Jan-Willem Kluen

Humanist, science buff, champions art & culture, aspiring polymath, father, transnationally married. Tweets in Dutch/English #restraintisavirtue

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LudditeHacker @OnsErfdeel Grappig, ‘moi’ is ook een begroeting in Finland.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@stats_feed What a ridiculous list. Results based respondents ‘perceptions’? How about objective metrics as in literacy, (poly)linguistic skills, academic participation and so forth? Have you turned into ‘World of surveys’?

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@stats_feed A six-week cluster of 8 CH-attacks a day on average. I thought about ending myself. If you don’t know about cluster headaches, look it up. #clusterheadache #suicideheadache

[Finnish Government @FinGovernment]

Happy Independence Day! 🇫🇮

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! Trevlig självständighetsdag!

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Freedom level:

🇫🇮 Finland: 100
🇸🇪 Sweden: 99
🇳🇿 New Zealand: 99
🇳🇴 Norway: 98
🇮🇪 Ireland: 97
🇩🇰 Denmark: 97
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 97
🇨🇦 Canada: 97
🇯🇵 Japan: 96
🇵🇹 Portugal: 96
🇸🇮 Slovenia: 96
🇦🇺 Australia: 95
🇨🇿 Czechia: 94
🇩🇪 Germany: 93
🇦🇹 Austria: 93
🇬🇧 UK: 91
🇪🇸 Spain: 90
🇸🇰 Slovakia: 90
🇮🇹 Italy: 90
🇫🇷 France: 89
🇦🇷 Argentina: 85
🇭🇷 Croatia: 83
🇺🇸 USA: 83
🇰🇷 South Korea: 83
🇷🇴 Romania: 83
🇵🇱 Poland: 80
🇿🇦 South Africa: 79
🇮🇱 Israel: 74
🇧🇷 Brazil: 72
🇮🇳 India: 66
🇲🇽 Mexico: 60
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 57
🇲🇾 Malaysia: 53
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 49
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 44
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 40
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 35
🇹🇷 Turkey: 33
🇶🇦 Qatar: 25
🇦🇪 UAE: 18
🇪🇬 Egypt: 18
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 15
🇷🇺 Russia: 13
🇮🇷 Iran: 11
🇨🇳 China: 9
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 8
🇰🇵 North Korea: 3
🇸🇾 Syria: 1

Note: Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries, where 100 is most free, 1 is not free.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@stats_feed I like statistics, but not when they’re used to obfuscate underlying facts: all of the listed countries have progressive tax systems, but here only the top rates are shown and offer no real insight into their tax systems. This is borderline #demagoguery. https://t.co/UTT25hxBx5

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LoveInner Jessey Norman with Masur is also one of the benchmark performances, but has some weaker points (Frühling somehow seems to strain Normans voice and the violin soli in Beim Schlafengehen and Morgen are not up to par imho). Soile Isokoski’s performance is downright stellar.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@TheOnion Great satire. Just zoom in or zoom out. Still worrying times though #comfortinhumor

[The Onion @TheOnion]

ONN political analyst Jason Copeland is at The Big Map to break down why Trump and Harris are virtually deadlocked in a tight race for Pennsylvania resident Nick Camden.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LoveInner This one. The way Haitink (and the RCO) go above and beyond, could nearly be described as uncharacteristic for him. They really pour their hearts and souls out. One of my all time favorites.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@iantheCROAT Christa Ludwig

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@locuta Kerkklokken hebben een ‘mineur’ boventonenreeks: het interval van 4e naar 5e boventoon is een kleine terts i.t.t. de grote terts in de meeste andere natuurlijke boventonenreeksen (e.g. blaas-/snaarinstrumenten). Dat geeft de klank van een kerkklok zijn sombere karakter.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Most well-developed public education systems:

1. 🇸🇪 Sweden
2. 🇫🇮 Finland
3. 🇩🇰 Denmark
4. 🇩🇪 Germany
5. 🇨🇦 Canada
6. 🇬🇧 UK
7. 🇳🇴 Norway
8. 🇯🇵 Japan
9. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
10. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
~
11. 🇦🇺 Australia
12. 🇧🇪 Belgium
13. 🇦🇹 Austria
14. 🇫🇷 France
15. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
16. 🇺🇸 US
17. 🇰🇷 South Korea
21. 🇪🇸 Spain
22. 🇮🇹 Italy
25. 🇨🇳 China
27. 🇷🇺 Russia
30. 🇦🇪 UAE
42. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
45. 🇮🇳 India
46. 🇹🇷 Turkey
54. 🇪🇬 Egypt
56. 🇦🇷 Argentina
61. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
63. 🇮🇷 Iran
65. 🇲🇽 Mexico
74. 🇿🇦 South Africa
77. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
86. 🇧🇷 Brazil

According to U.S. News and World Report

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LoveInner I totally agree on the Bernstein WP recording. It is the best. Another favorite of mine (maybe because it was my 1st) is Haitink with the RCO (1969). I was brought up with the sound of the RCO and it still feels very close and ‘right’. The woodwinds are amazing. My two cents…

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

Hey @transavia, you cancelled my 16 y.o. daughter’s return flight and didn’t inform me as a parent, who did the booking? No updated information in your app and no information to our mobile phone numbers? Now she is stranded and no service form you to remedy this? What a disgrace!

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LoveInner For me, definitely Karl Ancerl with the Czech Philharmonic. Its atmosphere is just blood curdling and the playing is of unbelievable virtuosity and energy.

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@OneAlphaKing Kiton: not a big name, but an elegant and distinguished scent. Gentlemanly restrained.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Some disasters don't make the news, because they happen every single day. We've become accustomed to these catastrophes, even though they're often (much) worse than even the worst news on the front pages.

Case in point: the tobacco industry. /1

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

Ben Ali Libi de goochelaar voorgedragen door Joost Prinsen, incl. inleiding - YouTube #dodenherdenking https://t.co/AuGyy2l4tI

[Jan-Willem Kluen @jwkluen]

@LoveInner Lupu performing wind quintets with soloists of the RCO (although at the time of this recording Han de Vries had already left the RCO and Vincente Zarzo was never officially with the RCO). This a little gem because of its beauty, but also special to me, as I studied with Zarzo.