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  "Voters and members of Congress, allies and adversaries, CEOs and investors alike have had to try to figure out how to read a man whose words are so frequently not true." https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/politics/fact-checking-trump-10-years-lessons

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  Flashback to the Cold War... "The Finnish and Swedish QRA jets intercepted and identified a Russian detachment consisting of a Tu-134 transport aircraft (NATO reporting name “Crusty”), MiG-31 fighter jets (“Foxhound”) and Su-30 fighter jets (“Flanker-H”) in international airspace over the Gulf of Finland." https://ilmavoimat.fi/-/suomen-ja-ruotsin-ilmavoimat-toteuttivat-ensimmaisen-yhteisen-operatiivisen-tunnistuslennon?languageId=en_US

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  “It is important that terms such as ‘remigration’ do not become normalized without people understanding what right-wing extremists mean by them,” they wrote. “In this context, it refers to the forced removal of groups of people because extremists believe they do not belong here.” https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/dutch-intelligence-service-warns-far-right-extremists-normalizing-ideas

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  "Even when avatars signaled an exclusive interest in left-wing politics, right-wing perspectives continued to dominate their feeds, suggesting that platform amplification overrides user preference. As much as 67% of all political content encountered by the avatars was opinion-based, entertainment and unverifiable in nature. Much of the content was sensationalist, polarising and often promoted extremist views. " https://www.bi.team/publications/how-social-media-shapes-young-europeans-...

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  Today is Prinsjesdag, the Dutch equivalent of the US State of the Union or British Opening of Parliament. As part of it includes publishing the budget, the Ministry of Finance web site is temporarily inaccessible while they upload all the material.

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  "It’s especially telling that all these men see Nolan’s adaptation not only as bad history but as an attack on them and their vaunted culture by women and non-whites." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vandals/

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  "My AI did it on its own". Yeah, sure... https://apnews.com/article/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3

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  “Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

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  The first all-electric Ferrari, the Luce (hated by all Ferrari fans for a) being electric, and b) not looking like a Ferrari), was largely designed by Jony Ive, the former head of design for Apple. Interestingly, he insisted on traditional knobs, buttons and dials instead of huge touchscreens.

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  Until now I have been dismissing the conspiracy theories about Lindsey Graham's death as silly, but now I have to wonder... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-fbi-wasting-time-investigating-lindsey-grahams-death-rcna587500

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  What next? Iceland running out of ice? Sahara running out of sand? https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/13/persistent-drought-higher-demand-netherlands-heading-water-shortages

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  So much for "free speech". https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260711-trump-administration-subpoenas-new-york-times-journalists-over-air-force-one-story

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  "The concern is not that AI makes people less intelligent overnight, but that constant reliance on artificial cognition changes our relationship to effort itself. The student who once wrestled with a difficult text now asks Claude for a summary. The programmer who once debugged line by line now supervises generated code they barely understand. Over time, the muscle of sustained thought weakens through disuse." https://www.techpolicy.press/ais-catastrophic-risk-isnt-rogue-machi...

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  Kudos to the Ukrainians for sharing what they find out about captured Russian equipment - they are in a rather unique position to study it. https://trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

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  From 2019: "Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing"" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

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  Just got emergency broadcast alarm on my phone, with a warning of code red for extreme temperatures in most of the country.

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  "Narcissistic leaders resist remote work because it interferes with their motivations for power and status." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300

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  “We want critical thinking, not just AI” https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

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  "Some may argue that the world’s first trillionaire is a story of technological triumph and a win for American capitalism. But markets have not bet on cutting-edge technology or a company too big to fail, but rather on the idea of a mega-monopolist with wealth and influence so vast that the US government will not allow him to fail." https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trillionaires-elon-musk-not-compatible-with-democracy-by-nabil-ahmed-1-2026-06

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  "Of all posts we flagged as AI-generated, two-thirds came from LinkedIn" https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

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  https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/safe

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  https://warandpeas.substack.com/p/greenland-shark

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  Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier. "The purchase was seen as posing "a possible risk to the public interest."" https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/

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  “We are hiring junior programmers who rely on AI to complete the simplest tasks. They don't have the knowledge or experience to know when AI output is error-laden or inefficient.” https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

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  As long as they don't call it "HAL"... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515002134.htm

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  "The ground is shifting underneath every industry that was built on the assumption that the US would protect and preserve the globalised status quo. The software industry has shifted its entire value proposition from “we make tools that help you make or save money” to using political clout and the dollar hegemony to capture, control, and loot entire sectors of the various economies of the world. That strategy only works when you’re in charge." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2...

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  https://existentialcomics.com/comic/655

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  "According to the CvdM, social media feeds increasingly show people only news that aligns with their own views, contributing to growing problems like division in society and the manipulation of opinions. These algorithms can also amplify polarizing, extremist, or misleading information, putting the reliability of news reporting under pressure. The rise of AI-generated content also plays a role in this " https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/19/risk-democracy-social-media-feeds-harm-peop...

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  RIP Peter Salus :( Author of, among many things, "A Quarter Century of UNIX", "Casting the Net" and "The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin", and a really nice guy with endless amusing and interesting stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus

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  "So things are getting more expensive, and people are getting displaced by largely untested and ineffective technology, but if we just keep doing that, it’ll all work itself out." https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-tells-workers-to-be-so-happy-theyre-being-given-the-gift-of-ai-2000761413