Volgens het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie coördineerde Al-S. ook de explosies en brandstichtingen in Amsterdam (13 en 15 maart), Rotterdam (13 maart) en Nijkerk (3 april).
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While there are still days the Thames is so dirty even dogs avoid it, steps are being taken to restore public waterways
Some people think we are odd for swimming in the Thames. “Isn’t it cold?” they ask with a shiver, like they are the ones who just took the plunge. Er, yes, that’s the whole point. Cold water ignites the central nervous system and reboots the mind.
“Isn’t it dirty?” they ask. Yes, sometimes, particularly when it’s rained. Then we don’t get in the Thames, we get in a rage instead, taking contamination measurements and signing petitions challenging the behaviour of the water company that spews sewage into the river.
Continue reading...Donors mean well, but in Pakistan I saw funds poured into professional, unaccountable NGOs rather than authentic, grassroots civil society
It was a hot and humid August day in a market in Islamabad, not far from my comfortable, air-conditioned office in the US embassy. I was waiting for a mechanic to fix my car. Despite the heat, the market was unusually alive. I asked the mechanic’s helper what was going on. “Today we are electing our association,” he told me – and I could hear the pride in his voice. Intrigued, I walked around and listened.
Every small gathering was deep in animated discussion: the problems facing shopkeepers, government indifference to their needs, the threat of forced eviction – officials wanted to relocate the “dirty” mechanics from the city centre to the outskirts. The atmosphere, the posters, the banners, the sheer intensity of argument, could easily put many national elections to shame. I could not stop myself from thinking: this is real grassroots civil society in action.
Continue reading...‘Polyclass’ of 6 million people consider themselves to belong to more than one social category, researchers say
More than a third of Britons say they have changed social class, with upper-middle and upper-class people most likely to identify as belonging to more than one class, according to a survey.
Working-class people were the least likely to say they had changed class or identified with more than one, with 70% saying they were in the same social category they were born into, the study by research firm Attest found.
Continue reading...The Rivals actor on his very skinny ankles, swearing like a sailor, and his enduring love for Marlon Brando
Born in Essex, Alex Hassell, 45, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He co-founded an experimental theatre group and was noticed by the RSC where he went on to star in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Death of a Salesman. On TV, he appeared in His Dark Materials and Rivals. He reprises the role of Rupert Campbell-Black in season 2 on Disney+. He is married to actor Emma King and lives in London.
What is your greatest fear?
Loneliness.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co-writer Jack Epps discuss how the smash hit action drama came to be, from Tom Cruise vomiting on himself to ruling the box office
It would be one of the most important flights in film history. When a young 5ft 7in actor with long hair and ponytail rocked up on a motorcycle, a group of US navy pilots were all too happy to test his need for speed.
“They look at him and they don’t know who Tom Cruise is,” recalls screenwriter Jack Epps Jr. “They do what they like to do: they took him up, they shook him around, he barfed on himself, and he came out and said, ‘I love this.’ From that moment, he was on.”
Continue reading...Régis Le Bris’s tricky midfielder on the joy he finds in playmaking and the Black Cats’ push for European football
Enzo Le Fée has been chatting for 25 minutes when it becomes clear that his ability to extract rabbits from hats is not confined to the pitch.
“I’m a magician,” says Sunderland’s French playmaker as the conversation drifts to life off the field. “Yes, really! I can do some magic, tricks with the cards, that sort of thing. I used to practise a lot when I was young so I got really good. I still sometimes like to do my tricks but I’m a bit shy about performing them now.”
Continue reading...The contest is enduring the biggest boycott it has ever seen, but 2026 is far from its first year of controversy
A song contest intended to promote European harmony and cultural exchange morphs into a battle over human rights. A boycott dominates headlines and polarises opinion. Performers with big hair proclaim art over politics.
It could only be Eurovision. But the year was 1969, and the dispute centred on Austria’s decision to shun the host, Spain, because it was a dictatorship – a boycott echoed half a century later by five countries who are shunning this week’s contest in Vienna because of Israel’s participation.
Continue reading...Cannes film festival: The actor’s role in Jorge Thielen Armand’s Venezuela-set surrealist thriller explores deep-rooted tensions of ownership and colonialism
In Death Has No Master, Asia Argento stars as an anxious foreigner in Venezuela. Her character, Caro, is on a harried mission to reclaim inherited property from the local caretakers who still reside there. That’s the setup in a surrealist psychological thriller, in which Venezuelan-Canadian film-maker Jorge Thielen Armand unpacks personal history alongside deep-rooted and “eternal” tensions that still affect the country today.
