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From Project Gutenberg:

The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five acts

by George Farquhar

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/37195



Yearn Finance suffers fourth exploit only weeks after third

December 16, 2025
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Collective responsibility in revolutionary action... is a fundamental principle, which guides each one of us in our way of understanding the anarchist idea, in our determination that it should penetrate to the masses, in its spirit of sacrifice.
-- Nestor Makhno

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#BBC The Papers: 'UK to rejoin Erasmus' and 'BBC comes out fighting' w.st/LKs6w
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#guarantee : an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency

- French: Garantir

- German: die Gewähr

- Italian: garanzia

- Portuguese: garantia

- Spanish: garantía

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#BBC BBC outside Rabbi Eli Schlanger's funeral as Bondi mourners gather w.st/ZqT4R
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#BBC 'Walking away a great' - Crawford retires from boxing w.st/XMW7Q
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Trump staffers air 'frustration with the president' over 'demoralizing' interview

Politico is reporting that several disgruntled staffers in President Donald Trump's administration are now speaking out in response to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles' candid comments to Vanity...

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Federal judge reveals how he may order Trump's ballroom to be 'taken down': report

CNN reports U.S. District Judge Richard Leon (a George W. Bush appointee) will not halt work on President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom, but he said he would hear arguments early next year abou...

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Republican congressman refuses to defend constituents Trump called 'garbage'

The New Republic reports House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) refused to give a direct answer when asked if he agreed with President Donald Trump’s characterization of thousands of Somali residents...

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Trump's Son-In-Law Backs Out of Paramount's Takeover Bid (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

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GREY BEARD. Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a large beard stamped on them; whence probably they took the name: Dutch earthen jugs, used for smuggling gin on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, are called grey beards.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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'You don't have to do it alone': how US cities are helping each other resist ICE (Whitney Bauck/The Guardian)

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Super Science Stories vol. 2, no. 2 (January 1941)

That's a terrific explosion, rather like a classic Jack Kirby drawing with the rocks against the fire colours. Somehow the angle of his leg behind her torso strikes me as wrong, it makes things confusing.

Original magazine: archive.org/details/super-scie…

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Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:

#1: Elon Musk - $648B - USA/Tech

#2: Larry Page - $264B - USA/Tech

#3: Jeff Bezos - $246B - USA/Tech

#4: Sergey Brin - $245B - USA/Tech

#5: Larry Ellison - $243B - USA/Tech

#6: Mark Zuckerberg - $232B - USA/Tech

#7: Bernard Arnault - $205B - France/Consumer

#8: Steve Ballmer - $166B - USA/Tech

#9: Jensen Huang - $155B - USA/Tech

#10: Warren Buffett - $150B - USA/Diversified

#11: Michael Dell - $141B - USA/Tech

#12: Jim Walton - $140B - USA/Retail

#13: Rob Walton - $137B - USA/Retail

#14: Alice Walton - $136B - USA/Retail

#15: Amancio Ortega - $132B - Spain/Retail

#16: Bill Gates - $117B - USA/Tech

#17: Carlos Slim - $111B - Mexico/Diversified

#18: Mukesh Ambani - $105B - India/Energy

Top 10: $2.55 Trillion
Total: $3.57 Trillion

Full Top 500: bloomberg.com/billionaires

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Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage

Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...
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