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Ethiopia’s Civil War Restarts: What Next?

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Ethiopia’s Civil War Restarts: What Next?

The creator reports that Ethiopia's Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) announced a military alliance with six other regional militias, including the Fano, Oromo Liberation Army, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front,…

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Confirmed: the TPLF announced a military alliance with six other regional militias and declared a defensive war against the federal government [00:18]
Confirmed: the six allied movements named are the Amhara Fano National Movement, Oromo Liberation Army, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Afar Revolu…
Confirmed: from the 1990s until 2018 Ethiopian politics was dominated by the TPLF, a militia from Tigray, one of Ethiopia's 12 regional states [01:10]

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I Tested Opus 5.5 at Every Effort Level. What You Need to Know

27 min source · Nate Herk | AI Automation · 2026-09-24

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Verdict: Extra effort level is the winner for this 3D virtual-venue task [25:36]
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Spec: Opus 5.5 is described as smart, cheap, with amazing taste, an incredible AI model [00:06]

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Did We Just Detect Dark Matter Annihilating in Deep Space?

14 min source · Anton Petrov · 2026-09-24

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Named context: the presenter references a prior video covering galaxies DF2, DF4, and DF9, described as apparently devoid of dark matter and thought to have formed…
Concept: dark matter annihilation is hypothesized to release energy, mostly as high-energy gamma rays, detectable by telescopes [00:55]
Concept: a WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) is a hypothetical particle believed to be massive but to interact with matter only through gravity, not the st…

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AI · Duncan Rogoff | Learn Cla…

I Used Claude Opus 5.5 to Upgrade My NEW Agentic OS

18 min source · Duncan Rogoff | Learn Claude Code · 2026-09-24

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System does (01:33): A prior video update had already added YouTube stats tracking and an image generation studio to the AIOS
System does (08:05): The goal for today's session is to generate images directly inside the Studio so users avoid bouncing back and forth between different tools

cited · Duncan Rogoff | Learn Cla… · every claim timestamped

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