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Drugs worth more than £160m seized at British port
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:38:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:21:55
Shipments of cocaine and cannabis worth more than £160m have been seized at the same British port in the space of a month.
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Deadly salmonella outbreak leaves hundreds ill - as warning issued
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:52:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:21:55
One person has died and hundreds have been left ill with food poisoning after a salmonella outbreak, health officials say.
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Introducing our latest newsletter, The Economist for You
Published: 2026-08-18 09:35:29 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:20:55
A personalised reading list, sent straight to your inbox
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[2/8] Autocompletion: как LLM создает подсказки кода
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:18:03 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:19:57

Автодополнение кода появилось задолго до больших языковых моделей. Ещё в 1997 году IntelliSense в Visual Basic 5.0 подсказывал конструкции, допустимые в текущем контексте программы. Позже подсказки начали ранжировать с помощью машинного обучения, а в 2021 году GitHub Copilot сделал LLM-based автодополнение массовым продуктом.

При этом основная задача почти не изменилась: понять по доступному контексту, какой код разработчик собирается написать дальше. В этой заметке разберём, какой контекст можно передать модели, почему одного кода рядом с курсором часто недостаточно и как количество и качество контекста влияют на итоговую подсказку.

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Sydney Swans will sanction players for ‘serious breach’ over incident that led to sexual assault allegations
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Published: 2026-08-18 11:18:19 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:18:57

AFL club’s board meets on Tuesday night to decide penalties after league boss calls reports ‘deeply concerning’

The Sydney Swans AFL club will decide on sanctions for players for “serious breach” of standards over an incident that led to a report of sexual assault.

Victorian police on Tuesday confirmed the sexual crimes squad was investigating a reported sexual assault at Melbourne’s Pullman Hotel early on Monday morning. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid.

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Wetherspoons bans customers playing music from phones in pubs
Published: 2026-08-18 15:23:31 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:16:56
The pub chain says the decision follows complaints about "other people's videos and amplified phone conversations".
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Работают ли оптимизаторы Windows и как на самом деле ускорить компьютер
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:12:26 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:13:55

Стоит компьютеру начать притормаживать, как многие первым делом идут ставить какой-нибудь оптимизатор. Подход в целом понятен. Нажал кнопочку, и программа сама очистила память, прибила все лишнее, и система полетела как новенькая. Ведь все же знают, что за годы работы любая ОС, а не только Windows, обрастает мусором, а мусор этот тормозит, и надо его просто вымести. Так? Так. Правда, нередко то, что делают эти программы, либо ничего не меняет, либо меняет, но во вред. А то немногое, что систему и правда ускоряет, никакой кнопки не имеет и денег не стоит. Об этом и поговорим.

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Сказ про домен AD, ДНС, сетевого инженера и архитектора
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:11:54 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:12:57

В некотором царстве, в некотором государстве… Историю расскажу, как сказочку, из тех соображений, что в сказочника камней не кидают, аллергия на камни :) Ибо, ну что с него взять? Он же сказочник!

Так вот. Жила была компания, давненько это было, домен AD, w2k3 сервера, филиалы по области штук 15-20, в каждом по контроллеру домена для надежности, и объединялись они с головным офисом каналами ВПН. В некоторых ранних версиях даже через GSM-модемы.

И настали трудные времена, да так что пара филиалов задумали уйти к Шведам отпочковаться в самостоятельность. Или компанию разрывать начали за долги из-за взаимных неплатежей, я уже не помню. История покрылась патиной.

Архитектор в том домене был человеком незлобивым. Рассудил, что проще всего, при отключении филиала — долгосрочное падение линка — это как умерли, ну и потом просто удалить из домена и контроллеры, и сайты. И делу конец.

И для филиалов, тоже нормально — погасили ВПН и захватили роли FSMO на свои контроллеры, и дальше жить поживать. Зеркально удалив все лишнее, за ненадобностью. Рабочий вариант.

Но пришли к архитектору старшие и намекнули так прозрачно, что негоже отпускать филиалы просто так, придумай, говорят, что-нибудь этакое. Видимо, у них свои резоны были :) .

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Match review – gory and slyly satirical catfishing horror for the age of Hinge
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:43 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:11:56

Online dating’s eternal bugbear reaches a horrific apotheosis in this funny, grimy and impishly directed shocker

Paola (Humberly González) is a pretty young woman about to turn 30 who hasn’t found herself a steady boyfriend – so, like many people of her generation, she’s on all the dating apps. The algorithm finds her match in Henry, who looks clean cut and kind eyed – or, at least, that’s what he seems from a very short video conversation on the phone, which breaks up due to bad signal. Paola’s sister Maria (Shaeane Jimenez) is visiting town because her and Paola’s father (Peter Butler) is going in for an operation, and warns her more trusting sibling not to accept Henry’s invitation to come to dinner at his house, away from the public gaze.

Of course, Paola should have listened to her sister. The good looking guy (played by Luke Volker) turns out to have been a catfishing lure, and the real Henry (Jacques Adriaanse) looks like what you’d get if a troll mated with a slime mould. Plus, it’s actually Henry’s deranged mother, Lucille (a fantastic Dianne Simpson) who’s been writing all those courtly messages to Paola – who is soon sedated with drugged wine and wakes up about to be raped, exactly the sort of scenario your actual mother warned you about.

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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:43 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:11:56

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.

These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities.

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How architect Paul Revere Williams fought racism and changed the face of Los Angeles
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:43 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:11:55

Creating homes for Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Lucille Ball made Williams a star. A trio of new exhibitions shows he belongs among the 20th century’s greats

When you fly into the Los Angeles airport LAX, a spindly space-age contraption is the first thing that greets your eyes outside the window. Built in the early 1960s, the Theme Building – which once attracted travelers to its in-house restaurant, designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, towering above airfields – was built by a supergroup of architects whose structures helped define the city’s midcentury aesthetic: William Pereira, Welton Becket, Charles Luckman and Paul Revere Williams.

