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UsForThem said it has been unable to access thousands of pounds in donations ‘due to the nature of our activities’

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The idea of being able to write kernel code in the Rust language has a
certain appeal, but it is hard to judge how well that would actually work
in the absence of examples to look at. Those examples, especially for
modules beyond the "hello world" level…

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Week 53 of Founding Typogram

In deciphering the global polycrisis it can be helpful to break down the interplay of crisis dynamics into regional systems. The EU and its neighborhood, for instance, is one such region, tied together by political institutions, economics and geopolitics.

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