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Bookmarks for 2026-01-23T18:24:15.593Z
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Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey - NASA
Added: Jan 23, 2026Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey - NASA
Site: NASA
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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AI is quietly poisoning itself and pushing models toward collapse - but there's a cure | ZDNET
Added: Jan 23, 2026AI is quietly poisoning itself and pushing models toward collapse - but there's a cure
Site: ZDNET
When models are trained on unverified AI slop, results drift from reality fast. Here's how to stop the spread, according to Gartner.
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Is AI killing laptop upgradeability? | PCWorld
Added: Jan 23, 2026Is AI killing laptop upgradeability?
Site: PCWorld
With AI data centers gobbling up RAM, prices are up. With most laptops soldering memory in place, upgrade options are shrinking.
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(2) Elon Musk on X: "The devastation of the massive LA fire is still there. Almost no home rebuilding permits have been approved for construction." / X Added: Jan 23, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Arch the Easy Way, With Manjaro 26.0 - FOSS Force
Added: Jan 23, 2026Arch the Easy Way, With Manjaro 26.0 - FOSS Force
Site: FOSS Force
Manjaro 26.0puts an Arch-based rolling release within reach of everyday users, with polished Xfce defaults and plenty of software.
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Storm Coming to Washington, D.C.: SCOTUS Tariff Case | National Review Added: Jan 23, 2026
Storm Coming to Washington, D.C.: SCOTUS Tariff Case | National Review
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Did 3I/ATLAS Originate in the Solar System? | by Avi Loeb | Jan, 2026 | Medium Added: Jan 23, 2026
Did 3I/ATLAS Originate in the Solar System?
Site: Medium
If 3I/ATLAS is technological in origin, it may have started its journey in the Solar system.
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Scientific-Integrity Theft by Artificial Intelligence
Site: Medium
The saga to preserve my scientific integrity against deception by artificial intelligence (AI) started two months ago and was described…
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Peptides, the Building Blocks of Life, Could Form on Interstellar Dust
Site: Medium
A new paper published in Nature Astronomy here, reports tantalizing results from laboratory experiments which demonstrate that the building…
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Megyn Kelly Reacts to Complete Lunatic Leftist Singing Anti-ICE Song With a Basket on Her Face - YouTube Added: Jan 23, 2026
Megyn Kelly Reacts to Complete Lunatic Leftist Singing Anti-ICE Song With a Basket on Her Face
Site: YouTube
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Megyn Kelly Reacts to JD Vance's Completely Reasonable Takedown of Minnesota Democratic Politicians
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly reacts to JD Vance's completely reasonable takedown of Minnesota democratic politicians.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/...
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This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide Added: Jan 23, 2026
This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide
Site: Smithsonian Magazine
The black-bulb yam excels at mimicry, producing small clones of itself that look like the dark, shiny berries of seed-growing plants
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Sharyn Alfonsi berates CBS News deputy editor over CECOT story: report | Fox News Added: Jan 23, 2026
Sharyn Alfonsi berates CBS News deputy editor over CECOT story: report | Fox News
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Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’ Added: Jan 23, 2026
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’
Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.
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Nvidia reportedly cuts program designed to keep gaming GPUs near MSRP pricing — end of OPP pricing-support scheme does not bode well for gamers | Tom's Hardware Added: Jan 23, 2026
Nvidia reportedly cuts program designed to keep gaming GPUs near MSRP pricing — end of OPP pricing-support scheme does not bode well for gamers
Site: Tom's Hardware
2026 looks to be a bad year for gamers' wallets.
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Experts Warn That There's Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard
Added: Jan 23, 2026Experts Warn That There's Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard
Site: Futurism
Some experts aren't convinced of NASA's reassurances that the Orion spacecraft, which will house its Moon astronauts, is safe to use.
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Mark Carney is right about the end of the old order — and that’s the problem Added: Jan 23, 2026
Mark Carney is right about the end of the old order — and that’s the problem
Site: The Hill
The age of smooth globalization, unipolarity and middle-power brokerage is over.
Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci warned that when an old order is dying and a new one has yet to be born, politics enters an interregnum — an unstable period in which familiar rules stop working and “monsters” appear. In Gramsci’s sense, those “monsters” are not leaders or ideologies, but the zombie institutions that emerge when old norms and rules lose their authority and no new ones yet command it. That description fits today’s global order uncomfortably well. The age of smooth globalization, unipolarity and middle-power brokerage is over; multi-polarity and great power competition are back at the center of international life. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent Davos speech stood out precisely because it acknowledged this rupture. Yet it also exposed a harder truth that Washington remains reluctant to face: In an interregnum, clarity about collapse does not automatically translate into an understanding of what should come next or how to get from here to there. As Carney put it at Davos, the world is no longer moving through a manageable transition but a rupture, marked by fragmentation, rising systemic risk and the recognition that the era of technocrat-managed globalization — where rules were assumed to deliver stability and compliance was expected to buy safety — is not coming back. This was not the vocabulary of post-Cold War complacency. It was the tone of someone who understands that the world order is no longer governed by agreed norms, rules and institutions, but by imposed arrangements and the vagaries of power politics. In that sense, Carney was unusually honest. He sees clearly that the old order is dead. The tension emerges in what follows from that recognition. Carney’s response is best understood as a salvage project. He accepts the death of the old order as a fact but still hopes its collapse can be managed — smoothed at the edges through coordination, smarter regulation, and elite stewardship. The aim is not to restore globalization as it was, but to stabilize its remains long enough to prevent systemic breakdown. It is a serious, thoughtful response to disorder. It is also one that underestimates how unforgiving this moment has become. Gramsci’s harder lesson is that interregnums shrink the space for governance faster than elites expect. As great power competition intensifies, economics becomes coercive. Trade, finance, energy and technology are no longer neutral channels of exchange, but instruments of pressure. Cooperation becomes conditional. Institutions persist, but their enforcement capacity weakens. In that environment, the tools of technocratic management lose traction. The “monsters” that emerge are not demagogues or ideologies, but structural realities that overwhelm even lucid attempts at stewardship. This is where the problem of the “middle power” comes into focus. Countries that once exercised influence through soft power, credibility and playing the role of helpful fixer now find that awareness does not equal agency. They may diagnose the collapse of the old order accurately, yet lack the material leverage — scale, industrial capacity, military power — to shape the new one. Influence flows from power, not posturing. Expecting middle powers to manage fragmentation during this period is nothing more than nostalgia once removed. Canada illustrates this dilemma with particular clarity, though it is hardly alone. Ottawa increasingly speaks the language of fragmentation and competition yet remains structurally unprepared for a world organized around blocs, supply-chain weaponization and strategic hierarchy. The disconnect is not between rhetoric and values, but between diagnosis and capacity. Canada is not hypocritical; it is tragically nostalgic — seeing the old order’s end all too clearly but still encumbered with an obsolete identity built for a world that has passed. Washington should find this deeply worrying. The U.S. still believes that working through capable, like-minded allies can substitute for raw capacity, even as great power competition relentlessly exposes which states can actually influence outcomes and which states cannot. Too much of American strategy remains premised on the idea that legitimacy, consultation and a seat at institutions can substitute for leverage — because that’s how the world worked when Washington was hegemonic. Gramsci warned that periods of transition are most dangerous not because leaders are unaware of change, but because they assume that understanding it gives them more control than it actually does. Carney’s Davos speech captures the mood of a world that understands the old order is dead yet still hopes it can be managed into something safer. For Washington, that hope carries real risk. In a system increasingly shaped by coercion rather than consent, expecting coordination to do the work of capacity is a strategic error — one that will be exposed not by rhetoric, but by events. Lucidity may be necessary, but in the interregnum, it is leverage, not awareness, that ultimately determines who shapes what comes next. Andrew Latham is a professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington.
