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C.S. Lewis on why children need fairy tales. A timeless reminder that classic stories still matter.
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WATCH IN FULL: @SecRubio delivers a major foreign policy address from beneath the Acropolis in Athens
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We will rebuild.
This is what is going to happen:
1. Consciousness. The smart people are on X, and the understanding of what has been done to us is spreading faster than ever before. Every week, more people see the mechanism – and see that they are not alone.
2. Organization. Next, we organize. Networks of patriots across Western Civilization – rooted in their nations, connected to each other, coordinated through a Council of Western Civilization.
3. Creation. Then we retake culture – films, books, music, art, architecture, schools – and it spreads wider and wider. It is already happening: Atelier Missor, a French foundry, has just raised a bronze Prometheus beside the rockets built for Mars.
4. Civil society. Liberty, culture and civilization – the full stack – rebuilt from the ground up, the way young America did it when Tocqueville came to see: associations, schools, churches, clubs and foundations, built by citizens who didn’t wait for permission.
5. And only then, politics. Politics is the top floor of the building, not the foundation. When the culture has turned, politics follows.
It will not take fifty years. The fruit is ripe. It is happening already.
The left needed a century because it was building against reality – every lie needs constant maintenance. We are building with reality. That is why it will go much faster.
The honest builders will take it from the hands of the managers of the system of lies. Competence, talent and work instead of networks of corruption and cowardice.
Beauty. Ambition. Science. Merit. Brilliance. The civilization that gave birth to us.
The future is gonna be amazing. Formidable!
Patriots of Western Civilization, unite.🗽
Patriots of Western Civilization, Unite.
The left conquered Western culture with two weapons: an idea and a network.
We have the idea. We lack the network.
Everywhere, people have understood the same thing – Americans, Brazilians, Argentines, Poles, Italians, French. The diagnosis is identical: the progressive project is a fraud, and we have been living for decades inside an empire of lies. The same words, the same slogans, the same methods, in every capital. In Poland we always knew. Nobody wanted to listen.
But there is a bigger problem. Everyone fights alone. Each country wages its own war, in its own language, with its own media and its own heroes. The French reinvent every morning what the Americans tested three years ago.
We win battles. We don’t wage a war.
That is exactly where the left always beat us. It was international from the start: the First International in 1864, the Second in 1889, Lenin’s Comintern in 1919 – a worldwide network of parties, newspapers, cadre schools and slogans. And guess who spent more than a year at the Comintern in Moscow in the early 1920s? Antonio Gramsci – the man who invented the long march to conquer culture. The conquest was carried out nation by nation. The brain was global.
So here is what we must build: a network. Not a party. Not a central organization with a leader. A network of free men and women, each rooted in their own nation, all connected.
Patriots organizing across borders – a contradiction? No. It is the only answer to an adversary that always organized across borders. Defending your nation never meant having no allies. It always required them.
The mission: the cultural counter-revolution. The left marched through the institutions. We will march back. Schools, universities, newsrooms, publishing, cinema, music, sport, the courts, the administration. Not by force – by competence, talent and work.
And we won’t need a hundred years. AI is breaking the two locks that held their hegemony in place. The first was the cost of production: a film needed millions, a studio, a subsidy – whoever held the counter held the culture. Soon a handful of talented people will do what took hundreds. The second lock was language: tomorrow a film shot in France will be released the same day in twenty languages. And a new battlefield is opening – the most important of all. Tomorrow, common sense will be whatever the machines answer. The long march will also run through the models.
But tools without organization are noise. The national networks must talk, synchronize, support each other. When one of us is censored, debanked or smeared, it is not for one country to respond. It is for all.
That is why we need a Council of Western Civilization. Not a headquarters – a meeting place. Public and transparent, everything the other side never was. It gives no orders. It maps what works, circulates it, and makes sure no one fights alone.
Let’s give the adversary its due: the left was brilliant, patient, methodical. It built narratives while the right built factories. And narratives won. Lenin reportedly called cinema the most important of the arts; the left took him at his word. The right still thinks it is entertainment. We need our own films, series, cartoons and games – not to explain what we fight, but to make people love what we defend. Beauty. Ambition. Science. Merit. The civilization that gave birth to us.
They had the institutions without the peoples. We have the peoples without the institutions.
Not for long.
In prison, Gramsci wrote that a crisis is when the old is dying and the new cannot be born. A century later, the old world that is dying is his.
The new can be born. But not by itself. It will be born if we build it – together, everywhere, at the same time.
Patriots of Western Civilization, unite.
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A chart becomes harder to read the moment your ego decides what it should say.
Three vendor quotes can have the same total and still not be comparable.
This is how to tell:
A quote has five parts that change the real price: the product edition, the quantity, the contract length, the billing frequency, and what's excluded (installation, support hours, cabling, training). Vendors vary at least two of these on purpose. Then the totals look close, and the cheapest one wins on a number that was never the same product.
Before you compare, rebuild all three on one sheet with the same edition, the same quantity, the same term and the same payment schedule, and list what each leaves out.
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$APLD reports Wednesday after the close, and the options market is pricing a 12.3% move either way, per Benzinga.
That number is called the implied move. It's the size of the swing that traders are paying to protect against, not a prediction of direction. A 12% implied move on an AI data-center builder says the market thinks the result could shift the story in either direction.
If you own it, the number tells you how big the surprise could be. It doesn't tell you which way.
benzinga.com/markets/market-…
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$MSFT began charging 5% extra on October 1 if you pay monthly instead of yearly. Check which kind of subscription you have before your next renewal.
A software subscription runs on two separate clocks. The term is how long you're committed, usually one year. The billing is how often you pay: monthly, or once up front. Most owners treat those as one thing. The vendor doesn't.
For annual-term subscriptions sold through Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider channel (the resellers who sell Microsoft licences), Microsoft now adds what it calls a cost-of-capital uplift of 5% when the customer pays monthly. It covers Windows Server, SQL Server, client access licences and System Center, and it applies at renewal on or after October 1, per partner guides from Work365 and Itecs.
The logic is that if you pay monthly, Microsoft waits for its money, so it charges you for waiting. Same product, same year, same commitment. Five percent more because of the payment schedule.
Two things to know. Month-to-month subscriptions and annual-billed ones are not hit by it. And paying annually puts more cash out on day one, so the 5% you save is a trade against your reserves, not a free win.
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A trade deal that excludes your biggest ask isn't really a resolution. It's a postponement with better headlines
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The US and China just published their official tariff cut lists, covering $60 billion in trade under a new "30-for-30" deal.
China left out the one product America wanted most, soybeans, from its 1,600+ item list
US soybean exports to China were worth $12.8 billion in 2024, that is alone 43% of the entire $30 billion tariff relief package.
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Someone on your team turned on an AI tool this week without asking anyone, and there is a real chance nobody in your company could tell you which tool, what it can see, or when it happened.
IT and security teams describe the same pattern right now: AI tools spread through convenience, one employee at a time, faster than anyone can review them. A salesperson connects an AI note-taker to their calendar. Someone in finance pastes a spreadsheet into a chatbot to summarize it. A marketing contractor signs up for an AI writing tool with their work email and grants it access to your shared drive, because the free trial asked for read access and nobody thought twice.
None of that shows up as a security incident. It shows up as a login. And by the time anyone in IT notices, the tool already has whatever data it was given.
The old approval model assumed IT reviewed a tool before anyone used it. That model breaks the moment sign-up takes thirty seconds and no purchase order is required. You can't approve what you don't know exists.
What actually works is smaller than a policy document: require a short registration step before any tool connects to company email, files, or customer data. Name of the tool, what it connects to, who's using it, who signed off. Ten minutes, not a committee.
If an employee connected a new AI tool to company data today, how would you find out? If the honest answer is "we wouldn't," that's the gap worth closing before it's a bigger problem than a tool you didn't pick.
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Here's the plain version of what Max is describing.
Someone on your team signs up for a new AI tool with a work email, connects it to your email or your files, and starts using it that same afternoon. Nobody asked IT. Nobody checked what data that tool can now see or keep.
This is called shadow AI, and it happens through convenience, not malice. The fix isn't banning AI tools. It's requiring a 10-minute registration step before any tool touches company data: what it is, what it connects to, who approved it.
