The European Union has condemned the recent escalation of Houthi attacks, including strikes on Yemen’s Presidential Palace, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, and residential areas, describi https://pigeonreporter.com/2026/10/21/eu-condemns-houthi-attacks-and-calls-for-regional-security-measures
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Kings can’t capitalize on late power play in loss to Devils https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/695689/ #33YearOldHellebuyck #AnthonyMantha #ArtemyGritsyuk #BrettPesce #Devils #Ducks #game #Hockey #JakeAllen #king #LatePowerPlay #LosAngelesTimes #NewJersey #NewJerseyDevils #NewJersey #NewJerseyDevils #NHL #saturday #save #ScottLaughton #season
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Family Blues
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. KingJust Damn
What sweet jam
From an awesome famhttps://youtu.be/LfH3DARr_Z4?si=m7iiGPF-V6QvAf6h
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Not doing any challenges in here but rather going out to do it. I had a cousin pass on Friday, safe journey Cathy. I’m headed to say goodbye and visit the little family I have left. I find myself a little on the blues side and the Vaughan Brothers album is soothing my soul tonight. Easing into the morrow with love for family, yours & mine, peace.
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Michael I of #Romania, born OTD in 1921, was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/romania/bucharest/?s=mb #travel #history
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Playing Craps with weighted dice that have no markings at all, seems like a rather obvious choice, when the other choice is playing 21 with a 32 card deck missing the Ace King Queen and Jack;
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Michael I of #Romania, born OTD in 1921, was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/romania/bucharest/?s=mb #travel #history
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Thoughts and prayers.........
This is what we will see a lot of upcoming as MAGA realizes that Trump as CYRUS who was supposed to save their world was nothing more than a corrupted CYRUS.
"Some white evangelical Christians and MAGA supporters compare Donald Trump to King Cyrus the Great, the ancient Persian king from the Bible's Book of Isaiah (Chapters 44 and 45).
Key Reasons for the Comparison
• The "Imperfect Vessel" Framework: Cyrus was not an Israelite or a believer in the Hebrew God, yet the biblical text describes him as God's "anointed" instrument used to accomplish a divine purpose. Supporters use this to justify Trump’s personal flaws, controversial behavior, or lifestyle, arguing that God can use an imperfect, secular leader to achieve righteous goals.
• Delivering Pro-Faith and Israel Policies: In the Bible, Cyrus freed the Jews from Babylonian exile and allowed them to rebuild their temple. Proponents draw a direct parallel to Trump’s political achievements for conservative Christians and Israel, such as moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights, brokering Middle East accords, and appointing conservative judges to overturn abortion rights
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Died this day: 10/25/1957 (b. 07/24/1878) Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, commonly known as Lord Dunsany. The King of Elfland's Daughter is a 1924 fantasy novel recognized as one of the most influential and acclaimed works in all of fantasy literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Dunsany
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#LordDunsany @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefictionArt by Bob Pepper
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The story of Tara begins in the Māhia Peninsula near Hawke’s Bay, some time between the 12th and 14th century.
In the UK these people were doing whatever they were doing: King Richard I ("The Lionheart") (1157–1199), Llywelyn the Great (Llywelyn ab Iorwerth) (1173–1240), Roger Bacon (c. 1220–1294), Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), or King Robert the Bruce` (1274–1329).
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/21-09-2024/the-first-wellingtonian
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #TeWhanganuiATara #Wellington #history
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Something Blue – Walk – July 13, 2024 – October 24, 2026
https://sbblues.com/2026/10/24/walk-2/
Featuring Struggle Buggy and recordings I made at The King Biscuit Blues Festival and Fool's Ball.
Chat with Hairy Larry tonight while we listen to the show.
Listen at
https://www/kasu.orgLinks in part2.
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Why did he take his name?
Martin Luther was a German who translated the Bible.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a black activist who was actually named "Michael" on his birth certificate, but later changed his name to that of the famous Christian.
The German Martin Luther was persecuted by the Catholic church, excommunicated, cursed, and condemned as a heretic.
The American Martin Luther King Jr. was friends with the Catholic church and has his own holiday.
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🟡 ThreatWarning | 7/10
🇾🇪 🇸🇦Houthi warning regarding the safety of Riyadh airport (Saudi Arabia)
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Mistodon: possibly no cautionary folk tale or urban myth is stranger or as profoundly disturbing as the full account of the life of #MichaelJackson, so with a week to go on the Halloween countdown clock, here's @kurogao96's #emoji/#ASCIIart composition celebrating the distinctive choreography of the King of Pop's stone cold dancefloor hit #Thriller. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released five years ago this month.
