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The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests
—not be a tool of the federal govt.
Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting https://www.

Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact
The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.

Teken tegen neonazis in Australie: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/nl/camp_sovereignty_loc/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=55539&share_…

Sta op tegen neonazi-geweld
Neonazi’s hebben een heilige locatie voor Aboriginals aangevallen. Aboriginal leiders roepen op tot een massale golf van solidariteit om te zorgen dat dit zo snel mogelijk onderzocht wordt om te voorkomen dat…

Unix question: is there a version of seq(1) for letters instead of numbers?

I’m so glad sane, rational leadership from the US Federal Government lead to smooth sailing for trade between most of Europe and most of North America.
Gratifying to see intelligible, useful agreement that won’t needlessly jeopardize the livelihoods of millions. /s
https://www.

EU and US spin conflicting versions of trade deal
The European Commission and the White House are making contradictory claims about the content and scope of the EU-US trade deal. #EuropeNews

Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
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If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books

Good night, sleep well!
"Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots."

Live Midden-Oosten: Ook Hamas publiceert video van gijzelaar | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/israel-gaza-hamas-trump-netanyahu~b27fd8b3/
Eindelijk maakt iemand van hoger politiek / diplomatiek niveau met de basis van de ve…

On Thursday, Donald Trump issued a new “domestic terrorism” memorandum
targeting voices and views he dislikes
under the guise of addressing political violence.
That move came hours before news broke that
his hand-picked and recently installed federal prosecutor in the D.C. suburbs of Virginia
sought and obtained an indictment against James Comey,
the former FBI director who Trump has declared to be one of his enemies.
What we are seeing now is extre…

Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is
Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing.

A White House official told CNN that the event is intended as a “show of force of what the new military now looks like” during Donald Trump’s second presidency.
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” the military official familiar with the planning told CNN.
“And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint.
This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: get on board, or potentially ha…