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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says

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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

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‘Venture capital is killing more value than it creates,' author and tech activist Catherine Bracy argues in a new book, World Eaters. Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit, she says.

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If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

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Henry: 'Are you putting on a voice for your wife?' Clive: 'No' Henry: 'Put both of you on the phone then.' Clive: 'Won't that interfere with LBC signal?' Henry: 'No, absolutely fine. I've checked.' Watch @henryriley1.bsky.social's bizarre call with Clive and his 'wife.'

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The United States fell to a new low in 2024 on an index that tracks perception of global public-sector corruption, published Tuesday by the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.

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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

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The BBC has become a public disservice. And at this point in our history too. Shameful.

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Ignore the press lobby, writes @samfr.bsky.social. Given the pressures of 24-hour news, lobby journalists cannot plausibly understand policy detail. Their skillset is to nose around and cause trouble. www.prospectmagazine...

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How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’ There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

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Labour has lots to celebrate this week. While Trump grabbed headlines, the government made progress that will transform lives. 10 important changes:

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Protesters gather to stop infamous video game cheater from gutting US Treasury aftermath.site/elon-musk-tr...

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NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

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Here's the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I explain how DeepSeek, a Chinese AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has punctured the generative AI bubble, throwing the US tech industry into disarray. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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There is chaos in the White House as Trump tries to cover up his role in all the disasters he has caused in such a short time since entering office.

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M. A. G. A. Meta Apple Google Amazon

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🔥 This is an absolutely devastating set of figures on the UK public's view of Brexit. Absolutely damning. Look at each category one by one - particularly the economic ones. YouGov article on these data here. 👉 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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On the fifth anniversary of Brexit, where the central message of c*nt Johnson was sending £350 million to the NHS, I prepared a short Orwellian essay on what it would look like if Farage dismantled the NHS and replaced it with the insurance-based Britannia Care Ltd. 👉 youtube.com/post/Ugkxf2k...

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SCOOP from @davidcorn.bsky.social : RFK Jr. secretly recorded his second wife during their bitter divorce fight and in one conversation acknowledged he was "polygamous." One recording might have violated state law. It's a messy saga that ended with her suicide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumps | Arwa Mahdawi

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Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact theonion.com/investors-wo...

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There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

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NIH Director Tries To Calm Health Researchers’ Nerves After Trump Directives

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If I don't hear from at least 5 billionaires a day, crying about tax, I don't feel alive.

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Without looking - what colours were Bagpuss's stripes?

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Nazi salute update.

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Meta's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is now at risk.

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No, the Southport killer’s motive is not ‘difficult to comprehend’. It’s called misogyny

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Europe has a message for Elmo.

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Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal. It’s not. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

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“After more than a decade of litigation, and 14 years since the News of the World closed down, today’s settlement draws a line under the past and brings an end to this litigation." pressgazette.co.uk/news/prince-...

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BBC says of Govt AI consultation: "we do not believe that ‘scraping’ of BBC data without out permission to train Gen AI models is in the public interest". It's using gen AI for translation and to create transcripts for online of radio sport commentaries

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Stop Calling Everything A.I. It’s Just Computers Doing Computer Stuff. www.inc.com/jason-aten/s...

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Throwing useless shit into space is the big problem.

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