Technology and Rights are my special interests, but I try to find any news that might get lost
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MPs just voted on a motion to remove private schools' £1,700,000,000 tax break.
That could pay for free school meals for *all* primary school pupils almost twice over.
But Tory MPs voted it down, choosing to protect elite private schools, not improve opportunities for all kids.
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The Republic of Russia is also one of at least 133 countries in the world that have Universal or single-payer healthcare systems something that the media everyone's trusting because a con man called it fake failed to mention and now heads are exploding 🤯
worldpopulationreview.com/co…
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Face that launched a 'thousand' pieces of code vice.com/en_us/article/a359v… via @vice | PureCSS Lace by Diana Smith is the latest portrait made from code, rendered in-browser.
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One of the hardest problems in #AI is common sense reasoning. This paper by @nazneenrajani, @BMarcusMcCann, @CaimingXiong+I makes huge progress on this. Powerful, simple and unsupervised method: arxiv.org/abs/1906.02361
Github: github.com/salesforce/cos-e
Blog: blog.einstein.ai/leveraging-…
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In all the times I've screwed up at work, no one has died
caller.com/story/news/crime/…
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BBC News - Working the night shift on Malaria's frontline in Sierra Leone bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-484…
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Congratulations @CaroleCadwalla🎖️Winner of the #HayFestival2019 Medal for Journalism
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Almost 600 emails now received by Guardian #deniedmyvote. You are welcome to keep sending them, though they won't all get read immediately but they will be there as a record in one place of what happened. [email protected] mark them #deniedmyvote
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.@jyasskin joined us to talk about signed exchanges, where a publisher (like a news source) signs a package for someone else (like a search engine) to serve-- but still as part of the publisher's origin.
Explainer github.com/WICG/webpackage/
@w3ctag minutes cryptpad.w3ctag.org/code/#/2…
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Science Museum plans 500-acre site to show off lost treasures theguardian.com/culture/2019…
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I’m not missing something here am I. The Jeremy Kyle Show was broadcast on national television for several years, right? Everyone knew what it was, and what it was trying to do. It wasn’t shown on the dark-web, or some pirate broadcast network.
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They are words I now know because I read some of the science about them. I didn't know them until I looked at the science. I am not a scientist but I can read. So why don't you give it ago too? Or do you think only scientists should even try to understand science?
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The Tories have voted that animals can't feel pain as part of the EU bill, marking the beginning of our anti-science Brexit independent.co.uk/voices/bre…
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Here's part of @sethmeyers confronting Meghan McCain last night regarding her continued targeting of @IlhanMN -- incredibly impressed with how Meyers pushes her (including on critique of Israel being conflated with anti-semitism).
McCain's response at the end says everything.
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Yes, this is a perfectly reasonable reaction if you are a middle-class woman with credit, frequent flyer miles, a job you can do from anywhere, reliable transportation, a partner to share childcare duties after you uproot your kids from their schools, and, vitally, a place to go.
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Top 5 news today by order of importance according to @BBCNews:
#1: There's a new royal baby
#2: There's a new royal baby
#3: There's a new royal baby
#4: There's a new royal baby
#5: The planet is dying
#royalbaby #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown #priorities
