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Neue Rekordzahlen: "Star Wars Battlefront 2" erlebt Renaissance
Plötzlich redet das ganze Internet darüber: Obwohl "Star Wars Battlefront 2" seit Jahren keine Updates mehr bekommen hat, gibt es einen neuen Spielerrekord.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

CFP: Edited Volume on Star Wars and Politics in the Disney Era https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/28/cfp-edited-volume-on-star-wars-and-politics-in-the-disney-era

OMG this spoke to me SO hard.
...Are you a Star Wars fan?
...What makes a Star Wars fan?
▶️ 6 STAR WARS Fans vs 1 Secret Hater | Odd One Out
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jp1fZRYIFWE&si=dbfQp9aGutf96GbG

A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technol

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

Coming on Tuesday, 1st of July: a suite of compositions for pipe organ and trumpet.
Three pieces that fell out of my soul in response to the latest wars.
Only on Mirlo and BandCamp (for now).
#PipeOrgan #trumpet

Great article from NYT about sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan from the UAE. For me it illustrates the bigger problem of the middle-east/gulfstates, the absence of any meaningful democracy, too rich oligarchs with too much power. Politically the people are living in medieval times there.

Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

Medea Benjamin in the Star:
"We need to flip the script. That means cutting military budgets, withdrawing from endless wars, and beginning a serious conversation about dismantling Nato. The alliance, born of the cold war, is now a stumbling block to global peace and an active participant in war-making. Its latest summit only reinforces that reality."
#Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an o…

I’m going to try the Dia AI browser:
https://www.diabrowser.com/
More on:
Begun, the AI Browser Wars Have
https://spyglass.org/ai-browser-wars/

Meet Dia – the AI Browser Where You Can Chat with Your Tabs
Dia is the AI browser from The Browser Company. Chat with your tabs, write in your own voice, learn and plan faster, shop, and more — all with privacy that you control.

Star Wars* is here, it seems...
*Ronald Reagan's, not George Lucas'
https://mastodon.online/@clarinette/114941099653299018
clarinette@mastodon.online - https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/04/09/russia-china-escalate-threats-against-starlink-with-kalinka-system/ « Kalinda System: Russia and China Target SpaceX’s Starlink in Escalating Space Conflict »

SWTOR stream is LIVE! Join me for some Star Wars action on Twitch, brought to you by Linux! #SWTOR

Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill "utterly insane" as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/would-you-rather-have-cheap-energy

Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars?
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.

1/2: Eeek!
https://blog.google/products/chrome/store-reviews/
Just me, or is this a horrifying prospect? The SEO wars and the Amazon homepage have taught us that businesses will do anything - ANYTHING, ethics be damned, to game their online reputations. This …

Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shopping and other popular review websites to provide people with helpful insights when shopping on e-commerce sites.Just click the icon to the left of the web address and you can access an AI-generated summary of reviews. The description will cover topics like customer service, product quality, shipping, pricing and returns, helping…

“Water has long been a tool of warfare,
but in recent years, the world has entered a dark new era of hydroterrorism,”
Abdoulie Ceesay, the deputy majority leader of the National Assembly of Gambia, wrote this month.
As climate change accelerates drought and flooding,
stakeholders tussle over shared water sources,
and fair-weather frameworks for governing resource management lose relevance,
water is increasingly becoming a national security flashpoint aroun…

The Water Wars Are Coming
Hydroterrorism and other water-related crises, from the Sahel to Central Asia.

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Interesting piece, especially when taken in conjunction with FFOTUS' crazy tariff wars.
"How America Lost Control of the Seas"
Of course, as with many things that have gone wrong in the US, it begins with Ronnie Reagan.
https://www.theatlantic.…

How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

TV SERIES WATCHING/WATCHED:
3/4/25 Daredevil: Born Again S1 (DISNEY )
4/13/25 Last of Us S2 (MAX)
4/22/25 Star Wars: Andor (DISNEY )
5/4/25 Tales from the Empire (DISNEY )
5/15/25 Welcome to Wrexham (HULU)

A look at The Browser Company's AI-first browser Dia, which merges AI models and hides that complexity for end users, pointing to the future of web browsing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/ai-browser-wars/

Begun, the AI Browser Wars Have
Dia ushers in a new day for the web browser...

