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Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy.
It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth.
Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Robert Jenrick, Reform Treasury lead, proposes this agenda as an alternative to closer links
"𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀"
- Replace GDPR with New Zealand-style Privacy Act
- Fully re-legalise Imperial units
- Review all unchanged EU law
- Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules.
"To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home
www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...
1. Can a language model feel pain?
Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can.
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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth.
Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
NEW: Maricopa County will restore 25 voters’ registrations after they were falsely flagged as noncitizens, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) announced.
Mayes sued Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap (R) Thursday, demanding that he add the voters back to the registration rolls.
End Deportations Belfast are quoted in the Belfast Telegraph.
'Nesbitt, who has long-established links to loyalists in N. Ireland and is believed to be a member of the UVF, has been caught on camera boasting he can arrange assassinations for cash with the proceeds funding his terrorist pals.' [1/3]
Why can’t UK universities make up their financial shortfalls by enrolling AI agents as fee-paying students? AI companies are so eager to prove their creations have a human level of intelligence they will surely pay for them to be awarded degrees
Sharing my #OffbeatEats review of Bibis Italianissimo in Leeds, UK. Despite the odd location (it's basically the bottom floor of a car park), they serve up some flavorful Italian food in a nicely-decorated Art Deco dining room, and handle large groups flawlessly.
offbeateats.org/2026/10/bibi...
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Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged!
Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration
Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻
BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet.
WHY