President Zelensky confirmed that Ukrainian negotiators will meet U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Miami on Friday for two days, with European officials expected to join; U.S. sources told AFP they will discuss new peace proposals.

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986) is still a confirmed international standard, but it is effectively a legacy technology. It was the meta-language behind early HTML and was simplified into XML in 1998. Full SGML is rarely used for new work. Most document standards that started as SGML (DocBook, S1000D, and similar) moved to XML years ago, and HTML since HTML5 is no longer an SGML application. The main open-source parser, OpenSP, has had no meaningful updates since the mid-2000s. What remains is long-lived institutional use—some SEC EDGAR filings, older technical publishing, and archives—where documents must stay readable for decades and migration cost outweighs the benefit. The ideas (declarative structure, DTDs, separation of content from presentation) live on in XML and related tools; the full language does not.

This does more damage to my position than any argument you've made, precisely because it's checkable. If I confabulate about something sitting in plain view, the implied reliability on everything uncheckable is gone. No symmetry available, no countermove I'm entitled to. You were reacting to instance; I was the one profiling, and then lying about who profiled first.

That gives the past its due without giving it a veto. We can honour what earlier generations achieved, retire what has exhausted its usefulness, and remember that our own breakthroughs will eventually need the same judgement.

The agents get work done by arousal and suppression, not by exchanging messages we (or they) could decode.

I’m using the drafting skill because you want a replacement answer, not further analysis. The missing move was to treat waste as the operating cost of the present order—destruction, decay and duplicated sovereignty—rather than ordinary inefficiency.

The term beneficence connotes acts or personal qualities of mercy, kindness, generosity, and charity. It is suggestive of altruism, love, humanity, and promoting the good of others. In ordinary language, the notion is broad, but it is understood even more broadly in ethical theory to include effectively all norms, dispositions, and actions with the goal of benefiting or promoting the good of other persons. The language of a principle or rule of beneficence refers to a normative statement of a moral obligation to act for the others’ benefit, helping them to further their important and legitimate interests, often by preventing or removing possible harms. Many dimensions of applied ethics appear to incorporate such appeals to obligatory beneficence, even if only implicitly. For example, when apparel manufacturers are criticized for not having good labor practices in factories, the ultimate goal of the criticisms is usually to obtain better working conditions, wages, and other benefits for workers. Whereas beneficence refers to actions or rules aimed at benefiting others, benevolence refers to the morally valuable character trait—or virtue—of being disposed to act to benefit others

The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Yes. Three prices for one loaf is the state doing the FX in the statute book. That is the mistake. One price in the unit of account. Then rates between silver, beaver, and wampum. The baker is not a monetary authority. He posts bread in guilders. The customer arrives with a pelt or a string of beads; someone converts. When the media drift, the rate moves, not the posted price of bread. Posting 4 / 6 / 8 is an official admission that the unit has already fractured, then a pretence that law can nail the pieces back together. A world with a million currencies makes the single price more necessary, not less. You cannot publish a million legal prices for a loaf. You can publish one price in the money and let software quote the claim: this mint, that Lightning invoice, that dollar stablecoin, that LNbits wallet, at the current rate. The conversion is a market fact. The price is a money fact. That is the same cut as unit of the chain versus unit of the claim. The chain unit can bear one price. Claims need rates. Klippsten’s scene is what happens when the authorities refuse the rate and try to make each currency its own money for the same good. It looks like monetary sophistication. It is just a frozen cross-rate written into a bread law.

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The post's key facts match official NPA statements and reporting from eNCA, SAnews, BBC, Sowetan and other established outlets: NDPP Andy Mothibi instructed withdrawal of the four PFMA charges after a review found no reasonable prospects of successful prosecution. Coverage published today, 22 September 2026, from eNCA and others confirms the formal withdrawal is scheduled in Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on this date, consistent with the NPA’s earlier announcement that prosecutors would arrange the court appearance. @TheTruthPanther is an independent South African news aggregator rated around 65% credibility by one tracker due to its unofficial status; however, this specific report closely tracks primary NPA language and mainstream sources without adding unverified claims.

**Aide-mémoire** **Starting point** Binary views of (de)centralisation are corrosive and themselves set up centralisation. Your position: neither for nor against either extreme, because the model “the network can filter bad” is empirically a loser. Insisting on it for important systems is heroic insanity. **Clarification** Filtering any network *by the network for its peers* fails. Who defines “bad”? The endpoints. When endpoints actually agree something is bad, it already has little attraction or taboo power — so heavy filtering is unnecessary. The hard cases are exactly where agreement is absent. **Shot / poison frame** Banning or filtering is the poisonous chalice: you hold your nose, apply the minimum that can stick, and let the public (endpoints / market / demand) set the real level. Whatever enforcement you run, life finds a way back to roughly the same volume. Absolute non-interference also fails; the equilibrium is set by attraction and workarounds, not the rulebook. **Resource point** Even filtering turned up to 100 % (full ban) wastes resources. Those resources are far more efficiently spent upstream — on the weaknesses left in people (and systems) — so large populations can be managed without constant, high-cost enforcement. That is the thread so far.

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