Of these architects, Williams, the first licensed Black architect in California, arguably shaped the contours of Los Angeles most deeply. In the six decades before his death in 1980, Williams completed an estimated 3,000 structures ranging from single-family residences, commercial buildings, affordable housing projects, the Los Angeles county courthouse, a reimagining of the now-razed Ambassador hotel and opulent homes for celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Barbara Stanwyck and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Perhaps most iconic of all is the Beverly Hills hotel; Williams led its renovation, and its recognizable curlicued sign is scrawled in Williams’s own handwriting.

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Samira’s story: the Sudanese refugee who has known no peace since she was 10
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:42 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:11:55

Since civil war first reached her village in 2003, Samira has been displaced seven times, enduring devastating losses and injuries along the way

Every morning, she spreads small piles of rice and spices on an aluminium tray in the market of Korsi refugee camp. Some of it comes from her monthly food ration, already meagre, distributed by the UN’s World Food Programme; some she buys when she can and resells for a small profit.

Samira crouches quietly behind her modest display, greeting customers as they pass. Her loose red toub cloth frames her thin face and falls across one side of it, hiding her injured right eye. Every so often she adjusts the long cloth to cover the empty sleeve where her right arm would have been. It is a habit the 33-year-old has developed since the war, but her injuries are only part of the terrible damage it has inflicted.

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Trump’s $47 Billion-Dollar Border Wall Plan, and Why a Tupac Murder Trial Is Starting After 30 Years
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:08 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:11:55
Plus, inside the scramble to track cyclospora.
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War was supposed to crush Iran's 'Axis of Resistance.' Instead, it's bloodied but unbroken
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:10:59

The U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran was billed as the final blow to Tehran's 'Axis of Resistance,' but the alliance though bloodied is unexpectedly resilient.

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Ukraine aims a drone blitz at Moscow while Russian missiles kill 10 in a Ukraine
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:06:35 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:10:55
Ukrainian forces have launched one of their biggest drone attacks on Russia since the invasion began, firing almost 800 drones
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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:43 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:06:57

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.

These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities.

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Premier League to publish verdicts on referee and VAR decisions
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:14 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:04:56
The Premier League will publish the judgements of its Key Match Incidents Panel for the first time this season.
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The Cop Who Took On Flock
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:04:56
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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Is the World Getting Uglier?
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:03 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:03:55
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A few blocks from where I live, a quaint, mid-size home was recently razed and replaced by a house that seems to have eaten its own property. It stretches from one edge of the lot to the other, with barely enough room around it to suggest that land ever existed there before. It is large in the way so many new houses are large now: swollen, as though every available inch has been converted into interior space.

I have begun noticing the same impulse everywhere: things are getting bigger, louder and more visually insistent, as though occupying more space has itself become a form of value.

Cars have become taller, wider, and more aggressive, with grilles that look more weaponized than designed. The Tesla Cybertruck seems to have taken that impulse to the extreme: it is a vehicle so visually belligerent it appears constructed to win an argument no one knew they were having. In fashion, the appetite for exaggeration has taken a more deliberate form, as Gen Z embraces enormous silhouettes and awkward proportions that would have horrified generations raised to believe that looking “put together” was a virtue or a goal.

I have found myself wondering: Is the world getting uglier?

I know that suggesting something is ugly is deeply subjective, and every generation has looked at the one before it and wondered what they could possibly be thinking. Tastes evolve, standards change, and beauty is inherently vulnerable to nostalgia. But I don’t think what I am seeing is simply a matter of taste. I think it has more to do with proportion.

Good design relies on understanding context: how a building sits on its street, how a chair accommodates a body, how type works on the page and for the reader. What I am noticing now is how often these considerations seem to disappear, as if the object itself matters more than the environment or community it belongs to.

This matters because we are living in an attention economy, and attention rewards extremity. The more a design is rewarded for being instantly visible, recognizable, and shareable, the easier it becomes to lose sight of proportion, purpose, and the people who have to live alongside it. A house that dominates its lot, a cartoonishly oversized shoe, or a restaurant interior conceived to be posted online before the food arrives are all responding, in different ways, to the same pressure: to attract attention first and consider the consequences after.

Perhaps this is why so much contemporary design feels more bloviating than expressive, as though visual volume now matters more than beauty.

But the problem is not ugliness itself. Sometimes ugliness is the point.

In 1996, Miuccia Prada launched a spring collection titled Banal Eccentricity, which became better known as “Ugly Chic.” The line’s muddy browns, avocado greens and awkward proportions were intentional and used with precision to challenge more conventional ideas of beauty. 

That lineage allows me to understand some of what I see in Gen Z fashion now. Oversized, mismatched clothes and deliberately awkward shoes can be knowing and self-aware; the person wearing the ugly shoe may know perfectly well that it is ugly, and that may be part of the pleasure. Fashion is also temporary. You can wear MSCHF’s enormous red boots today and take them off tonight.

A building is much harder to discard.

Years ago, in an interview I conducted with the Italian designer Massimo Vignelli, he declared that design’s responsibility was “to decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world.” He was explicit that he was not prescribing a style; what mattered was creating quality in everything that surrounds us.

The distinction between ugliness and vulgarity feels important now. Beauty often depends on proportion and on how well a building, an object, or an image relates to the world around it. Ugliness can challenge expectations and still be intelligent, deliberate, and even beautiful in its own way. 

Vulgarity is different. It begins when scale, excess, or attention-seeking overwhelms context altogether.

Architecture, automobiles, and commercial environments make claims on people who have no part in choosing them. When houses squeeze into their lots, vehicles grow more imposing, and storefronts battle for attention, the problem is no longer simply whether something is beautiful or ugly. Vulgarity becomes consequential when it overwhelms the environment everyone shares.

The objects we design and consume reveal what we value, and more and more of them seem to reflect an increased appetite for more. Which leaves me wondering about one of design’s oldest and most human questions: How much is enough?

