"So here are the questions: how are those 4 (or 5) events connected? Are they even connected at all? What do they reveal about the changing world order?
My argument, as you’ll have guessed, is that they are connected either directly (for instance it’s obvious that Trump’s public revelation about Bagram can’t be coincidental with either the Saudi-Pakistan alliance or his call with Xi) or connected in that they all reflect the same underlying shift.
More profoundly, I think that the deeper trend that they reveal is that the map is reasserting itself against the narrative. For decades, we've lived in a world where stories mattered more than geography - where being a “democracy” or an “ally” or part of the “rules-based order” determined your place in the world more than your location, resources, or neighbors.
But these four events suggest a revenge of the physical world, a return of the law of geopolitical gravity when for decades American power distorted it by acting like a massive electromagnetic field that could make iron filings ignore the magnet next door. But electromagnetic fields require constant energy to maintain, and when the generator winds down, particles realign along older, simpler forces.
This is why I entitled this article “the return of geopolitical gravity”."
arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/…
#Geopolitics #USA #China #PaxAmericana #Diplomacy #InternationalRelations #Trump
The return of geopolitical gravity
Four extraordinary events happened last week within the span of just 72 hours; a week which may well be remembered as one of the most consequential in the transition from Pax Americana (an era that was admittedly much more “Americana” than “Pax”) to …Arnaud Bertrand
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Por lo visto andan los evangélicos pidiendo a la gente a la que regalaron sus cosas que se las devuelvan. Que me he liado con la fecha del Rapto y tal y cual.
Pero lo que no se les pasa ni por un momento por la cabeza es que el Rapto haya sucedido y ellos no hayan sido elegidos.
Ni por un segundo dudan de su propia santidad. De la tuya sí: te regalan sus bienes porque tú te quedas aquí, so impío.
¿El Rapto? Ah, no, si sigo aquí es que no ha sucedido...
Y esto me lleva a pensar que son todos unas personas de mierda.
they could have figured this one out before. they didn't care. why should they? #electricity is cheap. and that is the way humanity conducts itself.
futurism.com/future-society/ai…
anyway this is a classical example of the #limitstogrowth archetype.
#renewables #energy #climatechange #systemsthinking
Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage
The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Adli: "Volevo restare al Milan, ma la società ha deciso che ..."
https://www.pianetamilan.it/news-milan/interviste/adli-volevo-assolutamente-restare-al-milan-purtroppo-la-societa-ha-fatto-in-modo-27-09-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Adli: “Volevo assolutamente restare al Milan. Purtroppo la società ha fatto in modo …”
Yacine Adli, centrocampista che il Milan ha ceduto a settembre all'Al-Shabab, ha parlato proprio della sua cessione. Ecco le sue parole a 'L'Equipe'Emiliano Guadagnoli (Pianeta Milan)
Ex Ilva, commissari 'ricevute 10 offerte di acquisto' - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Ex Ilva, commissari 'ricevute 10 offerte di acquisto' - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Ai commissari straordinari di Acciaierie d'Italia in As e di Ilva in As sono arrivate 10 offerte per l'acquisizione degli stabilimenti ex Ilva. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Sassuolo, Grosso verso l'Udinese: "Dobbiamo dare tutti il massimo"
https://www.derbyderbyderby.it/calcio-italiano/sassuolo-grosso-udinese-dobbiamo-dare-tutti-massimo-conferenza-stampa-serie-a/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta
Sassuolo, Grosso per il riscatto con l’Udinese: “Dobbiamo dare tutti il massimo”
L'allenatore degli emiliani prova a scuotere i suoi dopo le ultime sconfitte: "Dobbiamo crescere molto ma è normale". E poi sugli arbitri: "Ho grossa stima nei loro confronti. Spesso noi li mettiamo in difficoltà"Alessandro Stella (DerbyDerbyDerby)
Pink Rose with yellow stamens
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#rose #flower #gardening #macro #art #IrisRichardsonArt #wallart #artprints #fallforart #ayearforart #buyintoart #giftideas #artstore #artshop #supportthearts #smallbusiness #artistsunday #photography
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This is the entire extent of the UKIP protest in Margate this morning
Once AGAIN, #Kent has stood firm against fascism
The real cost of Trump’s $100,000 visas
This program is likely to hurt American workers — and the whole economy.Sean Rameswaram (Vox)
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#nogenocidio #Grottaglie #Taranto
Il 27 settembre corteo da Grottaglie porta fino allo stabilimento #Leonardo.
