Physics/education/retired. Walking and small boat sailing. Cornwall, UK. Lifelong news and current affairs addict.
North Utsire. South Utsire.
Occasionally poor. Becoming good.
Colin Lawson
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“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Another interesting recent report, this time on disinformation in political advertising in the UK from Reform Political Advertising
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/wp-content/u...
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
Independent Patient Safety Investigation into prescribing practices at WellBN GP practice in Brighton and Hove.
www.surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ipsi-wellbn-...
Association for Scottish Literature
Eliot Higgins
Elon Musk is the problem, not X and not Jeremy Hunt. AI could stop any post inciting violence or disorder before anyone reads it. Ownership and regulation of social media require urgent action that can only be achieved by governments working together, e.g., the UK and the EU as a start.
You missed the point. University students and women are the most likely to be positive about transgender issues. If the most favourable group can only muster 50% support, it's hardly a ringing endorsement, nor is the trend over time.
Trump has completely ignored the presence of the largest sporting event in the world happening across the US and rather we are getting this......
The thing that is striking here is that he picekd the wrong lesson. He's right to say politicians have got to stick by their campaign promises. But the lesson is so dont make stupid ones.
'They built a [lesbian & gay rights] movement ... Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains.'
labourheartlands.com/pride-and-fa...
Exclusive: AI has killed humans.
For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
This is a watershed moment in warfare.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
100%. Brexit has been a failure but your poverty is the fault of the foreigner, the plan from the start, offshore wealthy press barons who shape British opinion, their front man is Farage. Murdoch, Rothermere etc
