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BREAKING: Former Dem Virginia Lt Gov, wife dead in apparent murder-suicide (Thomas Stevenson/The Post Millennial)
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-former-dem-virginia-lt-gov-wife-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p29#a260416p29

POL-SZ: Pressemitteilung der Polizei Peine vom 17.02.2026: Leichtverletzte nach Auffahrunfall Peine (ots) - Gegen 08:40 Uhr am 17.02.2026 wurde eine 26-jährige Frau bei einem Auffahrunfall auf der B214, nahe Wipshausen, leicht verletzt. Die Frau bemerkte in ihrem Nissan das Abbremsen eines vor ihr fahrenden LKW zu spät und fuhr diesem auf. ... https:…

Paramount CEO David Ellison makes an unexpected appearance at CinemaCon, promising a 45-day theatrical window for all Paramount movies going forward (Rebecca Keegan/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/david-ellison…

David Ellison vows Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger won't cut film output
Paramount Skydance Chief David Ellison made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon on Thursday, assuring movie theater owners that the studio’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...

Apparently the JWST runs on PowerPC G3’s (the radiation-hardened version of that processor has been a spaceflight staple since the early 2000s)

New publication: Maxime Guénette, Annette von Stockhausen, and Mathilde Verstraete, “La reconnaissance automatique pour le grec ancien (preprint),” in Apprendre Š Lire aux Machines, ed. Alix Chagué, Thibault Clérice, and Ariane Pinche (HAL, 2025), 89–102, https://hal.science/hal-05163931.

Couldn't get over the fact that I dropped my toast on the ground this morning and was grumpy all day.
Apparently I'm lack toast intolerant.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Clash:
🎵 Lost in the Supermarket
#TheClash
https://afurnishedsoul.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-the-supermarket-the-clash
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GeId1N0DtmTpIfwr9aNQR

Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/technology/china-scrutiny-meta-manus.html

China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus
The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.

Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's "starting to worry" that prediction markets "seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/3…