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Dozens of undelivered ballots found in dumpster at Seattle park
Two bins of mail were found in a dumpster in Golden Gardens Park.
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Ex-Notts County star reveals he was attacked by dog while trying to save his own pet
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/ex-notts-county-star-reveals-11214110
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New MRR Radio, a Misfits-free safe space this week before Halloween: https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/radio_show/mrr-radio-1996
Intro
STIGMA – 金属バットToo Many Fish in the Sea
DEUTSCHER KAISER – Halli Galli Tanzt Für Sie
MARY & THE IMMACULATES – Trip to Jonestown
BUSH TETRAS – Fess Up
MAGIC JOHNSON – Las MalasSacrifice With Style
MAD TEA PARTY – Hide & Seek
G2G – Half an Hour Cocktail Hour
DAY AFTER – Political Games
LÍNEA VIENESA – Te Vas A Morir
THE WRECKS – SBSAre We So Innocent of Struggle?
BOOTS FOR DANCING – Hold Up Half the Sky
GRASS WIDOW – Advice
TAME O’MEARAS – Sweat & Babble
SLEEPING DOGS – (I Got My Tan in) El Salvador
FLYING TIGERS – No ReplyMake It Happen
KING ALFRED, MAN OF LEISURE – The Curse
THE FRUMPIES – You’ll See
FAMOUS MAMMALS – In Any Case
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Today is the anniversary of the death of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany who died in 1957. An English-Irish author, poet, and playwright, he was commonly known as Lord Dunsany and is considered by many critics to have laid the grounds for the fantasy genre.
Dunsany's most notable fantasy short stories appeared in collections from 1905 to 1919, before fantasy had been recognised as a distinct genre.
He is best known today for the 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter and his first book, The Gods of Pegāna, which depicts a fictional pantheon.
Among his best-known characters was Joseph Jorkens, an obese, middle-aged raconteur who frequented the fictional Billiards Club in London and would tell fantastic stories if anyone bought him a large whiskey and soda. These books were among the first of a type that would become popular in fantasy and science fiction writing: highly improbable "club tales" told at a gentleman's club or bar.
An impressive list of later writers have said they were influenced by Dunsany’s work including: Terry Pratchett, H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Fletcher Pratt, Jorge Luis Borges, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, C. L. Moore, Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, David Eddings, Michael Moorcock, Clive Barker, and Neil Gaiman.
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Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 17 “A Royal Banquet”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/86572/
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One BGP UPDATE message can withdraw 1,133 prefixes, where overall average is 2.87. We read a week of public MRT updates (20.8B route entries) to see how routers actually batch their routes before sending to collectors. #BGP https://bgpkit.com/blog/bgp-update-packing-measured/
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“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought… Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.”*…
Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath, 1790-4 (source)Stephen Colbert once observed that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” And indeed, liberalism— the political/moral philosophy rooted in individual liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law– has been a major ideology through modern times… and, of course, the major ideology animating the founding of the United States.
But as Easten European states turn to authoritarians, Western European nations wrestle with the rise of nationalist far-right parties, and the U.S. is “steered” by MAGA using Project 2025‘s “map,” there’s a concern that liberalism’s days may be past.
Persuasion is running a series of essays on “Liberal Virtues and Values.”
The series, made possible with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, will make the case that liberalism has its own distinctive set of virtues and values that are capable not only of responding to the dissatisfaction that drives authoritarianism, but also of restoring faith in liberalism as an ideology worth believing in—and defending—on its own terms.
The latest installment is from Martin Gurri, who argues that Liberalism needs a new foundation (and that how we handle AI will matter fundamentally)…
That liberal democracy is in a state of terminal decline I take to be beyond dispute. Like Alice in the rabbit hole, those of us who dwell in democratic societies suffer from a nauseating sense of falling without ever landing on solid ground. The usual suspects blamed for this tumble—populism, inequality, the economy—are mere surface symptoms of an internal breakdown. We have arrived at the conclusion of a world-historical cycle. Liberal democracy is the procedural embodiment of Enlightenment ideology—and after two centuries of dominance, that ideology has lost all purchase and stands utterly exhausted.
Radical alternatives confront us. Either we reorient our system to post-Enlightenment principles or we risk staggering into the nihilist’s paradise I have called the Endarkenment.
