In a gangsterish age, the UN needs an ultra-pragmatist as secretary-general

Justice department says it decided to abandon fraud and bribery case in which Adani Group has denied wrongdoing

A US judge on ⁠Monday dismissed criminal charges against the Indian ⁠billionaire Gautam Adani, after ​the justice department said it had decided to abandon the fraud and bribery case.

The Brooklyn-based district judge Nicholas Garaufis’s decision to grant federal prosecutors’ rare attempt to ⁠toss the case came after he inquired into their reasons for doing so, including by asking Adani whether anything was promised in exchange for the dropping of the case. In November 2024, before ⁠the charges were unsealed, Adani had promised to invest $10bn in the United States.

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in Malta. “Come tax season, the Broomfield, Colo., company has claimed that all its global profits were actually earned in this two-person office.” The US is not a serious country.

Naturally, that means it's time for our latest installment of CYBERDELIA.

This is the THIRTY-FIRST Anniversary of HACKERS, yes really. Join me as I crumble to dust. So, as per tradition, we will have:

• A screening of Hackers at 8pm;
• Hackers costume contest at 11pm;
• Head-to-head Wipeout XL competition throughout the night;
• Skate ramps! Rollerblades welcome!
• Electro / big beat / cyberpunk dance party to follow.

If you've been to some of our other movie nights recently you may have noticed that people tend to clear out pretty soon after the movie ends. This one is not like that. There really is a dance party after, so be prepared!

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"Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate public and privately owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses, and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they are terrorists."

And we hope we will also see you at our subsequent movie nights as well! The Crow, Thu Oct 29 (Devils' Night Eve), Scott Pilgrim, Sun Nov 22, and the greatest Christmas movie, Batman Returns, Sun Dec 20. Season Pass tickets available!

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Too many creeps, Combs (@Chomberton)

Midnight bloom — The New Yorker, Edward Steed

Are you high? Mark Power

Uiteraard, inmiddels krioelt het in de Kamer van de (veelal onironische) tegenpartijen, maar dat doet niets af aan hoe ontzettend, godsonmogelijk, grensverleggend grappig Koot en Bie ooit waren. Sterker: veruit de meeste oude sketch-tv of cabaret of andersoortige grappigdoenerij, doorstaat de tand des tijds niet. Dat zegt niet dat het toen slecht was, het zegt vooral dat het net niet geniaal was. Wat wel geniaal was: Kees van Kooten en zijn inmiddels overleden makker Wim de Bie. Kees wordt vandaag 85 en wij maken graag van deze gelegenheid gebruik de beste man van harte te feliciteren en wat van zijn beste werk te delen. O, en (her)lees (Meer) Modernismen.

Koot en Bie over: het belangrijk van representatie!

Koot en Bie over: seksuele intimidatie in de publieke ruimte

Koot en Bie over: de individualisering van de samenleving (en het hooliganisme)

Koot en Bie over de WIA (o nee)

Koot en Bie over de multiculturele samenleving

Koot en Bie over kuikentjes

Koot en Bie over genderneutraal opvoeden

Koot en Bie met misschien wel het beste personage uit de vaderlandse televisiegeschiedenis

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Unie is bereid Colombia meer hulp te bieden bij de reddingswerkzaamheden na de zware aardbeving. Commissievoorzitter Ursula von der Leyen schrijft op X dat de Europese satellietdienst Copernicus al wordt ingezet om te helpen.

"Vanavond is het hart van Europa bij de mensen van Colombia na de verschrikkelijke aardbeving in de regio Chocó", aldus Von der Leyen. "We staan achter jullie", schrijft ze ook nog, in het Spaans.

Na de aardbevingen in Venezuela afgelopen juni maakte de EU ook geld vrij voor de hulpverlening. Toen ging het om twee pakketten van in totaal 25 miljoen euro, onder meer bedoeld voor medische hulpmiddelen en reddingsteams.

SEXBIERUM (ANP) - Boeren houden maandagavond in het Friese Sexbierum een protestactie tegen de stikstofplannen van het kabinet. De boeren hebben zich met meer dan honderd trekkers verzameld op een weiland langs de A31.

Een van de organisatoren laat weten dat de trekkers later op de avond de weg op gaan. Waar ze precies heen gaan rijden, is niet bekend. Een deel van de boeren heeft de Nederlandse vlag omgekeerd aan het voertuig hangen.

In het oosten van het land zijn maandagavond ook boerenprotesten. Zo overhandigden boeren in het Overijsselse Ommen een brandbrief aan het college van burgemeester en wethouders.

Unlike the coasts, Midwestern culture is synonymous with the manual labor of blue-collar jobs, resilience necessary in harsh winters, and a certain friendliness that lends itself to a deep-rooted sense of community. These humble tenets grounded Melissa Joseph’s childhood in Saint Marys, a small, rural city in Pennsylvania, where she was born to a mother with Irish heritage and a father from Kerala, India. The melange of biracial life, Midwestern niceties, and gendered fiber art traditions are woven through Joseph’s artistic practice, which translates family photos into tender needle-felted scenes.

In her forthcoming solo exhibition, Casserole Culture, the New York-based artist echoes the warmth and mundanity present in these snapshots of life through soft layers of wool. An upturned hat on a wooden dresser, the bright orange flowers of dining room wallpaper, and even the titular hot dish all appear in hazy fiber, nodding to the fuzziness of memory.

Alongside two-dimensional works, Joseph also incorporates found objects like worn tires, salvaged boxes, frames, and industrial materials into her more sculptural pieces. In this body of work, a felted fire roars inside a hulking model hearth, for example, while another embeds a fragment of a fork inside a metal-and-wood form.

The artist’s mother died in 2024, and she’s found it difficult to depict her family in the wake of such profound grief, instead focusing on their possessions and the places where cherished moments occurred. “Even if the people themselves may elude the artist’s hand, she captures the spaces they enliven, the unremarkable yet prized moments that shape our lives,” says a statement about the exhibition.

Casserole Culture will be on view from September 9 to October 17 at Charles Moffett in New York. Until then, explore more of Joseph’s work on Instagram.

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