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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

[Kirill @kirillk_web3]

A Chinese developer just explained the shift from Loop Engineering to Graph Engineering better than anyone.

most people are still building agents the way that's about to be obsolete.

> why single-agent loops break and go "goal blind"
> the 4 parts of a graph: nodes, edges, state, policy
> 3 topologies that run everything: diamond, supervisor, pipeline
> Anthropic's 5 official workflow patterns

the punchline: it's not how many agents you run. it's the determinism you build with verifiers, code fallbacks, and reality anchors.

I broke the same architecture down with Kimi K3. Full A-Z guide below.

[Zuriñe @Zurine3]

Estos días estando está saliendo a la luz y sin complejos, lo que Europa piensa de España.
Nos consideran europeos de quinta, como si lo fuéramos por accidente, como esa rama de la familia de la que te avergüenzas y de la que te sientes muy superior. Y esto sumado a la deriva europea hacia la ultraderecha: ese afán de seguir arrodillándose ante Trump y buscar a toda costa una guerra con Rusia; de defender, excusar y apoyar al sionismo aunque implique un genocidio, invasiones de países o una guerra mundial.
Y entonces el pariente pobre y medio tonto (España) decide condenar el genocidio y llamarlo por su nombre y no participar en la invasión de Irán (gestos mínimos). Decide negociar con China mientras la economía alemana agoniza por haber subestimado a los chinos. Decide ampliar su acuerdo gasístico con Argelia mientras casi toda Europa, que depende del gas ruso, se ha pegado un tiro en el pie con las sanciones y la destrucción del Nordstream II.
Y no lo pueden tolerar. No pueden consentir que los que consideran los últimos monos del continente dejen en evidencia su traición a la ciudadanía europea, ni que pongan palos en las ruedas de ese revival del nazismo que están instaurando.
Eso es lo que estamos viviendo estos días, nada más y nada menos.

[Codez @0xCodez]

IBM just released a 1-hour course on building agentic knowledge graphs from scratch:

• 00:00 - Introduction to knowledge graphs
• 05:35 - Building your first agentic graph
• 19:59 - Agentic memory powered by graphs
• 30:39 - Graphs for multi-agent orchestration

This 1-hour watch will replace 10 paid courses on agentic engineering.

Watch it today, then learn how to become a knowledge graph engineer in the article below.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Baidu just open-sourced an OCR model that reads entire 40-page documents in one shot.

It's called Unlimited-OCR. 3 billion parameters but only 500 million active during inference. Runs 100% locally on your machine.

Why this matters: traditional OCR tools chop documents page by page. Tables that span two pages break. Reading order gets lost. Cross-page context disappears.

Unlimited-OCR processes the whole document at once. 32K context window. Text, formulas, tables, reading order all preserved across pages.

Output comes out as clean structured Markdown.

→ 93% accuracy on the standard benchmark. +6 points over the baseline.
→ Error rate stays below 0.11 even past 40 pages.
→ Multilingual out of the box.
→ 2.12 million downloads on Hugging Face last month. 14,600 GitHub
stars.

For context: Amazon Textract, Google Cloud Vision, and Azure Document Intelligence all charge per page. This runs locally for free.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

Microsoft has released an open-source tool that helps teams learn ontology design before choosing a knowledge graph platform.

It is called Ontology Playground.

The project is a fully static React app, which means it does not need a backend, account system, database, or hosted service to run.

The goal is simple:

Help people understand what goes inside a graph before they buy or build the graph database.

Ontology Playground includes six pre-built domain ontologies:

→ Retail
→ Healthcare
→ Finance
→ Manufacturing
→ E-Commerce
→ Education

Each one gives users a starting point for understanding entities, relationships, properties, and how domain knowledge gets structured.

The app also includes a live visual designer, structured learning paths, hands-on labs, and RDF/XML export for Fabric IQ.

Because it is static, it can be deployed almost anywhere.

No backend.
No vendor lock-in.
No platform commitment upfront.

This matters because many teams jump into knowledge graphs too early.

They focus on the database first.

But the harder question is usually:

What should the graph actually know?

Ontology Playground teaches that layer first.

[Η όρεξη του eater @horexitoueater]

Το 41% που λέει στο βίντεο, αφορά αυτούς που ειτε δεν μπορούν να πληρώσουν το ενοίκιο, είτε τη δόση δανειου, είτε κάποιο λογαριασμό και ακούγεται σαν τραγική ειρωνία, αλλά δεν είναι. Είναι το αποτέλεσμα των τεστ IQ του '19, του '23 και όπως φαίνεται και του '27.

LiveYourMyth .gr

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

URGENT: Germany’s collective punishment of my family continues. They’ve now frozen my pensioner mother’s bank account, claiming I somehow “control” it too. Her savings are inaccessible — yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process

[Yiannis @y3443o]

@davidrkadler @UniofOxford @benwansell You are a legend! Congrats! 💪🥳🎉

[Yiannis @y3443o]

@alex_callinicos For the past 15 years Germany pushed austerity to the rest of Europe and to themselves and now we see the consequenses of this negative real investement and the absence of r&d and how damaging is. You reap what you sow...

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

🚨🚨An AIPAC shell organization just bought $5.3 million in ads to beat us. We need you.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[Ray Youssef @raythewarchief]

They kept him alive just long enough to rape him as many times as they could..

120 days, 4 months in a rape dungeon. This is how they treat the best of humans

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Two things:

1. What a headline.

2. This should be leading news shows worldwide today. Ask yourself why it is not.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Does no one else see in these videos the most terrifying premonition for all of human civilization?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

More than 1m Europeans have called for a full suspension of the EU's trade agreement with Israel.

However the EU is planning just a partial suspension, tariffs on only 40% of Israel's exports.

This not acceptable.

Full suspension of the Trade Agreement with Israel.

NOW.

[ιλουσιόν 🇬🇷 🤝 🇵🇸 @ilousion]

Ελλάδα και Κύπρος είναι ακόμα πολύ πίσω, να φτάσουμε τουλάχιστον το κατώφλι.
υπογράφουμε
21 Απριλίου θα γίνει συζήτηση στο Ευρωκοινοβούλιο, να έχουμε φτάσει το 100%
https://t.co/4unfRpEyND

[Τζερτζής @tzertzis]

η σχολή του Λαζαρίδη ιδρύθηκε το 1991 και αυτός μετά από 4 χρόνια σπουδών, πήρε το πτυχίο το 1992

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎶 Iran-linked accounts are circulating a new LEGO-style propaganda video portraying U.S. and Israeli leaders as corrupt elites tied to the “Epstein files,” part of a broader online campaign aimed at undermining support for the war.

The animation depicts President Donald Trump as an “orange pig” controlled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, depicting the entire war as a project to “make Israel Great Again.”

The chorus repeats: “Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.”

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.

Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.

Toca hablar claro:

- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.

- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.

- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.