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Can AI Help Us Connect With the Real World?
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:03 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:03:55
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By now, everyone is accustomed to the idea that technology has disconnected us from the world and one another. By design, smartphones, apps, and social media lure us in and capture our attention. These technologies consume as much of our time as we allow them. Technology has normalized taking our work home with us, answering emails and messages at all hours of the day. Teenagers and the elderly alike scroll infinitely, if on different platforms.

This situation is often lamented for its connection to addiction, disinformation, radicalization, and social disharmony—among other concerns. But as a technology critic who has written about toasters and slippers in addition to smartphones and the internet, I see another, more widespread effect of technological disconnection: It has robbed people of the small acts and moments of connection to the real, physical world.

No doubt, AI threatens to exacerbate this disconnection. But I would argue that AI also has the potential to offer a solution—to help people look away from their screens and reconnect with the physical world. It may sound ironic, but what if AI could make us more gratified?

Today, you don’t tear a paper towel from the airport restroom; you wave your hand under it hoping the thing will see you. You don’t feel the texture and narrow shape of the concert tickets in your pocket or hand; you scan a QR code instead. A consequence of this process of dematerialization is a loss of gratification—my name for the sensory enchantment of everyday life. All those tiny acts don’t always seem important, but they add up, offering an easy path to contentment.

Generative AI is also having a dematerializing effect on contemporary life. Services such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini promise to take over even more of daily life, replacing work and home tasks with automated, almost magical efficiency. Now even writing emails might be automated—and your recipient might automate reading them, too.

As a writer, a university professor, artist, and designer, I worry about the risk that generative AI might destroy the delightful, human experience of carrying out acts of creation, not to mention making careers in the pursuit of that creativity unviable. Whether or not AI will improve work or destroy jobs, it already distances people from some of the moment-to-moment acts that might have felt gratifying just a few years ago. If AI can write your emails, then you don’t need to feel the click of keys under your fingertips or hear the clack they produce when you type with them. If AI can generate a gift list for the holidays or a vacation plan for Spring Break, then you don’t need to swipe through catalogs or thumb through guidebooks. In this way, AI can amplify the same dematerializing effects of technology people have encountered for years.

But that’s not the whole story. As critical of AI as I sometimes am, I have also found that AI can direct people back toward the physical world and the gratifying feelings it offers. LLMs can be quite adept at helping people figure out how to plan and carry out real-world tasks, such as fixing a plumbing leak, repairing a car, or learning a new hobby.

Over the past year, I’ve found myself surprisingly delighted by how effective Claude or ChatGPT can be at synthesizing and explaining problems I have encountered in my ordinary life. Earlier this spring, a wayward sprinkler technician identified—but did not fix—a leak in my irrigation backflow, a mysterious mechanism meant to prevent contaminated outdoor water from mixing with indoor taps. The weather was getting hot, and I worried for my lawn’s fate. After feeding it a couple photographs of the device, ChatGPT was able to identify the model, the parts it needed, and the steps to attempt a repair—at least one good enough until I could get a licensed professional out to permanently fix and certify it. Unlike message boards or YouTube videos, AI was able to home in on the specifics of a situation (I used it again on a surprisingly complicated broken oven thermostat) and point me back toward particular parts, manuals, and guidelines.

 Of course, AI services don’t always get the facts right, but they do strive to provide answers instead of luring people deeper into the attention-sink of social media. In this way, they have the potential to actually push people away from screens and back into the world. For example, AI-driven advice about diet or fitness can help people focus on those non-computer activities with greater purpose, inviting them to focus on what they are doing away from the machine instead of on it. Plus, AI’s efficiency and adeptness at processing information—such as a photo of a broken part—may also have the potential to reduce the distraction of smartphone life, inviting people to use it briefly and purposely and then return to their bodily, sensory life with other people and different apparatuses. 

The future of AI is still murky and uncertain. It still risks devolving into more of the same, especially if AI services start using the same advertising- and attention-driven business models that cursed earlier internet technologies. But a path still exists for AI to repair some of the public’s lost physical connectivity with the world outside their phones, and to recapture some of the gratification lost from that era.

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Florida voters choose in governor, Senate primaries, and more races to watch
Published: 2026-08-18 21:58:47 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:03:54
Three states are holding primaries on Tuesday, with Florida deciding on nominees for both governor and for Senate.
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Under Trump’s Supreme Court, conservative churches are getting to write the rules
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:00:57
A man holds a cross outside of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo fundamentally shifted the Court’s approach to lawsuits seeking religious exemptions from state laws. | Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

The Republican Party’s supermajority on the Supreme Court was barely a month old when the justices handed down one of the most consequential religion decisions of the last several decades. It was Amy Coney Barrett’s first significant vote as a justice.

The issue in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020) was whether churches and other houses of worship were exempt from Covid-era restrictions on attendance. At the height of the pandemic, New York imposed strict limits on how many people could attend worship services at the same time — a rule that steered straight into the emerging partisan divide over whether pandemic restrictions had gone too far — although these restrictions were actually less stringent than the rules imposed on similar secular venues like theaters and lecture halls. 

Just months earlier, a 5-4 Court had upheld similar restrictions in California, with Republican Chief Justice John Roberts joining the Court’s Democrats. Although Roberts typically votes with his fellow Republicans in religion cases, he worried that the judiciary “lacks the background, competence, and expertise to assess public health” and decide life or death matters like how to halt the spread of Covid. The Court’s other four Republicans dissented, but this was before Barrett joined the Court, so they were still in the minority.

But the new majority’s decision in Roman Catholic Diocese rejected this restrained approach, and the decision fundamentally shifted the Court’s approach to lawsuits seeking religious exemptions from state laws. Before Republicans gained their supermajority on the Court, the justices gave states a fair amount of leeway to navigate the fraught political questions that arise when someone exercises their faith in a way that can harm other people, or limit their legal rights. 