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How Larry Fink (and Donald Trump) saved Davos | Semafor
Added: Jan 23, 2026How Larry Fink (and Donald Trump) saved Davos
The BlackRock CEO stepped in at a precarious moment for the World Economic Forum.
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Elon Musk Isn't an Optimist, He's a Salesman Added: Jan 23, 2026
Elon Musk Isn't an Optimist, He's a Salesman
Site: Gizmodo
At Davos, Musk sold a vision of himself that doesn't align with reality.
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Hubble Images of 3I/ATLAS During Its Rare Alignment with the Sun-Earth Axis on January 22, 2026
Site: Medium
Good news. The rare cosmic alignment between the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, the Earth and the Sun, was captured by the Hubble Space…
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Choralgesänge: No. 66, Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot, BWV 298 | YouTube Music Added: Jan 23, 2026
Choralgesänge: No. 66, Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot, BWV 298 - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by Naxos Digital Services Choralgesänge: No. 66, Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot, BWV 298 · Alessandro Simonetto · Johann Sebastian Ba...
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Praeludium et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547: I. Praeludium - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by Kontor New Media GmbH Praeludium et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547: I. Praeludium · Jörg Halubek Praeludium Et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547: I...
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Towards Three - YouTube Music
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Provided to YouTube by DistroKid Towards Three · Serkmusic · By Serk Towards Three ℗ 2735095 Records DK Released on: 2026-01-11 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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Why “read more” may be the most underrated thinking advice we have - Big Think
Added: Jan 23, 2026Why “read more” may be the most underrated thinking advice we have
Site: Big Think
Reading isn’t just writing prep; together, reading and writing help writers think and generate original ideas through extended cognition.
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Myllokunmingids, Some Of The Earliest Known Vertebrates, Had 4 Functioning Eyes | IFLScience Added: Jan 23, 2026
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Children (Where's your sword?) - Piano (Night) - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by SongMate Children (Where's your sword?) - Piano (Night) · Penguin Piano Children (Where's your sword?) Released on: 2026-01-10 Pia...
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Robert Miles - Children [Dream Version] - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
(C) 1996 Deconstruction/BMG. Under exclusive licence from 'DBX Records' Italy. Written, Arranged & Produced by Roberto Concina aka Robert Miles. Read more ...
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Children (Ambient) - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by XEN Children (Ambient) · comet Children ℗ 2026 XEN Released on: 2026-01-04 Main Artist: comet Composer: Find Peace Composer: Robe...
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Drug Lord & Ex Olympian CAPTURED,FBI Says Ryan Wedding CAUGHT | Timcast IRL
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DOJ Promises MORE Arrests Over Church Stunt, w/ Harmeet Dhillon, & Bombshell New Blake Lively Texts
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights, to discuss all the reasons Don Lemon committed a crime and the DOJ wil...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
Site: YouTube
(0:00) Introducing David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, moderated by Maria Bartiromo(1:21) The cost of infrastructure build-out, energy challenges(12:41) Where ...
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Quote of the day by Bertrand Russell: 'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric' - The Economic Times Added: Jan 23, 2026
Quote of the day by Bertrand Russell: 'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric' - The Economic Times
Bertrand Russell was a towering intellectual figure. He championed independent thought and intellectual courage throughout his life. Russell's work transformed Western philosophy and mathematics. He also actively engaged in political discourse. His pacifism and moral resistance were notable. Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings defending freedom and humanitarian values. He passed away at 97.
