How the Bondi Beach attack is being weaponized to suppress the Palestine movement in Australia – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/how-the-bondi-beach-attack-is-being-weaponized-to-suppress-the-palestine-movement-in-australia/
'Today, 96% of the world's nuclear weapons are held by states with authoritarian leaders' (Joseph Cirincione/Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/18/today-96-of-the-world-s-nuclear-weapons-are-held-by-states-with-authoritarian-leaders_6750613_23.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p137#a260218p137
A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/shein-fast-fashion-paris-5014e98e3479485dd45f0e5bdf…
Iran’s state TV hacked with ‘do not point your weapons at the people’ message
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/iran-state-tv-hacked-crown-prince-b2903087.html
Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …
US proposals to end Russia's war involve Ukraine giving up land, some weapons, sources say (Tom Balmforth/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-proposals-end-russias-war-involve-ukraine-giving-up-land-some-weapons-sources-2025-11-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p73#a251119p73
To keep myself from posting an expletive-laden rant, I'll just point out that Ford's lack of education is showing. Anyone who's been to university knows the actual pejorative is _underwater_ basket-weaving.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osa…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
London Elektricity:
🎵 Don't Stop
#LondonElektricity
https://londonelek.bandcamp.com/track/dont-stop
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wIfmgcg1oaKcwhtkbHg2w
Podcast: Is Wiping a Phone a Crime? https://www.404media.co/podcast-is-wiping-a-phone-a-crime/
Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20