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Giorgos Kallis enters the debate on degrowth- and degrowths.
What’s wrong with degrowth? Nothing. | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/what-s-wrong-with-degrowth-nothing

What’s wrong with degrowth? Nothing.
Giorgos Kallis contests recent interventions which lament the current direction of degrowth and its strategies, arguing instead for a community of pluralist yet tense alliances.

„Wenn das jemand baut, sterben alle“ – Debatte über Super-KI
Viele haben sich an ChatGPT und andere nette KI-Helfer gewöhnt: Reiseplanung, Alltagsfragen, Assistenz im Job. Die rasante Entwicklung wirft aber Fragen auf.

Venture capitalist David Sacks has warned that continued escalation in the U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran could trigger far-reaching economic and humanitarian crises
Speaking on the All-In podcast on Friday, Sacks — who serves as President Donald Trump’s lead on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies — argued that Iran’s military capacity has been severely degraded and called this “a good time to declare victory and get out,” adding that markets would welcome a de-escalatory move…

David Sacks urges off-ramp in U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran, warning of catastrophic escalation
Venture capitalist David Sacks, serving as President Trump’s AI and crypto lead, cautions that prolonging the US–Israel war with Iran risks crippling energy infrastructure, water supplies and regional stability, urging a ceasefire or negotiated settlement.

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Many people seem to think that war with Iran is close... It is may be a bit cynical but Trump could use a diversion with the dramatic situation inside the US and his terrible approval ratings....
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/iran-war-trump-military-strikes-n…

Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran
There's little public debate about what could be the most consequential U.S. military action in a decade.

"Let's just…admit…if your wrists get in the way of ICE zip ties, if your lungs dare to breathe…our chemical weapons without written permission in advance, or if your body and face get in the way of ICE munitions, that was illegal of you. So if you're really honest with yourself, you deserved it and have no one to blame but yourself. People who follow laws don't get targeted by ICE, as being a target is a clear indication of criminality on the part of the target."
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Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital work of culling

Passage Land: What Do the Living Owe the Dead?
Some questions cannot be answered. They can only be inhabited. For sixteen decades, three families have occupied the same stretch of Nebraska prairie, and for sixteen decades they have been asking variations of the same question: what do the living owe the dead? Passage Land is my attempt to inhabit that question long enough to understand why it refuses resolution.

Passage Land: What Do the Living Owe the Dead? | David Boles, Blogs
Some questions cannot be answered. They can only be inhabited. For sixteen decades, three families have occupied the same stretch of Nebraska prairie, and for sixteen decades they have been asking …

"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell
Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points of the curve have quite noticeable impact on the rest. I've also been experimenting with reducing emulsion from 8 8 1 drops to 7 7 1 drops, but that makes that 1 drop of contrast agent ~13% stronger (too st…

(YouTube) vOICe Depth test run: live depth mapping for The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8IjFhVCKM Use stereo headphones!
Here using the python version from

Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on eight European countries
– UK, Norway and six EU member states
– is a wrecking ball to the carefully stitched deals he concluded with those countries last summer.
The two biggest voting blocs in the European parliament,
🔸the European People’s Party (EPP) and
🔸the Socialists & Democrats (S&Ds),
said on Saturday night the deal with the EU cannot be approved in the present circumstances.
Trump’s threat a…