Bertrand Russell stands among the most formidable intellectual figures of the modern era. His influence stretched across philosophy, logic, mathematics, political thought, and public discourse, making him far more than an academic confined to ivory towers. Russell believed fiercely in independent thinking and intellectual courage, a conviction summed up in one of his most enduring remarks: “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” This belief guided both his scholarly pursuits and his outspoken engagement with global affairs. Architect of Analytic Philosophy Russell emerged as a central figure in the transformation of Western philosophy during the early twentieth century. Alongside thinkers such as Gottlob Frege, G. E. Moore, and his student Ludwig Wittgenstein, he helped establish analytic philosophy as a dominant tradition. With Moore, Russell spearheaded a movement in Britain that rejected idealism in favor of clarity, logic, and linguistic precision. His intellectual partnership with Alfred North Whitehead resulted in Principia Mathematica, a monumental work that sought to ground all of mathematics in logical principles, reshaping the foundations of mathematical thought. His essay On Denoting further cemented his reputation, becoming a defining model of philosophical analysis and rigor. Early Life and Privileged Origins Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born on 18 May 1872 at Ravenscroft, a countryside estate in Trellech, Monmouthshire. He belonged to an aristocratic British family known for its progressive values and political engagement. Despite his privileged upbringing, Russell’s childhood was marked by emotional isolation and personal struggle, experiences that would later shape his philosophical outlook and humanitarian concerns. A Solitary Youth and Intellectual Refuge Russell’s teenage years were characterized by deep loneliness and psychological distress. He later revealed that he had seriously contemplated ending his life during this period. What ultimately sustained him were his passions for the natural world, literature, and eventually mathematics. His hunger for knowledge, especially his desire to understand mathematical truths, became a lifeline that pulled him away from despair and gave his life direction and meaning. Academic Excellence at Cambridge Russell’s exceptional talent earned him a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he enrolled in 1890 to study for the Mathematical Tripos. Under the guidance of Robert Rumsey Webb, he refined his analytical abilities and laid the groundwork for his later achievements. Cambridge became both a training ground and a platform from which Russell would challenge long-standing intellectual traditions. Pacifism and Moral Resistance During the First World War, Russell distinguished himself through his unwavering opposition to violence and militarism. At a time when patriotic fervor silenced dissent, he actively protested the war and supported conscientious objectors. In 1916, his refusal to endorse the conflict led to his dismissal from Trinity College after he was convicted under the Defence of the Realm Act. Russell later condemned the state’s actions as an abuse of power aimed at suppressing free expression. He also publicly defended poet Eric Chappelow, who was imprisoned and mistreated for refusing military service. Political Thought and Shifting Worldviews Russell’s political philosophy was marked by independence and evolution. In the early 1940s, he argued for a restrained form of socialism that rejected rigid metaphysical foundations. While dismissing the philosophical underpinnings of both Hegelianism and Marxism, he maintained his belief in social justice and economic fairness. His global outlook shifted over time: initially supportive of appeasement toward Nazi Germany, he later concluded that war had become an unavoidable lesser evil. After the Second World War, he temporarily accepted American global leadership but later became a vocal critic of totalitarianism, the Vietnam War, and nuclear proliferation, ultimately championing disarmament and peace. Global Recognition and Final Years In 1950, Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his wide-ranging writings that consistently defended freedom of thought and humanitarian values. Over his lifetime, he was also honored with numerous prestigious awards, reflecting the breadth of his intellectual legacy. Russell passed away from influenza on 2 February 1970 at the age of 97. In keeping with his wishes, his farewell was simple and secular, marked by silence rather than ritual, and his ashes were scattered across the Welsh mountains—a fitting end for a thinker who valued freedom above all else.
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Why Did No One Think of This? Dark Matter Might Just be Normal Matter
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Why Does Space Have Three Dimensions?
