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The everyday data collected from ordinary people trains the models militaries use to identify who to kill.
What's at stake, the essay argues, is killing done in your name.
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On artificial intelligence he declines to speculate, except on one point: power is held by agents, and no model can tell the moral from the merely customary.
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Blockchain's second act is not money. It is proving a human, not a machine, meant to press the button.
Built to make the trusted third party unnecessary, it is now applying to be one.
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Two corners tried to stop the same fight. Frazier's trainer got there first.
Fifty years on, the words that survived are glory, guts and grit.
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A plutonium bomb painted with Rita Hayworth's face and named after her film. To the men who painted it, this was nose art.
Little Boy. Fat Man. Peacekeeper. The names made it liveable.
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The ships survived Bikini. They floated, the engines ran. No one could board them.
Seawater, steam, acid, scrubbing, paint removal. Eight methods. None worked.
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His father was executed in Tehran before he was born. His mother named him from a dream: Bayram, Azeri for Celebration.
He was two when they left Iran over the Zagros Mountains.
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Five hundred years of conflict. At least 120,000 lives, by conservative count. On 14 September, Mindanao holds its first parliamentary election — four years late.
It was never only a war of religion.
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10:45 in the morning, so 68 countries could watch. 50°C in the arena. Frazier fought rounds 12 to 14 effectively blind in one eye.
Boxing calls this its greatest night.
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The smartphone made civilians participants. If you are not a soldier by proxy, you are an intelligence officer by proxy.
If you are neither, you are a propaganda agent for a side you may not know you serve.
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September 1948: Israel's first ambassador reaches Moscow. Twenty thousand fill a synagogue to celebrate. In November the Politburo dissolves the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
The cheering was the evidence.
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The power that matters most is the kind nobody has to exercise. Fear & love deployed at once. An agenda not suppressed but flooded. Steven Lukes returns to the book he wrote in 1974 and names it demobilization through chaos.
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In 1946 American airmen painted Rita Hayworth onto a plutonium bomb and named it Gilda. Little Boy. Fat Man. Peacekeeper. Not one of these names describes the weapon.
It worked.
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21 kilotons, 90 feet under Bikini Lagoon. The photograph everyone knows is the column of water. What mattered came off its base and went sideways through ninety ships.
The ships survived. Shot Charlie was cancelled.
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Berlin, March 1929. He leaves on the 21st because the Zeppelin will probably leave on the 24th. Ullstein wants him to see Eckener first.
Europe on the ground came out to greet Europe in the air.
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They finished arming it in the air, fearing a crash on takeoff. Forty-three seconds later: 1,900 feet above #Hiroshima.
Simple is what we call a thing once we decide it had to happen.
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Can you imagine how proud and excited we feel walking into one of the country’s biggest bookstores and seeing @circusbazaar Magazine placed front and center — facing outward for everyone to see?
Huge respect to @norliEldorado for the support!
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to @MariaCorinaYA.
Peace — the most dangerous #Circus performance of them all.
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A short reflection on Matthew Ford’s (@warmatters) War in the Age of the Smartphone — a book that reminds us nobody is a non-participant in the digital age.
Read it now on Circus Bazaar Magazine
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“With Frazier fighting blind and Ali on death’s door, neither man knew when to quit — or when enough was enough.”
By Mark Daniel from @mad_aboutboxing
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