War=Ecocide ↩ the Glam Office ###TeamLEGO ~~~

I promise that 80% of the people doing this think that if protestors block the road it should be legal to kill them.

Yesterday, the Israeli Knesset passed with a whopping 93-0 majority, a new law authorizing use of the death penalty for individuals if convicted of involvement in the 7 Oct attacks, just a month after it adopted a discriminatory death penalty law in effect applying exclusively to Palestinians. The new law mandates the creation of an ad hoc tribunal, effectively acting as a military court, with sweeping powers to deviate from standard procedural rules and evidentiary laws if “deemed necessary”. This is deeply alarming given that proceedings against alleged 7 Oct attackers are already marred by due process violations including prolonged detention without charge or trial, denial of access to lawyers and independent monitors and reports of widespread use of torture and other ill-treatment. Those responsible for crimes under international law committed on 7 October must be held accountable through fair, independent and transparent trials in line with international law and standards - without resorting to the death penalty. This law not only entrenches an inherently cruel and irreversible punishment, it erodes fundamental legal safeguards, blatantly breaches Israel’s international obligations and runs counter to the global trend towards the abolition of capital punishment the death penalty.

This lovely map shows our beloved Earth 70 million years ago. Earth didn’t have much less continental crust, it simply had less dry land. A hotter, mostly ice-free planet plus shallower ocean basins pushed sea levels hundreds of metres higher, flooding low-lying continents and creating a world of inland seas and strange coastlines. Source: vividmaps.com/end-cretaceous…

A German woman proved a single theorem in 1915 that quietly became the foundation of every law of physics on Earth. She taught for seven years without pay because the University of Göttingen refused to hire a woman. Then she fled the Nazis and died in Pennsylvania at 53. I started reading about her and could not believe how much of modern physics traces back to one woman the world refused to pay for her work. Her name was Emmy Noether. The theorem is called Noether's theorem. Every law of physics ever discovered. Conservation of energy. Conservation of momentum. The Standard Model. General relativity. Quantum field theory. All of them are direct consequences of a single mathematical insight she proved 110 years ago. And most physics students will graduate without ever hearing her name once. Emmy Noether was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. Her father was a respected mathematician at the local university. The university would not allow women to enroll as students. So she audited classes from the back of the room and was not allowed to receive credit for anything she learned. She finished her PhD anyway in 1907. Then she could not get a job. For seven years she worked at the Mathematical Institute in Erlangen without a single paycheck. She supervised students. She published papers. She filled in for her aging father when he was too sick to teach. She did the work of a full professor and was paid nothing. There was no policy preventing her payment. There was simply no precedent for paying a woman. In 1915 David Hilbert and Felix Klein invited her to Göttingen, the most important mathematics department in the world. Hilbert wanted her there because he was working on Einstein's new general relativity and there was a problem nobody could solve. The philosophy faculty blocked her hiring. They argued returning soldiers should not learn from a woman. Hilbert stood up in the faculty meeting and said the line that has echoed for a century. He did not see how the sex of the candidate could be an argument against her admission, because the university senate was not a bathing establishment. She still was not hired. So Hilbert listed her courses under his own name on the official schedule. She taught them under his title. This is how the most important mathematician of the 20th century was forced to operate for years inside one of the most prestigious universities in the world. That same year she solved Hilbert and Einstein's problem. The puzzle was technical. In general relativity, energy did not seem to be conserved the way classical physics required. Einstein could not figure out why. Hilbert could not figure out why. Noether figured out why in a few months. Then, instead of just solving their specific problem, she proved a much deeper theorem that solved every problem of that shape forever. Her result was this. Every continuous symmetry in a physical system corresponds to a conservation law. If the laws of physics do not change over time, energy must be conserved. If they do not change with location, momentum must be conserved. The conservation laws were not separate facts. They were inevitable consequences of the symmetries underneath the universe. This single theorem is the foundation of every law of physics ever discovered after her. The Standard Model is built on it. The Higgs boson Nobel Prize is built on it. Quantum field theory is built on it. Einstein read her paper and wrote to Hilbert that he was astonished. He had never met anyone with her capacity for abstract thought. She finally got a paid teaching position in 1923. She was 41. She had been doing professor-level work for 16 years without compensation. While the German physicists kept getting credit for the consequences of her theorem, she quietly founded modern abstract algebra. The structures we now call Noetherian rings are named after her. Modern algebraic geometry, the math that powers cryptography and parts of machine learning, runs on her foundations. Then the Nazis came. In 1933 she was fired for being Jewish. Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania offered her a position. She took it. She taught there for two years that were among the most productive of her life. In April 1935 she went in for routine surgery to remove an ovarian cyst. Complications developed. She died four days later. She was 53. Einstein wrote a public letter to the New York Times the day after her death. He said she was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. Almost nobody reading that letter knew her name. She is buried in the courtyard of the library at Bryn Mawr College. The grave is small. Most students walk past it without noticing. The woman who built the mathematical foundation of modern physics was paid almost nothing for almost all of it. The world she worked in told her every single day that she did not belong there. She built it anyway.

