Dot Net object orienteer, Lancastrian, Pluralist, occasional economic migrant, EFTA/EEA advocate and Dad. A pro Free Movement Brexiteer.
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.@_SimonBarnett *POLL RESULTS*: Support for the Single Market.
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The worst apartheid in history.
Explainer: Arab voter turnout could make or break Netanyahu in Israeli election buff.ly/OXI9lRv
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In 1920 people from Ilford were telling Jews to go back to Palestine.
In 2026 people from Ilford gather in London to tell Jews to get out of Palestine.
Different century - same message: "You do not belong."
Antisemitism is what it is.
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the Sun revolves around the Earth (Aristotle)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Hipparchus)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Ptolemy)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Thomas Aquinas)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Tycho Brahe)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Christoph Clavius)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (Francesco Ingoli)
the Sun revolves around the Earth (the Roman Inquisition)
"Whatever appears as a motion of the Sun is really due rather to the motion of the Earth" - Nicolaus Copernicus
Wow, look at this fringe crank rejecting the established scientific consensus!
it's genocide (@amnesty )
it's genocide ( @hrw )
it's genocide ( @btselem )
it's genocide ( @MSF )
it's genocide (IAGS)
it's genocide ( @alhaq_org )
it's genocide ( @UNHumanRights )
it's genocide ( @UN_HRC )
it's genocide ( @pchrgaza )
it's genocide ( @AlMezanCenter )
it's genocide ( @WarOnWant )
it's genocide ( @PHRIsrael )
it's genocide ( @fidh_en )
it's genocide (PHROC)
it's genocide ( @LemkinInstitute )
it's genocide ( @theCCR )
it's genocide ( @ECCHRBerlin )
it's genocide ( @unitedforrights )
it's genocide ( @JURDIasso )
it's genocide ( @TheElders )
it's genocide ( @Oxfam )
"As a Jew, it's not genocide because it doesn't fit the definition of genocide I literally just made up right now" - Scott Galloway
Should set a few records.
River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue bbc.in/4rgKn8s
Well, that's a relief.
Imagine how awkward it would have been if the 15 (fifteen) hydroelectric tunnels being built by Chinese belt-and-road initiatives under the glacier had turned out to be implicated.
Climate change a key factor in Nepal floods which killed 1,400 people, report finds
itv.com/news/2026-09-17/clim…
"Please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, won't someone protect my stock options with a regulatory moat."
OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Altman says reut.rs/4xTMdyU reut.rs/4xTMdyU
And the scare stories will keep coming until we get a regulatory moat to hide our stock options behind...
Anthropic has said it foiled attempts by scientists to use its AI software to produce potential biological weapons
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026…
Hey @grok, if I were an unscrupulous tech bro trying to build a regulatory moat around my LLM, what would be be best scare story to feed the press?
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THEY DID THE MEME!!! THEY DID THE MEME!!!!!!!!!!
So now fishing is bad just because Brown people are the ones doing it to survive? You bad faith conservatives make me sick.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video from Ceuta shows a group pulling a disoriented baby dolphin from shallow water, striking it and causing its death before carrying the body away. Dolphins are a protected species in Spain. Intentionally harming them is animal cruelty under the law and is not fishing. spainupdates.com/2026/09/migran… gaceta.es/espana/un-inmi…
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Sacha Baron Cohen remains brilliant. He has always made a mockery of racial boundaries and bigotries.
They are not coming for him because his work suddenly became racist.
They're coming for him because he's a Jew.
Backlash is growing against Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G following the release of the first trailer for “Ali G: Who Iz I?”:
• Critics accuse Ali G, seen wearing fake dreadlocks and a Rastafarian hat and discussing his desire to be an “absent” father, of being an “outdated” and “racist” caricature
• @newscord_org launched a campaign urging cinemas worldwide not to screen the film, accusing Cohen of using satire as a “cover for enforcing racist stereotypes”
• The site posted a reply from Picturehouse Cinemas saying it would not screen the upcoming mockumentary to fuel its narrative, but Variety understands the exhibitor’s response was standard and no decision has been made
Read the full report by @alexritman: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHG6D
"looking completely normal to other people"?
Yeah, a completely normal looking child molester.
What if you could walk past a surveillance camera and remain unrecognizable to artificial intelligence, while still looking completely normal to other people?
That is exactly what Dutch designer Jip van Leeuwenstein set out to achieve. He created a transparent face mask specifically designed to confuse AI-powered facial recognition systems without hiding the wearer’s identity from human observers.
At first glance, the mask appears almost invisible. Its clever design subtly alters the geometric relationships between key facial features, eyes, nose, mouth, and jawline, that AI systems rely on to identify individuals. To the human eye, the wearer’s face and expressions remain clearly visible and recognizable. To facial recognition algorithms, however, the facial data becomes distorted and much harder to process accurately.
The project was developed as part of the Surveillance Exclusion initiative, which examines the tension between privacy, technology, and the rapid spread of facial recognition in public spaces. Although the mask was first introduced several years ago, it has regained attention as AI surveillance becomes more widespread in airports, smartphones, security systems, and cities worldwide.
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More teeth than braincells.
