So Maastricht is taking Flanders to court, because Flanders refuses to build the promised Hasselt-Maastricht tram line, and Maastricht had sent Flanders €19.6m for this, and this so far has not been paid back... https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/21/maastricht-daagt-vlaanderen-voor-rechter/
It's not going to get the #CrossBorderRail line built though, sadly… Link via @maartje
Many of the problems facing Europe’s cross-border railways can be put right with simple, relatively cheap solutions, says campaigner Jon Worth. ‘We know how to do this, it’s just a question of making good political decisions.’
Why do you have to be this way, Camptosaurus?
Most dinosaurs are elegant animals. Tyrannosaurs are elegant biting machines. Chasmosaurs are elegent. Brachiosaurs are hella elegant. Even ankylosaurs have their own robust elegance. And then there's Camptosaurus. Why do you have to be so lumpen? What's your head doing down there? What the heck are your ilia doing up there? What are they even supposed to be, TV aerials?
http://svpow.com/2023/08/19/why-do-you-have-to-be-this-way-camptosaurus/
“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”
Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
In case you haven't heard, Red Hat is laying off people today, and I'm one of them. My 'career' as a Hatter lasted just over 15 months, much less time than I had planned or expected.
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Carlson gets an invite to move to Russia from a top Kremlin propagandist (who, btw, has appeared in Wagner PMC recruitment videos): "We'll happily offer you a job," the oligarch, Vladimir Solovyov, said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-to-tucker-carlson-run-for-president-visit-moscow-2023-4
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