Ya know who ran for president on a promise to get us out of wars and then expanded our participation in wars and so Congress told him they were gonna impeach and remove him so he resigned?
This question should have two answers.
#USpol

A bit of context that might be needed for this story about a 2010 website, is that prior to 2011 https wasn't widely used outside of e-commerce. The release of Firesheep in October 2010 led to a push for site authentication to go over https, and the 2013 Snowden revelations shifted the web towards encrypt all transmission.
https…

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

#book2read: How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them (Amazon, 23 June 2025)
#politics

Trump did not end wars, he just dragged the U.S. into Netanyahu's war! (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean's Report)
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-did-not-end-wars-he-just-dragged
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p42#a250622p42

LIVE NOW on Twitch! 🚀 The galaxy calls! Continuing my adventures in Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight, all powered by Linux. Join the fun! #SWTOR

Finally finished #Andor and I say it without a doubt: it is the most important (perhaps the best) Star Wars content since the original trilogy. I'm so happy that I got to see it but at the same time it's a shame that (probably) nothing like this would be made ever again.
Some more deep thoughts here:

A ★★★★★ review of Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look (2022)
There is no other way to put this: Andor is the most important and most significant Star Wars content ever since the original trilogy. Perhaps even better. At it's core, the original Star Wars trilogy it's about the fight against an authoritarian regime. Certainly influenced by the impact of the Vietnam War and WWII. Although presented in a way that it's suitable for all audiences. Andor takes this premise and takes it to the extreme, to the brutality of war and rebellion, and to the hope and h…

Wars only know losers, no winners.
But according to Iran, Israel, and the US, they all won the war.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Re: #StarWars 'fans' raging against #Andor
I honestly can't tell if they have zero self-awareness, are just alt-right freakshows, or click-whores rage baiting for YouTube views.
Andrew does synopsize their rants hilariously though. 😜
▶️ Star Wars fans cannot grow up
…

After the Trump regime jumped back into the Middle East wars by bombing Iran, the New York Times 'analyses' that the US is 'pulled back' into those.

Oil wars: OPEC, Saudi Arabia & global energy security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/oil-wars-opec-saudi-arabia.html

Swalwell: You were promised lower prices on day one. How many of you are feeling those lower prices?
You were promised an end to all wars on day one. How many of you have seen an end to those wars?
Donald Trump is 0 for 150. He made those promises on day one—and now we’re on day 150.
https://

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

Slowly catching up with work and emails!
Nearly typed eMauls... too much Star Wars in my brain today 🤪

geeze, they don't even mention if it still works or not. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/darth-vaders-lightsaber-from-the-star-wars-original-trilogy-is-heading-to-auction-fo…

Natürlich braucht auch Star Wars seine Engineers. Enjoy: #nerdhumor

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

[OT] The force is with us, always? Tuning quantum vacuum forces from attractive to repulsive https://news.asu.edu/20190304-force-us-always-tuning-quantum-vacuum-forces-attractive-repulsive Now can we tune The vOICe soundscapes f…

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
From: @…

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
https://w…

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, has died aged 87 after contracting Covid and developing pneumonia.

> She explained, “I just need the paper. I need to write things down. [The iPad script] also has so many passwords and then I would have ADD and then do something else and then it would lock me out … it was so complicated. So I printed it.”
When actors bypass corporate controls to get their work done, it's a showbiz story.

'Andor' Star Stellan Skarsgård Was the Ultimate 'Star Wars' Script Rulebreaker
Co-stars Diego Luna and Adria Arjona reminisced about the lengths the cast went to learn their lines on the highly secretive Disney+ show.

U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/politics/military-middle-east-wars.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p75#a250621p75

"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

Die CIA und die Star Wars-Fanwebsite
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191361

Die CIA und die Star Wars-Fanwebsite
Die CIA hat eine Star-Wars-Fanwebsite genutzt, um mit ihren Agenten und Informanten zu kommunizieren: CIA hat geheime Star-Wars-Fanwebsite betrieben. Kann man machen. Das verdeckte Kommunikationssy…

AI futures: Culture wars https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/ai-futures-culture-wars/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Copy…

AI futures: Culture wars
AI is transforming culture, entertainment, business, and society at a pace unprecedented in the digital era. Unlike previous tech, AI is evolving at the speed of computing, not the speed of the hum…

Best use of AI ever... 😜
▶️ Star Wars but it's ruined by AI | Part 10
#ai

Mich bei der letzten Renovierung endlich für eine Bilderschiene entschieden zu haben, das war eine der besten Entscheidungen der letzten Zeit. Kein Gefrickel mehr mit diversen einzelnen Haken oder gar Dübeln in der Wand, einfach Einhängen und kurz ausrichten. Fertig. Und deutlich billiger als ich immer dachte, wars auch noch.

