Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

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‘It’s soul-destroying’: struggle to house vulnerable children can leave breaking law as only option Social workers in England say they often have no choice but to place children in unregistered settings because no one else will take them

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Intemperate Trump brings chaos and confusion to Iran talks US president’s unreliable style sows diplomatic confusion but leaves Tehran clear on strategic value of strait of Hormuz

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Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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My employer has had to issue an AI policy. The policy is essentially "Don't use it," but I wish it were more aggressive in in its phrasing. Something like:

"No, just NO, and quit asking. No, not for that. Not that either. Nor that. Just NO NO NO NO NO WHAT ARE YOU EVEN THINKING, STOP IT."

A great thread. LLMs make clear it isn't "intelligence" and it doesn't "hallucinate." It's garbage all the way down.

You're really terrible at this, JD. All of it. Everything.

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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

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Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling? The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

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It is deeply disappointing that the UK Government has decided not to allow this legislation to proceed at this stage. This delay will be very difficult for many terminally ill people on the Isle of Man and for their families, who had hoped this Bill would provide greater choice and dignity.

Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

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Thank you, AIPAC!

🚨BREAKING: Democrat Analilia Mejía crushes the NJ-11 special election, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway by 69% to 30%.

She takes the House seat vacated by now Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Big Democratic hold.

Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days

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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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AI is destroying jobs – and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren’t planning a human response on the scale required, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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U.S. Bishops’ Chairman on Doctrine Issues Clarification on Just War Theory “When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercis...

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Buried 30 paragraphs into this abysmal BBC piece blaming renewables for the high cost of UK electricity is the actual reason it's so expensive, which is fossil gas. But Justin Rowlatt seems uninterested in this detail.

Virginia strips tax breaks for organizations connected to the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy – responsible for proliferation of Confederate statues across the US – will now have to pay property taxes

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Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return

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I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

I don't think my day can recover from "I thought it was me as a doctor." Let's call it a wrap.

"While Gaza burned, the US kept signing the weapon transfers, the UK kept approving the export licenses & Germany.. that built its post war identity on never again is now a weapons supplier to a live genocide"

Sumeyra Akdeniz Ordu, one of the organisers of the Global Sumud Fleet

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

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Stephen Lillie on the return of the Artemis II crew – cartoon After experiencing the ‘overwhelming emotions’ of their moon fly-past, the astronauts find it’s back to business as usual at home with Trump

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‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight

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