad working conditions is looking your boss in the eye and threatening to change jobs (not forming a union and striking).

It's also the same move that transformed "boycotts" into "shopping." Boycotts are a collective enterprise. Before a boycott takes place, small-p political groups hold meetings, organize alternatives and communicate their demands. During a boycott, organizers work to insulate participants from reprisals, like the Montgomery Bus Boycott organizers who reasoned and remonstrated with employers who disciplined workers whose participation made them late for work.

And yes, as part of a boycott, you make some consumption choices. You buy X instead of Y. But "shopping" by itself isn't a boycott. You can't "vote with your wallet" (especially not when billionaires get to vote against you with their wallets):

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/#marginal-benefits

Shopping isn't politics, and while voting is Politics (Big P), it's also not politics (small p). A boycott, on the other hand, is politics. What's more, "shopping" has the same relationship to "boycotts" that "voting" has to "politics." It's a step you take, after you've laid a lot of groundwork with other people, as part of a mass movement.

I understand why shopping and voting are more attractive than boycotts and politics. Meetings suck. Hell is other people:

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-hell-is-other-people/

But changing the system requires systemic work. Hell is other people because other people are great but it's so hard to get them to do things your way. That takes time and understanding and togetherness and arguing and forgiving.

Not everyone has time or capacity for that, and at any given time, we don't all have to be doing that work. We can take turns, spelling each other off at times in our lives when we have more or less slack. But lots of us have to be in the fight, or all of us will get screwed. There aren't enough of us doing politics right now. We can tell, because our politicians are so contemptuous of the grassroots that they will sell us out without a moment's hesitation, smugly certain that they will face no consequences for doing so:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/happy-chudmas/#baloney-in-our-slacks

Oligarchs have it easy. Where we have to convince people to fight, they can pay or threaten people to bring them into line. But oligarchs' power is wearing thin. The data-center uprising shows how much fury there is out there, looking for a productive outlet:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers

Data centers are very bad and very visible, so they make for good targets. But data centers are only the physical extrusion of a vast, brutal, extractive system. The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't dare compromise on anything.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• The Facebook Fake-out https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/facebook-fake-out/

• Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arderne-scroll/

• Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac https://www.reuters.com/business/inside-mcdonalds-push-have-ai-price-your-big-mac-2026-09-29/

• what is going on with ceiling fans https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans

• From Shitpost to Bullshit https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitpost-to-bullshit

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago GWB's press secretary to media: "watch what you do, watch what you say" https://web.archive.org/web/20010926223602/https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-5.html#BillMaher-Comments#BillMaher-Comments

#20yrsago Stencils kit “may not be reproduced in any form” https://web.archive.org/web/20061022000842/http://www.fairuseday.com/index.php/2006/10/01/copyright-is-broken/

#20yrsago DVD Jon selling Apple DRM to Apple’s competitors https://web.archive.org/web/20061004191106/https://featured.gigaom.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jon-fairplays-apple/

#20yrsago Unpaid diplomatic parking tickets as index of national corruption https://web.archive.org/web/20130719065306/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/10/primary-sources/305203/

#20yrsago Canadian deported to Syria for torture is cleared https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/02/worlddispatch

#20yrsago Gilberto Gil slams WIPO https://fromgeneva.blogspot.com/2006/09/wipo-general-assembly-impressions-from.html

#20yrsago Speech given by censored Apple WiFi hacker at ToorCon https://craphound.com/cache_toorcon_2006.txt

#10yrsago Company suspected of blame in Office of Personnel Management breach will help run new clearance agency https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-background-idUSKCN1202M6/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo started demanding fraud of its employees in 1998; Illinois cuts Wells off from state business https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/wells-fargo-king-of-cross-sell.pdf

#10yrsago Google: if you support Amazon’s Echo, you’re cut off from Google Home and Chromecast https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/google-home-amazon-echo-chromecast-1201874125/

#5yrsago How the IMF loan-sharks the global south https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/02/debt-trap/#global-arm-breakers

#1yrago Decarbonization at a distance https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/02/there-goes-the-sun/#carbon-shifting