Enlightenment philosophers placed their faith in reason and science. These are purely critical disciplines: liberal propagandists wielded criticism like a scalpel to dissect conservative laggards and utopian revolutionaries alike. Once triumphant at the “end of history,” liberal democracy turned the knife on itself—a process of self-criticism and self-doubt that has shredded its own ideals to ribbons.
The positive values inherited from the Enlightenment—equality, individualism, compassion—were always parasitic on Christianity. But Christianity, like all religions, has no place in a universe ruled by reason and science. Nietzsche long ago brought us the troubling news: the Christian God is dead. Oblivious to the implications of this calamity, liberal democracy kept marching like a cartoon character over the edge of the abyss, until the laws of moral gravity asserted themselves. So began the Great Fall.
Criticism is a force for progress so long as there are blatant irrationalities, like slavery or Jim Crow discrimination, to overcome. But under the hammer of Enlightenment ideals, modern society has been flattened, centralized, and rationalized. Deprived of obvious superstitions to debunk and totalitarian rivals to defeat, liberal democracy has been revealed in all its internal contradictions.
One such contradiction, I contend, pits the cherished principle of equality against the chosen few who actually practice reason and science: let’s call this the problem of the elites.
A second contradiction finds freedom of the press and of opinion arrayed against the need to protect objective truth: call it the problem of information.
Finally, freedom of worship and the life of the spirit collide head-on with the materialist criticism favored by Enlightenment ideology: the problem of meaning.
Each of these contradictions could prove fatal to the democratic project, but none is insoluble, and the search for solutions offers an opportunity for renewal. While there are no guarantees, we could emerge from the crisis with a better understanding of the reach and limits of equality, a more transparent information sphere, and even, it may be, a rich infusion of the transcendental into everyday life…
[Gurri unpacks each of those contradictions…]
… So what is to be done?
The first, obvious step is to move the question to the center of our shared conversations. The most capacious thinkers of the age should contemplate first principles and ultimate goals with at least as much intensity as they invest in Donald Trump or the latest economic report. There’s nothing artificial about this. Science and reason are necessary for modernity. Meaning and moral aspiration are necessary for humanity. A balance must be struck that preserves the one and gives full weight to the other.
Materialism, we must understand, is a valuable perspective for science but not a realistic appraisal of the human condition. Scientists work as if on a geometric point, abstracted from nature and indifferent to its dispositions. In reality, however, we come from nature, we are of nature, and we are far from indifferent to our place in it. Our intuitions are internal to the system: humanity’s spiritual quest is, in every sense, nature reflecting on itself. One such intuition is agency—the belief that, at the crossroads, I am free to go right or left, and I alone make the choice. Another is faith in causation. These stances are irrational, or rather pre-rational, but without them liberal democracy as well as science itself would be impossible.
In the end, materialism is self-defeating. To say, “I choose to be a materialist” is to fall into an absurd fallacy. Either our bodies, which consist of matter, obey unchanging laws, or the mind, transcending matter, is capable of choice. There can be no middle ground.
Politics, in a metaphysical age, will resume its traditional place as a secondary activity—a means to an end. This will leave liberal democracy vulnerable to false prophets who are willing to trample on individual rights in pursuit of some apocalyptic scheme. The interesting question is whether the post-truth condition will make the peril greater or lesser. On the one hand, the lack of universal firewalls might make it easier for a fanatic to flood the system. Yet post-truth itself, I believe, is the strongest kind of firewall. In our fractured, eternally contested environment, the progress of any totalizing doctrine will be painfully slow. The quest for meaning and the struggle over frames of reference are, in the end, really one and the same.
We have inherited a rich and evocative spiritual vocabulary, but it belongs to a worldview thousands of years old. “King of kings,” to cite just one example, should sound archaic in a democratic age. Can we awaken the scientific world to the spirit? Is it possible to sanctify our largely instrumental relations? This shouldn’t entail a belief in fairies and goblins, or even necessarily in religion. Any good empiricist will admit that the richest human lives are lived symbolically. Can we climb the symbolic ladder to the mountaintop, where meaning and modern humanity come harmoniously together—anchoring, it may be, a loftier understanding of equality and social life, and of the sanctity of truth?
We won’t know until we try. Pessimism, let me suggest, is unwarranted. History moves in mysterious ways. We may be due for a second coming of historian Karl Jaspers’ “Axial Age”: preachers and philosophers who conceived a drastically updated transcendental vision, with the rational and the sacred, truth and meaning, reconciled with political freedom.