But now the justices typically make these calls themselves, and they usually do so in favor of religious conservatives. As a result, under the current Supreme Court, one of the Constitution’s most difficult balancing acts — the task of weighing when one person’s religious beliefs should overcome another person’s freedoms — has toppled over on the side of religious individuals and groups, often allowing them to violate the freedoms of others. This is especially true when lawsuits pit religious conservatives against people exercising sexual freedoms such as the right to use birth control or to marry a person of the same sex.

Prior to Roman Catholic Diocese, the rule was that religious institutions must comply with state law, so long as the state does not single people of faith out for inferior treatment. If a state closed all venues where people gather in auditorium-like settings, that was considered constitutional, even though some of those venues are churches. The courts would only get involved if a state tried to, say, close mosques but not movie theaters.

But Roman Catholic Diocese effectively ended that regime. The new majority held that churches may only be subject to the least restrictive rules that apply to any secular business, even if that business bears little resemblance to a house of worship. Indeed, Roman Catholic Diocese indicated that churches must be treated the same as outdoor facilities like “camp grounds” or “garages” where the risk of transmission, compared to a church, was minimal.

It was a clear sign of where the Court’s new majority wanted to take its religion cases. Under this majority, lawsuits brought by plaintiffs seeking religious exemptions from the law have largely been used to resolve cultural disputes between Democratic and Republican constituencies in favor of the latter. 

This Court’s religion cases, in other words, fit a pattern that is also found in its decisions on topics as diverse as voting rights, abortion, race, and the question of whether President Donald Trump is subject to US law. The Republican justices seek to advance policy goals that are popular within their political party and unpopular among Democrats, and they aren’t afraid to overrule a wide range of foundational Supreme Court precedents in order to do so.

More broadly, the Court’s new approach to religion threatens to disrupt public schools’ ability to operate, undercut many anti-discrimination laws, and potentially turn every future conflict between cultural liberals and the religious right into a constitutional case that must be resolved by the Supreme Court.

Conflicts between religious and secular visions of America are inevitable under the Constitution

Many of the Supreme Court’s religion cases are driven by two separate clauses in the Constitution that often pull in opposing directions. The First Amendment contains two provisions governing religion, the clause protecting “free exercise” of faith, and a clause prohibiting the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” The first provision guarantees everyone the right to practice their faith, while the latter was historically understood to prohibit the government from trying to advance a particular religious belief.

As the Supreme Court said in 1971, there is an “internal tension” between these two provisions — in part because it is inevitable that the government will make decisions that conflict with many people’s sincere religious beliefs. Taxes fund wars that many Americans believe are sinful. Public schools teach values that may be at odds with what their students hear in their temples, churches, synagogues, and mosques. Not long after Congress prohibited racial discrimination by restaurants in 1964, the owner of a South Carolina barbecue joint claimed that he could not comply because serving Black people violated his white supremacist religion (he lost in the Supreme Court).

Before Roberts was crowned as leader of America’s judiciary, the Court often resolved this tension by deferring to democratically elected officials. The Court permitted states to subsidize religious schools, but did not require it. It gave people who object to laws on religious grounds some exemptions from those laws, but did not allow these exemptions to give religious business owners an unfair advantage against their competitors. As the Court said in Locke v. Davey (2004), there must be some “play in the joints” between the competing values espoused by the Constitution’s two religion clauses.

But the current Court, which often seeks to centralize power within itself, has pushed hard to take away states’ ability to resolve some of these tensions, and instead resolves them itself. Under the old regime, blue states would sometimes operate their schools, or otherwise conduct their affairs, in ways that upset religious conservatives. And that was okay because that’s how things work in a multistate democracy.

This Court’s religion policies are both anti-federalist and anti-democratic. They restrict Colorado’s ability to bar anti-LGBTQ discrimination by religious business owners, and they force Maine to fund religious schools that label gay people “deviants” and “perverted.” These policies seek to impose a red-state vision on all 50 states, and, in some cases, they may go even further than that — requiring the government to subsidize religion in ways that even very conservative states reject. 

The Republican justices, in other words, have taken two vague constitutional provisions that espouse sometimes-conflicting values, and that reasonably can be read in many ways, and used them to impose their own values on the entire nation. The primary effects of these decisions are twofold: This Court often elevates religious freedom over other kinds of freedom, and it is rapidly tearing down the wall between church and state.

Religious freedom vs. others’ rights: The tug-of-war over the free exercise clause

The 20th-century Court cases that laid the groundwork for many modern debates over the Constitution’s free exercise clause are a bit of a muddle. 

In the 1960s, the Court used expansive language to describe the scope of this clause, and how easy it should be for religious plaintiffs to seek exemptions from complying with the law. Sherbert v. Verner (1963) held that laws that burden someone’s faith must “be justified by a ‘compelling state interest in the regulation of a subject within the State’s constitutional power to regulate.’” As any law student who has passed their first semester of constitutional law will recognize, this “compelling state interest” language is associated with a legal test known as “strict scrutiny,” the most demanding standard that courts apply in constitutional cases. Thus, Sherbert seemed to hold that nearly everyone who seeks a religious exemption from a state or federal law should receive one.

But the Court soon grew uncomfortable with the implications of this broad language — should people who claim that God does not want them to pay taxes, for example, really be exempt from the obligation to do so? — and began to place limits on who could get exemptions. 

The Court has ruled at least three times in favor of religious conservatives who sought an exemption from state laws or municipal policies that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people.

The expansive and easily available religious exemptions that Sherbert seemed to call for never actually came about. A 1992 study by legal scholar James Ryan found that federal appeals courts heard 97 free exercise of religion cases that applied Sherbert’s compelling interest test between 1980 and 1990, and they rejected 85 of those cases

In United States v. Lee (1982), the Supreme Court rejected an employer’s demand for a religious exemption from paying Social Security taxes. And, in Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor (1985), it ruled against a religious cult whose members worked in commercial businesses for no pay — the cult claimed that it should be exempt from minimum wage laws.