Counterpoint: we price and regulate all vehicles according to max crash force (~KE=1/2M*V^2), road wear (axle weight^4) and externalities (noise and air pollution, injuries and deaths). Vehicles have wildly divergent risk profiles and we should account for that.

Respecter une priorité à droite (et ne pas s’arrêter sur un passage piéton)… et se faire klaxonner par un chauff*r(d) de VTC… Impressionnant la connaissance du code de la route ! #vélotaf #vélo #cyclisteurbain #dailyobs

Bit odd innit

Kan iemand ons uitleggen waarom vernietigd de gemeente Amsterdam (samen met Schiphol, gemeente Haarlemmermeer en de provincie Noord Holland) de laatste vruchtbare zeekleigrond van de stad voor bedrijfshallen? In het belang van wie? #Lutkemeerpolder ftm.nl/artikelen/bele…

On July 10, 1908, the coldest place on Earth was not Antarctica. It was a laboratory room in Leiden. That was the day Heike Kamerlingh Onnes managed to liquefy helium, reaching temperatures only a few degrees above absolute zero. Afterward, Leiden was described as “the coldest place on Earth,” and for a brief moment, that little laboratory held the lowest temperature anywhere on the planet. Most gases will turn into liquids if you cool them enough. Helium, though, was the stubborn one. It would not give in until Onnes pushed it astonishingly close to absolute zero. Once he had liquid helium, physicists gained access to a completely new realm of matter: the near-frozen edge of reality. That achievement opened the door to superconductivity, the strange state where electrical resistance disappears. Onnes later received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for his low-temperature research, and his work with liquid helium helped lead directly to one of the most important discoveries in modern physics.

Slechts 3 relschoppers opgepakt. De verdachten komen allen niet uit Loosdrecht. Drie mensen opgepakt voor rellen #Loosdrecht, onder wie twee minderjarigen - nos.nl/l/2614176

A federal judge has issued an injunction finding ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem effectively threatened Apple and Facebook with prosecution if they didn’t block two web pages that monitor ICE activity in Chicago. chicagotribune.com/2026/05/11/jud…

Why I am not surprised to hear this

Mighty Ducks child actor turned Tether co founder Brock Pierce emailed Epstein "I had a great time with the girls last night" just cut the ribbon at Trumps golden statue ceremony.... The former child actor turned billionaire, has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct involving underage boys... In 2017, a lawsuit alleged he and another man abused several minors in the early 2000s...

Bijna goed #Dilan, bijna. Goed op weg hoor! Volgende keer (zaterdag denk ik) ook even benoemen dat er mensen in het pand zaten. Wat zeg je? Ja, werknemers inderdaad. En asielzoekers natuurlijk. Wat? Ja, die tellen ook mee ja. Jawel. Wel. Omdat het ook mensen zijn? Natuurlijk wel

We need a new Ralph Nader for autonomous cars. He took on Detroit in the 1960s, fought for car safety and the seat belt, and saved millions of lives. Self-driving tech needs that same relentless advocate today. Every year we delay, tens of thousands die.

A beer bottle discovered at the deepest point on Earth. During a dive to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, nearly 36,000 feet below sea level, oceanographer Dr. Dawn Wright spotted what appeared to be a beer bottle drifting through the darkness. Areminder that human pollution has reached even the most remote place on the planet.

Péter Magyar gave the press a tour of propaganda minister Antal Rogán's newly renovated, and now abandoned headquarters in Buda Castle. Just look at this luxury mansion, complete with a cigar room for prominent guests. All this in one of the poorest countries of the EU.

Zijn ze nog niet doodgeknuffeld?

🚨: Giant Pandas are no longer an endangered species