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For those of you who host their own website, do you use a static site generator, or have you in the past, and if so what static site generators were your favorite to work with?

Get a closer look at the mechanics of combat and exploration necessary to help Ariana's fulfill her mission and return magic to the world in the System Trailer! Ariana and the Elder Codex out now on Steam, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch!

【About Ariana and the Elder Codex】 The Librarian Ariana's mission is to repair the Seven Hero Codices, which have been altered. Due to the terrible damages, magic has vanished from the world.

By utilizing special Librarian magic that allows her to enter Codices, Ariana seeks to mend the books to bring back magic. Can Ariana safely repair each tome and unravel the mysteries hidden within the Library?

【Key Features】 Restore the books, reclaim the magic — Venture into the Seven Hero Codices as Ariana, defeating enemies to earn new Magic Spells and Skills that grant access to previously unreachable areas. Restore Repair Points by taking on platforming and combat challenges that put your abilities to the test. Clear Repair Points as quickly as possible for permanent HP boosts and more!

Librarian Magic materializes — With 30+ unlockable Magic Spells and Skills, mix and match abilities across six slots as you embark on your journey to repair the altered Codices. Experiment with different combinations to discover what best suits your playstyle.

Clash with the guardians of the altered Codices — Face formidable bosses, each with a devastating arsenal that will test your combat and platforming skills. Dodge spells, time your attacks, and stay on top of your health to prevail.

Harness the power of Magic Items — Mitigate challenges by unlocking, crafting, and equipping Magic Items to boost stats and gain buffs such as elemental boosts, increased critical hits, reduced knockback, and more!

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These new ICE Glasses, building on available glasses that allow video recording and heads-up data display, will be able to pulse vast federal holdings of biometric data — from facial recognition to walking gait — to identify people in real-time.

Per the budget document:

“The project will deliver innovative hardware, such as operational prototypes of smart glasses, to equip agents with real-time access to information and biometric identification capabilities in the field.”

A Department of Homeland Security attorney who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity said of the ICE Glasses project, “It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors.” The official also says that the technologies and algorithms behind the smart glasses are as applicable to general government surveillance as they are to the current immigration war.

Here is the entire report: The resurgence of manufacturing: Reindustrialization of Europe and the US – 2026 (pdf)

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The resurgence of manufacturing: Reindustrialization of Europe and the US – 2026, the third edition of the Capgemini Research Institute’s annual research, examines how organizations are reshaping manufacturing and supply chain strategies in an increasingly volatile global environment. Since 2024, repeated disruptions – from pandemic-related impacts and geopolitical conflict to rising energy challenges – have accelerated a shift from short-term cost efficiency toward resilience, sovereignty, and strategic control.

In 2026, nearly three-quarters of organizations have a reindustrialization strategy in place or under development. However, despite strong strategic intent, planned investments – outside highly strategic areas such as semiconductors and defense – have declined amid policy and tariff uncertainty, bleak economic climate, and tighter capital allocation.

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The research draws on a survey of more than 1,200 senior executives across 13 sectors and 11 countries in Europe and the US, complemented by in-depth executive interviews.

Key findings include:

• European organizations are more inclined toward friendshoring [relocating part of the manufacturing/production/supplier base/service providers to countries that are geopolitical or trade allies of the organization's home country], with 64% using this approach. This preference is driven by elevated energy prices, higher labor costs, modest productivity growth, and complex, fragmented regulatory requirements within their domestic markets.

• Among non‑domestic locations, India, Vietnam, Mexico, and Canada are the top reindustrialization destinations. For example, 82% of surveyed organizations are either planning to expand or maintain investments in India. Most organizations are taking a pragmatic approach to China by rebalancing operations rather than exiting abruptly.

• Although 64% of organizations are maintaining or increasing investments in China (including for local/regional/global supply chains), organizations are strategically rebalancing operations with China depending on destination markets, and exploring different collaboration models to leverage scale, cost advantages, and innovation, while mitigating risk exposure. Also, the strategies vary by industry—for example, A&D prioritizes security and IP protection, while electronics and consumer goods pursue “China‑plus‑one” strategies.

• Technology, especially AI, act as a catalyst for reindustrialization. AI (including generative and agentic AI), automation, robotics, digital twins, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and edge computing can help tackle labor shortages and improve productivity, but also reduce time‑to‑market, enable flexible production lines, boost quality, and improve resilience. Production planning, supply‑chain risk modeling/scenario modeling, and workforce optimization are some of the high‑impact use cases of agentic AI in manufacturing.

• Organizations are setting up tech‑intensive greenfield factories in semiconductors, electronics, and electric vehicles (EVs). However, a shortage of skilled industrial and digital talent is a significant constraint on scaling reindustrialization.

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I made a video on my YT channel this week about google alternatives, and found a site called Marginalia Search, based in Sweden, that focuses on non-commercial content. That choice in this digital ecosystem means you get a lot of weird, old, and interesting stuff when you use it.

Here's the video if anyone's interested in Google alternatives, but feel free to ignore it. There are chapters for the TLDW crowd too.

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Rachel Griffin Accurso, widely known as Ms. Rachel, joins MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton on “The Beat” and speaks out against child ICE detention.

Jean-Michel Jarre has attacked the conservatism of the music and film industries over AI and urged them to embrace the technology instead of being fearful and “very anti-AI”.

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Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation.

Campaign groups No Music For Genocide and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel are calling for a boycott of this year’s highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.

More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israel’s participation.

The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN – the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation – from the upcoming contest.

“For the third consecutive year,” the letter states, Israel will be “celebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

“We refuse to be silent when Israel’s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,” the letter reads. “When children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all that’s left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: “People of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israel’s leaders speak openly about the contest’s geopolitical value.”

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