"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
“In 2025, the industry regulator Ofcom found that Britons aged over 65 now spend a record three hours and 20 minutes a day online.
At the same time, the moderation of networks such as X and Facebook has become more relaxed, potentially bringing traditionally fringe messaging into ageing hands.
It's scary how supposedly clever people get sucked in by these things. Of COURSE it's a security disaster.
So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?
When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that?
When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that?
But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote?
Yeah?
Is it just the pacemakers or also ICDs? That's unclear from the article but one would suppose the same batteries are used.
Sicuramente ne avevate già parlato, riposto comunque per chi come me si fosse perso l'articolo.
Gemini is capable of accessing your Gmail, Google Calendar, and content in your Google Drive, as well as anything you’ve saved to Google Photos. 1/2
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reports 394 people died since Monday from Israeli attacks.
22 percent of those are children. That’s 86 children in a week.
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
I took the paywall off this three part series. My time in Iran in 2014 was life-changing.
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Huge #Saharandust transport over #Europe. The #Copernicus #Sentinel5p aerosol index map on March 5th shows the dust cloud reaching #England, heading to Northern Europe, confirming the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social CAMS forecast. #airquality
Why your prompts could be subpoenaed. My conversation with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, out today. links.profgmedia.com/4ucFCOy
Proton always said they had to comply with the law. If you give them traceable metadata, they have to hand it over. If you pay with bitcoin and a burner email etc., no one would be able to trace it back. It's not really Proton's fault.
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications. www.wired.com/story/openai...
The problem is a number of UK politicians are bypassing the tabloids and going direct to source to also aim for a US audience for social media engagement
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The Middle East - famously a geopolitics-free zone.
"artificial information" is an exciting new euphemism for lying
I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance.
Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.
In follow-up of a randomized trial of low-dose aspirin in >19,000 older adults, cancer was not prevented and mortality related to cancer was increased
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All the major left and centre groups in the European parliament asked to issue a travel ban for ICE to the EU
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Good! A straight response instead of pandering with maybes
Sánchez said Spain’s decision was guided by consistency with international law, the United Nations and a multilateral approach to global governance. He also pointed out that the Palestinian Authority is not included in the initiative.
Senior executive 2: Every May, there's a Five Eyes conference with the head of every intelligence agency. This year it was in the U.K. Kash Patel is going. In the lead-up to that, his detail starts making crazy requests. He's got special requirements on everything. And the Brits are getting pissed. Before the conference, his staff says he's unhappy because he doesn't like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events. He wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing. He'd like a helicopter tour. Everyone who heard about this was like: Hold on. Is he really going to ask the MI5 director to go jet skiing instead of meeting? The schedule is set, and every Five Eyes partner is doing this. They can't just say that he's not participating and instead he wants to go to a Premier soccer game. This is a job, guys. His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend in there so she can go to Windsor Castle. He's got Nicole Rucker as his assistant, like a true executive concierge. And when she's not getting the food or the workout she wants, she'll just start screaming at people, Make it happen!
His staff was briefed multiple times that the Brits were going to want to talk about an F.B.I. position in London that has been pulled. The F.B.I. is arguably their most important partner. MI5 is 5,000 people. The F.B.I. is 38,000. If MI5 ceased to exist, it would be very bad for us. If we cease to exist, it would be an existential threat for them. That person was working on a ton of sensitive stuff, including embassy penetrations and technology, and they want this position back. So Ken McCallum, the MI5 director, goes to Kash Patel at the conference and says: Hey, we really need this position. It's so important for our mutual benefit. And Kash says: Yep, that person's going nowhere. She's absolutely staying. And the Brits rejoice. Two weeks later, he reverses himself and removes her. The Brits are outraged. Kash will make promises and he will break them, and he doesn't worry about that. On that trip, the heads of intelligence for the Five Eyes went to Windsor Castle and met with the king. There was a photo taken of all the Five Eyes people, some of whom are nondisclosed, meaning their affiliation with the British intelligence service isn't public. The Brits forwarded that picture as a keepsake for the individuals. They prefaced it with, This isn't to be shared. But Kash has decided he wants to post it on social media. They have people trying to negotiate with the Brits about whether that's possible. They're fighting with the director's office, like: You cannot post this. Do not do that. And they're arguing, He wants a picture out. (The F.B.I. did not respond to questions about this trip.)
From NYT interview with FBI official on Patel. Utterly terrifying.
"His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend to Windsor Castle."
(Source: archive.is/ZT5qx)
Me hoping the other people who reposted this, also send the link directly to their MP who is in all likelihood still on X and still refusing to regulate it because they're convinced we care more about tariffs than morality.
www.writetothem.com
Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one.
“This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak.
www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...
And yet my son’s school is deploying it with most enthusiastic abandon
One large mastodon instance, with better search functionality.
Just had the “try our updated app” email from Trainline. If it wasn’t so depressing it’d be hilarious.
What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?