Napoleonic Wars:
The Battle Of Lamberth North
#MakeABookLate #HashTagGames

"Darkest-ever dwarfgoby fish gets named after Darth Vader"
#Fish #Animals
https://

Darkest-ever dwarfgoby fish gets named after Darth Vader
From the volcanic fjords of Tufi in Papua New Guinea, researchers have described a new-to-science species of a coral reef fish called a dwarfgoby with an unusual purplish-black color. The tiny fish is the “darkest of all described dwarfgobies,” the researchers say in the study, naming it Eviota vader after the Star Wars villain Darth […]

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

I was a big Bucky fan as a kid.
Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991
The fight against a hypercapitalist AI makes Bucky O’Hare still feel relevant today
https://share.google/G6KdAsfoScKPkydE8

Star Wars: Wo vierbeinige Festungen stolpern, obwohl jeder beliebige Lieferwagen schweben kann.
#starwars #worldbuilding

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pulp (86) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (21) The Verve (18) Culture Wars (15) St. Vincent (15). #myweekcounted 487 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…@…

Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…

Teen artist striving for ‘hope’ during global wars banned from show
A teenager submitted a painting of a young angel in combat fatigues and flags from global conflict zones, but organisers have refused to hang it.

I hope all the folks who thought Turnip would keep the USA out of foreign wars are happy with their choice today.
The dude admitted real-time he felt no immediate urgency to act upon Iran. This is an undeclared act of war. Where is Congress?
#USPol #POTUS47

Something Netanyahu and Trump have in common is that desperate leaders losing support start wars
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114699640760119959

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)
https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-…

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent
It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

🔫 From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
#globalsouth

From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

There's a lot of shit going on in the world: poverty, famine, wars, late stage capitalism, debugging obfuscated JavaScript code in a browser and the climate crisis.
The global community has to put an end to *all* of these!

The rightwing media stoking culture wars in Germany (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0fa3207-2531-4db2-94f2-d02f5d25ad21
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p23#a250727p23

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

Because the US starting wars in the Middle East always works out so well for all sides.
Feeling nauseated.

I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep

Chimera games emerging from coevolutionary dynamics with endogenous feedbacks
Federico Maria Quetti, Andrea Civilini, Giacomo Frigerio, Silvia Figini, Giacomo Livan, Vito Latora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20603

Chimera games emerging from coevolutionary dynamics with endogenous feedbacks
From climate change to financial bubbles and wars, the rapid pace of change in our world clearly shows that the commonly adopted assumption of a static environment in evolutionary game-theoretic models is often unrealistic. In this work, we introduce a coevolutionary game model where the game environment and the strategy dynamics are mutually coupled. In particular, the game played at each time is endogenously defined as a convex combination of two social dilemmas, weighted by the current abund…

“I have solved a lot of wars in the last three months…”
Umm
#trump #theAmericanFascist
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/114858522154263859

CFP: Edited Volume on Star Wars and Politics in the Disney Era
https://ift.tt/4a5h8iQ
updated: Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:38pmfull name / name of organization: Dominic J Nardicontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Racked my brain over today’s #tunetuesday #cityaftermidnight until I came up with:
Bad boys inna London
Rude boys inna England
Bad boys inna Jericho
Rude boys inna Kingston
Mentions not one but TWO cities ✅
Talks about stars ✅ Ok Star Wars, but it’s good enou…

Star Wars Outlaws allows players to operate in the criminal underworld of the Star Wars universe.
Except there’s no real crime. It’s defanged. There’s smuggling, gambling, violence. But no drug trade, and apparently no chattel slavery (which Hutts and Pykes engaged in during the period). It’s in the movies, but not appropriate for the game, I guess because it makes the characters less sympathetic?

Imagine how different the Disney parks Star Wars lands would have been if Andor had come out before they built those.

The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a “systemic” way for the first time.
BBC News deputy global director Fiona Crack told Press Gazette the use of AI in the launch of BBC News Polska was designed to help bring the BBC’s coverage of stories of global interest such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to new audiences in a “slimline and efficient” way.

Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a "systemic" way for the first time.

@…
I'd never heard of Pierre Novellie til I listened to this. I find his comedy funnier than most - it's worth finding him on YT and listening.
How Do You Cope?: Pierre Novellie: 'I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of life' | 18
Episode webpage:

Wondery - Feel The Story
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, British Scandal, Even the Rich, and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows Morbid and How I Built This.