AI is getting turned on across the business faster than security teams can review it.
That changes the job. The question is no longer just whether a tool is safe enough to approve. It is what already has access to company data by the time security gets involved.
If AI is already showing up in the tools your teams use every day, find out what can access your data before an incident does it for you. vist.ly/5k5qf
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Develado San Miguel de Arcángel para la bendición de todos. ¡Que momento tan especial vivimos esta tarde!
Two ways software gets priced: seat-based, where you pay per person with a login, and usage-based, where you pay for what actually gets used, like API calls or data processed. Seat-based is predictable but wastes money on inactive logins. Usage-based scales with real activity but makes next month's bill a guess.
Ask which one you're actually signing.
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Veeam, a company that sells backup software and has no reason to defend a competitor's lock-in, published its own list of what a small business should actually demand from a backup vendor. Most of the list is about security. One item is about something else entirely: what happens the day you want to leave.
Your backup files should be portable, meaning they stay usable if you switch vendors or storage, carrying your existing backup history with you instead of forcing you to start over. If a vendor's backup files only work inside that vendor's own software you've just bought years of recovery history that becomes worthless the moment you want to leave.
That's easy to miss at signing time, because every backup vendor's pitch focuses on the same three things: how fast can you recover, how resistant is the backup to ransomware, and how much does it cost.
The portability issue is different, because it's the one question that works against the vendor's own interest to answer honestly. A vendor whose backup format locks you in has no reason to volunteer that fact, and most buyers never think to ask.
Two other items from the same list are worth raising for the same reason. First, transparent per-workload pricing: ask for a clear cost calculation with no hidden fees or unexpected tier jumps as your data grows, and ask to see the math, not just the current invoice. Second, automated backup verification: a real test that boots an actual copy of your backup in an isolated environment on a schedule, not just a status light showing the job completed. A completed backup and a recoverable backup are not the same thing.
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The bill isn't the number to watch, but the commitment underneath it. Most cloud contracts lock in a spend level for a year or more based on what you needed when you signed. If your needs shrink, the commitment doesn't shrink with them.
When was the last time you checked whether your cloud spend still makes sense?
Your needs can change a lot after you sign, while the commitment stays exactly the same.
Before you commit to another year of cloud spend, make sure you're not paying for a decision you wouldn't make today. vist.ly/5ixw9
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Every vendor tells you switching later will be easy. Three separate contract mechanisms usually make sure it isn't, and all three can be checked before you sign.
Full breakdown:
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A waxed cotton jacket that's gone matte and pale at the shoulders and elbows isn't ruined. It's supposed to do that, and most people throw the jacket out right when it's ready for it's fix.
Waxed cotton is cotton canvas treated with a paraffin or oil-based wax that makes it water-resistant and windproof without needing a membrane or laminate underneath, which is why the jacket breathes better than a modern technical shell. The tradeoff is that the wax wears off with use, fastest at the points that flex and take friction: shoulders under a bag strap, elbows, cuffs.
The fix is called re-waxing, and it's a real, expected part of owning one of these jackets. You warm the jacket, usually with a hair dryer or in a warm room, then work a wax made specifically for the fabric into the worn patches with a cloth, and let it cure for a day or two. Barbour, one of the oldest names in this category, sells its own tin of the correct wax for exactly this reason and expects you to use it every year or two depending on how hard the jacket gets worn.
What actually ruins a waxed jacket is washing it in a machine or drying it with heat, not ordinary wear. Machine heat strips the wax unevenly and can crack the cotton underneath. Spot clean with a damp cloth, and re-wax on a schedule instead.
The next time a jacket like this looks pale and dry at the shoulders, that's not the end of it. That's the moment it's due for the one thing that was always part of owning it.
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$WBD jumped 8% overnight. Forget the stock move. What matters is the $7 million a day, starting October 1. Here's the timeline behind it, and what it means... 🧵
finance.biggo.com/news/b748a…
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Big merger agreements often include a ticking fee: a payment, usually owed by the buyer to the seller, that starts accruing if the deal doesn't close by an agreed date. Paramount's clock starts October 1. So this is where the $7 million a day comes in...
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