Try faking it! (given by Stewart Brand)

#ObliqueStrategies

EU leaders decided to use joint borrowing instead of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine, in a big win for Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever, who had long opposed the idea of a reparations loan amid fears of retaliation from Russia.

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EU opts for joint borrowing after marathon talks on Russian frozen assets fail

^EUobserver

Why Every E-Book Needs an Instant Multilingual Voice Option

As AI voice becomes more present in everyday life, the idea of a silent e-book will start to feel incomplete. Readers will expect their digital books to talk, switch languages, and follow them seamlessly across devices and contexts.
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#ebooks

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*watching a mcdonalds commercial in the 1980s* a singing moon? preposterous. put the clown back on

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in some personal news I came into a small fortune and quit my job today

JFK's family erupts over "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming plan (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

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JFK's family erupts over “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming plan

By Rebecca Falconer / Axios. View the full context on memeorandum.

^memeorandum

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Shot: The U.S. Energy Department's internal watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's cancellation of $8 billion in clean energy grants in blue states:…

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Preemptively cutting off power to prevent destructive wildfires: no longer just a California thing. Almost like there is some underlying trend... coloradosun.com/2025/12/18/col…

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This OpEd is a prime example of the thesis of my book: climate policymaking isn’t actually polarized, but instead unified around a center that dismisses climate science and lies about the economics of fossil fuels. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Getting lectured to about my health care by a bunch of guys that look like a leather belt that went through the wash [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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From Project Gutenberg:

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai

by S. N. Haleole

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/13603

Cryptsetup 2.8.2 Released With BitLocker Clear Key Support

Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats...
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Libcom: **On the centennial of the october revolution - Loren Goldner**

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Aotearoa WSM: **“For No War But the Class War”: Reflections on the Inaugural Meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists**

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The inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists (NAI), held on 9 November 2025, is to be welcomed. It arrives at a moment when the world is being marched towards deeper militarisation, permanent war, and the

“For No War But the Class War”: Reflections on the Inaugural Meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

The inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists (NAI), held on 9 November 2025, is to be welcomed. It arrives at a moment when the world ...

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