Both decisions were animated by a concern that a too-expansive reading of Sherbert would allow businesses that claimed religious exemptions to gain unfair advantages over their competitors. As the Court held in Lee, “when followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity.”

But then the Supreme Court went too far. 

In Employment Division v. Smith (1990), the objectors were two Native American men who lost their jobs and were denied employment benefits by the state of Oregon, because they used the drug peyote during a religious ceremony. The Court said that no one was exempt from any law so long as it applied equally to religious and nonreligious people alike.

The decision triggered instant backlash, with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) warning that Smith could lead to the government controlling “the selection of priests and ministers” and barring “the use of wine in communion service.” It’s likely that Smith was so widely disliked because the justices picked the worst possible case to put their foot down against religious objectors. The two men’s participation in a religious ritual did not injure anyone else. And the Court’s suggestion that the government may ban Native American religious practices smacked of colonialism.

Congress attempted, semi-successfully, to overrule that case when it enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA). 

RFRA sought to “restore the compelling interest test as set forth in Sherbert … and Wisconsin v. Yoder,” a 1972 case establishing that Amish communities may educate their own teenage children instead of sending them to public high schools. The law, in other words, was intended to be a reset button, returning to the pre-Smith status quo when plaintiffs seeking religious exemptions were more likely to prevail.

But achieving that goal required answering a difficult question: What did the Religious Freedom Restoration Act actually seek to restore? Was it the expansive reading of Sherbert that courts never actually implemented — ie., that nearly everyone who seeks a religious exemption should get one — or the actual practice that existed prior to Smith, which was far more restrained?

By the time Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014) reached the justices, the two major political parties both had divergent answers to this question. That case asked whether employers who object to contraception on religious grounds could refuse to provide their employees with health plans that cover birth control — despite a federal regulation establishing that these workers had a right to contraceptive coverage. The central question in Hobby Lobby, in other words, was whether one person’s religion may be invoked to diminish another person’s rights.

Most of the justices, the ones appointed by Republican presidents, answered this question with a resounding “yes.” 

Dissenting in Hobby Lobby, Democratic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid out her political party’s concern that one person’s rights should not be used to diminish another’s. She rejected the view that “RFRA demands accommodation of a for-profit corporation’s religious beliefs no matter the impact that accommodation may have on third parties who do not share the corporation owners’ religious faith.” 

But there were five Republicans and only four Democrats on the Court when Hobby Lobby was decided, so Ginsburg’s view did not prevail. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion says that RFRA imposes an “exceptionally demanding” burden on the government when it wishes to enforce a law against a religious objector, and it ruled that a federal regulation requiring employers to offer contraceptive care in their health plans does not overcome this burden.

Yet even Alito seemed to recoil at the most expansive reading of Sherbert. His opinion concedes that “allowing tax-payers to withhold a portion of their tax obligations on religious grounds would lead to chaos.” So at least some aspects of Lee, the decision holding that private businesses must follow the same laws as their competitors, remain good law. 

After Hobby Lobby, the Republican Party’s position appears to be that religious objections trump laws that embrace a more liberal view of sexuality, or that otherwise resolve cultural conflicts between Democratic and Republican constituencies, but people of faith may not claim an exemption from literally every single law. At the very least, everyone still has to pay taxes.

Since Hobby Lobby, this agenda has come to define the Court’s religious liberty cases, including a number of recent ones that limit state governments’ ability to navigate political conflicts between religious conservatives and gay or trans people. While these cases are technically distinct from Hobby Lobby because RFRA only benefits plaintiffs who object to federal (that is, not state) laws, they also track the result in Hobby Lobby

The Court has ruled at least three times, for example, in favor of religious conservatives who sought an exemption from state laws or municipal policies that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people.

The Roberts Court, in other words, inherited a muddled mess of precedents governing when religious objectors may seek exemptions from the law, and much of this area of the law remains fairly muddled. Thus far, for example, this Court has not revealed whether it wishes to overrule cases like Alamo Foundation, that protect the rights of workers — though when it took up a case in 2025 that could have called Alamo Foundation into question, the Court did not do so.

But one bit of clarity that the current Court has provided is that, when the interests of religious conservatives conflict with the interests of queer people, queer people lose.

The Roberts Court has used education cases to tear down the wall separating church and state

Many of the Court’s cases involving religion in public schools also empower religious conservatives in cultural fights against LGBTQ Americans. In Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025), for example, the Republican majority held that religious parents who object to books with gay or trans characters must be allowed to opt their children out of lessons that use such books. And, in Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026), the Republican justices appeared to hold that the Constitution requires public school teachers to out trans students to their parents, even if those students ask the teachers to keep their gender identity a secret.

But this Court has also advanced another project concerning religion, particularly in its cases about religion and education — dismantling the very idea that church and state must be separated. 

The First Amendment’s establishment clause — which prohibits the government from making any law establishing a religion — was long understood to require a degree of separation between government and religion. The Roberts Court hasn’t simply abandoned this reading of the establishment clause; it’s indicated that the very idea of separation between church and state is unconstitutional.

For much of the 20th century, the Supreme Court maintained that the wall separating church and state was quite high. In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), for example, the Court declared that “no tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.” 

The Court abandoned this approach nearly a quarter century ago, in its 5-4 decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002). But Zelman merely held that states could offer vouchers that can pay for tuition at private religious schools if they want to, not that they were required to do so.

One thing that is emphatically not forbidden by the current Court is government funding of religious institutions that many Americans find offensive. 

Similarly, before Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court in 2005, the Court generally insisted that public schools must remain neutral on religion. When schools promote a religious view, according to Lee v. Weisman (1992), that places “subtle and indirect” pressure on students to conform to that view, and leaves the student with “a reasonable perception that she is being forced by the State to pray in a manner her conscience will not allow.”

