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| Issue 30X: | Dec. 2025 |
| Introduction: | 161 words |
| Prosimetra: | 895 words |
| Footnotes: | 220 words |
By Kendall Johnson
Dark News IV-VI
A second trio of Fireflies*
Introduction:
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Dark News IV:
Dark News V:
Dark News VI:
* Excerpts above are from Kendall Johnson’s forthcoming book, Fireflies for These New Dark Ages (the fourth volume in his Fireflies series published by Arroyo Seco Press), and appear here with kind permissions from the author and from the publisher, Thomas R. Thomas.
(For the first trio of excerpts, see Issue 30 of MacQ.)
MacQ Footnotes:
Links were retrieved on 22 November 2025.
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“The Dehumanization of ISR: Israel’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Warfare” by Kassidy DeMaio in Georgetown Security Studies Review (9 January 2025):
https://gssr.georgetown.edu/the-forum/regions/mena/the-dehumanization-of-isr-israels-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-warfare/ -
“It took 54 years, but this man just got his bachelor’s degree” by Nadine Yousif in BBC News, Toronto (26 May 2023):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65688463 -
“DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations” by Hannah Natanson, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, and Rachel Siegel in The Washington Post (updated 26 July 2025):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/doge-ai-tool-cut-regulations-trump/ -
“Varian Fry: An American in Marseille” at Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center:
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/fry.html -
“Trump fires FTC’s only two Democrats: ‘The President just illegally fired me’” by Marina Dunbar in The Guardian (18 March 2025):
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-fires-ftc-commissioners -
The daughter of an education activist, Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan, and is the youngest laureate in history for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, at the age of 17, she was co-winner of the award, with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, for their work for children’s rights to receive an education:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
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