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This just arrived!

You can get yours at www.manning.com/books/spring...

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November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Will never cease to amaze me how many corporations are willingly onboard with this regime shrinking their potential customer base.
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“ I wonder why we are so drawn in by the mystique of spycraft. We are seduced by the spies’ stories, the books and the films…. As Moore remarked during our lunch, to be a good spy “you have to be prepared to take the world as it is, not as you would like it”.”
@roulak.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore: Britain must regain the ‘power of example’
The outgoing head of the Secret Intelligence Service on the rise of China, why Putin is not interested in talks — and how screen spies aren’t always far from the truth
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Three Russian thinkers have made particular contributions to this Russian ideational environment, which enabled the attack on the Atlanticist vision: Alexander Dugin, Vladislav Surkov, and Sergei Karaganov.”

- Adam Dixon, @TheNatlInterest
The Men Behind Vladimir Putin’s Forever War
The Russia-Ukraine War won’t end easily because it is, at heart, a war of ideological passion waged by three men.
nationalinterest.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A new attack is mimicking a Windows update to try and trick users into executing malicious commands, likely to install malware.
This Windows Update Screen Is Actually a Hacker's Trap
A new attack is mimicking a Windows update to try and trick users into executing malicious commands, likely to install malware.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Get to Know Android Privacy and Security Settings
Open up your Android phone’s Settings app and you’ll find dozens of different options with little guidance on what those options do. Some of these settings have a serious impact on your privacy and security, altering what data gets shared automatically with apps, data brokers, and Google itself. What sorts...
ssd.eff.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Another sign of how hard the tech job market is for new grads.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Orville Schell discusses the relationship between Trump and Xi, the state of Washington’s China policy, and the contradictions that continue to roil the Chinese Communist Party.
Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice
A Conversation With Orville Schell
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Thirteen lives ended in seconds on Monday evening when a car exploded near the Red Fort. Behind each name on the casualty list lies a family now shattered and a future now impossible. … for several families, no investigation will bring back what they’ve lost.”

@newslaundry
Friends on a bike, pharmacist who left early: Those who never came home after Red Fort blast
And how their families learnt their loved ones were gone.
www.newslaundry.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This resonates. "Even as I personally got extremely frustrated at times by the coverage from some corners, the fear people had is real. The reason the stories went viral is because the Supreme Court has made it clear that law is more a matter of will than of principle."
NEW: Kim Davis is done. The Supreme Court is not reconsidering Obergefell. What happens now?

There is a reason people were afraid that the Supreme Court would take up case. The reason is the Supreme Court itself. Here's why I'm taking this whole experience seriously.

Today, at Law Dork:
Kim Davis is done. The Supreme Court is not reconsidering Obergefell. What happens now?
There is a reason people were afraid that the Supreme Court would take up case. The reason is the Supreme Court itself. Here's why I'm taking this whole experience seriously.
www.lawdork.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Historian of South Asia Audrey Truschke captured the difficult position of the Second Lady in a social media post: “Usha Vance is an enabler and victim of far-right intolerance.”…

when minority groups align with the American far right, “they are tolerated in a second-class way”.

by Rajiv Thind
JD Vance, Usha and the social media wars of religion - ABC Religion & Ethics
After Vice-President JD Vance expressed his desire that his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance — who was raised Hindu — would convert to Christianity, the online backlash demonstrated the dangers of politicis...
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“Flexible minds that can analyze novel and complex situations, clearly communicate their views, and deploy emotional intelligence to reach mutual understanding should be well suited to the AI-dominated workplace.”

@harveysawikin
Your Time Isn't Worth Shit
In recent years, my personal investing has brought me in contact with a number of tech managers, especially in the venture space.
harveysawikin.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“While massive data centers on land are the focus of the industry right now, and space-based internet is scaling up, undersea fiber is still the most crucial part of tech companies’ infrastructure for global computing today, as they handle 99% of all international network traffic.”

@jonkeegan.com
Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea
While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international...
sherwood.news
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“This time is different because the AI build out is so clearly a bubble. In fact, I believe many of the companies involved not only know this – I mean, how could you not? – but are now actually leveraging this reality.”

@mgsiegler.com
"Hey, There's a Bubble."
Yes, it's a bubble. Yes, that may be a good thing. Yes, it will hurt.
spyglass.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“There are a lot of cope reactionary theories out there to explain the weird disconnect between stock prices and the disjointed economy we experience every day.

For now (and always), I’m trusting the numbers.”

@calliecox.bsky.social
🤑 The wealth effect
Is the stock market now driving the economy?
www.optimisticallie.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Call it the Peter Bernstein Rule: When more than 30% of investors have no memory of the last bear market, look out!”

by William Bernstein, Edward McQuarrie
The Peter Bernstein Rule: Beware Empty Memory Banks
More than a generation ago, financial historian Peter Bernstein wrote about investors’ 'memory banks,' the market experience that accumulates in their hippocampi over their investing lives and molds t...
www.advisorperspectives.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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$TGT Target lowering prices on 3,000 items during holiday season @SeekingAlpha
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Do you blame them? It could end up on a Signal chat.
*UK SUSPENDS SOME INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH US: CNN
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Your Indian lineage can be celebrated only if you bow to Modi, embrace Hindutva, and stay silent on Ayodhya 1992 or Gujarat 2002.”

@sushantsingh.bsky.social
Narendra Modi's silence on Zohran Mamdani’s victory reveals what terrifies Hindutva supporters
Zohran Mamdani represents everything whose existence the Hindu Right has spent decades trying to deny.
caravanmagazine.in
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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To promote @adamkinzinger.substack.com recent Amazon film “The Last Republican”, re-upping our earlier discussion with Adam on how the Republican Party promotes conspiracy theories.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Adam Kinzinger of the Congressional January 6 Committee
Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 02/21/2024 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Woo-hoo! I am delighted to announce that my newest book, Spring AI in Action, is now complete and available at Manning! www.manning.com/books/spring...

If you're looking to learn how to apply GenAI in your Java projects, then check out my book.
Spring AI in Action - Craig Walls
Use Spring AI to add generative AI features like virtual assistants, text summaries, and suggestions to your Java applications. No matter what kind of software you’re building, there’s a huge demand ...
www.manning.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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(Bloomberg) - About a month ago, BlackRock deemed the private debt it had extended to Renovo Home Partners, a struggling home improvement company, to be worth 100 cents on the dollar. As of last week, the firm had a new assessment: zero.

@bloomberg.com $BLK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM