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On the morning of 24 June, the first day of the NATO summit, a fire was put out by the fire brigade and ProRail contractors disrupting trains to and from Schiphol Airport and between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Roughly 30 cables were damaged on the Oeverlandeweg rail bridge which took the better part of the day to repair.

Later that day, the Dutch police released a notice asking for witnesses who may have been in the area when the fire started around 03:45. We also learned the report came in at 05:41, which is roughly two hours of burn time. Last week, the police put out another call for witnesses mentioning three cyclists and a taxi driver with a passenger who may have seen the crime. Along with the report were images of the fire and charred cables.

Andreas, from 82MHz, came up with a brilliant analogy to describe Musk and his actions. I had to share.

Imagine you bought a house and you find that there’s a weird electronic device attached to the wall. You have no idea what it is or what it does, so you just pull it off, cut the cord and throw it out. It was probably put there by an idiot anyway. Three months later winter arrives and you wonder why your house doesn’t get warm. Remember that weird thing you didn’t understand and you threw away? Turns out that was the thermostat for the heating.

That’s how Musk operates. It’s what he did at Twitter after he took over, and it’s what he’s doing now as the head of DOGE.

I try not to be negative in what I post online, for this reason, this will stay out of the main blog, and my Mastodon account, but I wanted to comment in some way so it will be a link post. Linked is a YouTube video from Mutahar on the incident with MKBHD, if you prefer reading here's a Verge article. I don't care to comment much on the ethicality of a full length sponsored video that seemingly positions itself as a review but what I don't have any tolerance or respect for is the egregious speeding especially in a residential area. The main speedometer was blurred out to cover the crime but the car had a passenger-side speedometer as well that showed Marquees drove up to 95 mph which converts to 152 kmh where the limit is 56kmh! Completely reckless to drive at those speeds at all, even more so in a residential area where a children playing sign was visible in the video. The video was quickly edited with a comment that said "Cut out the unnecessary driving clip that obviously added nothing to the video. I hear all your feedback on sponsored videos too." Good cover-up...

The linked video from Mutahar covers my views on the event.