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https://the-decoder.de/cloudflare-boss-matthew-prince-hat-keine-guten-nachrichten-fuer-das-www/

Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.’s Air Base in #Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites.
☑️ Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets? - TPM

Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets?
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30…

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” AI agents can also panic and cause mayhem—not because they're sentient, but because they've read plenty of online posts about us panicking when we do stupid stuff.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippoli…

Border apprehensions hit record low in dramatic turnaround from Biden era (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-apprehensions-hit-record-low-dramatic-turnaround-from-biden-era
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p75#a250801p75

What a difference a solstice makes to egg production. It's a cold wet day here, the kind of day chooks (chickens if you are not in Aus) hate. But 7 eggs from 10 geriatric chooks. A week ago we were lucky to get 2 eggs a day. I might not be able to sense the lengthening days yet, but they can. #retrosuburbia

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The barbarian role of cultural demolition crew is especially important when you consider how often cultural reconstruction is needed. Many of Rome’s glaring defects — exploitation, authoritarianism, corrupt self-aggrandizement — flow from deeply human tendencies. Time and again they’ve transformed promising civilizations into decaying, oppressive monstrosities. Time and again, history seems to cry out: Bring on the demolition crew! And time and again barbarians cheerfully respond to the call. Their previous massive wreaking of destruction, near the end of the second millennium B.C., had come after civilization went through centuries of apparent ossification.
In a way, barbarians are just a special case of that general and potent zero-sum dynamic in cultural evolution: brutal competition among neighboring societies. This rivalry renders ossified cultures vulnerable to a makeover, minor or major. They may be taken over by a vast neighboring civilization, which will revamp them in its image. Or they may be infiltrated and perhaps even disassembled by barbarians, paving the way for future reassembly. Or they may revive and prevail — an example of the “challenge and response” dynamic stressed by Arnold Toynbee. In any event, the point remains the same: however deeply human the tendencies of exploitation, authoritarianism, and self-aggrandizement, cultures that surrender to them may not be long for this world.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
Is it time for the barbarians now? Or perhaps we — here on Fedi — are the barbarians.

Reverse Physics Rap Battle: String Theory vs Loop Quantum Gravity - 😆
Take the top expert in each of two competing theories, and assign each to defend the other's theory. I can't recall the last time I laughed so hard. Best of all, it's all true and they both know it, but yes, one has had 'promising' results for more decades than the other. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEr038WOKFI

A California jury rules Google is liable in a 2019 class action lawsuit over collecting information from users' devices without permission and must pay $314.6M (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…