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Brazil's political drama came to a close Sunday as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva secured a fourth term, winning fifty-one point seven percent of the vote against Flavio Bolsonaro. The tight runoff capped a campaign that saw the far right mount a surprisingly strong challenge after Lula stumbled in the first round.
Across the Atlantic, political tensions are running high in the United States as Donald Trump escalated his anti-Muslim rhetoric with a fierce attack on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The episode is drawing renewed attention to how identity and religion are being weaponized as electoral tools heading deeper into campaign season.
On a lighter but genuinely interesting note, one determined Apple enthusiast wants to give the iconic two thousand nineteen Mac Pro a second life. Their crowdfunded conversion kit would strip out Apple's proprietary internals and replace them with standard upgradable PC components, while keeping that distinctive cheese grater enclosure intact. It is a five hundred dollar bet that great industrial design should outlast the platform it was built for.
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