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Quantum Physics Can Change the Past, Physicists Show
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Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions
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America should withdraw from NATO immediately
Site: The Hill
NATO has drifted from its original purpose of preventing Soviet expansion in Europe to a moralizing, expansive alliance that has been involved in numerous interventions and proxy wars, making it an…
Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace. That phrase now circulates in respectable company, with a straight face, as though repetition alone could make it true. It cannot. NATO was not born as a peace club, but as a military alliance with a narrow defensive purpose — specifically, to prevent the Soviet Union from rolling tanks across Western Europe. It was a disciplined arrangement built on deterrence, limits and defined aims. It worked because it knew what it was — and what it was not. That NATO is gone. The Cold War ended. The Warsaw Pact dissolved. The Soviet Union collapsed. Rather than declare victory and stand down, NATO did the opposite. It expanded. It moralized. It wandered, a defensive pact without a clear enemy. Like most institutions that outlive their purpose and go looking for relevance, it found trouble instead. The alliance now stretches to Russia’s border, absorbing Finland and Sweden in the name of “stability,” while insisting — against geography, history and common sense — that this poses no threat to Moscow. It speaks the language of peace while operating as a permanent pressure machine. It calls escalation “assurance.” It calls encirclement “defense.” It calls itself restrained while funding, arming and coordinating a prolonged proxy war that has consumed hundreds of thousands of lives. If this is peace, it is a peculiar kind. NATO’s defenders insist that the alliance has simply adapted to a changing world. That is true, but adaptation is not always improvement. NATO’s mission has drifted so far that it now resembles a roaming mandate rather than a treaty-bound alliance. Kosovo. Afghanistan. Libya. Iraq — by implication, if not formally. Each intervention was sold as exceptional. Each became precedent. Each left behind ruin with no accountability. Afghanistan alone should have forced a reckoning. Twenty years, trillions spent, a state assembled from briefings, metrics and wishful thinking. When it collapsed, it did so almost instantly. NATO didn’t deliver stability to Afghanistan but dependency, confusion, and a withdrawal so disorderly that even its own veterans struggle to say what it achieved. The alliance learned nothing, except how to rename failure and move on. Libya followed the same pattern. A no-fly zone was sold as protection, a regime change delivered as collateral. A functioning state was reduced to a weapons depot with a flag. Slave markets returned to the Mediterranean, but NATO moved on. Mission accomplished, eyes forward, memory erased. The Ukraine War has completed the transformation. NATO is now a political-military brand whose survival depends on perpetual confrontation. It is not formally at war with Russia, but it is functionally inseparable from the conflict. It trains. It supplies. It coordinates. It escalates by inches, then calls restraint a virtue. Each new weapons package is framed as defensive. Each red line crossed is described as inevitable, each negotiation delayed as premature. Peace, we are told, would reward aggression — at least according to the people who insist on defining peace for everyone else. But endless war also rewards something: institutions that grow richer, louder, and more powerful the longer fighting continues. NATO no longer prevents war but manages it, regulates it, ensures it doesn’t end too quickly or too cleanly. The alliance’s greatest trick has been to rebrand itself as a moral necessity rather than a strategic choice. To question NATO now is to invite accusations of naiveté or treachery. Debate is discouraged. Doubt is dangerous. The organization that once existed to prevent catastrophe now treats catastrophe as proof of relevance. Trump’s proposed Board of Peace is laughable in its vagueness. A committee of signatures and ceremonies won’t tame Gaza or reorder the world. But at least it admits the obvious: the current system produces neither stability nor harmony. NATO’s defenders won’t concede that. Denial has become the point. NATO today is an abomination — not because it is evil, but because it is unaccountable. It answers to no electorate, absorbs no consequences and faces no sunset clause. It expands without end, intervenes without closure and speaks in diplomatic tones while operating through military force. It has become too big to fail and too sacred to question. Peace doesn’t emerge from institutions that require enemies to justify their existence. It comes from limits, realism and the willingness to stop. If Trump’s Board of Peace sounds absurd, it is because escalation has become the default. NATO is no longer fit for purpose. America would do well to abandon it before countless more lives are lost, and countless new justifications are manufactured to keep the machinery of death running. John Mac Ghlionn is a writer and researcher who explores culture, society and the impact of technology on daily life.
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Activists Bring Shields To COMBAT ICE, It’s Getting Crazy
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ARRESTS ARE HAPPENING | Timcast IRL
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Scammers Are Becoming Harder To Detect, AI Is Steroids For Scammers
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Entangled atomic clouds enable more precise quantum measurements Added: Jan 24, 2026
Entangled atomic clouds enable more precise quantum measurements
Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical entanglement can be used to measure several physical parameters simultaneously with greater precision.
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Tim Walz BEGGING For Donations After DOJ Subpoena, He’s Cooked
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