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Like the Luddites of two centuries ago, pundits tell us to fear AI because it might put people out of work and create mass unemployment. But AI is not a threat to our jobs, unlike the regulation the government unleashes ostensibly to control AI.

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Microsoft hat ein Update außer der Reihe für Windows-11-Enterprise-Clients mit Hotpatching veröffentlicht.

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I was able to find time this evening to set up my telescope. I photographed one of my favorite objects, the Rosette Nebula. The Rosette Nebula is a vast cloud of gas and dust located roughly 5,000 light-years away and is about 130 light-years across — large enough that, if visible to the naked eye, it would appear six times the diameter of the full Moon. The central cavity is created by stellar winds from young, hot stars at the center of the nebula.

Keen observers will see the outline of a telephone pole (or wire?) that I failed to notice when I centered my scope on the Rosette Nebula. The pole distorted the color / light in a “band” in the upper 1/3 on the right side, cutting across the center of the photo. The pole “rotated” through a portion of the photo, leaving the lighter “swath” of color.

Pro-democracy protest photos

FIRST EVER protest of Potomac Dems in Dumfries, Virginia

Protest in Sacramento, CA neighborhood on 3/10 from 4:30-5:30pm. A couple of women rolled down their car window to thank us for being out there so I invited them to join us the following week!

Freeport, Maine, Visibility Brigade on the streets 3/14/26

Loud and proud at our Saturday protest - Indivisible Mendocino Coast -- Photos, Bob Dominy

Tesla SF

Woodstock, Va. Week 54 and counting!

Photos Lexington KY Parade. Peaceful Bluegrass Resistance pro democracy group protesting in the Lexington, KY Saint Patrick’s day Parade 3/14/26.

San Luis Obispo, CA

Anchorage, Alaska

Lyons, CO 3/14/26. Weekly protests since February 2025

Mar. 14, 2026. Salem, MA. People stood at Riley Plaza in downtown Salem to protest Trumps policies. The protest occurs weekly on Saturdays from 12-1.

March 14, 2026. Burlington, MA.ICE Stand out is organized by the No Fear Street Theater at the intersection of Mall Rd & District Ave in Burlington and is a weekly protest on Saturdays, 11am-1pm.

March 14, 2026. Middleton, MA. Citizens stood out in front of the Flint Library to protest Trump’s policies. The Rally for Democracy was sponsored by Our Community Indivisible and is a weekly event on Saturdays from 10-11 in front of the Flint library.

On Saturday, March 14th, Indivisible Progressive Watertown, MA, co-hosted their monthly Stand Out for Democracy and against ICE. We called our protest Spring Into Action - Get ready for No Kings III.

Kansas City MO

Berkeley Springs, WV

Thank you for this message. It’s powerful! I will send another photo from the rally that day. I’m 73 years old and FINALLY getting off my begonias to be seen and heard. My 2nd protest. I know!!!

Weekly rally in Jax Beach Florida. That poor frog was miserable (because of the temperature!)

Engaged Defenders for Democracy, from today's rally in Hillsborough, NC, one of five Defend Democracy demonstrations held today in this area.

Apple Valley, Minnesota

Today in Ossining, NY.

A good crowd today at the Cape Cod Women for Change/ MidCape Indivisible protest in Hyannis, MA.

Westbrook, Maine, sat 3/14/26

Hyannis Airport Rotary, Cape Cod, MATwice monthly

Champlain Valley Indivisible held our 1st birthday party this past week. Today's demonstration in South Burlington, VT was our 117th event.

50 plus folks West Hartford CT 3/14/26

Newton MA on Pi Day 3/14/26

I am guessing folks will like this protest photo … taken at our favorite busy intersection in Bothell WA (part of the Seattle metro area).

We had 17 people (and a unicorn!) at our Defend Democracy Saturday demonstration in Apex, NC this morning. We hold these weekly demonstrations as one of many Engaged Defenders for Democracy's (ED4D) scheduled visibility events each week.

We stood with about 40 protesters on a Saturday (they are there every day now) on a busy intersection just down the road from the ICE detention center in Burlington, MA.

Engaged Defenders for Democracy in Durham NC.

Defend Democracy Saturday in Morrisville, NC! We had 19 today!

Sheffield MA -oldest town in the Berkshires -our weekly Friday protest

Santa Rosa, CA

Rally pics from Grass Valley, CA. We are stronger together, Robert!!!

The Umbrella Brigade in New Haven CT at a busy intersection in New Haven at rush hour Lots of honks

Seneca Falls, NY. The day before International Women's Day in the birthplace of Women's Suffrage

Ithaca, NY on February 24 on the Commons

3/13 Hartford

Petaluma Indivisible in California - weekly group of 50 folks every Thursday and Saturday, plus Signs of Fascism on Tuesdays

Bridge Brigade in Sarasota, Florida.

Pics from stand up for science

Protest photos from West Chester, PA

Thursday standout in Swampscott, MA.

We marked the one-year anniversary (!) on March 14 of the Dump Trump Weekly Demonstration in Oakland, CA.

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🇪🇺 Európsky parlament prijal správu o rozširovaní Európskej únie, v ktorej zdôrazňuje, že prijímanie nových členských štátov je strategickou investíciou do bezpečnosti a stability Európy. Podľa europoslancov je rozširovanie reakciou na meniacu sa geopolitickú situáciu a pomáha predchádzať vzniku tzv. geopolitických „šedých zón“, ktoré by mohli byť vystavené silnejšiemu vplyvu zahraničných mocností.

📊 Parlament zároveň upozorňuje, že náklady na nerozšírenie EÚ by mohli byť vyššie než náklady spojené s prijatím nových členov. Správa pripomína, že niektoré kandidátske krajiny už stanovili konkrétne ciele v prístupových rokovaniach, napríklad Čierna Hora s Albánskom chcú ukončiť rokovania o vstupe do EÚ do roku 2026, respektíve 2027.

👉 Europoslanci zároveň vyzývajú Radu Európskej únie aby podporila tento pokrok, ak bude sprevádzaný reálnymi reformami. Parlament tiež požaduje rýchle otvorenie ďalších rokovacích kapitol s krajinami ako Ukrajina a Moldavsko.

⚖️ Poslanci zároveň zdôrazňujú, že proces vstupu do EÚ musí zostať založený na zásluhách jednotlivých krajín a musí byť podmienený splnením požadovaných reformných krokov. Medzi najdôležitejšie podmienky patria dodržiavanie princípov právneho štátu, demokratické reformy, sloboda médií, ochrana menšín, nezávislosť súdnictva a boj proti korupcii.

📈 Dôležitým ukazovateľom pripravenosti krajín na vstup je aj ich zosúladenie so spoločnou zahraničnou a bezpečnostnou politikou EÚ. Správa zároveň upozorňuje na rastúcu podporu členstva v EÚ na Islande a víta iniciatívy Grónska na posilnenie spolupráce s Európskou úniou.

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