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
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.
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Quintessential Trump:
In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year.
In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak.
$1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
My grandkids (both genders) all got the HPV vaccine at 12 or 13. Why vaccinate boys & girls? HPV is very common and contagious, and is incurable for both genders. It can cause genital warts and cancer of the anus and penis in men and cervical cancer in women.
Just checked with our team which is reviewing the indictment. As you'd expect (but obviously you want to be sure) it looks like yet another case of wild overcharging. Some chaotic protest moments that DOJ wants to make into a violent attack. Good luck getting this past a Minneapolis jury.