60% water. 40% microplastics. Like people. Also like AI. Try to see both sides but occasionally venture into Culture war-zones.
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BREAKING: Multiple sources in the US intelligence community say that the intelligence collected on Alice Huang, the suspected spy targeting Jensen Huang, does not prove she was acting as a spy for China, per CNN.
Some officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have said the characterization of Alice Huang as a Chinese spy is "not entirely accurate and over-torqued."
Officials at the CIA also are "not yet convinced" that the intelligence collection on Alice Huang so far, including intercepted communications, proves she was knowingly funneling information back to Beijing.
The FBI has reportedly been investigating this affair for at least a year.
We maintain our view that Jensen Huang and Nvidia prematurely parted ways.
A complete investigation is necessary.
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"If a crime occurs and any one of our residents is impacted by anyone from that site, I'm coming after you, Andy Burnham!"
Powerful rebuke from Piddington Parish Council Chair Tim McNally over Labour's plan to import 1,250 male asylum seekers into the village of just 350 people.
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Since the date that Britain left the European Union (the single market and the customs union), the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom have grown by 19.2% and 15.7% respectively.
The two biggest EU economies — Germany and France — have grown by 4.5% and 10.5%.
Why would the Burnham Labour government want to tie us more closely again to the single market and the customs union? Britain’s exports to non-EU countries have risen to almost 60% of the total in the same period.
Before they crow about today’s growth figures, they might want to consider the utter stupidity of their own EU policy.
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BREAKING
Angela Rayner has approved plans to house up to 1,256 single male migrants at MOD Bicester in Oxfordshire - next to the village of Piddington - despite the overwhelming opposition of the local community
The decision comes after Andy Burnham said that people in more affluent areas of the UK must 'play their part' in housing asylum seekers
Piddington was so incensed that it even held a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK as a protest against the plans. The government has decided to override their concerns
This is the letter sent to Greg Smith, the local Tory MP: 'Application by the Home Office for full planning permission for the temporary change of use of the former defence storage & distribution centre site in connection with the phased provision of non-detained asylum accommodation at MOD Bicester (A-site), Bicester Garrison, Launton Road, OX25 1AE.
'I am writing to inform you that today the Secretary of State has granted planning permission, subject to conditions, for the Home Office’s application described above'
Doesn't sound like a decision has been made yet on RAF Barnham or RAF Linton-on-Ouse
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🚨 NEW: Two illegal migrants who arrived by small boat and lorry have been found guilty of spying for Iran
Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Manesh were granted temporary leave to remain before plotting a “violent attack” on journalists and a lawyer
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Worms in the soup. Sewage flooding prison corridors. Women forced to use dirty rags instead of sanitary products. Starvation, beatings, sexual humiliation, and the screams of Ukrainian soldiers being tortured behind prison walls.
This is what Ukrainian combat medic Halyna Fedyshyn endured during nearly 20 months of Russian captivity.
She survived the siege of Mariupol and the hell of Azovstal, only to face another nightmare in Russian prisons.
Her testimony is horrifying. What she witnessed, what she suffered, and what she heard happening to her fellow prisoners must never be forgotten.
I have published her story, including the terrible details of her captivity and the extraordinary strength it took to survive.
Please read it. Share it. And remember the Ukrainians who are still suffering in Russian prisons.
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1) the “magnificent” entrance to the station of the UK’s fourth city
2) a Victorian sewage pumping plant in East London
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I have said before that I anticipate some MPs and activists will push the Government, ONS, DfE (etc) to stop publishing statistics on ethnicity; maybe a movement we will see in the next ≈5-10 years as the decline in the White British share becomes too big to ignore.
It was not on my bingo card that we would see MPs propose *primary legislation* to force the ONS (and presumably other Government departments) to alter ethnicity categories offered in the census and other statistical collections, which have remained relatively unchanged for over 20 years.
A lot of these private members bills never go anywhere and I suspect even if this one did become law, any such attempts to cook and massage official statistics will not prove successful or quell the increased salience on demographic change.
MPs push to redefine Englishness with 'Black English' and 'Asian English' Census shake-up
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A Palestinian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain illegally by small boat has been jailed for six years after breaking into a family home and masturbating in front of terrified young girls. The judge concluded that he intended to rape at least one of them.
Mohammed Abbas, 29, who claims to be Palestinian, arrived from France in March. By July, he had already been convicted of assaulting a police officer, whom he spat at, and battery.
Rather than being deported, he was given a taxpayer-funded, £250,000 two-bedroom house in Cardiff, where he lived alone.
Just two days after moving in, Abbas broke into a nearby family home at 2am, entering a bedroom shared by three sisters, including two children under 16.
He exposed himself, repeatedly demanded sex and masturbated as the girls screamed in terror. He even attempted to climb towards one of them on a bunk bed. She desperately fought him off with a pillow.
Their screams eventually alerted their family, and Abbas fled.
Police subsequently discovered stolen belongings at his accommodation and DNA evidence linking him to the bedroom.
The court heard that Abbas received £30 weekly from the Home Office, which he spent on food, alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. His asylum application remained undecided.
Judge Lucy Crowther described the danger he posed to women and girls as “real and imminent”. He received six years’ imprisonment and three years’ extended licence.
Meanwhile, the British Government has reopened its refugee resettlement scheme, with approximately a quarter of referrals earmarked collectively for Palestinians and Afghan women and girls.
Ministers expect initially hundreds of arrivals across the new resettlement routes, potentially rising into the low thousands.
Abbas cannot be considered for deportation until he has served his custodial sentence.
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Planning and executing the reactions to make a complex molecule (a “route”) is one of the hardest jobs in organic chemistry.
From one image of each of four molecules, with no internet and with code as its only tool, Claude wrote a complete route in about half an hour.
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Sacking Ed Miliband must be worth at least 0.2% GDP growth by this point.
Cabinet locked in bitter row as Ed Miliband and key ally try to block £49billion plans for third runway at Heathrow trib.al/XsBR5aS