Yet, while Lee was consistent with mid-20th-century precedents regarding religion in schools, the consensus favoring government neutrality on religion was already fading by the early 1990s. Lee was a 5-4 decision, and its author, the moderate conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, often argued that his more liberal colleagues read the establishment clause too expansively. Three years before Lee, for example, Kennedy dissented from a decision barring a county from displaying a Nativity scene in its courthouse. This decision, Kennedy wrote, “reflects an unjustified hostility toward religion.”

This idea — that government neutrality toward religion is itself a form of hostility against people of faith — could often be found in conservative critiques of the Court’s establishment clause decisions from this era. In a 1989 essay that foreshadowed many of the Roberts Court’s later decisions, legal scholar (and future federal judge) Michael McConnell made the then-audacious argument that the Constitution requires the government to subsidize religious schools.

The idea is that states typically tax all of their residents to pay for public schooling, but only some children actually attend these schools. Other families choose to pay out of their own pockets for private religious education, while still other families would prefer to send their children to a religious school but cannot afford it. This familiar system, where public schools are available to everyone and private schools are only available to people who can pay the tuition, McConnell claimed, is a form of discrimination against religious people. 

“That some parents wish their children to receive education in a religious environment should not deprive them of their fair share of the public resources devoted to education,” McConnell wrote. They pay the same taxes as families who send their kids to public schools. And so, McConnell argued, these religious families should be allowed to use that tax revenue to pay for their child’s private religious education.

Something close to the vision McConnell laid out in this 1989 essay is now the law. The seminal case is Carson v. Makin (2022), which involved a Maine program that provides private school vouchers for students in sparsely populated areas where it is not cost-efficient for the state to operate a public school.

Maine law provides that these vouchers may only be used at “nonsectarian” schools, and not religious ones. But, according to Roberts’s majority opinion in the decision, a system that “pays tuition for certain students at private schools — so long as the schools are not religious” is “discrimination against religion.” Carson, in other words, turns the old rule from Everson on its head. What was once forbidden is now mandated.

More broadly, the Court’s Republicans have ground the establishment clause down to such a tiny nub that little of it remains. For many years, the Court read that clause to forbid the government from advancing a particular religious view, but the Court overruled the older cases prohibiting government endorsements of religion in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022), and they replaced them with something much narrower. Under this Court’s new test, the government can only violate the establishment clause by making “a religious observance compulsory” or otherwise coercing nonbelievers to engage in a “formal religious exercise.”

So the government cannot arrest you if you skip church services. Nor can a government official hold a gun to your head and force you to declare that Jesus is your personal lord and savior. But it is not clear that, under this Court’s approach to the establishment clause, anything else is forbidden. One thing that is emphatically not forbidden by the current Court — indeed, under cases like Carson, it is now required in many states — is government funding of religious institutions that many Americans find offensive. 

A plaintiff in Carson, according to Maine’s brief in that case, wanted the state to pay for tuition at a school that requires teachers to sign a statement agreeing that “God recognize[s] homosexuals and other deviants as perverted.” Previous federal court cases involved schools that teach girls they have a religious obligation to be subservient to their future husbands, or that prohibited Black students from having romantic relationships with white students. Under the Roberts Court’s new rules, taxpayers who find these views abhorrent — or who may even object to them on religious grounds — must nonetheless pay for tuition at schools that teach these values.

McConnell criticized the old regime for taxing religious parents to pay for secular education they find objectionable, but the converse is also true about the current regime — it taxes secular parents to pay for religious education that many Americans also find objectionable.

One nationwide solution

The unfortunate reality is that, in a pluralistic society, it is impossible to come up with a legal regime that won’t impose obligations on anyone that they object to on religious grounds. If a nation taxes citizens, some of them will object to how that money is spent. If it provides public schools, some families will object to the values taught in those schools. And if it changes which values are taught, some other families will object to the new lessons. 

The Roberts Court’s solution to these inevitable conflicts has largely been to resolve them in ways that favor members of the Republican Party’s coalition, such as religious conservatives, that burden members of the Democratic Party’s coalition, such as LGBTQ people, and that advance longtime Republican Party goals such as making private school vouchers widely available. 

That’s certainly one way to do constitutional law. The GOP controls the Supreme Court, and to the victor go the spoils.

But it is far from clear why many of these decisions should be made by a handful of unelected lawyers in black robes, especially in a nation that purports to be a democracy — and that also purports to be a federation of many diverse states. There was a lot of wisdom in Zelman’s approach, which allowed Maine to devise an education policy that makes sense for Maine and Alabama to devise an education policy that makes sense for Alabama. 

At the very least, cases like Zelman did not claim that the Constitution, with its two vague and often-contradictory approaches to religion, calls for one nationwide solution to the question of how to run a country made up of people of many faiths.

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Конфигурация в Python: эволюция подходов
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Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:28 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:00:56

Привет, я Николай Видов, тимлид команды чат-ботов в Т-Банке, восемь лет пишу на Python. 

Казалось бы, конфигурация — это просто .env и settings.py. Но стоит приложению вырасти — и начинается: секреты утекают в логи, port внезапно приходит строкой abc, настройки дублируются между окружениями. Я прошел путь от хардкода до типизированных схем и понял: конфигурация — это не мусорный код на скорую руку, а часть инфраструктуры, которую нужно проектировать так же тщательно, как бизнес-логику.

В статье — эволюция подходов к конфигурации в Python: откуда мы пришли, куда идем и какие грабли встречаем на пути. Разберу, как в Python-проектах обычно подходят к управлению конфигурацией. Сравнения конкретных библиотек не будет — сосредоточусь на самих подходах и границах их применимости.

