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- Written by: Alex Dupcheck
Donald Trump’s reaction after his recent meetings with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was as revealing as it was disturbing. With a shrug of his shoulders, he essentially declared that the fighting in Ukraine will continue if Kyiv and Europe do not embrace his plan. The message was clear: accept Putin’s terms, or endure endless war. This posture reduces the war to a bargaining chip for Trump’s personal recognition on the world stage. It strips away the pretense of allyship and lays bare the uselessness of Washington’s current involvement, which has shifted from guarantor of freedom to arms supplier looking to be paid.
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- Written by: Valenenzia Gruelle
How do we preserve knowledge when nothing is permanent? The question, raised pointedly in a recent XDA Developers piece that warns self-hosting shouldn’t be an end state, but a means to resilience, lands at the center of our digitized lives [1]. We are living through a moment when borders erupt into misinformation wars, platforms become battlegrounds over speech, and courts wrestle with the authenticity of digital traces [2][3][9]. And just as this turbulence crests, immersive technologies—virtual reality, augmented layers, synthetic co-presence—are poised to reshape how families, communities, and nations remember together and relate across age. The stakes are clear: if memory is now a moving target, we must learn to carry it with us.
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- Written by: Bob Fratenni
For millennia, rivers braided our stories together, carrying fish, silt, and folklore through the arteries of human settlement. Today, a study reported this weekend tells a starker tale: two thirds of the trash found in global rivers is plastic [1]. That single ratio sketches a planetary portrait of convenience turned consequence, of supply chains that accelerate while ecosystems suffocate. The finding is not an anomaly; it is the distilled logic of a throwaway era, rendered visible in the water that keeps us alive [1]. If rivers are mirrors, then we should be unsettled by the reflection they return. A species that treats waterways as conveyor belts for disposables is rehearsing for its own disposability, one flimsy wrapper at a time.
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- Written by: Anne Wienbloch
The headline that stuck with me this week wasn’t a market forecast or a new model drop; it was a reminder to speak up when creative labor is quietly swapped for a prompt. “My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don’t remain silent and accept no substitutes” tells the story of a woman who saw her local Pride event use an AI logo and pushed the organizers to hire her instead—a small act that exposed a larger pattern of how skills, especially women’s skills, get treated as interchangeable in the algorithmic era [4]. It’s a parable for August 2025: AI is everywhere, and so is the temptation to applaud the output while erasing the artist.
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Barbra Dender flies to the remote island of Socotra, hungry for an untouristed mystery and a new story for her glass cabinet of artifacts. She takes a whitewashed rental in Hadibu and explores the markets and highlands, where dragon’s blood trees hum in the wind and . . .
CHAPTER 1 - The Dragon’s Blood Covenant
At the fissure revealed by low tide, Barbra turns to find a wary Socotri boy who knows her name but refuses to help, warning that families are watching. Following his oblique hint westward, she treks toward Qalansiyah, past dragon’s blood trees leaning toward the surf. . . .
CHAPTER 2 - Whispers at Qalansiyah’s Blowhole
Trapped in the singing sea cave as the tide turns, Barbra is released at the last moment by unseen guardians who warn her off and seal the entrance, leaving her quest at a dead end. Days of silence from locals and a blocked fissure force her to step back, so she changes into . . .
CHAPTER 3 - When the Wind Refuses to Sing
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