Jaap van der Doelen

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Journalist @brabantsdagblad.bsky.social KILL YOUR MASTERS - My book on Run The Jewels is out now through UGA Press: runthejewelsbook.com 👉🏻🤛🏿 Posts in English and Dutch.

Damon Albarn walking through a crowd singing

Sean Parker: You don't even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your chips down. A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool?
[sarcastically]
Eduardo Saverin: You?
[the scene shifts back to the deposition room]
Eduardo Saverin: A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.

De ultrarechtse minister van Financiën Bezalel Smotrich zei dat hij groen licht zal geven voor de bouw van ruim 3000 woningen voor Israëlische kolonisten. Daarmee zou Ma'ale Adoemim feitelijk aan Jeruzalem worden vastgebouwd. "Na decennia van internationale druk en bevriezingen van het plan, breken we met conventies. Dit is Zionisme op z'n best", zei Smotrich. Volgens hem "begraaft" de bouw definitief het idee van een Palestijnse staat.

Apple had a hard time wrapping their head around it, because they were like, “What do you mean you’re never going to make money? What do you mean you’re never going to track anything?” I was like, “Yeah, that’s the point. I don’t care.” I don’t care about people’s data as far as, like, being able to get analytics or track them or sell their data. I don’t care about any of that. I care about keeping people safe. That is literally the whole point. Eventually they allowed it on. [Apple and the Department of Justice did not return requests for comment.]

Three points of praise (marked with a green triangle pointing upwards) for a comic book are countered with two points of critique (marked by a red triangle pointing downwards), but the second point actually reads like praise: “R.B. Silva’s dynamic layouts and facial expressions elevate a dialogue-heavy issue.”

A hand holding a copy of the book ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ by Hilary Mantel

KILL YOUR MASTERS: Run The Jewels and the World That Made Them - Jaap van der Doelen

Een wereldkaart van landen die Palestina erkennen (de overgrote meerderheid), op het punt staan dat te doen, of blijven weigeren.

The album WE GROWN NOW. by Tree on vinyl.

The legendary Eric Cantona jumping over the boarding to kick an abusive arsehole in the stands straight in the chest.

X - Gedeactiveerd. Je account is gedeactiveerd. We vinden het jammer dat je weggaat. #TotZiens

"Ik train daar kinderen van allerlei nationaliteiten, kan goed opschieten met hun ouders. De KNVB weet ook wie ik ben, maar niemand doet moeilijk over wat ik in mijn vrije tijd doe of stem. Mensen snappen gewoon: jij bent links, jij bent rechts. Prima, klaar. Niemand zeurt over mijn politiek en ik kan dat scheiden."

Democracy was in decay. The United States may have never met its full
potential, but at least its citizens seemed to consistently pull it toward prog-
ress, despite its kicking and screaming. That momentum was now dead in its
tracks. The country was presided over by a narcissistic demagogue hampered
only by his own ineptitude who was spreading nothing but pain in an almost
shockingly banal effort to simply pilfer more dollars from an already broken
system. And as the flames licked around the ravages left in his wake, he de-
manded you thank him for their warmth.

The Birds Don’t Sing

U schrijft het wel op. Maakt dat enig verschil?
‘Helaas niet, maar het is wel terug te vinden in de archieven, en later zal niemand kunnen zeggen: ‘O, dat was vreselijk, maar ik wist dat niet.’ Mensen kiezen ervoor om het niet te weten, en de media helpen hen daarbij.’

The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

“Absoluut onacceptabel”, zegt Sefcovic. “Als de Amerikaanse heffingen 30 procent zijn, heb je geen handel meer.” Dat zei hij ook tegen de Europese ministers van Handel. Die gaven hem gelijk, maar zeiden ook: zet niet alle ballen meer op de Europese handel met de Amerikanen. Dat is maar 13 procent van de Europese export. Je kunt ook focussen op die andere 87 procent. Op India, Indonesië, China, de Zuid-Amerikaanse landen.

Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them - Jaap van der Doelen

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On

‘Black Hole Superette’ vinyl album by Aesop Rock playing on a turntable.

…a computer can be employed as a supporting tool wherever it does not limit or impoverish the human foundation that underlies art.

The liberation of humans from creative work is illusory. Thinking with the help of a computer — it’s nothing more than a myth spread by technocrats. The machine standard … cannot, at least at the present level of development of cybernetic technology, replace the living breath of line and expressive emotional forms produced in animation by the trembling hand of an artist.

If you are a fan of Run The Jewels, even a little bit, this book does a great job of telling the origin stories of these two "superheroes." Killer Mike and El-P did not follow the usual path to get to where they are, and that is one of the biggest reasons why they have such wide appeal. The book also covers much of the political backdrop for the group's first four albums, and it is interesting to see how those events influenced their music and in turn how they have influenced some of those political events. Well written, with an extensive endnotes section, it borders on scholarly... except for the curse words. Definitely worth a read.

Jaap van der Doelen standing in a city square, wearing a black shirt featuring a portrait of the rapper Nas, a green backpack and green headphones around his neck.

Poster to the 1975 movie Rollerball starring James Caan.

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

Twelve billion USD hovering over the Gaza Strip / You don’t wanna know what it cost to live

Geert Wilders zegt 'Thank you President Donald J Trump' nadat het Witte Huis steun betuigt aan hun Nederlandse evenknie.

Dave Portnoy sitting in the flames of the 'this is fine' meme saying 'this is owning the libs'.

Volgens het AI-overzicht van Google: "Een plintentrapje is een kleine, houten of metalen stapje dat wordt gebruikt om bij de plint (de lijst die aan de onderkant van de wand zit) te komen, bijvoorbeeld om spullen hoger op de muur te hangen. Het wordt ook wel een 'luchtanker' genoemd."

‘No Face’ in Spirited Away, a black robed figure with an expressionless white mask for a face.

Everlast’s album ‘Whitey Ford Sings The Blues’ with a turntable (and a Lego rocketship) in the back.

De conducteur in de trein gisteren zei dat hij zich zorgen om me maakte omdat ik een boek zat te lezen met de titel Kill Your Masters 🤣

Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump warmly shaking hands.

Een verkeersbord met de mededeling ‘winkels via X bereikbaar’

Kabinet negeert nadrukkelijk slachtoffers in het heden bij een kranslegging op de Dam voor slachtoffers uit het verleden.

‘Heesen Rust Zacht’ op een zwart-geel spandoek in het uitvak van het Frans Heesen Stadion

A vinyl copy of Yesterday’s New Quintet’s album ‘Stevie’.

De brug van de sluis bij Macharen staat open.

A hand holding Gorillaz ‘Live at the Apollo’ and Kelela’s ‘Live at the Blue Note’ vinyl sleeves. A record player and a Lego rocketship in the background.

Tom Cruise as the main character in the film ‘Minority Report’, moving his hands around a holographic touch screen in front of him.