We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes usβand it is currently changing us for the worse.
βThe elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.β
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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On 9 October, the authors of the French SkyShield initiative met with advisers to Emmanuel Macron to discuss the technical feasibility of deploying military aircraft to protect Ukrainian airspace from Russian drones and missiles.
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Ouch
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Newsom: Anyone checked out my Patriot store? We do have some knee pads. Itβs a signature series. Theyβre sold out at the moment. The universities, and all these law firms, and certain media organizationsβI figured they can use these.
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Or rather the blind admiration for people in uniform and being pro cop is anti democrat
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Chinaβs life-sciences industry is turning American
Meanwhile, America is abandoning its winning formula
The copycat four-step formula used by Chinese life-sciences companies is coming into its ownβjust as the American original risks losing its vim
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The Slow Death of Russian Oil
Why Ukraineβs campaign against Moscowβs energy sector is working.
Ukraine's strike campaign v Russian oil. "Refineries are still running, but with deferred maintenance, rushed emergency repairs, and a mounting backlog of safety and efficiency issues. The result is not collapse, but quiet degradation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
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π«‘ "We've lost 27 of our own. In return, we destroyed 24,895 russian troops and 76,950 targets. Thatβs two entire army corps. For every one of ours - 1,000 of theirs," β Magyar
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I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
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According to Politico, the EU is stopping the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens in most cases β the new rules may be introduced this week.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...
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Just give them a license for Minecraft and get some kid to explain to them the creative mode. Costs 20-30 EUR per license.
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Oh mein Gottβ¦ das Video ist echt ΓΌbelβ¦
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The British kids need protection from all those multilingual foreigners.
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This comes from basic misreading of risks Trump presents to US and global systems in how so many believed he could become a Putin style autocrat
Instead, Trump embodies radicalised overreach by a structural minority whose inability to cope with inevitable backlashes leads to paralysis and violence
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Dick added to the crowd of hotdog roasters in hell ...
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Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son
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This man is clearly deranged
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Read about this quite a while ago. The theory presupposes that everyone could afford candles easily to wander about at night, which I find hard to believe
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OPERATION "SAVING PUTIN'S FACE" (animation)
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Well, the russian fullscale invasion started only recently, right? Who could have knownβ¦
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Nearly half of Russiaβs elite Pantsir-S1 air defense systems destroyed β SBU
Ukrainian strikes exceed Russia's 30-per-year production capacity for short-range air defense systems.
Ukraine destroyed nearly half of Russia's Pantsir-S1 air defense systems in 2025, exceeding Russia's 30/year production
"Pantsirs are the most effective tool against our long-range drones," Malyuk said - and Ukraine is systematically eliminating them
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/31/n...
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So wait, Trump βcut a dealβ with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??
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Hereβs How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:
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Ukraineβs Navy doesnβt existβexcept it kind of does, and itβs brilliant
At 2 am, they rip their mooring rope racing to engage 17 Shaheds.
Everyone says Ukraine has no Navy.
If only, says Russia's Black Sea Fleet, 28 ships down.
Now this non-existent Navy hunts Shaheds every nightβat 2 am, racing so fast they rip their mooring rope.
Our Black Sea dispatch π
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All so true, which is why voices like OβBrien will soon be labelled βWehrkraftzersetzerβ in the US
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