“The film has multiple layers of meaning,” says Armand, ahead of the film’s premiere in the director’s fortnight section at Cannes. “Recent events only make those multitudes greater.”
Continue reading...DEN HAAG (ANP) - De politie en de beveiliging van de Mall of the Netherlands in Leidschendam hebben zaterdagochtend een paar honderd mensen uit het winkelcentrum weggestuurd. Voor de Swatchwinkel stond een lange rij omdat daar zaterdag een nieuw horloge in de verkoop zou gaan.
"Er heerste een onrustige sfeer en er was wat ruzie. Toen de winkel besloot niet meer open te gaan, hebben we iedereen naar buiten gestuurd", zegt een woordvoerder van de politie Den Haag. Volgens de woordvoerder ging dat rustig en zijn daarbij geen aanhoudingen verricht.
Op de winkel hangt inmiddels een briefje met de tekst: "Deze winkel is dit weekend gesloten. De actie is afgelast."
Ook bij de Swatchwinkel in de P.C. Hooftstraat in Amsterdam stond een rij. Volgens Het Parool gaat het om honderden mensen. Een politiewoordvoerder laat weten dat ook deze winkel de rest van de dag dicht blijft en dat de mensen gevraagd is te vertrekken. Het ANP heeft Swatch Group gevraagd om een reactie.
HELMOND (ANP) - In Helmond is in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag een overleden vrouw gevonden in een huis, meldt de politie. Een man in dezelfde woning is aangehouden. Over de relatie tussen de twee en meer informatie over de omstandigheden deelt de politie momenteel nog niets.
De vrouw werd rond 02.15 uur gevonden aan de Pastoor van Leeuwenstraat. Mogelijk volgt later zaterdag meer informatie, aldus een politiewoordvoerder.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Universiteit Leiden geeft twee eeuwenoude ringen met beschreven koperen platen terug aan India. De Indiase premier Narendra Modi krijgt de 'Chola-platen' deze zaterdag ook te zien bij zijn bezoek aan Den Haag, meldt de universiteit.
Op de platen staan afspraken over het recht van een boeddhistisch heiligdom en kloosters in het Indiase Nagapattinam om inkomsten van dorpen te innen. De ringen die de platen bij elkaar houden, hebben zegels van vorsten die regeerden in de elfde en twaalfde eeuw.
India heeft bijna drie jaar geleden gevraagd om de twee ringen met platen terug te krijgen. Uit onderzoek bleek vervolgens dat ze waarschijnlijk zijn opgegraven bij de bouw van een VOC-fort in Nagapattinam. De Commissie Koloniale Collecties zag geen aanwijzingen dat de eigenaren toestemming hebben gegeven om de voorwerpen naar Nederland te halen, en raadde de universiteit aan om ze terug te geven.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Amerikaanse troepen en de strijdkrachten van Nigeria hebben Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, de nummer twee van Islamitische Staat (IS) wereldwijd, uitgeschakeld. Dat meldt de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump op Truth Social.
"Vanavond hebben dappere Amerikaanse troepen en de strijdkrachten van Nigeria, onder mijn leiding, feilloos een zorgvuldig geplande en zeer complexe missie uitgevoerd om de meest actieve terrorist ter wereld uit te schakelen", zo schrijft hij. Volgens Trump zal Abu-Bilal al-Minuki "de bevolking van Afrika niet langer terroriseren" en is de "wereldwijde operatie van ISIS aanzienlijk verzwakt".
De Nigeriaanse president Bola Tinubu en het Nigeriaanse leger hebben de dood van de IS-leider bevestigd. "Onze vastberaden Nigeriaanse strijdkrachten hebben, in nauwe samenwerking met de strijdkrachten van de Verenigde Staten, een gewaagde gezamenlijke operatie uitgevoerd die een zware slag heeft toegebracht aan de gelederen van de Islamitische Staat", zegt Tinubu in een verklaring.
Ontvoerd
De strijdkrachten omschrijven al-Minuki als "een van 's werelds actiefste terroristen" en stellen dat zijn dood "een cruciaal knooppunt elimineert waarmee IS operaties in verschillende regio's van de wereld coördineerde en aanstuurde".