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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
Published: 2026-08-18 10:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 10:00:54
The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the U.S. changed dramatically.
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Британский премьер Энди Бернем переписывался с человеком, выдававшим себя за главу аппарата Трампа
Published: 2026-08-17 11:40:24 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Премьер-министр Великобритании Энди Бернем некоторое время переписывался с человеком, выдававшим себя за главу аппарата Белого дома Сьюзи Уайлс. После нескольких сообщений он заподозрил, что общается не с Уайлс, а с самозванцем.
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Colman Domingo Discusses His Emmy-Nominated Roles in ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Four Seasons’
Published: 2026-08-18 09:02:34 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
The actor went from oracle to angel of vengeance in the HBO drama. In an interview, he discusses his two Emmy nods for two very different characters.
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Hayden Panettiere Grew Up in Front of the Camera. It Took a Toll.
Published: 2026-08-18 09:03:07 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
The “Heroes” and “Nashville” star, who died Sunday at 36, endured personal struggles that were compounded by her public profile.
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The Blackout That Could Devastate America
Published: 2026-08-18 13:20:38 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
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A Mother’s Quest to Rescue Her Son From Russian-Occupied Ukraine
Published: 2026-08-18 14:51:04 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
They made a risky bid to reunite after three years of separation, illness and deprivation — the kind of ordeal suffered by many thousands of families torn apart by the war in eastern Ukraine.
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‘Les Miz’ Offers a Lifeline to a Battered Theater Industry
Published: 2026-08-18 10:37:27 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Regional theaters can once again produce “Les Misérables” because a national tour has ended. One veteran actor called the popular show “an instant moneymaker.”
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Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids.
Published: 2026-08-18 09:01:53 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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«Начался настоящий ад». Что рассказали свидетели в первый день процесса по делу об убийстве Тупака Шакура
Published: 2026-08-18 09:54:29 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Во вступительной речи обвинение представило подозреваемого Дуэйна Дэвиса как главаря группы, ответственной за стрельбу, и сослалось на мемуары, соавтором которых он является и в которых он подробно описал ночь убийства.
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Meta to Stand Trial Over Claims It Addicted Children to Social Media
Published: 2026-08-18 18:07:16 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.
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How Israel’s Financial Chokehold Is Stifling the West Bank Economy
Published: 2026-08-18 16:23:50 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Intensifying restrictions have hit every part of the territory’s dealings, spurring worries about whether the Palestinian Authority can remain solvent.
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Searching for Answers From the Man Accused of Sabotaging Alaska’s Senate Race
Published: 2026-08-18 19:54:37 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Dan Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher from tiny Petersburg, Alaska, shares a name with the incumbent senator he hopes to defeat. Is he a spoiler trying to divide the Republican vote? We traveled to Alaska to find out.
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Florida Primary Underscores State’s New Identity as a Republican Juggernaut
Published: 2026-08-18 09:03:48 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:56:55
Republicans hold every statewide elected office and have drastically swung voter registration in the state. A newly gerrymandered congressional map has added four Republican-leaning seats.
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Телеметрия выключена. Кто еще ходит в сеть из вашей IDE
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:52:41 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:53:56

Настройка telemetry.telemetryLevel=off отключает телеметрию платформы, но не обновления, Git, синхронизацию, расширения и запросы к AI-провайдеру. Разбираю, какие данные могут уходить по каждому каналу, что реально видно в сети и почему сам факт TLS-соединения еще не доказывает утечку кода. В практической части - аудит Xynapse IDE: три 60-секундных холодных старта, ноль событий Sysmon Event ID 3 при работающем положительном контроле, 19/19 подтвержденных мер и 5/5 явно зафиксированных границ результата.

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Может ли нейросеть выучить физику, просто наблюдая за миром?
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:51:02 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:52:56

О когнитивных способностях человека есть много исследований. Одно из самых известных это исследование за авторством Элизабет Спелке. Оно о том как у человека появляется самое первое, базовое понимание мира и физических законов. Её работа ставит под сомнение традиционные взгляды на то, что всё человеческое знание приобретается исключительно через опыт, и выдвигает гипотезу о наличии врожденных когнитивных систем.

На основе когнитивных экспериментов Спелке доказывает, что фундаментальные представления о мире начинают проявляться в самых ранних месяцах жизни и являются частью врожденного аппарата человека.

Итак, если Спелке показывает, что человеку для этого нужно врожденное ядро знаний, то как с этим справляются ИИ? 
Способна ли нейросеть самостоятельно выделить объекты из огромного числа пикселей, построить внутренний физический движок и предсказать, куда упадет брошенный мяч, не зная формулы 

Рассмотрим как современные ИИ-системы пытаются понять физический мир через наблюдение. Где у них это действительно получается, и почему хорошая визуальная экстраполяция всё еще не означает истинного понимания природы вещей.

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Проверка субъекта на входе как часть AML
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:51:40 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:52:56

Постоянно меняющиеся требования со стороны Центробанка и Росфинмониторинга заставляют финансовые организации уделять пристальное внимание своим клиентам с точки зрения их благонадежности. Каждый день производится ряд проверок, позволяющих оценить риски обслуживания организаций и физических лиц. В связи с этим появилась необходимость не просто автоматизировать данный процесс, но как-то его систематизировать и сделать удобным для сопровождения.

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Trump Again Threatens to Bomb Oman
Published: 2026-08-18 09:45:00 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:48:56
A vessel is moored in Muscat, Oman, on July 25, 2026. —AFP/Getty Images

As the nearly six-month-long war between the U.S. and Iran prolongs global supply disruptions with no clear end in sight, President Donald Trump appears to be looking for other ways to pressure Iran into a deal—including threatening to bomb Oman.

Iran and Oman are reportedly nearing an arrangement to govern commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital corridor that Iran effectively closed at the start of the war. Washington has opposed giving Iran control over traffic through the Strait or allowing it to charge vessels for passage.

“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the sh-t out of them,” Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst on Monday.

Trump later told reporters, “I don’t think they [Oman] behaved very well, but we’d handle them very easily, just like we do other things.” It’s unclear what exactly Oman has done to upset the U.S. President. TIME has reached out to the White House for comment.

Tehran has said the Strait’s administration should remain strictly between the two coastal states. Iran also previously proposed collecting fees for passage through the waterway, while Oman proposed a system with voluntary fees in late July.