Star Wars: Wo im Hyperspace niemand mit einem anderen Schiff kollidiert.
#starwars #worldbuilding #andor

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheFacebook

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’ #MusicNews

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’
Don McLean called Weird Al's 'Star Wars'-themed "American Pie" spoof "better" than his original version of the song in a new 'Billboard' cover story.

Putin, Macron hold first call since 2022, discuss wars in Ukraine, Middle East: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/putin-macron-hold-first-call.html

The temptation for Trump to join bombing Iran will be great. Israel has full control of Iranian skies, it can destroy targets at will. Trump will like to join "the winning side". The risks seem small , Iran military capabilities are very degraded, also I doubt whether Iran is willing to target US bases in other gulf states they need as friends/allies in the future..
Ofcourse the actual consequences of joining the war are unpredictable, as wars usually are...

Bit of a post-Andor Star Wars kick. In the last couple of days I've rewatched Rogue One, and completed the main heist from Star Wars Outlaws.

'Biden didn't start any wars': Democrats sharpen their arguments against Trump's foreign policy (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-arguments-trump-foreign-policy-iran-rcna214382
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p13#a250623p13

Trump gambles his presidency on war
If Iran does not agree to peace on Trump’s terms,
the president’s vow that
“there are many targets left”
opened the door to a much deeper and potentially longer conflict.
Already, that prospect is angering some members of his political base.
…

With fateful decision, Trump gambles his presidency on war
Trump rose to power criticizing Middle East wars. Now he may have his own.

OpenAI told investors stock compensation jumped over 5x last year to $4.4B, or 119% of total revenue for that period but expects it to drop to under 10% by 2030 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars
OpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers. That could mean a significant increase in the billions of dollars in stock awards it already accounts for, threatening tofurther diluteinvestors after a ...

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

Star Wars: Wo räderlose Fahrzeuge mehr schaukeln als wenn sie Räder hätten.
#starwars #disney #andor

The Deportation Wars Begin (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-deportation-wars-begin-d3cb4f8d?st=KxYCxt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p76#a250608p76

Star Wars: Wo man keinen Alarm auslöst, wenn man Droiden zerstört.
#andor #disney #starwars

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them
Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo on social media of Thunberg after disembarking.
The 12 activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them

Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat
Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest Israel’s blockade and wartime conduct, said the activists had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.” Israel said the passengers would return to their home…

SWTOR stream is LIVE from Linux! Join me for some Star Wars action tonight on Twitch. #SWTOR #Linux

Yeah, these ads speak to me. 😁
▶️ The Best Star Wars Commercials 2015 The Force Awakens
#StarWars

How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/technology/sequoia-…

How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

Genuinely informative #StarWars #RogueOne answers!
Why did Krennic have a rank if as a scientist?
When did the Jedi statue fall on Jedha?
Why did Jedha have so much Kyber?
What was Bor Gullet?
▶️ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - The Most FAQs answered

LIVE NOW on Twitch! 🚀 The galaxy calls! Continuing my adventures in Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight, all powered by Linux. Join the fun! #SWTOR

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’
https://flip.it/luQ77k

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’
Don McLean called Weird Al's 'Star Wars'-themed "American Pie" spoof "better" than his original version of the song in a new 'Billboard' cover story.

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app
Aravind Srinivas discusses Perplexity’s new Comet browser and the future of the web.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/14/trump-ai-government-war-taxes-jobs/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyNTUyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzOTM0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI1NTIwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQzYzQzZDM3LTQ0ZDAtNGFmMi1iZWQ2LTk4NjRhMDgzYzA5MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA3LzE0L3RydW1wLWFpLWdvdmVybm1lbnQtd2FyLXRheGVzLWpvYnMvIn0.kvtXgmZI91Jffp-WZeTWZqUjlzhTWeFUcLPYhZPSGm4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p127#a250715p127

Yeah, "Ahsoka" was mediocre, but if not for "The Acolyte", "The Book of Boba Fett" would have been the single worst series in the history of Star Wars.
But sure, let's lobby for an S2. 🙄
☑️ “Where’s My Season 2?“: Temuera Morrison Finally Breaks Silence on 'The Book of Boba Fett's Future [Exclusive]

During the Browser Wars, I met this gasbag who was a middling, wannabe PoS then & he's an even bigger entitled, racist PoS now.
Think Larry Ellison but more slimy.
☑️ Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
https://www.

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”