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Material forces shape life-chances.9 min readAug 22, 2026--Press enter or click to view image in full sizeAny frank assessment of your own achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell young people who want to get into tech, “Well, if you don’t have the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can’t really help you.”When it comes to tech, being born in 1971 — to a computer scientist father, no less — conferred a tremendous advantage for my career chances. My dad — a refugee — came to Canada at a time when post-war public services meant that he could become the first person in his family to go to university, all the way to a doctorate. That set me up for life in a house where tech and education were all around me. Both my parents are teachers, both from working class families where no one had ever gone beyond high school, who found themselves in a time and place where it was easier than at any time in history for people from backgrounds like theirs to attend university.

MUSICFestival of the SensesArkansas Symphony Orchestra violinist Andrew Irvin, cellist David Gerstein and pianists Jaeyeon Park Hakutani and Naoki Hakutani perform for “Fantasies, Poems and Folk Songs,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, kicking off the Festival of the Senses’ 2026-27 performing arts season at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. The program: Fantasie in f-sharp minor for violin and piano by Florence Price; “Crouching Tiger Sonata” by Tan Dun, arranged and adapted for cello and piano from Dun’s Oscar-winning film score for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”; “Four Folk Songs for Piano Trio” by Gabriela Lena Frank; and the Piano Trio No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Admission is free. A reception will follow in the church’s Parish Hall. The concert will also be livestreamed and available afterward on the church website. Call (501) 753-3578 or email baxternan@aol.com. “Queen of the Clarinet” Doreen Ketchens will be in residence Thursday-Oct. 4 at the University of Central Arkansas and perform with the UCA Wind Ensemble Oct. 4 at the UCA Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)‘Queen of Clarinet’Dixieland and

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The PHP security team has announced an upcoming security release that fixes two critical vulnerabilities. It is scheduled for Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM Eastern). Both vulnerabilities are rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. The team has not shared what the vulnerabilities are or which PHP versions they affect yet. From the announcement: