"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
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Utterly bizarre. Some of the most comfortable shoes I own. Guess not everyone agreed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Such attacks on art only reveal the deep anti-humanism of the tech elite. They are a class that shuns human interaction, with its serendipities, annoyances and joys. It represents friction. Learning to make art is also friction.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Headline: Data centers are destroying states' clean energy dreams. Photo shows a desert with a bunch of solar panels.
[Huddled on the roof with my family after the flood]: It was all worth it for that Dua Lipa deepfake
fortune.com/2026/04/09/d...
It's not just Muslim voters. @labouruk.bsky.social doesn't care about brown lives in general. It's very obvious in the decisions it has made around supporting Israel and allowing the US to bomb brown countries from UK bases, in trying to keep the two-child benefit cap, in reducing development aid..
Any serious analysis of "sustainable" aviation fuel comes down to this. The land use implications alone mean that SAF will never be more than a greenwash marketing term.
Pop quiz: In 2025, how much of the new electricity demand across the world was met by wind and solar?
This is the way. Use Calibre. Jailbreak your kindle and install Koreader. My 13 year old kindle is better than ever.
7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister.
The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation.
And Downing Street says... nothing.
If you wonât speak up now, when will you?
I was raised from birth by a metal pole with a piece of shag carpet wrapped around it so I only talk about how decimating a nation of 90 million people effects the price of oil and poll numbers.
Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...
Remember when the former President of Korea tried to take control with martial law powers and the opposition leaders literally broke into the parliament to stop it from happening?
What are the Democrats actually doing? Show some real strength. Physically stop him from being in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump post threatening Iran, saying âa whole civilisation will die tonight.â
After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice.
Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.
I was an astrophysics researcher in a former life, and the moon mission would have been a highlight. However, I can't help but feel that space exploration has completely lost its charm. The same aerospace companies working with NASA are also bombing innocent people in Iran.
Exactly. We can see a template in Pedro Sanchez who isn't even that different to Starmer politically..
Why are US fighter jets launching from UK bases to bomb another country illegally? Why did Keir Starmer say that the UK is not involved in this war when they are attacking using our bases?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez: âA country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.â
Stella Creasy asked 3 straight questions that govt is simply refusing to answer (!)
- When do fiscal contributions + fiscal costs arise?
- What impact does that have on the fiscal rules for 5 years?
- How much would the proposed delay save (or not?)
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
KĂ©my AdĂ© was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didnât match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didnât. AdĂ© is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University â and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. âI saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,â said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. âI was disoriented how this could happen.â But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. Itâs believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (đ±) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
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UKâs renewables output hits record, helping to blunt Iran shock
On Weds:
Solar and wind fleet = 34GW, acc @neso-energy.bsky.social
Gas đ to just over a GW, lowest since Apr 2024 and only 2.4% of power mix
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is what happens when you copy the far right. Good riddence! Keir Starmer next please.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower".
The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year.
My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.
With new UK Future Homes Standard today, reflect that a similar standard was scrapped by then-Conservative government in 2015
The more than 1.3 mn homes built to lower standards since mean UK requires an extra 20 LNG tankers per yr
Bad decisions lower energy security
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Can we please not equate Jewish people with the state of Israel? Nobody deserves to be attacked on the basis of their identity. Jewish communities in Golders Green have nothing to do with Israel. In fact, many are opposed to the genocide in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
