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BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built | US-Israel war on Iran

Iranian missiles and drones came down on Kuwait on September 3, two days after American aircraft struck roughly…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/723540/

Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/coming-home-to-balili-the-first-nateng-festival-and-the-culture-that-remains/

Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/coming-home-to-balili-the-first-nateng-festival-and-the-culture-that-remains/

Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/coming-home-to-balili-the-first-nateng-festival-and-the-culture-that-remains/

Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/coming-home-to-balili-the-first-nateng-festival-and-the-culture-that-remains/

Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/coming-home-to-balili-the-first-nateng-festival-and-the-culture-that-remains/

Mladic’s funeral: Were no lessons learned? | Crimes Against Humanity https://www.byteseu.com/2346591/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Europe #Herzegovina #Opinions #Serbia

https://www.europesays.com/fr/1173023/ L’Allemagne et la France face au piège du cordon sanitaire #Actualités #allemagne #BundesrepublikDeutschland #DE #Deutschland #ÉlectionPrésidentielleFrançaise2027 #EU #europe #France #Germany #Monde #News #opinions #PolitiqueFrançaise #Premium #RépubliqueFédéraleD'Allemagne

Will Trump succeed in restarting Russia-Ukraine peace talks? | Russia-Ukraine war

The visit by White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv has left more…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #Opinions #Russia #Russia-Ukrainewar
https://www.europesays.com/ukraine/38579/

The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/the-frozen-frontier-why-the-arctic-is-the-worlds-new-battleground/

The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/the-frozen-frontier-why-the-arctic-is-the-worlds-new-battleground/

The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/the-frozen-frontier-why-the-arctic-is-the-worlds-new-battleground/

The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/the-frozen-frontier-why-the-arctic-is-the-worlds-new-battleground/

The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/the-frozen-frontier-why-the-arctic-is-the-worlds-new-battleground/

Topography of Touch: How an 88-Year-Old Mountain Healer Maps the Pain of the Cordilleras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/topography-of-touch-how-an-88-year-old-mountain-healer-maps-the-pain-of-the-cordilleras/

Topography of Touch: How an 88-Year-Old Mountain Healer Maps the Pain of the Cordilleras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/topography-of-touch-how-an-88-year-old-mountain-healer-maps-the-pain-of-the-cordilleras/

Topography of Touch: How an 88-Year-Old Mountain Healer Maps the Pain of the Cordilleras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/topography-of-touch-how-an-88-year-old-mountain-healer-maps-the-pain-of-the-cordilleras/

Topography of Touch: How an 88-Year-Old Mountain Healer Maps the Pain of the Cordilleras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/topography-of-touch-how-an-88-year-old-mountain-healer-maps-the-pain-of-the-cordilleras/

Topography of Touch: How an 88-Year-Old Mountain Healer Maps the Pain of the Cordilleras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/topography-of-touch-how-an-88-year-old-mountain-healer-maps-the-pain-of-the-cordilleras/

Adidas faces boycott over amputee campaign featuring Israeli soldier | Gaza News

Adidas is facing calls for a boycott after featuring a former Israeli soldier in a campaign promoting its…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/721706/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/281172/ Adidas faces boycott over amputee campaign featuring Israeli soldier | Gaza News #BenjaminNeta​nyahu #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Gaza #HumanRights #HumanitarianCrises #Israel #IsraelPalestineConflict #MiddleEast #News #Newsfeed #Opinions #Palestine #ShowTypes #SocialMedia

Australia’s proposed ‘opt out’ law targets Big Tech algorithms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/australias-proposed-opt-out-law-targets-big-tech-algorithms?traffic_source=rss

Australia’s proposed ‘opt out’ law targets Big Tech algorithms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/australias-proposed-opt-out-law-targets-big-tech-algorithms?traffic_source=rss

Australia’s proposed ‘opt out’ law targets Big Tech algorithms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/australias-proposed-opt-out-law-targets-big-tech-algorithms?traffic_source=rss

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/294533/ Le marquage imparfait des contenus générés par l’IA #Débats #International #Opinions #Premium #World #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1189884/ Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story | Politics #Britain #England #Europe #GreatBritain #NorthernIreland #Opinions #Politics #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story | Politics

This week, Reform UK gathered thousands of supporters at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre to present itself as a…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Opinions #Politics #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/britain/118717/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/118717/ Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story | Politics #Europe #Opinions #Politics #UK #UnitedKingdom

Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/oceans-turn-deadly-dangerous/

Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/oceans-turn-deadly-dangerous/

Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/oceans-turn-deadly-dangerous/

Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/oceans-turn-deadly-dangerous/

Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/oceans-turn-deadly-dangerous/

Kudal Park: A Landmark of Pride and Identity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/kudal-park-a-landmark-of-pride-and-identity/

Kudal Park: A Landmark of Pride and Identity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/kudal-park-a-landmark-of-pride-and-identity/

Kudal Park: A Landmark of Pride and Identity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/kudal-park-a-landmark-of-pride-and-identity/

Kudal Park: A Landmark of Pride and Identity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/kudal-park-a-landmark-of-pride-and-identity/

Kudal Park: A Landmark of Pride and Identity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/09/kudal-park-a-landmark-of-pride-and-identity/

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi | Football https://www.rawchili.com/5090752/ #argentina #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Football #LatinAmerica #Opinions #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi | Football https://www.rawchili.com/5090752/ #argentina #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Football #LatinAmerica #Opinions #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/293239/ La Suisse ne doit pas son eau à ses glaciers #Bern #Berne #Climat #eau #Opinions #Premium #Suisse

James Hansen Super-Duper El Niño 2027 Outlook

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/08/james-hansen-super-duper-el-nino-2027-outlook/

Low Conviction Rate Under SC/ST Act in India: Needs Revamping?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/08/low-conviction-rate-under-sc-st-act-in-india-needs-revamping/

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/but-nothing-has-changed-on-our-side/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783832

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A quotation from Baltasar Gracian

There is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them.
 
