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News Eye
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UPDATE: It’s 3.45pm in Islamabad and negotiations are just about to start on whether negotiations can start. Frozen Iranian assets have been unfrozen and remain frozen. The Strait is open and closed. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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News Eye
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NEW: The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament has travelled to negotiations in Islamabad with the backpacks and pictures of the murdered schoolchildren of Minab. A powerful visual. (📸 MB Ghalibaf)

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

theguardian.comICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimonyUnder oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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The Bulwark
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"It's pretty clear that this team didn't think through, never mind the second- and third-order effects; they didn't think through the first-order effects... this will be a case study at war colleges forever, because they...were constantly caught by surprise." Tom Nichols on Trump's war.

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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌
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Dirty fossil fuels AI 🤢🤮

Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌@parentsforfuture.de

"The gas-powered data center craze has come to Europe." 110MW off-grid AI data center outside of Dublin powered entirely by fossil fuels "What does this mean for Ireland's climate goals? According to my estimates, this single project will increase the entire country's annual GHG emissions by ~1%."