Just the Browser disables all AI, ads and tracking traces from Chrome, Firefox and Edge The Just the Browser project is a new script that configures popular web browsers by disabling features unrelated to core web navigation. The project

The "Just the Browser" project has released a script that disables features unrelated to core navigation in popular browsers:

winaero.com/just-the-bro...

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An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”

An AI model trained on US prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls:

www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...

Article from the MIT Technology Review magazine, via the MIT The Download newsletter, Dec. 1, 2025

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The End of The End of History (a 90-minute video essay by one academic professional historian) :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iak...

Hrrmh. (Not quite 'Harrumph', but definitely at least 'hrrmh'.)

#fzLinks #fzWebVideos #history #philosophy #humanities

Israel's Qatar Strike Is The First Blow In The Next Phase Of Its War On Iran Once a fortress of neutrality and wealth, Qatar now finds itself on the front lines of an escalating regional conflict, as Israel, Iran, and Gulf powers maneuver for strategic advantage.

Israel's strike on Qatar, and on whether or not it has brought us closer to World War III:
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...

#Geopolitics #Israel #Qatar #Hamas #Trump #fzLinks #fz_links

Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalates Of the six F-16 fighter jets that Thailand readied to deploy along the disputed border, one of the aircraft fired into Cambodia and destroyed a military target, the Thai army said.

Wait what? Thailand and Cambodia are bombing each other, on brink of all-out war, right now? Over border disputes?

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

#War #WorldNews #Geopolitics #SoutheastAsia #fzLinks

WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZATION OF THE LIAR'S PARADOX Subjective truth is opposed to factual truth similar to the opposition between hysteria and obsessional neurosis: the first is a truth in the guise of a lie, and the second a lie in the guise of truth

Today I am reminded that Slavoj Zizek has an active Substack newsletter-mailinglist-account.

open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p...

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The Answers In Progress channel asks: "What Is the Future of Art (in a generative AI world)?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Yl...

#AIslop #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt #TechnoRealism #Luddism #AIArtDebate #fzWebVideos #fzLinks