Door diverse gewapende groeperingen - waaronder jihadistische groepen als Boko Haram en IS - kwamen in de afgelopen vijftien jaar al ruim 40.000 mensen om het leven en raakten meer dan 2 miljoen Nigerianen ontheemd. Ook werden honderden mensen ontvoerd.
It was not clear how Russia intended to recover the funds, and Euroclear said it did not recognize the Russian court’s jurisdiction.
Today's links
- Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable."
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- Object permanence: Copyrighted law; Viral videos v cops; Crooked banker v tiny bat; "Infested"; Can the means of computation be seized?
- Upcoming appearances: Berlin, Hay-on-Wye, London, LA, Menlo Park, NYC, Edinburgh.
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- Colophon: All the rest.
Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (permalink)
For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most durable force on earth – surely anything so powerful must also be eternal?
But power and durability aren't the same thing, as Le Guin reminded us with her oft-quoted maxim that "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings":
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal
Monarchs may be powerful, but that power is derived from a manifestly incorrect belief in special blood, a belief that requires monarchs to inbreed. At best, this produces heads of state who can't stop bleeding and also can't tell you if their blood is blue or red; at worst, it yields heads of state who can't speak intelligibly, much less produce another generation of royals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
Oligarchy also produces a sequence of progressively weirder and more terrible rulers who rely on a mix of lies, flattery, coercion and personal cult nonsense to hold their coalition together in the face of mounting evidence for the system's bankruptcy. Thus Reagan begat GW Bush, who begat Trump, whose potential successors are a kennel of the least-charismatic chud podcasters ever to curse an RSS feed.
Trump's second term has resulted in a rapid, unscheduled, mid-air disassembly of the American empire. As Baldur Bjarnason writes, under Trump, America "first turned on their trading partners, then their allies in Europe, and then they delivered one of this century’s biggest economic and energy crises to their allies in Asia":
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
The line comes from an excellent post entitled "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born," about the impact of Trump's de-Americanization of the world on the US tech industry, and thus the world's relationship to tech more broadly. As Bjarnason writes, Trump's tech giants dominate the world because America dominates the world. It's not because the world likes American tech. As Bjarnason writes:
They are, more often than not, about as popular and respected as tobacco or pharmaceutical companies – some of them and their products are polling in terms of public sentiment in ranges similar to child molesters or authoritarian immigration enforcement entities – and their CEOs are some of the more despised public figures in recent history.
These very, very unpopular tech companies dominate because American trade policy insists that they must. They are allowed to violate local laws because stopping them from doing so would result in trade sanctions. It's true that US tech companies face fines abroad from time to time, but these are "the price list for inflicting societal suffering. Pick the one that suits your business model." US trading partners haven't really attempted to extinguish the unlawful conduct of US tech companies.
All of that is up for grabs now, thanks to Trump's uncontrollable compulsion to repeatedly hormuz himself (and America) in the foot. But – as Bjarnason writes – this didn't start with Trump. As ever, Trump is as much an effect as a cause, and the most important cause of Trump is the conversion of America into a financial economy, which started under Reagan, but was only finalized by Obama, who let the Wall Street looters who destroyed the world economy walk away unscathed, even as they stole the homes of millions of Americans:
Financial economies "suck the air out of the rest of the economy and make it less competitive." Keeping billionaires in megayachts comes at the expense of "research, education, infrastructure, and healthcare." Countries that financialize lag behind countries where the economy is based on making things, not extracting or financing things.
Generations of both imperial looting and domestic investment made America the richest country on earth. That wealth cushioned America's transition to oligarchy: for a while, the country could both "finance and billionaire parasites sucking its blood" and continue to invest in itself. But while you can double the wealth of a billionaire at the expense of a town or two, doubling the wealth of a centibillionaire requires the destruction of whole regions.
As America looted itself into irrelevance, China – a very different kind of autocracy – invested in domestic capacity and domestic consumption. China's hardly a well-run place: like any autocracy, it functions according to the whims of extremely fallible officials, which produces real-estate bubbles and other crises of production (to say nothing of the demographic crisis of the One Child policy) and necessitates steadily increasing oppression, from online surveillance to concentration camps in Xinjiang.
