Nagoya, sera e pioggia.
Un izakaya anonimo, una bicicletta parcheggiata davanti, una lanterna rossa e tende consumate dall’umidità.
Niente invita davvero a entrare, e forse è proprio questo il punto.
Un posto normale, fatto per mangiare qualcosa, bere una birra e tornare a casa senza fare rumore.
Nagoya, rainy evening.
An anonymous izakaya, a bicycle parked outside, a red lantern and curtains worn down by humidity.
Nothing really tries to pull you in, and maybe that’s the point.
Just a normal place to eat something, drink a beer and quietly head home.
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy's Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched. This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google.
Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4GB binary they did not request.
Pete ‘Bono’ Bonnington, Kimi Antonelli’s race engineer at Mercedes, has received praise from team boss Toto Wolff for how he has handled working with the youngster.
Na ruim een half jaar zonder supermarkt krijgt Herkingen weer een eigen winkel. Als alles volgens planning verloopt, opent eind deze maand D’n durpswienkel de deuren. In de streekwinkel van ongeveer 100 vierkante meter komen basisproducten als brood, zuivel, koffie, thee en wc-papier te liggen, met nadruk op lokale producten van Goeree-Overflakkee.
Two drones are reported to have crashed again in Chernobyl. This time setting off a wildfire that firefighters are having a difficult time with due to weather and mines.
Wowsabout is rooted in a rich curriculum developed by Dr. Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s foremost emotion scientists and author of “AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.” The special, shot on location in breathtaking Sequoia National Park, aims to help children recognize and name the feeling of awe by experiencing moments of wonder alongside Roxy and Ronald. Through nature, music, storytelling, and friendship, children learn how awe sparks curiosity, creativity, kindness, and a desire to explore and care for the world around them. The special inspires children to notice awe in everyday moments and begin their own “Wowsabouts,” fostering connection to others and to the planet.
1. Moral beauty. We can feel awe when we observe other people engage in acts of courage or kindness. Moral beauty also describes the experience of seeing someone overcome obstacles, or watching people with rare talents.
2. Collective effervescence. This occurs when a gathering of people is attending to the same thing, moving together, and converging on similar emotional experience. Think attending a concert, dancing in a crowd, or attending or playing in a basketball game.
3. Nature. When we are outside, we can find awe in the sights, sounds, and smells of nature.
4. Music. Both making music and listening to music attune us to what is happening outside of ourselves and connect us with others and a broader expanse of time and place.
5. Visual design. This includes visual art, movies, geometric patterns, even the elegance and complexity of machines.
6. Spirituality and religion. As personally defined by each of us, this might include connection with the Divine, or experiences that transcend our self or understanding.
7. Life and death. We can experience awe when we witness or are connected to birth and death.
8. Epiphany. This includes the experience of uniting facts, beliefs, values, intuitions, and images into a new system of understanding.
Reading through the list, it occurs to me that many of the things I post about on KDO touch on one of more of these elements of awe and wonder. (thx, caroline)
Despite its name, the Canadian Tuxedo is a distinctly American look. The denim-on-denim getup dates back to the 1950s, when Bing Crosby sported a full Levi’s ensemble while in Vancouver, setting a sartorial trend that continues today.
The national mythology woven into this utilitarian material is also the focus of Brooklyn-based Nick Doyle, who layers denim atop denim into large wall sculptures. From a pair of aviators reflecting puffy clouds to a vast Rocky Mountain landscape framed by brick, the works evoke a sort of nostalgic road trip west, as if chasing a big break, and ultimately, realizing the American dream.
“First Come the Dreamers” (2026), bleached and collaged denim on panel, 25 x 72 inches
For Doyle, denim is a poignant, loaded metaphor for much of American culture and history. The material has roots in chattel slavery, when people enslaved in the South were dyeing cotton with indigo. There’s also its association with the brusque masculinity of James Dean and cowboy ruggedness, itself an extension of the gold rush and Manifest Destiny. The fabric, in many ways, is a stand-in for the contradictions, hypocrisies, and unreachable desires so bound up in American life.
While researching the visual language of Americana in 2018, Doyle came upon a roll of denim discarded by a fashion designer moving out of his building. “At the time, I had no money, so I was making work out of material I found in the garbage or at my local hardware store,” he shares. “As I was pulling [the roll] out of the trash, I noticed a network of ideas connecting in my brain… I felt the material reflected the historical complexities I was seeing in my research, as well as being reflected in my own familial history.”
This encounter was one of those providential moments that set off an enduring fascination. In his solo exhibition Collective Hallucinations, on view at Perrotin, Doyle presents the latest of his denim sculptures, including stylized cacti, landscapes cordoned off by chainlink fences, and more mystical objects like tarot cards and a life-sized fortune teller’s shop.
“Innocent Industry” (2026), bleached and collaged denim on panel, 72 x 64 inches
The show contains myriad symbols of American exceptionalism and individualism, presented in the heritage fabric of the nation. Doyle shares:
Over the last few years, my conception of American mythology has only become more complex… I think in a lot of ways what we’re experiencing now is a breakdown of these mythologies. They are in direct conflict with the current political reality, yet they are summoned as if it is business as usual. The world’s image of America has changed, but our country’s nostalgia for itself is making us late to the party. There’s tragedy in vanity.
Collective Hallucinations presents these unrealized dreams and confrontations in varying shades of blue, rendering what appears to be individual moments as simply different washes of the same story.
In addition to his practice, Doyle will soon open a kink bar called Human Resources and is working toward a fall exhibition of paper collages and prints at Pace. If you’re in New York, Collective Hallucinations runs through May 30. Otherwise, find more on Instagram.
“Here We Go Round the Prickly Pear Bush” (2026), bleached and collaged denim on panel, 48 x 26 inches“The Clouds” (2026), bleached denim on panel, 24 x 18 inches“Plastic Eden” (2026), bleached and collaged denim on panel, 68 x 42 inches“Black Market Bodies” (2026), bleached and collaged denim on panel, 36 x 64 inches
UTRECHT (ANP) - Bij het Landelijk Aktie Komitee Scholieren (LAKS) zijn ongeveer 26.000 klachten binnengekomen over de centraal schriftelijke eindexamens die vrijdag zijn begonnen. Dat is meer dan de 21.000 die het LAKS vorig jaar ontving op de eerste examendag. In 2024 waren het nog 35.000 klachten.
Over het examen Nederlands voor havo kwamen veruit de meeste klachten binnen; dat waren er ruim 14.000. De klachten gingen vooral over de moeilijkheidsgraad van de vragen; leerlingen vonden het examen volgens LAKS-bestuurslid Inass Jagour "totaal niet vergelijkbaar met eerdere examens". Leerlingen oefenen voor hun examens met vragen van eindtoetsen uit eerdere jaren. Ook vonden leerlingen de vragen onduidelijk.
De ongeveer 185.000 scholieren die vrijdag aan hun examens begonnen, kunnen bellen naar het LAKS om hun klacht door te geven. Sinds dit jaar kunnen ze ook contact opnemen als zij stress hebben voor examens. Ze worden dan doorverbonden met In je Bol, een platform voor mentale gezondheid onder jongeren, en krijgen daar een getrainde vrijwilliger aan de lijn.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft aangekondigd dat er een driedaags bestand komt tussen Oekraïne en Rusland. Het staakt-het-vuren geldt op 9, 10 en 11 mei, aldus Trump op Truth Social. Hij stelt dat Rusland en Oekraïne hebben ingestemd.
