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Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CROUPIER: Come on, my friends. Gather round. You are about to witness the most important spectacle in the history of sport.
KRANTOR: Friends and patrons! We have here a young trekker as you can see. His name is ... [Consults with the man] Thrills. And he is challenging the mighty Klute at speed chess. Your applause for his courage, please. [He leads Thrills to the speed chess table.]

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
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We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.

Donald Trump was awarded the new
"FIFA peace prize"
on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw
— giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament
even more of a Trumpian flair.
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Blood for stonks ... It was the first in a series of increasing bets. (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/858075/trump-venezuela-maduro-kidnapping-spectacle
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p167#a260107p167

Radiant Silvergun: an abundance of weapons
I'm not great at scrolling shooters, though I enjoy their spectacle and the panic they induce as the number of bullets increases. Radiant Silvergun not only has a great many bullets, it also has a great many weapons, all but one of which I forget to use. This makes things very tricky indeed, especially when you're supposed to be firing around corners using a homing missile and I'm stuck firing upwards like a lemon.

'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times'
Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling.
Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to really see the right motives.
It just reminds me that I could post more of my winter photos! :)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/12/tom-stoppard-made-spectacle-history/685099/?utm_source=feed

Tom Stoppard Made a Spectacle of History
In a career of magnificent plays, The Coast of Utopia stands out for its humor, its characters, and its warnings about ideological fervor.

What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…

As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression In Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.

""The Republican Party is compromised and is now a functional asset of the Russian Federation.""
'Appalling spectacle': Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being 'compromised' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-russia-compromised-stuart-stevens/

This new #OCR feature in #KDE is fantastic! 🎉 Sadly it's only for Spectacle for now but having OCR as a library is on the road map and I hope it gets added to Gwenview next. The built-in OCR in macOS Preview is so useful that I wondered why KDE still doesn't have it natively yet.

Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals,
yet the government’s own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today.
How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions?

‘Spectacle of disorder’: How ICE creates the chaos ICE, cops, and the military are called in to ‘fix’
"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly encroach upon the civil rights of Americans by convincing us that this disorder is so systemic that only he can fix it."

As we embrace the Winter Solstice, the year's shortest day, let's reflect on nature's genius and ancient history. 🌌 Stonehenge, aligning perfectly with this celestial event, stands as a testament to human ingenuity. Its timeless mystery and the cosmic forces continue to ignite our curiosity and remind us of our place in the universe's awe-inspiring SPECTACLE.

For a president who wants to project vigor and command at all times, Donald Trump made the worst possible spectacle of himself in the Oval Office last Thursday
when a participant fainted and several officials on hand rushed over.
-- Not Trump, however, who, after turning to look at the fallen man, stood a few feet away at the Resolute Desk with his back to the action, wearing an indifferent expression.
This was pointedly reflected in news photos that instantly went viral.

Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

The White House will shut down portions of the I-5
for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle
during No Kings Protests,
triggering chaos, gridlock,
and outrage
amid the government shutdown.
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