🇳🇱 A politician in the Netherlands who won a council seat in a local election has denied that her publicity photograph was AI-generated.

The photo that appeared in a local newspaper of 59-year-old Patricia Reichman looks very different from what Reichman actually looks like.

In the official candidate photo that she personally provided, she looks much younger and has different features.

Reichman has denied using AI, instead telling Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) that she used unspecified software to boost the resolution.

“The photo in the neighborhood paper was of too low a resolution, so I ran it through an online tool to boost the pixel count,”

Reichman says.

“It really is my photo; that really is me. I look a bit different at the moment, but that is due to medication I’m taking. That will be ending soon.”

Reichman won a seat to represent a neighborhood in the city of Rotterdam. While she concedes that the questionable image does make her look much younger, she insists that her age belies her appearance.

“When I’m out and about with my son, people often assume I’m his girlfriend,” she tells

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. “I hear it all the time, that I look remarkably young for my age.”

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If you are having a bad day, just remember that somewhere there’s a Chinese kid trying to learn English. 😄

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🇳🇱 🛳 Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

HNLMS Evertsen, a Dutch air-defense frigate part of the NATO carrier strike group centered on the French carrier Charles de Gaulle, has inadvertently revealed its position after receiving a postcard containing a hidden Bluetooth tracker. According to The Register, the Dutch Ministry of Defense posted instructions online to make it easier for family and friends to communicate with personnel aboard a navy ship, but didn’t fully consider the ramifications for operational security (op-sec).

Bluetooth trackers like the Apple AirTag cost $29 a piece, but there are cheaper, generic versions available on Amazon that cost $10 for two trackers. By allowing a potential adversary to track the ship in real-time, it could put the vessel and the entire strike group at risk, as that information can be used for other operations against the fleet. The fact that it was mailed in meant that spies do not even need to go near the ship to place a tracker on the $585 million Navy ship.

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If you’re still confused and think this Iran conflict is going to be the Iraq war…

Look again.

This is a new Arab coalition.

We’ve NEVER had this before.

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🇺🇸🙏🥰President Trump participated in “America Reads the Bible” this evening by reading 2 Chronicles 7:11-22.

"And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe my statutes and my judgments, then will I establish the throne of my kingdom according to as I have covenanted with David your father, saying there shall not fail you as a man to be ruler in Israel."

"But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you and shall go and serve other gods and worship them, then will I pluck them up from the roots out of my land which I have given them, and this house which I have sanctified for my name will I cast out of my sight and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among nations."

"And this house which is high shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it, so that he shall say, why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?"

"And it shall be answered, because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore has he brought all this evil upon them."

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“Double meanings exist” 😉

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🇳🇱 For 4 consecutive days, Loosdrecht have protested against an asylum center in their small town

Videos of Dutch police cracking down on the protesters have gone viral worldwide.

Mainstream media ignores their voices but @ongehoordnedtv went to speak to the furious protesters.
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Authorities in Loosdrecht, Netherlands are cracking down on young protesters who are making their voices heard after the government agreed to resettle over a hundred young military age “asylum seekers” in residential areas. The small town only has a population of about 8,000.

The protesters have not given up and continue to resist the government’s efforts to turn their town into yet another ghetto, prompting the police to use violence against them.

This is happening all over Europe.
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🇳🇱 “Does our safety not matter anymore?”

Hundreds of brave women are protesting the planned housing of hundreds of migrants in the small town of Loosdrecht.

This follows earlier protests in which the police beat protesters (including children) with batons.

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🇨🇳Shenzhen, China, robots are now the masters of the assembly line.

This is not simply an incremental improvement in logistics automation, but a qualitative leap toward the direct replacement of human labor in complex environments.

The fact that these humanoid robots already operate at 85% of human efficiency and, moreover, without fatigue, without breaks, and with 24/7 availability, completely changes the economic equation.

We're not just talking about reducing costs, but about redefining the operational structure of the entire logistics chain.

When hardware reaches a sufficient functional threshold and is combined with embodied AI capable of adapting to dynamic environments, the competitive advantage stops being marginal and becomes exponential.

The interesting question isn't whether companies like UPS will react, but when and how they will do so. If the rumors about Figure are true, we're witnessing the start of an arms race in global-scale logistics automation.

The Chinese model, with strong funding and rapid deployment in real environments, contrasts with the more gradual Western approach, but competitive pressure could force accelerated adoption.

In that scenario, the advantage won't just lie in having robots, but in integrating them sooner, better, and on a larger scale than the rest. And that's where it will be decided who leads the next phase of automated physical economy.

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🇨🇳 This might be the most futuristic (and dystopian) thing you’ll see today: Artificial skylights that use LED panels + nanotechnology to create hyper-realistic blue skies and sunlight in completely windowless rooms.

You can even switch from bright midday sun to warm sunset glow with a remote.

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