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Generation Kneecap Is Transforming Irish Politics

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 22:58

This decade has been one of renewed strength and electoral influence for Sinn Féin. Under the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald, the party has established itself as a major force in the country’s south, finishing second in successive elections and steadily increasing its number of TDs, while in the Six Counties it achieved an historic […]

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Hezbollah Destroys 50 Israeli Merkava Tanks in Three Weeks As Israel Fails to Occupy South Lebanon

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 08:24

Yet despite the intensity of Israel's bombardment, Hezbollah has not collapsed. On the contrary, the group continues to demonstrate significant military capability. Reports indicate that just in the last three weeks, 50 Israeli tanks have been destroyed, and Hezbollah units remain active across multiple fronts. Far from being diminished, the organization is widely believed to retain a force numbering in the tens of thousands—potentially exceeding the size of the Lebanese army itself.

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Terror Alarm: Inside the Shady Israeli Group Crowdfunding the Kidnapping of Dr. Marandi

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 07:57

Terror Alarm promotes itself as a service that can predict who will carry out attacks, based on their social media posts, and can share that information with governments and police forces. However, its own source code, netizens have exposed, dictates which groups are considered worthy of support and which are “opposed entities.” While the UAE, Turkey, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel and “Jews and Zionists worldwide” are considered positive groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Chinese Communist Party are all placed on their own private terrorist list. 

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Six months following DrupalCon Vienna: the Drupal AI Initiative arrives in Chicago, showing significant progress and major releases

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 07:16

Author: Priyanka Jeph

At DrupalCon Vienna, Dries Buytaert opened his keynote with a question the room was already asking: what happens to Drupal in a world full of AI?

He answered with a live demonstration showcasing three things the initiative had built and shipped:

  • Pace of delivery: pages that used to take hours now get built in minutes. 
  • Brand and voice control: a new Context Control Center feature lets teams set their brand voice once, and every AI agent applies it. 
  • Governance at scale: autonomous agents scan the site, find internal references, and propose updates.

The keynote highlighted an important aspect: humans stay in the loop and approve every change before anything goes live.

Beyond the "AI Average": How Drupal is the Future of ‘Quality at Scale’

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 07:00

In his ‘#DriesNote’ presentation at DrupalCon Chicago 2026, Dries addressed the elephant in the room: AI is currently flooding the web with "average" content: fast to produce, but hard to distinguish. While there are tools that can generate beautiful prototypes in 15 minutes with no technical skill, those prototypes lack the structured data, governance, and durability required by serious organizations.

Drupal is bridging the gap between “AI speed” and enterprise assurance through two key innovations: the Context Control Centre (CCC) and Drupal Canvas AI, a new approach to building digital experiences.

The Context Control Centre (CCC): Institutional ‘Knowledge as a Service’

The most significant hurdle for AI today is a lack of context. Without it, AI simply gives you the "average response." The Context Control Centre changes this by allowing organizations to store their unique "DNA" directly within Drupal.

Zooming in: firm-level expectations for economy-wide inflation

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 01:00
Federico Pessina, Maren Froemel and Ivan Yotzov Understanding inflation expectations is key for monetary policy makers and has been central to the policy debate in recent years. We use data from the Decision Maker Panel (DMP) – an economy-wide UK business survey – to analyse businesses’ expectations about aggregate CPI inflation, and the relationship with … Continue reading Zooming in: firm-level expectations for economy-wide inflation →

Risk and Reward As Perceived in American Strategic Culture

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Fri, 27/03/2026 - 00:30
~by Sean Paul Kelley How does the way an individual perceives time affect the way they approach risk? And can the way individuals perceive time and risk be applied on a macro scale? Let’s take a look. Sociologist Phillip Zimbardo developed a five way typology of how individuals perceive time. People who inhabit certain zones […]

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: February 2026: Atrocities 731-779

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Thu, 26/03/2026 - 22:30

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

Against the Clock App

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Created
Thu, 26/03/2026 - 20:00

In a bright office in Jakarta, a TikTok content moderator watches a livestream shift from ordinary to traumatic within seconds. A car crashes into another. The sound overwhelms the feed. Blood covers the ground while a woman kneels beside someone who no longer moves. For moderators working on live content, decisions must be made in […]