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I did not expect that I’d quote the Catholic Church on this blog. But they do a good job at expressing the problems with Transhumanism. From the Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas (emphasis mine): Underlying narratives: transhumanism and posthumanism In an attempt to shed light on the cultural assumptions accompanying the ongoing digital revolution, I would now like to turn our attention to certain currents of thought that inte....
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I did not expect that I’d quote the Catholic Church on this blog. But they do a good job at expressing the problems with Transhumanism. From the Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas (emphasis mine): Underlying narratives: transhumanism and posthumanism In an attempt to shed light on the cultural assumptions accompanying the ongoing digital revolution, I would now like to turn our attention to certain currents of thought that inte....
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I did not expect that I’d quote the Catholic Church on this blog. But they do a good job at expressing the problems with Transhumanism. From the Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas (emphasis mine): Underlying narratives: transhumanism and posthumanism In an attempt to shed light on the cultural assumptions accompanying the ongoing digital revolution, I would now like to turn our attention to certain currents of thought that inte....
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The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support
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www.theoccidentalobserver.net
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4 days ago
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The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support Steven Simon; Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Posted onMay 26, 2026 Executive Summary The United States and Israel are now approaching the renegotiation of their 10-year defense Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU. Israeli officials have said they want to phase out US military grant aid […]
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Automate deployment of your web scraper on VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 cloud-init
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www.zyte.com
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4 days ago
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Your VPS is ready, but now you need to work through the same sequence you have run a dozen times before: apt update, apt install python3-pip, pip install scrapy, playwright install chromium, the Chromium dependency list that never installs cleanly on the first try, Redis, possibly Postgres, whatever else this particular project needs.
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What multi-agent orchestration looks like in a large-scale web scraping project
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www.zyte.com
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4 days ago
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Multi-agent orchestration is having its moment. The diagrams are everywhere now. Boxes for planners, boxes for hands, boxes for daemons, arrows to a shared brain, a human floating at the top. They keep getting prettier. The part where the web pushes back is still the part nobody draws.
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With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...
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When you download a 'live' ISO, dd it to a USB drive, you notice that all your tweaks or installed packages vanish after a reboot. If you think about how most such 'live' ISOs work, it becomes apparent why: $ parted -s Fedora-Xfce-Live-44-1.7.x86_64.iso print free | grep '^[PN ]' Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 32.8kB 2897MB 2897MB ISO9660 hidden, msftdata 2 2897MB 2929MB 31.5MB fat16 A....
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With the popularity of gambling-“inspired” games after Balatro, Fortune Seller gives it a go with an inventory management take. Developed and published by Kiwick, the game works well on Linux with Proton and is Steam Deck Verified. In Fortune Seller, you start a job as the cashier at an occult items store, serving a shady and greedy owner, that demands exponential profits at every week. You know, the Balatro drill. At Week One, the demands ....
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With the popularity of gambling-“inspired” games after Balatro, Fortune Seller gives it a go with an inventory management take. Developed and published by Kiwick, the game works well on Linux with Proton and is Steam Deck Verified. In Fortune Seller, you start a job as the cashier at an occult items store, serving a shady and greedy owner, that demands exponential profits at every week. You know, the Balatro drill. At Week One, the demands ....
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Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers
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www.phoronix.com
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4 days ago
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Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week's batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices...
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Two British nationals are among five activists who have been forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police after statements they wished to read were seized from them. This was the latest escalation in a case that their lawyers have described as a “show trial” and is part of a broader crackdown on those who take [...]
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In contemporary political discourse, Israel is not merely a state or a strategic ally of the United States. It represents a particular relationship between imperial power and a regional actor: a state whose significance exceeds its demographic and geographic size because it functions as a key component in the maintenance of a wider hegemonic order. [...]
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At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” [...]
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Iran War Triggers a “Suez Moment.” Also a “Cuban Missile Crisis Moment.”
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znetwork.org
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4 days ago
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Analysts writing in publications as politically diverse as The New York Times, The Nation, and Pambazuka News have termed Washington’s failure in its war against Iran a “Suez Moment” for the US, referring to Britain’s humiliation in the wake of its 1956 assault (with France and Israel) on Egypt. Despite Britain’s overwhelming military superiority, its attempt to seize the [...]
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In 1543, a Polish astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus published a book that shattered the foundations of Western civilization’s understanding of reality. For over a thousand years, the received wisdom—backed by the authority of the Church and the apparent testimony of every human sense—was that the Earth stood fixed and motionless at the center of the [...]
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Here we go again. Afternoon walk this time around. It’s almost 2pm, and I’m standing in the same parking spot where I got picked up last week. No breakfast in me, but I did have lunch before heading out. Compared to last week’s hike, this one’s gonna be way easier. We have a bit more than 20kms to walk, with roughly 650 meters of ascent and 1300 of descent. Gonna be fun. Before we begin, I’ll have to apologise for the terrible photos I to....
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Bolivia is experiencing a period of unrest, tension, and exhaustion. There are more than 50 active roadblocks across the country; shortages have been reported in several cities. At least six people have died in connection with the protests—some due to state repression, others due to roadblocks—dozens more have been injured, and almost 90 arrested. The [...]
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Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026
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www.phoronix.com
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4 days ago
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Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of fire. –Gustav Mahler Corruption as Authoritarian Spectacle Corruption has never been far from the center of American politics. Some of the most notorious scandals stretch from the cronyism of Warren G. Harding to the abuses of power exposed during the Watergate scandal under Richard Nixon. Yet many [...]
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In October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the parties to Sudan’s conflict, took over El Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur state, following an 18-month siege that, along with continuous shelling and drone strikes, led to starvation among civilians in and around the city. The RSF unleashed mass killings and other [...]
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Susan Abulhawa in conversation with ZFriend Urška Breznik in Maribor, Slovenia during the week of commemoration of the Nakba. The conversation ranges from literature to current political reality in the Middle East to the future of Palestine.
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No End in Sight: Israel Expands War on Lebanon, Orders Evacuation of 14% of Country
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znetwork.org
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4 days ago
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Amid stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks, Israel has intensified its attacks across Lebanon and on Wednesday issued an evacuation order for all areas south of the Zahrani River — about 14% of the country. That includes Tyre, one of Lebanon’s largest cities. “It’s hard to see an end in sight,” says Ramzi Kaiss, researcher at Human [...]
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Nolte: Disney’s ‘Mandalorian’ Flops with Second Week Crash of 72%
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www.breitbart.com
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4 days ago
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It’s official: after a 72 percent collapse in its second weekend, the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Mandalorian and Grogu is a flop. The post Nolte: Disney’s ‘Mandalorian’ Flops with Second Week Crash of 72% appeared first on Breitbart .
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with XF Extreme Formula and Mina the Hollower - 2026-05-30 Edition
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boilingsteam.com
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4 days ago
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Between 2026-05-23 and 2026-05-30 we selected 14 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. There’s a lot of good stuff in the below list, so it was hard to choose what to highlight, but I decided to go for XF Extreme Formula which has retro F-zero vibes, and Mina the Hollower, the new pixel-perfect 2D game from the developers of Shovel Knight. Full ..
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