NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year.
However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year.
In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult
Please send me any and all stock images you've seen which are just nebulously newsy words clumsily rendered as a key on a computer keyboard. Feel like I've seen thousands of them over the years, and this is a beautifully stupid example of the genre.
A Restore Britain spokesperson went viral claiming a London school left a pupil in tears after her ham sandwich was confiscated due to the school's ban on park.
She challenged doubters to phone the school.
So @kdenkwrites.com did. This is what she found:
www.londoncentric.media/i/193542671/...
Wtaf. This is effectively legalising neglect. I've worked with people who had profound cognitive impairments and they may not be able to say (e.g) "take me to the park", but you can see from their reactions/expressions once there how much they enjoy it. They know the diff btwn free & shut in.
Over the weekend, Restore spokesperson Orla Minihane claimed that a London school banned pork products, but what really happened? My latest for @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...
Lots of serious political things to be concerned with, but also new tiny octopuses!
The man funding the network is also one of Christian Concern's few named donors. national.thelead.uk/p/christian-...
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I wonder how many things they have to ban before Reform voters realise what they've done/what will be the last straw.
He's just flexing for his photo op. Can't have all the other octopi thinking he's soft.
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
Plus: How to end the tube strikes • Did a London school really ban ham sandwiches? • Who's reclaiming lost sex toys from TfL? • Was a Waymo really lost on Waterloo Bridge?
Court cases, think-tank connections and opaque funding streams reveal how a Christian pressure group has become a central player in the UK’s culture-war politics.
This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances.
www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands.
About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.
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📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby —
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EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority…
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EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
