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Subsidy-guzzling regional airport Maastricht loses Ryanair. Only some Corendon summer flights left now some cargo. https://www.nu.nl/economie/6357463/ryanair-stopt-vanwege-buitensporige-kosten-met-vliegen-vanaf-maastricht…

Ryanair stopt vanwege 'buitensporige' kosten met vliegen vanaf Maastricht
Ryanair annuleert per 26 oktober alle vluchten vanaf de luchthaven van Maastricht. De lowcostmaatschappij geeft "buitensporige kostenstijgingen" op als reden. Daarmee gaan 150.000 stoelen per jaar verloren en verdwijnen vijf directe verbindingen.

out today: the #GratefulDead's new 60-CD "enjoying the ride" box. i wrote a ton of liner notes for this, including mini-essays about all the shows & venues, tour lore, & many maps. play with an interactive map: https://tmns.dead.n…

Take a trip to the fantastical land of the Grateful Dead
Follow the Heady Highway to discover storied venues that hosted legendary live performances by the Dead from shows spanning 25 years

The mild-mannered David Brooks gets fierce. Eloquently.
I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion

Opinion | The Trump World Idea That’s Pushed Me Over the Edge
Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.

"Among the largest markets, the highest increase in BEV registrations occurred in Italy, Czechia, and Poland, where registrations increased 110%, 109%, and 103%"
https://theicct.org/publication/european-market-monitor-cars-and-vans-march-2025…

European Market Monitor: Cars and vans (March 2025) - International Council on Clean Transportation
European market monitor for cars and vans offers data on new registrations and estimates of manufacturers’ compliance with CO2 emission targets in February 2025.

Some of the venues in Ilulissat serve drinks with iceberg ice in them. It's pure and clean and full of bubbles, that are delightfully effervescent as the ice melts, like here on a dark table in the sun. Air from 20,000 years ago finally free!

"Rufo, Vance, and Co. are, however, right that right-wing ideological hegemony is harder to maintain when sites of education and knowledge production allow young people to learn, find each other, and challenge received wisdoms."
On the current goals of the destruction of the US education system. (Also provides background and lists some issues with the current system; but, obviously, none of that is fixed by what happens now.)

In April Todd Lyons,
the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice),
lamented that it takes too long to deport illegal immigrants.
At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix he told a crowd of startup bosses vying for government contracts that a better deportation system would function more like Amazon, the tech giant whose delivery drivers zigzag the country at record speed.
“Like Prime, but with human beings,” he said.

America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Matthew Prenevost, Aneesh Tarun, Ian Robinson, Michael Nitsche, Gabby Resch, Ali Mazalek, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23310

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
While virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential to revolutionize digital user interaction, how visual information is presented through VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) differs from naturalistic viewing and interactions in physical environments, leading to performance decrements. One critical challenge in VR development is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), which arises due to the intrinsic constraints of approximating the natural viewing geometry through digital displays. Although…

The first place to eat like Viennese!