[No hay defecto sin afecto, ni se ha de desconfiar porque no agraden las cosas a algunos, que no faltarán otros que las aprecien; ni aun el aplauso de estos le sea materia al desvanecimiento, que otros lo condenarán.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

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Season 3 Episode 3: AI and the Creative Arts

In this episode, we discuss AI in the creative arts! We have some very strong opinions about a recent book scandal, new music creations and bringing actors back from the dead. (AI was not used for this description)

Listen Below!

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MNQ4IZqHgjjUWcshAPb6x?si=fQuuYPjwRRqEgmOH6GBb_Q

Listen on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/9-zzGNiMlgg

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Things Discussed In This Episode

Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

AI-created track blocked from Sweden’s Official Charts after racking up millions of streams on Spotify – Music Business Worldwide

AI novel that won literature contest has awards taken away – Dexerto

Liza Minnelli is among the artists who collaborated on a new AI-generated album

An Update on Libro.fm’s Response to AI Narration

Chicago Sun Times – 2025 “Summer Reading List“

Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners

Publisher cancels horror novel’s release over AI claims

Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/uk-forced-to-shelve-legislation-to-return-chagos-islands-to-mauritius. #Trump gives & Trump takes away; cursed be the name of Trump! What does he care about the #independence & #sovereignty of #Mauritius? The man is an #imperialist. He doesn't care about the inhabitants of the #ChagosIslands, or their #opinions - all he cares about is #US control over #DiegoGarcia. Keir #Starmer is PATHETIC!

#QuickQuestion: #What's that #Thing that #Happens when a #MiserableMoron and #Perpetual #ReplyGuy #Tags "they/them's" #Unsubstantiated #DataFree #Opinions on to #SomeoneElse's #QuoteToot...

#DontPanic...

#NoOneCares...

#CauseOfDeath: #FalseEquivalence...

#BeingWrong #AllTheTime #MustHurt, no... | #LookNoQuestionMark

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Widening the aperture…

Nobody signs up for monotony. It just… happens.

One. Habit. At. A. Time.

The same dark roast, one splash of milk, lukewarm by the second sip. The same playlist titled “Workout Jams” at the gym. The same gray stretch of highway. The same voices on the same scheduled calls.

I’ve honed that rhythm until it’s flawless.

I didn’t even notice it happening. It felt like structure. Like I had my life… together. But looking back at the last decade, the days blur, moments occur, a constant low hum whir. I worry about what I’ve chosen to .. defer. 

Everything feels… fine. Not amazing. Not horrible. Just a flat… line. A hum without a melody.

My routines. My rituals. Stable? Yes. Yet, my curiosity is silent. My world has shrunk to the size of a monitor.

I have confided myself to the same spaces until they felt liminal – like waiting rooms for a life that was happening elsewhere.

Same room. Same streets. Same faces.

I don’t notice the cage until I step out of it. 

That’s why travel always hit me so hard. Distance forces clarity. It shakes me awake. I am sleepwalking. All those choices made to build repetition, and how, in little ways, I’ve stopped yourself from trying.

Travel shows me the wonderful world outside the one I created. Yet, vacations never last.

Eventually, I have to pack the bag. I have to come home. Sometimes, the routine itself is the siren’s call – luring me back to the safety of the known. I adopt a few changes, place a souvenir on the shelf, and then the cycle repeatsI

So, I decided to break the cycle.

Two weeks ago, we pressed pause. A gap year. No work. No commute. Just me, my wife, and my son.

It’s been two weeks into this experiment, and I am breathing, at times hyperventilating but even then it’s fun. I don’t think I could have penned this without the silence – without the time to simply pause.

it doesn’t have to be black-and-white thinking. I realize that I don’t have to be in a novel place to change my perspective.

I don’t need a plane ticket to escape. All I need to do is shuffle my feet, crouch down, or stand on my tiptoes to look at what I am doing from a different angle.

The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you care for it – water it, patch it and give it sunlight. Even the most magical, inspiring place I’ve visited is “the boring backyard” of another person’s life.

So, I want to see the world. But, I also want to capture the adventure right here. To bring back spontaneity. To do something different.

It brings a smile back to my face. Every day felt new when I was a kid. I didn’t need to change homes; I just looked at the world with hungry eyes.

I am excited to see what this year will bring. I certainly intend to explore more of the beautiful world out there with my family. But I know I cannot find the answer only there.

Because I want to widen the aperture of the world I’ve created. And the answer is inside of me, refusing to narrow it again.

Spontaneity is enriching. It’s accessible. And for the first time in a long time, it’s under my control.

Just a new perspective.

🧿

Samsung’s Real Smart Home Innovation Isn’t Something You Can Touch | SmartThings #aihome #apps #bespokejetbotsteamultra #digitallife #homeautomation #opinions #samsung #samsunghomeappliancesmalaysia #samsungmalaysia #smarthome #smartthings #tech

https://soyacincau.com/2025/07/01/samsungs-real-smart-home-innovation-isnt-something-you-can-touch-smartthings/