Bjarnason writes about how this Chinese/US world presents a "double bind" for the EU. Siding with the US is increasingly untenable: the EU exists in large part to promote its domestic industries, but the US is no longer content to leave these alone. As Bjarnason says, US economic policy is now, "whatever our oligarchs want to steal this month, they get."
US tech has extended so many tendrils into so many sectors that it's not possible to defend any industrial sector without impinging on the "technopoly," where "the only ideas and thoughts that have social and cultural legitimacy are those that support, are supported by, and are mediated through technology."
This means that continuing to work within the American system means a steady transfer of economic and political control of every aspect of your life to the US, a decaying empire ruled over by a mad king. Nevertheless, there is a strong, vestigial reflex to protect American tech in the EU, which leaves European power-brokers scrambling to come up with reasons that the EU should confine its tech regulation to empty symbolic gestures, while avoiding meaningful action at all costs:
But the American tech sector relies on the other sources of American power – the ones that Trump is so bent on destroying. Trump's de-dollarization of the world economy is pushing the world away from using American tech for payment processing and networking. The American empire created the form of the US tech sector. As Bjarnason writes, "without the weight of the US political empire behind it – if Airbnb or Uber had been local startups – much fewer countries in the world would have loosened their regulations and consumer protections to accommodate them to the point where they prospered as they did."
Trump isn't the first US leader to make a strategic blunder (the US has lost every war it's fought since WWII, after all). But Trump's blunders are different in that they "deliberately signal the end [the US] empire." Hormuz and tariffs have driven people away from the US dollar, and everyone knows who to blame for the senseless deaths in the Gulf and the global privation caused by oil rationing.
That's bad news for a software industry that "shifted its entire value proposition from 'we make tools that help you make or save money' to using political clout and the dollar hegemony to capture, control, and loot entire sectors of the various economies of the world. That strategy only works when you’re in charge."
DOGE wiped out the health systems of the global south, and now Trump's trade negotiators are demanding that these countries promise to keep their hands off of US tech in exchange for reinstating a small trickle of the aid they lost. These countries are rejecting those demands:
It's all up for grabs, in other words. The post-American internet is being born in a post-American world, and the shape of both is impossible to determine from this side of the veil. Bjarnason quotes Gramsci: "the old is dying and the new cannot be born."
I hold out high hopes for a world of international digital public goods: free and open software that replaces America's extractive, defective black boxes with transparent, auditable, trustworthy alternatives that are under the control of the people who use them:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge
But – as Bjarnason says – even the intellectual property framework that the free/open source movement relies on to make its licenses enforceable is an artifact of the collapsing American empire. If the global copyright system collapses with America, there won't be any impediments to reverse-engineering and improving the tech around us – but there also won't be any way to enforce the free software licenses that keep that software open:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/#petardism
The whole essay is very good and – like so many great essays – it raises more questions than it answers. It's also full of standout one-liners like this one:
How do LLMs affect productivity and quality? (Much like leaded petrol. There’s some potential benefit for individual users with literally decades of expertise, provided nobody else uses LLMs. The results are catastrophic when everybody is using them.)
Consider moving it to the top of your weekend reading.
Hey look at this (permalink)
- Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power-tools-got-worse-on-purpose
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The privilege of bad writers https://coreyrobin.com/2026/05/15/the-privilege-of-bad-writers/
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AI as the new avatar of American capitalism https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-as-the-new-avatar-of-american
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Cucked Internet Theory https://www.tikviewer.com/video/7639554103340698912
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Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/
Object permanence (permalink)
#25yrsago Is the law copyrighted?
