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En toda la historia de la Biblioteca de Alejandría, no hay registro de que ningún ilustre pensador haya cuestionado seriamentre el orden social. Se cuestionó incluso la permanencia de las estrellas, pero no la injusticia de la esclavitud. -- Carl Sagan (Cosmos, cap. XIII)

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

When the West tells you Mao killed 40 millions Chinese, the West hopes you never remember that there was an active embargo on China, even on food. Mainland China was subject to what Cuba endures still up to this day. teapaw.org/eva80835427/status/211…

playing commander at a LGS with randos as a woman is just signing up for constant microaggressions from ppl assuming you don’t know how to play magic asked to be seated w a friend* today and they assumed it was bc i needed help w gameplay (he has been playing <1yr, i am a judge)

the Prime Directive is correct, and captain picard’s edge case decisions are usually correct. there is no way to support a plural bloom of worlds and peoples if they are all immediately flattened by a global (or pan-galactic) Culture

the Federation loves to blur the line between civilian and military infrastructure for the obvious reasons of strategic ambiguity

CHINA’S ATTACK HELICOPTER defies gravity with INSANE PENDULUM-LIKE manoeuvre

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 U.S. Senator Chris Murphy who stated a few days ago that he had seen the new plan for an attack on Iran and called it catastrophic, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday, according to his chief of staff.

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🦇Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the SNES (by kaffeeware). Very impressive and well made conversion of the 1997 Konami PlayStation and Saturn juggernaut. This project does not use AI code. It's a v0.1 demo, but very polished so far. kaffeeware.itch.io/sotn-snes

BREAKING: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China tests a ballistic missile specifically designed for US aircraft carriers, using a mock-up in the desert. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has released footage that appears to show a ballistic missile hitting a full-scale mock-up of a U.S. aircraft carrier at a desert test range in Xinjiang. The missile is called DF-26B or some call it the “carrier killer” and can carry nuclear or conventional warheads

Houdini died in Detroit on Halloween 1926, a week after doing a show there with a fever of 104. Our May-June-July 1924 issue ran his "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs," ghostwritten by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, who lost the typescript on his way to his wedding. #weirdtober

🚨🇫🇷🔥 ALERTE INFO | Un policier a PRIS FEU à Paris après avoir été touché par un engin incendiaire. (BFMTV)

Staring back at me on pages 354/355 of Volume I of the Annotated Shakespeare was none other than...a young and bearded Sir Patrick Stewart, playing Touchstone in the 1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of "As You Like It"! I was awed and knew that I had discovered something extraordinary! 6/10

ファミコンの名作を3Dボクセル化するエミュレーター『3dSen PC』が、バージョン2.0に大型アップデート!! 今回新たに追加された「Retina」は、従来のようにドットをそのまま立方体として表現するのではなく、ボクセルの境界を越えて滑らかな曲面を描くことで、立体表現するシステム。 この他にも、反射や陰影、ピクセルシャドウなどの表示調整機能を追加。 更に入力遅延を軽減するRun Aheadも標準で有効になり、メニューの刷新やゲームパッド操作への対応など、使い勝手も大幅に向上している。 しかも、Windows版は64bit化され、MacではApple Siliconにネイティブ対応している上に、以前Steamで買った方は無償でアップデートが可能というのがサイコー。 store.steampowered.com/app/1… ファミコンゲームを、今風の3Dのボクセルなゲームに変換するというエミュレーターは、正に唯一無二だぞ!!

Anyone planning to attend a demonstration in support of Palestine Action in the vicinity of the US Embassy on Saturday, 31 October will face arrest as part of a robust policing operation. Expressing support for the group is an offence under the Terrorism Act following its proscription in June 2025, a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in June 2026. Read more: news.met.police.uk/news/met-…

Michael Pillar (head Star Trek TNG writer) published an unauthorized book about the show. There’s a great part where Patrick Stewart gets a first draft of the “Insurrection” movie script and absolutely roasts it.