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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

As global tensions continue to evolve, understanding the historical relationship between religion and warfare remains critical for fostering dialogue and promoting mutual respect among different faiths. Published in: 2023 www.ebsco.com/research-sta...

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Religion and war | Religion and Philosophy | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

<p>Religion and war are deeply intertwined concepts that have shaped human history in complex ways. Religion can be broadly defined as a belief system that significantly influences the values and beha...

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Niels Bohr #quote

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 21/02/2026

“The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app – Hi, I'm Heather Burns” heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/the-pr… > perhaps you should consider the fact that your difficult employee may be on to something.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Mexico, Canada announce joint economic action plan for a post-USMCA future

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Section 122 of the U.S. Trade Act — an alternative instrument that authorizes temporary tariffs of up to 15% in the event of “large and serious” deficits in the U.S. balance of payments — “allows action without prior congressional approval, but only for a maximum period of 150 days.”

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The Budget Lab at Yale University estimates consumers face an average effective tariff rate of 9.1 percent with Friday's decision, down from 16.9 percent. But it said this "remains the highest since 1946," excluding 2025.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

the "open source LLMs running locally" idea is very naive nobody in the OS community has the resources to build an LLM "from scratch" - mainly ppl use a variant of Llama - meta's LLM - trained on stolen data that was cleaned by underpaid workers in global south - and thus exhibit the same biases

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thousands of companies around the world have filed lawsuits challenging Trump's sweeping tariffs and sought refunds on the duties they have paid. There is a risk more than $175 billion in U.S. tariff collections will need to be refunded, according to Penn-Wharton Budget Model economists.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A LIMITED MILITARY STRIKE TO PRESSURE IRAN INTO REACHING A DEAL, ACCORDING TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#Crypto is the new #Fiat 🤪😎🦴👀 Coinbase has rolled out a new lending facility that allows U.S. customers to borrow up to $100,000 in USD Coin against holdings in XRP, Dogecoin (DOGE), Cardano (ADA), and Litecoin (LTC) #bitcoin 🪙

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Of all the "what ifs" hanging over the start of the Pacific War, Konoe's raging case of hemorrhoids is a tale yet to be told It was evidently so severe he carried a cushion everywhere he went. Some close to him later said, “Had his hemorrhoids not become so bad, the war might have been avoided”

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A record share of investors — 35% — say companies are spending too much on AI, per a new Bank of America global fund manager survey out yesterday.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

When women achieve great things, it was erroneously supposed that "they were not Women who did those Great Actions, but that they were Men in Petticoats!", the philosopher Mary Astell wrote in 1705. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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The myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men

Scientific research is up-ending age-old gender stereotypes about empathy – and revealing new ways of thinking about masculinity.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A student was writing a paper. I commented on a paragraph, they edited and ran it through GenAI, and sent it to me to review again. I commented that the meaning of the paragraph was now different: which was correct? The first sense or the second? The student could not perceive the change.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In Renaissance-era England, medicine was still based on the theory of the four humours, passed down from ancient Greek and Roman physicians like Hippocrates and Galen. But from the reign of Henry VIII, there were signs of change. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

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BBC Audio | You're Dead To Me | Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"I lost sight of the central tenet of life, that reality can't be controlled, it's too random, too chaotic."

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Gigantic amounts of private and public capital are flowing into ever-increasing and resource-intensive data and data centers, as well as high-density satellite networks, with hardly foreseeable ecological, social and political consequences. www.zentrumkuensteundkulturtheorie.ch/veranstaltun...

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Im Maschinenraum der Cloud

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

Further proof that this is the worst MLM in history

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 12/02/2026

Humanity is the name of his yacht

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The clinical progression described by Thucydides—fever, conjunctivitis, bloody cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, rash, and high mortality—is compared with the presentations of typhoid fever, smallpox, epidemic typhus, measles, and plague. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A plague like no other: beyond the buboes in Thucydides' account of the Plague of Athens

The Athens Plague (430–427 BCE) was a devastating outbreak during the Peloponnesian War, described in detail by Thucydides. Although there is ongoing …

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

There have been numerous surveys over the years intended to prove that conservatives are more stupid than liberals and vice versa, so many that it is almost impossible to draw any meaningful conclusion. spectator.com/article/to-u...

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To understand pure stupidity, watch The News Agents

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“It is very likely that the regulated public service prices in Argentina will see a strong increase this year, and the new methodology for measuring inflation will give those increases a lot more weight,” apnews.com/article/arge...

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Argentina's monthly inflation ticks up as Milei faces backlash over an outdated index

Inflation in crisis-prone Argentina accelerated more than expected and for a fifth straight month in January.

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Perry Como @igorwaltritsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

$10 billion per year in costs via overdose fatalities.

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