Society
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“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year,” Lindberg says. Trump for dictatorship
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This is the podcast to get a good perspective on what’s going on in the world from a market perspective.
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Digital Sovereignty at home
While a lot of companies (especially in Europe) are looking into digital sovereignty, to become less dependent on US companies, there is also a trend with individual people that have had it with the enshittification of a lot of platforms, and are looking for smaller, local companies that are not add-driven. This are my personal steps so far: Email from Gmail to Proton Music from Spotify to Qobuz Whatsapp - partly moved to Signal Continue reading →
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April 2025 Brian Eno on why we should tax the rich youtu.be/hh7Cxt_PK…
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April 2025 Can hardly believe this. But the Financial Times did the math www.ft.com/content/e…
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20 Jan 2025 Blue Monday news: while we are on our way to the first trillionaires the number of people living under te poverty line has barely changed since 1990. www.theguardian.com/news/2025…
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6 Dec 2024 Wat een verhaal in NRC. En wat een naïviteit bij investeerders. Of gewoon blind door $ tekens in de ogen? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/20…
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29 Nov 2024 Stopped driving Tesla last year. Even though it was a great car, very happy not being in a Musk-car anymore. www.theguardian.com/technolog…
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28 Nov 2024 Shops of Dille & Kamille in The Netherlands close on Black Friday and make it into “Green Friday” to clean up the city and protest against excess consumption www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/19…