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Municipalidad de Lima rendirá homenaje a Charlie Kirk tras su asesinato en Estados Unidos La Municipalidad de Lima anunció que el sábado 4 de octubre realizará un homenaje póstumo a Charlie Kirk en el Circuito Mágico del Agua.

It's one thing for Americans to be delusional over the death of a bigot, but what the hell does Kirk have to do with Lima? peru21.pe/lima/municip...

*laughs in fleshlight*

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Finally, some good news related to AI.

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

Shock! Horror! AI doesn't get 'subtlety'! arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

Cloudflare shocks the Internet with launch of NET Dollar stablecoin Cloudflare has stunned the tech world with NET Dollar, a stablecoin built to support microtransactions and AI-driven payments online.

They could have also just called it "Cloudflare Points". Bit worrisome that Cloudflare is going the crypto route, but if there is any hope in microtransactions and pushing back against AI slop floods, this might be it. nerds.xyz/2025/09/clou...

Hundreds of diplomats stage walkout from UN General Assembly as Netanyahu enters to speak * * *

Heartwarming. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

What Fresh Hell is This? - Craig Murray Yesterday saw two announcements. Starmer is to introduce compulsory digital ID cards in the UK, and Tony Blair is put forward by the White House to be the colonial administrator of Gaza for five…

A quick summary of the crap we're in. It's simple to understand why the Global South can not trust the North. ino.to/7g8xfRW

Star Spotting At The Limelight Nightclub in the 1980s - Flashbak The Limelight nightclub in London attracted the most famous faces of the 1980s. Davis Koppel was the house photographer.

Star Spotting At The Limelight Nightclub in the 1980s

Who’s joining this maestro?

MSN By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial...

Really Machine Learning, but very, very cool. But, this actually identifies indicative trends, not specific moments at which your blood pressure might actually be too high. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Antifa is vooral een parapluterm met symbolische waarde Antifascisme: De Tweede Kamer heeft nipt een motie aangenomen waarin staat dat ‘antifa’ gezien moet worden als een terroristische organisatie. Ook Donald Trump noemt de term vaak, om zo links te…

Holland designated ‘antifa’ a terrorist organization last week. Democracy is backsliding everywhere, but I was expecting quite a bit more from this once more sensible nation. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The Purge Begins: Vance and Miller Unveil Plan to ‘Dismantle’ the Left in Kirk’s Name In a deeply cynical and sinister act of political theater, Vice President JD Vance and senior White House official Stephen Miller have guest-hosted the podcast of the recently assassinated Charlie …

Trump has not been president for a year, but the damage and death done is shocking. Spiraling into dystopia is not reserved for a Russia or Zimbabwe: Vance and Miller Unveil Plan to ‘Dismantle’ the Left in Kirk’s Name – Brokeonomics.news

Quite

Musk calls for new UK government at far-right rally in London “You either fight back or you die,” Musk says via video link to demonstration organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

British anti-immigrants listen to the advice of a South African who migrated first to Canada, then to the US: Musk calls for new UK government at far-right rally in London www.politico.eu/article/musk...

Uproar as EU Parliament declines to hold minute of silence for Charlie Kirk Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.

Performative politics to cater to a base that only can be maintained through manufactured outrage: Uproar as EU Parliament declines to hold minute of silence for Charlie Kirk – POLITICO www.politico.eu/article/chal...

Lawyers say men deported by US to Eswatini are being imprisoned illegally The men, who had been released after serving criminal sentences, are from Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

From the fascist playbook; today it’s them, tomorrow it’s you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Middle East updates: EU suspends Israel payments over Gaza – DW – 09/10/2025 EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc is suspending payments to Israel and proposing sanctions on "extremist" Israeli ministers. China and Russia have condemned Israel's strike…

Bit odd to call ‘trade agreements’ payments, but still, good news, it seems: Middle East updates: EU suspends Israel payments over Gaza – DW – 09/10/2025 www.dw.com/en/middle-ea...

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Do a few Nazi salutes, destroy US international aid: Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package to Elon Musk - Bloomberg archive.ph/2025.09.05-1...

Frankie Runs The Algorithm.

That’s promising. Plenty will fall through the cracks, but that might not matter.

INSTITUTE FOR LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ART Lucius Burckhardt und die Zukunft der Wahrnehmung

Looking forward to speaking at WALKING – Denken in Bewegung (Thinking in Motion) this coming weekend. Bummed I'm not there in person; the line-up is great. ilea.art/walking-denk...

25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UN At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs.

This kind of thing is what creates a multipolar world. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance The recent protests in Serbia and Greece in part started as the expression of collected grief over railway disasters. The resulting marches not only represen...

Live in one hour (7pm UK): Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance www.youtube.com/live/Cq0pZ1G...

Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance The recent protests in Serbia and Greece in part started as the expression of collected grief over, oddly for both, railway disasters. The resulting marches not only represented deep discontent with…

On Tuesday August 26, I'm hosting Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance, with independent researcher Nohad ElHajj, activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, artist Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and writer Tom Jeffreys. It's free to join. @walklistencreate.org walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

Sins Beneath the Equator This past year, I've been working with Marco Zero, an investigative news agency in Recife, in the northeast of Brazil, and Nest, an exhibition space in The Hague, to bring you a collection of 100…

The Dutch partner of Sins Beneath the Equator, Nest, is presenting their work at the Mauritshuis in The Hague on September 5. babakfakhamzadeh.com/project/sins...

INSTITUTE FOR LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ART Lucius Burckhardt und die Zukunft der Wahrnehmung

Come September 7, I'm one of the (online) speakers at Denken in Bewegung, hosted by ILEA, the Institute for Land and Environmental Art in Switzerland. I'll make you think about digital psychogeography. ilea.art/walking-denk...

'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup Daniel Ek invested over $700m in drone, aircraft and submarine producer Helsing

I just quit Spotify over Ek's 700 million USD investment in Helsing, a military AI company. You should, too. www.middleeasteye.net/trending/spo...

And I was just starting my Sunday on an up.