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Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it Palantir

Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it

More like Discourse on the timeline, am I right? Eh? Eh? Image credit: Discord Earlier this month, Discord said that they'd be rolling out a global age verification system to which everyone and their mother responded by saying "thank you," except they didn't say thank. A little bit later on,…
bubmag
February 24, 2026
Growing Tensions With US Could Lead Europe Deeper Into Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Weapons

Growing Tensions With US Could Lead Europe Deeper Into Nuclear Proliferation

For more than 70 years, the United States has practiced what it calls extended deterrence, which includes the so-called “nuclear umbrella” for its NATO allies in Europe. Countries under the umbrella agree not to develop their own nuclear weapons with the understanding that the U.S. could use its nuclear weapons…
bubmag
February 24, 2026
‘The lack of women was a terrible deprivation’: Melvyn Bragg on Oxford, Boris Johnson, and Trump Boris Johnson

‘The lack of women was a terrible deprivation’: Melvyn Bragg on Oxford, Boris Johnson, and Trump

Melvyn Bragg “went up” to Oxford University in 1958, sporting an Elvis Presley look-alike haircut. He spent three glorious, carefree years in its gilded hallways. The Carlisle man was part of a postwar working-class generation – along with filmmakers Dennis Potter and Ken Loach – that breached the walls of…
bubmag
February 24, 2026