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Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since. 
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character. 
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

New project post: AnotterKiosk
AnotterKiosk is another full-page web-browser OS for Pi's and other PCs, displays a webpage in full screen 24/7.
It has support for multi-touch input, a watchdog/heartbeat feature, local webserver, fully read-only root FS (won't kill SD cards, ever!), manual EDID overrides, configurable caching, reverse SSH tunnel support...
Can be used for signs, conference info screens, dashboards, home automation, etc.

Russia is not interested in peace. Full stop.
Putin wants the USSR back, if not the Russian empire. That's his goal. That and general corruption.
Every time a politico says they want to avoid escalation, it just means they're cowards.
Every time Russia violates NATO airspace, Putin is escalating. He's testing resolve, and finding it lacking. Every Russian plane or drone not shot on sight is inviting broader escalated war.

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Curtis Harding:
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Brazil Supreme Court strikes down Indigenous land time-limit doctrine for second time | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/brazil-supreme-court-strikes-down-indigenous-land-time-limit-doctrine-for-second-time/

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.

My name is Heather, and I was one of the very first hires for Barack Obama’s campaign.
I know how to win the tough fights — because I’ve lived them.
Now I’m leading North Star PAC to stop billionaire Jeffrey Yass and the MAGA machine from buying Pennsylvania’s courts.
If they succeed in the state’s Supreme Court retention election, they’ll rig the maps and lock us out of power for decades — just like they did in Texas.
But I can’t do this without you. While Yass and…

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The First Peoples have survived in Australia for at least 65,000 years.
That’s 2,300 generations.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/time/
The stories you are about to read come directly from First Nations peoples who are knowledge holders of kinship, community, Country and ongoi…

Australia is seen as a young country — but do you really know its ancient story?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' story goes way, way back… take an awe-inspiring journey into Deep Time.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

A month into the new Trump administration,
on the predawn streets of suburban Maryland,
a high-ranking ICE official stood alongside a Mazda sedan that his officers had just stopped.
The official told a local TV reporter at the scene what was about to happen.
“He can either give us a license,”
he said,
“or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”
Then, as the driver refused to exit the car, officers broke the glass

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.