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"De Amerikanen papegaaien al geruime tijd het Russische mantra als zou Zelensky weg moeten als president, volgens Colijn maakt ook dat de verkiezingen een gevaarlijke exercitie. Rusland doet er immers alles aan om Oekraïne te destabiliseren en 'als je Oekraïne wil destabiliseren, dan ga je nu met spoed verkiezingen organiseren'. "

Mogelijk Oekraïense verkiezingen onder Amerikaanse druk, ‘spelen met vuur, ondoordacht, destabiliserend’
De Oekraïense president Zelensky kondigt mogelijk presidentsverkiezingen én een referendum aan, meldt Financial Times. Volgens de krant gaat dat onder zware druk van de Amerikanen die willen dat een vredesakkoord aan de Oekraïners wordt voorgelegd, simultaan met presidentsverkiezingen, een lang gekoesterde Russische wens. 'De Amerikanen lijken niet echt heel goed na te denken over wat dit kan betekenen voor de stabiliteit van Oekraïne', zegt Oekraïne-correspondent Chris Colijn. 

Mr. Wright, the energy secretary, caused a market commotion Tuesday
when he posted on social media that the Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
His post drove up stocks and reassured oil markets.
Then, when he deleted the post after administration officials said no escorts had taken place, markets were once again thrust into turmoil.
Efforts to resume shipments have been complicated by intelligence that Iran was preparing to la…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth. So there’s scope for plenty of books on the subject. Both books educated and entertained, one made me angry.”

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

The Trump administration, spooked by possible preparations by Iran to mine the strait,
Carried out strikes against 16 mine-laying vessels near the strait on Tuesday.
US Central Command posted a video showing munitions hitting nine vessels, most of which were moored as they were struck.
But the more potent threat remains the risk of a direct attack by Iran at scale
– for instance, a swarm of one-way attack drones or a series of shore-to-ship ballistic missiles, accordi…

#CSRF Protection without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields

On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

Nee je kan niet meer je overheid en maatschappij verhuizen naar Amerikaanse servers - @… 's writings
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nee-je-kan-niet-meer-je-overheid-bouwen-op-de-us/
Even voor luie mensen de kortste versie ⬇️ met de aanrader om vooral het hele artikel door te laten dringen.
Deze erkenning kan ik waarderen:😉
'Zo opgeschreven ziet het er vrij bizar uit, maar dat is het ook. Het is ook niet makkelijk om door te hebben dat onze relatie met Amerika na 80 jaar uit is. Kostte ook mij tijd om dat te accepteren.'
Hij heeft gelijk.

HeatMat: Simulation of City Material Impact on Urban Heat Island Effect
Marie Reinbigler, Romain Rouffet, Peter Naylor, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Nikolaos Dionelis, Elisabeth Brunet, Catalin Fetita, Rosalie Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22796
arXiv:2601.22796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, defined as a significant increase in temperature in urban environments compared to surrounding areas, is difficult to study in real cities using sensor data (satellites or in-situ stations) due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolution. Among the factors contributing to this effect are the properties of urban materials, which differ from those in rural areas. To analyze their individual impact and to test new material configurations, a high-resolution simulation at the city scale is required. Estimating the current materials used in a city, including those on building facades, is also challenging. We propose HeatMat, an approach to analyze at high resolution the individual impact of urban materials on the UHI effect in a real city, relying only on open data. We estimate building materials using street-view images and a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to supplement existing OpenStreetMap data, which describes the 2D geometry and features of buildings. We further encode this information into a set of 2D maps that represent the city's vertical structure and material characteristics. These maps serve as inputs for our 2.5D simulator, which models coupled heat transfers and enables random-access surface temperature estimation at multiple resolutions, reaching an x20 speedup compared to an equivalent simulation in 3D.
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