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

https://www.epl.ca/blogs/post/elbows-up-with-cory-doctorow/

• Brighton: Digital Sovereignty and the Post-American Internet (Green Party Conference), Oct 3
  https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/digital-sovereignty-and-the-post-american-internet/

• Virtual: How to govern technology in a multipolar digital world (Connecting Current), Oct 6
  https://connectingcurrent.tech/how-to-govern-technology-a-multipolar-digital-world/

• South Bend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
  https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

• Hudson, OH: Hudson Library, Oct 7
  https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&EventID=596952&PK=

• Calgary: Wordfest, Oct 8
  https://wordfest.com/2026/show/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2026/

• Winnipeg: McNally Robinson, Oct 9
  https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18991/An-Evening-with-Cory-Doctorow

• Paris: Slow Tech Summit, Oct 15
  https://slowtechsummit.com/

• Vancouver: Read, Resist, Repair, Rejoice (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 19
  https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/01

• Victoria: Munro's Books, Oct 20
  https://www.munrobooks.com/events/6113620261020

• Vancouver: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22
  https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/46

• Ottawa: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24
  https://writersfestival.org/event/life-after-ai

• Kilkenny (Kilkenomics), Nov 6-8
  https://kilkenomics.com/

• Vancouver: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
  https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/

• Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
  https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/

• Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
  https://montreal2027.ca/en

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN)
  https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/458ce968-af5d-11f0-b539-13ed2afe25f8

• AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
  AI, Work, and Power https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/

• AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
  https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/

• How to Think About AI—Before It’s Too Late (Daniel Solove)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR3uEgGcc

• Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4VktU0SgY

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Latest books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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• “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. Today's words: 509 (20770 total).

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• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet, along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. I recorded a short video of how it looks on the site:

Each lighthouse has a unique light characteristic so that ships can tell them apart:

In any of these designs an observer, rather than seeing a continuous weak light, sees a brighter light during short time intervals. These instants of bright light are arranged to create a light characteristic or pattern specific to a lighthouse. For example, the Scheveningen Lighthouse flashes are alternately 2.5 and 7.5 seconds. Some lights have sectors of a particular color (usually formed by colored panes in the lantern) to distinguish safe water areas from dangerous shoals. Modern lighthouses often have unique reflectors or racon transponders so the radar signature of the light is also unique.

See also A Blinking Map of the World’s Lighthouses. And mapped.earth has more cool visualizations of the Earth (rianfall, wind, lightning, pollution, etc.)

Tags: infoviz · maps

Weer voor Rotterdam ⛅ - 01-10-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.9°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ⛅ | Min 16.9°C / Max 21.0°C | Kans op neerslag 27%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.9°C, Max 21.0°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 4.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 18.4°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1025.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: → 253°
• 21:00: 18.5°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1026.3 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 251°
• 22:00: 18.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.1 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 245°
• 23:00: 18.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.8 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 246°
• 00:00: 17.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 229°
• 01:00: 16.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 02:00: 16.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 03:00: 16.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 04:00: 15.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 05:00: 15.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.5 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 06:00: 15.0°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1029.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 180°
• 07:00: 14.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 190°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• vrijdag 02 oktober: Min 14.6°C, Max 20.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1030.4 hPa ↗️ +3.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 214°
• zaterdag 03 oktober: Min 15.2°C, Max 21.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.7 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• zondag 04 oktober: Min 12.5°C, Max 19.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1028.0 hPa ↘️ -1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 245°
• maandag 05 oktober: Min 14.2°C, Max 20.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ↘️ -2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°
• dinsdag 06 oktober: Min 12.7°C, Max 19.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1020.8 hPa ↘️ -5.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 220°
• woensdag 07 oktober: Min 11.5°C, Max 18.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1012.4 hPa ↘️ -8.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.5 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 18.9°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 18.0°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 262°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 21.2 km/h (5.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 72%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1025.7 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:42 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:19

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 39 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.0 μg/m³

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Lucho Maya has added a photo to the pool:

For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are no Halloween stamps on sale. I'm sure this is also DeJoy's fault.

Previously, previously, previously, previously.