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"How the military-industrial complex captured US democracy" #AlJazeera

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Belgium has announced 12 sanctions on Israel, incuding a ban on importing products from its settlements, a review of public procurement policies with Israeli companies, and banning 'extremist' Israeli ministers."

BBC: "Taco Bell is rethinking its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to power drive-through restaurants in the US after comical videos of the tech making mistakes were viewed millions of times. In one clip, a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more drinks to his order."

"Kazeta is.. a Linux-based gaming operating system that throws away almost everything about modern game delivery in favor of simplicity and physicality. It’s named after the Czech word for “cassette,” and the concept is as bold as it is nostalgic: you just load a DRM-free game onto a cartridge (an SD card), you slot it in, power on, and you’re playing. No menus, no logins, no software setup. Just you, your game, and a kind of cart in your hand...

[The founder:] 'In the last decade I have been gaming almost exclusively on SteamOS-like systems and have not kept up with modern console gaming and what that is like,' he explained. 'In recent years I started playing retro games on original hardware. Over time I started adding more and more consoles and eventually got to playing some modern ones. Consoles such as the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One. These were just awful experiences compared to the older consoles. You needed accounts and online connections and you had to install games that took forever. I had just assumed modern consoles were a good experience, but they were barely any better than the PC gaming experience. Sometimes worse.'.

That realization, that even dedicated gaming hardware had lost the immediacy of its predecessors, planted the first seed. 'I thought, why can’t we have the immediacy and simplicity of the older consoles?'"

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