Sehr gut!
Nächster Schritt wäre: ihnen deinen Ekel ehrlich zu zeigen und ihnen damit noch eine weitere Chance zum Umdenken zu geben. Sie haben ja leider schon viele verpasst.
Nur Mut!
Du kannst der Anstoß sein.
Dein Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Welt!😘
I politici nostrani e non, continuano a parlare di #Hamas come se fosse un governo, un esercito, un ministero un qualcosa di tangibile ed enorme, con influenze a livello mondiale e poteri militari ed economici quasi illimitati 🤔
Peccato che siano 4 sbandati (le loro brigate non arrivano a 30000 unità!), ormai mal visti pure dalla popolazione visto quello che sta succedendo, e in passato pure parzialmente finanziati da paesi arabi e Qatar (e quindi pure gli Stati Uniti) e Iran
I paradossi
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Anthro Spezies denen man in bestimmten Berufsgruppen Misstrauen sollte
Hyänen, Transplantationschirugie.
Ich meine, dieses Werbevideo eines Artgenossen zeigt doch mehr Emotionen und ist verkaufsanregender als das von dieser Bentley-Lady.
BTW, does someone knew who made this suit?
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Giro d’Emilia, il Comune di Bologna: “Il team Israel Premier Tech non ci sarà”
https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/27/news/giro_emilia_israel_premier_tech_assente-424874599/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Giro d’Emilia, il Comune di Bologna: “Il team Israel Premier Tech non ci sarà”
A sollevare il caso era stato lo stesso Palazzo d’Accursio. L’assessora Li Calzi: “Sarebbe stato ipocrita considerare la presenza di una squadra legata al gove…la Repubblica
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(Porém com notícias não tão boas)
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A imagem é uma quadrinha em quadrinhos com um estilo colorido e desenhado à mão, com um tema inspirado no universo Pokémon. No primeiro quadrinho, um personagem com um boné e uma camiseta roxa está segurando uma Pokébola e diz: "Capimon, eu escolho você!".
No segundo quadrinho, há um efeito de explosão amarela com a silhueta de um Pokémon, seguido pelo Capimon, um Pokémon vermelho com chifres e caudas, dizendo: "Dá aquela porrada que não mata, mas machuca bastante." Ele parece cansado e desanimado.
No terceiro quadrinho, Capimon está com uma expressão exausta, com chamas ao redor, e diz: "Final de semana nem começou e logo logo já é Segunda de novo." O fundo é azul escuro com raios de luz.
A quadrinha é uma brincadeira com a ideia de escolher um Pokémon, mas com um tom humorístico e sarcástico, refletindo a frustração de ter que voltar ao trabalho após o final de semana.
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#newz
How China promotes its language and culture in Africa
China has established language schools in almost every African country. Observers say that's part of a strategy to expand its economic influence across the continent.Martina Schwikowski (Deutsche Welle)
I've always liked the simplicity of the graphics on this site
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Nur wenige Versicherte nutzen elektronische Patientenakte
Ab Oktober sind Ärzte verpflichtet, mit der elektronischen Patientenakte zu arbeiten. Doch offenbar fehlen vielen Praxen noch die technischen Voraussetzungen. Von den Versicherten hat sich erst ein Bruchteil einen Zugang verschafft.
Vérifiez vos achats : les codes-barres commençant par 729 = produits israéliens.
Boycotter Israël
rectificatif ça semble plus compliqué (moins limpide) que ça (merci @rudegirlyd ) gs1.fr/code-barres-gs1
et
franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-…
Boycott d'Israël : peut-on savoir si un produit est israélien en regardant son code-barres ?