For 200 years, we placed society under the sway of universal principles. That’s gone with the wind. We have entered an era of radical contingency, in which even truth is indeterminate. The natural tendency is to retreat to the certainties of the past—but there’s no going back. If we hope to preserve the gains from Enlightenment society, and resolve its many contradictions, we’ll have to do so within a new and wildly unstable conceptual framework.
With the spell of the Enlightenment broken, liberal democracy will have to redefine what “created equal” means. This process could end in a rigid caste system, with the institutions in the hands of self-selected mandarins who wield the power of the state to impose their “solutions.” Preferably, and more likely given the thrust of the new technology, we’ll see a flattening of the institutions and the continued trampling by the public into the sacred spaces of politics and communication.
Equality, however understood, will be forged in the will of the citizenry rather than granted by a benevolent God. That will make it contingent like everything else, and so liable to variation and in constant need of defense. And if perfect equality is an impossible dream, eternal inequality requires impossible discipline. The current elite class, already under enormous pressure, may lose its cohesion and melt into the impermanence of the age, divided among the various schools and sects and frames of reference.
The structure of information will follow the definition of equality. The commanding heights will be control over AI. If AI development and deployment is a closed game, the elites could set themselves up as intermediaries in the oracle of an omniscient divinity. If AI is a competitive product, the public will gain the upper hand. In that case, we can expect a flowering of eccentric applications, the individualization of commerce and industry, and the final overthrow of the expert class. The information sphere will remain the mirror to our passions, divisions, and metaphysical longings. Freedom of speech, no longer “endowed by our Creator,” will become the battleground on which the question of equality is ultimately settled.
Here I finally reveal myself in my true colors. I’m an analyst. My task is to describe reality, and that’s what this essay is about. But I also lead an active life inside the world that I’m describing—and I have preferences. I see equality as a factor of opportunity, law, and human dignity, not of perfect outcomes. I think truth emerges from examining a subject from a large number of perspectives, even those that may seem disturbing or false. I hope that my story—as a person, a father, a grandfather—connects to other stories in the past and will connect to more in the future, in a pattern that is not entirely devoid of meaning. And I believe fervently in liberal democracy, because—born in Cuba—I have tasted the alternative.
The breakdown of Enlightenment ideology is only the latest challenge liberal democracy has faced in my lifetime. I’m not entitled, as an analyst, to downplay the perils ahead, but I’m allowed, as an American, to have faith that they will once again be overcome…
Eminently worth reading in full: “The Search for a Post-Enlightenment Democracy”
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As we renew, we might send free-thinking birthday greetings to Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (or as he’s usually called, Benjamin Constant); he was born on this date in 1767. A French political thinker, activist, and writer on political theory and religion (whose work influenced, among many others, Sir Isaiah Berlin), Constant was a committed republican from 1795, backing the coup d’état of 18 Fructidor in1797, and the following one on 18 Brumaire, in 1799. He became the leader of the Liberal opposition in 1800, during the Consulate. Constant fell out with Napoleon, and had to flee (first to Switzerland, then to Saxony). Nonetheless, after his return to France, Constant sided with the Emperor during the Hundred Days, drafting the Charter of 1815. He became politically active again during the Bourbon Restoration and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 (where he remained until his death in 1830). As the head of the Liberal opposition, known as Indépendants, Constant was one of the most notable orators in the Chamber, especially in his role as a proponent of the parliamentary system.
Portrait of Constant by Hercule de Roche, c. 1820 (source) #authoritarianism #BenjaminConstant #culture #democracy #Elites #Enlightenment #FrenchHistory #history #illiberalism #information #liberalism #MartinGurri #meaning #moralPhilosophy #Napoleon #philosophy #politicalPhilosophy #religion -
Mark the date and register! 12 November workshop in Oxford targeting the community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in designing and using AI infrastructures in arts, humanities and culture. https://ai-for-data-in-arts-humanities.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Today's #photo: the #beautiful, gentle colours of #autumn: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-1YJ #nature #NotAI #canada #photography
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🚀 Emerging Technologies at CommunityOverCode/ChurConf Sydney, 18–19 Nov
Quantum-safe web servers, HTTP/3 & QUIC in Apache httpd, spatial computing, & AI agents done right, Spring AI, Quarkus, custom AI skills & more!
https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/sydney-2026/
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Today's #photo: a little light painting helped make this #sunrise memorable: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-3cq #nature #photography #canada #NotAI
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