https://web.archive.org/web/20010519134232/http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n13own.html
#15yrsago Canadian copyright collective wants a music tax on memory cards https://web.archive.org/web/20110517205114/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5798/125/
#10yrsago FBI Director: viral videos make cops afraid to do their jobs https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/comey-ferguson-effect-police-videos-fbi.html?_r=2
#10yrsago Banker implicated in one of history’s biggest frauds says boss beat him with a tiny baseball bat https://web.archive.org/web/20160516173952/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/barclays-banker-accused-rigging-libor-rate-hit-assistant-baseball-bat-1559792
#10yrsago Infested: an itchy, fascinating natural history of the bed bug https://memex.craphound.com/2016/05/14/infested-an-itchy-fascinating-natural-history-of-the-bed-bug/
#5yrsago A weapon of mass financial destruction https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/14/billionaire-class-solidarity/#club-deals
#1yrago Are the means of computation even seizable? https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/14/pregnable/#checkm8
Upcoming appearances (permalink)
- Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow -
Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 18
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow-in-der-friesenstrasse-23-kreuzberg-praesentiert-von-otherland.html -
Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html -
Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2 -
SXSW London, Jun 2
https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901 -
LA: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Brian Merchant (Skylight Books), Jun 19
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchant -
Menlo Park: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Angie Coiro (Kepler's), Jun 21
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NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
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Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales
Recent appearances (permalink)
- EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet (EFF, with Wendy Liu)
https://archive.org/details/effecting-change-enshittification -
The “Enshittification” of Everything (Bioneers)
https://bioneers.org/cory-doctorow-enshittification-of-everything-zstf2605/ -
Enshittification (99% Invisible)
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Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor -
When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccDR0YaMt8
Latest books (permalink)
- "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
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"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
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"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).
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"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).
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"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).
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"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).
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"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.
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"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
Upcoming 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/)
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"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026
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"The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027
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"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027
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"The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027
Colophon (permalink)
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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. Third draft completed. Submitted to editor.
- "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.
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"The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.
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A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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Brits are now asking chatbots about mysterious lumps and weird rashes instead of calling their GP, which is probably not the digital healthcare revolution anybody meant to build. A new study from King's College London found that one in seven people in the UK have used AI instead of contacting a doctor or healthcare service, while one in ten said they had turned to chatbots rather than professional mental health support. Convenience was the biggest reason, cited by 46 percent of respondents, closely followed by curiosity at 45 percent. Another 39 percent said they used AI because they were unsure whether their symptoms were serious enough to bother a GP in the first place. The report, based on a survey of more than 2,000 adults, suggests that AI systems are quietly becoming Britain's unofficial second-opinion service while regulators are still arguing about what counts as "AI-enabled healthcare" in the first place. However, some respondents said the chatbot conversations ended up replacing medical care altogether. Around one in five respondents said chatbot advice discouraged them from seeking professional help, and 21 percent said they skipped contacting a healthcare provider because of something the AI told them. Public confidence in AI healthcare also looks shaky. The survey found Britons are almost perfectly split on whether AI should be involved in clinical decision-making, with 37 percent supporting its use and 38 percent opposing it. Safety and accuracy worries topped the list of public concerns about NHS AI use. Women, in particular, were less comfortable with the idea than men, and far more likely to say patients should be told when AI is involved in their care. Oddly, younger adults were among the most skeptical. Nearly half of 18 to 24-year-olds opposed clinical AI use, compared with 36 percent of people over 65. The public also appears to think AI has already taken over GP surgeries to a much greater extent than is the case. Respondents guessed that around 39 percent of GPs use AI in clinical decision-making, when the actual figure is closer to 8 percent. Professor Graham Lord, executive director at King's Health Partners, warned that responsibility for AI mistakes often lands on clinicians even when they have little control over the systems being deployed. "When something goes wrong with AI, responsibility is often placed on clinicians, even where they have limited control over how AI tools are introduced," Lord said. Which sounds suspiciously like someone in healthcare has already seen the incoming paperwork. ®
Toen het kabinet-Rutte IV viel, dachten we dat we tenminste van twee dingen af waren: van minister Christianne van der Wal en van haar stikstofkaart. Niets bleek minder waar. Mevrouw Van der Wal zit vrijwel iedere ochtend/avond/middag in een of andere NPO-talkshow heur keurige D66-meningen te ventileren over alles en nog wat, als het maar niet om haar echte werk als Vervuiler in Chief namens de BOVAG gaat, en nou lezen we in het AD dat ook de stikstofkaart weer TERUG is. Nou ja, het wordt geen kaartje, dat durven ze niet maar er worden wel allemaal gebieden aangewezen waar de landbouw wordt ausradiert, en die gebieden kun je dan grafisch representeren met: een kaartje. "De VVD en het CDA hebben hier een behoorlijk trauma aan overgehouden. Van Essen zal de nieuwe maatregelen daarom zelf niet presenteren via een kaartje. Maar de aangewezen zones, en daarmee de getroffen boeren, worden met zijn plannen even duidelijk. Voor boerenorganisaties en media zal het kinderspel zijn om de zones alsnog in kaart te brengen." Zin in de zomer!