L'eurodéputée La France insoumise Manon Aubry et le mouvement BDS (Boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions) appellent à boycotter les produits dont les codes-barres commencent par 729 car, selon eux, ils proviennent d'Israël.Armêl Balogog (Franceinfo)
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9 melhores jogos de terror psicológico
https://canaltech.com.br/games/melhores-jogos-terror-psicologico/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain.
If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people.
Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!
And kindness is not weakness.
If you see fashy people attacking Black people, or immigrants, or trans folk, it's not kindness to say, "We should all get along!"🤡
That's weakness.
It's kindness to put yourself between the people with less power than yourself, and the people that want to hurt them.
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RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ssj24…
A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
#NoteCards #Interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing
The video begins with a scene from a press conference at the White House, where a woman is standing behind a podium with the seal of the President of the United States. She is wearing a black blazer over a white blouse. The background features the American flag and the White House emblem. The text overlay at the top of the frame reads 'This DID NOT AGE WELL.' with two emojis, one of a person shrugging and the other laughing. Below the woman, a quote reads, 'Hatred has no place in the United States of America under President Donald.' The text '[@]THE13TH_AMERICAN_DREAM' and 'The Thieves, F*ed (Thum)' is displayed at the top right corner, and 'NEWSNATION' is shown in a blue box at the top right corner. The scene then transitions to a man standing at a podium with the presidential seal, delivering a speech. The background is red with a flag featuring a star. The text overlay at the bottom of the frame reads, 'I hate my opponent.' The text '[@]THE13TH_AMERICAN_DREAM' and 'The Thieves, Fed (Thum)' is displayed at the top left corner, and 'LIVE + HD' and 'C-SPAN' are shown at the bottom right corner. The video continues with the man at the podium, with the text overlay at the bottom reading, 'And I don't want the best for them.' The text '[@]THE13TH_AMERICAN_DREAM' and 'The Thieves, F**ed (Thum)' is displayed at the top left corner, and 'LIVE + HD' and 'C-SPAN' are shown at the bottom right corner. The video concludes with the text overlay at the bottom reading, 'That's where I'm disagreed with.'
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Anarchist Library: **X2 - X2 reports**
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Author: X2Title: X2 reportsDate: 1890–1893Notes: Reports by informant X2 within the anarchist circles of northern Paris (Saint-Ouen, Saint-Denis, Levallois-Perret, Clichy). The informant, who operated alongside his mother, penetrated deeply into the anarchist milieu of these towns, even as these groups were highly radical. X2 was a key witness to a series of events, notably, he
X2 reports
X2 X2 reports 1890–1893 Reports by informant X2 within the anarchist circles of northern Paris (Saint-Ouen, Saint-Denis, Levallois-Perret, Clichy). The...The Anarchist Library
"Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.
In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure."
theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…
#Microsoft #Israel #Palestine #MassSurveillance #Azure #Gaza #WestBank
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy projectHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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Unpacking Trump’s ‘Con Job’ Comments About Climate Change to the UN
insideclimatenews.org/news/270…
Politicians and business leaders alike punched back, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying governments need to “wake up to the reality.”
#UN #Trump #ClimateCrisis #Lies #Billionaires #DeathMarch #Profit #KillingEarth #Politics #Ecocide #IPCC #Science #Fascism #GlobalDemocide
Centauri Carbon GitHub repo is out.
Don't let anyone tell you this is #OpenSource .
Yowza that repo is a mess - some files have licenses files or headers, many don't. A lot of stuff is very unclear where it came from.
I can see Klipper, FreeRTOS, OpenWrt (...I think). It's such a jumble.
github.com/elegooofficial/Cent…
GitHub - elegooofficial/CentauriCarbon: Learn more about ELEGOO Centauri Carbon 3D printer: www.elegoo.com/products/centauri-carbon
Learn more about ELEGOO Centauri Carbon 3D printer: https://www.elegoo.com/products/centauri-carbon - elegooofficial/CentauriCarbonGitHub
As I remember London
When I moved to the UK at the tail end of the last millennium, I wasn’t in a good place. I was hired by a US company to work in their German office, and they sent me over to the US to work on their product. I lived in a hotel for a few months, coming home to an empty, cleaned room every day. It was very “Lost in Translation”. The German part of the company went bankrupt during this trip, so I was asked to move to the UK to stay with them. Anglophile as I was, I took this opportunity and had a few trips in between the US and the UK to find a place to live.
