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Armed Services members in the dark on details of war costs

The House and Senate Armed Services panels have yet to be briefed on the costs of the Iran war, members and aides said Thursday. This week, Pentagon officials gave the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee an estimate of $11.3 billion for the war’s first week, a figure first reported Wednesday by…

Roll Call

The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

Editorial: On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth

The Guardian - UK

250 Years Later, The Wealth of Nations Still Has Lessons To Offer the Political Class

Governments have yet to accept that free societies are also prosperous societies.

Reason

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Economist Dambisa Moyo says CEOs must play a role in sustaining a consumer class as AI eliminates jobs

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Fortune

Iran war powers resolution defeated in House

The House on Thursday rejected a war powers resolution that sought to curb ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran.

Roll Call

Why does this river slice straight through a mountain range? After 150 years, scientists finally know

The western US is a geologists’ dream, home to the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, active volcanoes and striking sandstone arches. But one landform simply doesn’t make sense.

The Conversation

The Colorado River's largest tributary flows 'uphill' for over 100 miles — and geologists may finally have an explanation for it

Millions of years ago, the Green River carved a path through the Uinta Mountains instead of flowing around the formation. Now, researchers have discovered how this could have happened.

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Paralyzing winter storms put a big chill on US economy, but how much?

Experts say the massive winter storm hitting the American East is taking a multi-billion dollar toll on the U.S. economy

The Independent UK

Bournemouth 3-2 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened

Amine Adli struck a last-gasp winner for Bournemouth as Liverpool’s comeback ultimately ended in vain

The Guardian - UK

For 37 years, Missouri mother tells son to never open box in freezer. But he breaks the promise only to question his entire life

The one time the phrase "listen to your parents" sounds reasonable.

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Larian's main focus for Divinity is 'to see how far we can push the diversity of companions' so intra-NPC relationships can feel more natural and complex

Your new best friends are getting a makeover.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity lead writer says AI-generated writing is a "3/10 at best" and "doesn't" actually improve game development

Larian Studios has toyed with AI tools

GamesRadar

As Baldur's Gate 3 devs move onto Divinity, Larian lead says the writing process is to "encourage the chaos" and break situations "in every conceivable way"

"To be at one with the chaos"

GamesRadar

Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.

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Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'

F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!

PC Gamer

Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.

GamesRadar

Larian's Divinity AMA Live Coverage - All the news as it happens

The Baldur's Gate 3 devs have plenty to reveal about their follow-up

Roll Call

Exploring the legality questions about Venezuela military strike - Roll Call

FactCheck.org takes a closer look at some of the legal arguments that have been made surrounding President Trump's regime change in Venezuela

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‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say

Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters

Roll Call

Congress poised to weigh in on Venezuela campaign - Roll Call

When it returns to Washington next week, Congress will face the fallout from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's ouster.

Fortune

Trump has been laying the groundwork for a strike on Venezuela for a full year. Here’s the timeline

President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said the U.S. military operations were a thinly veiled effort to oust him…

Reason

This 1,300-Page Anticapitalist History Gets a Few Things Wrong

Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History is...not a reliable history.

The Guardian - UK

Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account

GamesRadar

Even Divinity devs got carried away by your Game Awards sculpture theories: "I saw people speculate that it was Bloodborne 2. And I was like "Oh I hope it is!'"

Maybe one day…

Euronews

Trump’s oil sanctions test legal limits with Venezuela tanker blockade

By deploying naval forces to intercept sanctioned Venezuelan oil shipments, the Trump administration is pushing the enforcement of oil sanctions into uncharted legal territory, prompting concerns in Congress and among international law experts about escalation risks.

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