Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails Minister says 'law abiding citizens have nothing to fear' after judges rule in favour of police use of live facial recognition technology in London.

Civil liberties are no longer taken seriously in the UK.

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Title text: "I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3230#Transcript

🎶 Uh-huh 🎵

w00t!* 🥳

* 1337 (leet) speak for woohoo!

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Screenshot from The Guardian newspaper. Mark Zuckerberg is walking in a crowd, presumably with his lawyer. The press is gathered around him taking photos. Below the photo, it says ‘Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social media’. Below that, it says ‘Sat 28 Mar 2026 06.00 GMT’ and then ‘Listen to this article | 10:58’. Then ‘The young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry's “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and’. https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/mar/28/week-that-brought-big-tech-to-heel-meta-youtube-google-instagram-facebook

Huge day for social media.

www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

The planet needs its lungs, but how do we quantify this?

Fundamentally, this is not quantifiable, but by putting numbers to this, we say explicitly what trades we're willing to make for the sake of life on this planet, including our own.

But making this explicit were forced to confront ourselves.

The Old Sailor Myth Satellites Actually Confirmed Is True - BGR Thanks to the latest satellite data, we've observed storms with massive wave heights, potentially towering over 100 feet above the ocean's surface.

Stories like this help explain why sailors still make offerings to Poseidon:

www.bgr.com/2124924/rogu...

The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed) YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

Internet suffering heavily invasive, one-sided censorship.

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Neuroscientists just upended our understanding of Pavlovian learning Published in Nature Neuroscience, new research reveals that timing, not repetition, drives associative learning. By showing the brain prioritizes the delay between rewards, the study upends century-ol...

It would seem that we avoid counting oversamples as data.

At least this holds #in_mice.

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Major industry survey finds that, surprise surprise, 9/10 game devs think generative AI use should be more fully disclosed on Steam But "in the near future, players will no longer care and then we won't disclose it anymore."

Players and Devs alike notice that AI use makes for a glossy, worse, derivative product.

Some don't care, as the glossier product is easier to advertise and sell.

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Whoever named that red apple delicious was WRONG and you cannot change my mind about this 🍎

Amazing that one man, with the personality of a three year old, the ignorance of an egotist, and some kind of persuasive power that motivates and focuses resentment, can do more damage than Biblical locusts...

Emily B. Scialom On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer Many people will try to dissuade you from an artistic pathway in life. Some are well-meaning but whatever their motive, you must source…

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A Complete Primer on AI OnlyFans YouTube video by faceless francis ofm

I can't believe I'm listening to this. Totally flat. All on how to eliminate humans from the most famous platform for allowing sex workers to escape exploration by pimps. They now become ‘content’.

youtube.com/watch?v=B5tB...

Legalize comedy!!!!!

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

It's a long one, but if you have the patience for it, it's well worth your time.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

America is respected perhaps like never before

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

PVC, although rubber would be better still!

Stripey shadows is almost always a good look, Jia.

Inevitably it conjures the air of a noir movie.

Your derrière is absolutely fine, Jia!

In fact it's part of what emphasises your waist. You need a little contrast!

Absolutely she does, Jia! ❤️‍🔥

European rights body says abortion refusal complaints in Poland have ceased The number of ‌legal abortions in Poland doubled in 2024, while complaints to Polish authorities over conscience clause refusals in the country have ceased, the Council of Europe said on Thursday.

The number of ‌legal abortions in Poland doubled in 2024, while complaints to Polish authorities over conscience clause refusals in the country have apparently ceased. The government had told hospitals they are obliged to provide abortion on the legal grounds of a woman's ​mental health.

Karen Gillan is sitting on an olive green sofa in a black off the shoulder dress, her right hand crossing her left arm. Her red hair tumbles over one of the dress's wide straps. Behind her, there is a brick wall painted dark red.

Seems likely, @prettypictures76.bsky.social!

There are plenty of us.

Astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from...

A significant event in the origins of our world. Indeed, the origin of our own moon.

phys.org/news/2026-03...

If you see this, post a robot.

[To clarify, the robot is on the left]

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

Ig Nobel prize ceremony to move from Harvard to Zürich.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

a woman in a white dress is standing in a room Alt: Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), the female protagonist of The Red Shoes is twirling on set in a baby pink dress which is billowing out. Victoria is wearing red ballet shoes that she cannot remove, and feels complled to dance in them. One is reminded of the sacrifice in The Rite of Spring, a controversial ballet scored by the classical musician, Igor Stravinsky.

💃🏻🩰🦢

UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland Company promises ‘rapprochement discount’ for shoppers from country after decade-long action in EU court

Bejam's in big trouble!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...