My partner of five years also said they’d love to make that move with me and start a new chapter. That didn’t work out – I was dumped in a call on a pay phone in a hotel in San Francisco, went out and got really drunk. When the US stint ended, I went to London, checked into my new flat and waited for my stuff from Germany to arrive.
And then I plunged into London. I went clubbing a lot. I spent the day in the office and went to the pub with my colleagues in the evening. I enjoyed and fell in love with the place. I met people from all over the world, I dated people of many races and backgrounds. I had food I never had, I heard music and saw bands I’ve never heard of or even knew existed. I’ve been to Notting Hill Carnival, immersing myself in this wonderful, wild and colourful scene.
London opened my mind, it made me find the great in lots of cultures and seeing them bringing that to the UK lifestyle was at times a hilarious clash, but wonderful to witness. Very early on I realised one thing: being British is not the same as being a pasty white uptight person, Brits come in all shades and sizes. The most British person I know with a clipped accent, fierce devotion to the Royals and a fetish for a good cuppa is a gay friend who is dark Indian.
Working in Soho I got to know a lot of LGBTQ folk and a few of my colleagues came out or even changed gender during the time I worked there. And they got support from everyone, it wasn’t a problem or a scary thing. London was inviting, colourful, open and amazing. That’s the London I miss.
It’s a big city. In my 16 years tenure I had one laptop, a mobile and a bike stolen. I got into some fights and had three attempted muggings. All by white young dudes, by the way. I lived next to a huge mosque and the area two streets down was hard-core Jewish. My butcher was Algerian and when I ordered in French-ish, I got better prices. It worked.
Then UKIP came around and told people that everything is terrible and its all the forrins’ fault. And disappointed and disgruntled people believed that nonsense. I left the country after Brexit and moved to Berlin, which is great but does feel like a Tesco value version of the London I encountered.
So if people claim that they remember a safer, cleaner and racially homogenous London they either never lived there, or didn’t immerse themselves in it. Or completely talk out of their arse following an utterly different agenda, one that I find despicable, regressive and governed by fear and hate and not inclusion and inspiration.
As I remember London
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.world.hey.com
You Won't Believe What Really Happened During the Blitz!
Discover the heart of one of history’s most dramatic chapters with the remarkable new bestseller, “The Blitz and London: A City Under Fire” by Andy Reven.Telegraph
Moon Bats are roosting in my shop! Who's up for adopting one? They like bugs. ko-fi.com/s/64737a1637
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Indiana’s AG Makes It Clear He’s Going To Target Anyone Who Isn’t Reverential Enough Of Charlie Kirk’s Corpse
#newz #StopTheGenocide 💚 #DontBeComplicit
USA entziehen Kolumbiens Präsidenten Gustavo Petro das Visum
Es ist ein diplomatischer Eklat: Das US-Außenministerium wirft Petro vor, er habe US-Soldaten zur Befehlsverweigerung gegenüber US-Präsident Donald Trump aufgerufen.Deutsche Welle
Trump Deploying The National Guard To Fight Crime Blurs The Legal Distinction Between Police & Military
When the media keep counting the victims of Israel’s genocide like they do, Gaza will be fully destroyed with no one alive and they would say something like, “72,832 Palestinians were killed.”
Of 2,226,544 (2023 estimate per Britannica).
With all of Israel’s bombing and starving, counting “conservatively” looks like nothing but gaslighting—and like a crime by itself, by helping to slow down responses.
A crime is, that Egypt - for example - did not allow civilians to leave the combat zone to Sinai.
These videos are difficult to watch
These are crimes against humanity – and the world must know.saturday-october-seven.com
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