Trump has threatened to bomb Oman, a longtime security partner of the U.S., before. In late May, amid reports that Muscat and Tehran were discussing maritime service fees, Trump warned Oman would “behave just like everybody else, or we will have to blow them up.”

U.S.-Iran diplomacy meanwhile appears tenuous, with Iranian officials denying any direct talks and contradicting Trump’s claims that Iran is eager to make a deal. The 60-day deadline for the U.S. and Iran to negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement to end the war expired Monday without a deal. The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on June 17, which included the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and toll-free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The MOU stated that Iran would discuss with Oman the future administration of the waterway.

But renewed attacks beginning in late June effectively collapsed the accord, and key issues over the Strait’s administration and Iran’s nuclear program remain unresolved.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz trickled down over the weekend as businesses and observers watched with trepidation for signs of a U.S.-Iran deal or extension of the MOU. Only five commodity ships sailed through the waterway over the weekend, according to Kpler, compared to 31 in the prior weekend.

But it appears that global shipping and supply disruptions are likely to persist. Asked by reporters if the U.S. planned to extend the MOU, Trump said, “No.”

The war’s strain on the global economy is becoming a political liability for Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections. Trump’s approval rating fell to 33%, the lowest of his second term, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Monday. While Trump has repeatedly insisted that the elections are not a consideration in his decision-making on Iran, he nevertheless faces mounting pressure from the public and some lawmakers to find a diplomatic off-ramp and end the conflict.

Pressure points

In recent days, Trump has appeared focused on intensifying economic pressure on Iran as opposed to returning to full-scale combat operations. After initially weighing a “massive attack” on Iran, Trump told Axios earlier this month that the U.S. is “low-keying it” with Iran.

Central to that pressure campaign is the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, which Trump has repeatedly touted as “very effective.” The U.S. imposed the blockade on April 13, and reimposed it on July 13 after briefly lifting it under the MOU.

“Now maybe that will stop, or maybe it’ll open up even further,” Trump said of the blockade on Monday. “But we’re taking out millions of barrels of oil a week. If you look at the kind of numbers that we’re doing ... the Strait is open, and the oil prices are coming down, and they will continue to come down unless we decide to do something far more drastic than we’re doing.”

Trump’s characterization did not match conditions Monday. Ship traffic through the Strait remained severely restricted, while Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged over $90 a barrel. The U.S. diesel crack spread, a proxy for the profit margin from converting a barrel of crude oil into diesel, rose to an all-time high of $102 a barrel.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also promised further measures under what the Administration has called “Economic Fury.”

Nevertheless, Trump’s threat against Oman suggests military escalation is not off the table.

An arrangement that gives Iran a formal role in managing shipping through the Strait could reduce global economic pain if it restores shipping, but it could also institutionalize Tehran’s leverage and weaken Washington’s pressure campaign.

A return to sustained fighting may come sooner rather than later. The U.S. and Iran paused their exchange of attacks after nearly two weeks of strikes in July. But an Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that Tehran would adopt a “fully offensive” military posture towards the U.S., including a “timely and precise” attack to break the U.S. blockade if diplomacy fails. Another Iranian official also told state television that Iranian forces were prepared to shift from a “defensive” position to “an offensive aspect.”

Last week, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi warned that Iran could target U.S. and regional allies’ infrastructure, including energy networks, power plants, and internet systems, if the U.S. attacks Iran’s civilian infrastructure—which Trump threatened to do as recently as July 22.

Recent fighting between the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea has also risked choking another maritime shipping route.

Analysts previously told TIME that Trump has more to lose politically from a prolonged conflict than Iran’s leadership, which could incentivize Tehran to accept bigger risks in pursuit of more substantial U.S. concessions. Iranian officials have also signaled awareness of reports that the war has severely depleted key U.S. munitions, which Trump has vehemently denied.

While Iran’s economy is under acute strain, its key point of leverage is its militarization of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has called for an end to the U.S. blockade, lifting of sanctions, war reparations, and release of frozen assets in exchange for reopening the waterway. It has also insisted on a region-wide cease-fire encompassing Gaza and Lebanon.

Trump has continued to insist that the U.S. has the upper hand. Last week, Trump floated the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory—echoing his earlier suggestions that the U.S. “run” the waterway. On Monday, he told reporters, “We have total control over the Strait.”

Trump told Yingst that Iran “should put up the white flag of surrender” and that he is “not in a hurry” to make a deal or end the war.

Iranian officials are “good poker players,” Trump said. “But they’re dying.”

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Логическое программирование в Scala. Теория
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:46:06 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:47:56

Здесь мы разберём

∙ элементы математической логики, связывающие её с языками программирования;

∙ ключевой аспект логического программирования — автоматизация вывода искомого результата (конструктивного доказательства);

∙ базовые принципы языка Пролог;

∙ связь теории типов с математической логикой;

∙ связь механизмов «неявности» в разных языках с логическим программированием.

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Métrix 222: французский осциллограф с невероятным дизайном, год 1955
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Published: 2026-08-18 09:43:15 | Created: 2026-08-18 09:44:56

Здравствуйте! Сегодня мы рассмотрим древний ламповый осциллограф французской компании Metrologie Annecy — Métrix 222. Не знаю, какие ассоциации вызовет у вас, внешний вид этого аппарата, а мне почудился «Наутилус» капитана Немо. К тому же, эти образы объединяет общее — Франция.

Ориентировочный год производства — 1955. Чем интересен этот аппарат? В нем нет привычной современной цифровой логики. вся обработка сигнала (усиление, развертка) выполняется на электровакуумных приборах. В этой статье мы разберем, покрутим, рассмотрим этот аппарат, проведем детальный осмотр элементной базы. И самое интересное — включим его.

Также, мы увидим термограммы на экране тепловизора, температуры ламп и других элементов в рабочем включенном состоянии, ведь осциллограф тоже испускает инфракрасные лучи.

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