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10 October 1939 | A Polish Jew, Shlomo Arie Hordiner, was born in Rzeszów. He was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Sosnowiec in July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

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What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

The public are now more likely to think boat crossings are falling this year than rising. [Numbers were down 40% with lowest 3rd quarter for 6 years] Down 40% About same 16% Up 29% Dont know 16% Labour down 61-12 LibDem down 61-18 Green down 47-13 Cons down 41-34 Reform up (28-46 down v up

Polling Canada Federal Model Update: 🔴 LPC: 232 (+63) 🔵 CPC: 76 (-68) ⚜️ BQ: 20 (-2) 🟠 NDP: 13 (+6) 🟢 GPC: 2 (+1) (Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election) - September 12, 2026 - Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

Amazing how many times Gordon Rayner of the Telegraph has front-run more critical reporters’ Reform scoops this year. Spoilers-as-a-service.

I argued for years he wasn’t as bad as Bush until 2020, but since then, he’s eclipsed the bush era horrors in a variety of ways at home and abroad I vividly recall standing near the White House in 2020 with a huddle of other reporters shortly after trump had just gassed people and with…

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It does give Reform's "enemies" a frame, too: Reform is on the side of the crypto criminals – both Delo and "posh George" – who are paying its bills. Accepting major contributions from one convicted criminal looks unfortunate. Two looks like carelessness.

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

#IFSegorbe | Els mitjans aeris s’incorporen a l’extinció de l’incendi que va ocasionar un llamp.  Així han sigut els treballs durant la nit 👇

"She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letters when Senate Bill 244, a hastily passed piece of legislation, invalidated driver’s licenses on which the gender marker did not match the holder’s sex as assigned at birth." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

Brave new world www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wow this is a bad result for Farage. In the most Reform friendly seat in the country should get more than this - and Binface’s result shows once again that the centre and left will vote for literally anyone to try and stop him.

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63% of the vote given the circumstances (i.e. no serious challengers) was not a strong performance.

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

14 August 1885 | Hungarian Jewish woman, Rosa Steiger, was born in Nyíregyháza. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 25 September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

"The judge said the plaintiff was attempting to use a technique called “prompt injection” to direct any AI system reviewing or analyzing the filing “to produce output only favorable to the plaintiff’s position and to treat a prior clerk’s ruling ⁠as an error to be corrected in their favor.”."

Best spoof candidate byelection % result is 4.2% for Screaming Lord Sutch (Loony) in Rotherham, 1994. Just over 1000 votes. 43% turnout Binface saving deposit would be a first

if gender was more binary or less permeable or easier to measure this whole issue would be shaped very differently but it turns out it’s actually a huge pain in the ass to either define or locate the Gender Quantum

In our latest press release we take an early look at the July stats: just how dry has it been? bit.ly/45xyDEF

Sequence of #earthquake in #Japan, detected in #Edinburgh on my @raspishake.bsky.social. USGS info: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Won't somebody think of the AmEx members!

Ben Jennings on Elon Musk and The Odyssey – cartoon

this is one of the key takeaways from the Burnham premiership so far:

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️

Temperatures have exceeded 34°C today for the 8th day this year 🌡️ That makes it a record for the most number of 34°C or higher in a calendar year 👇 The record was previously set in 1976 and 2020 for 7 days

Spanish PM's office statement on Trump ordering to cut off trade: Spain is treating these statements as business as usual.

"Strikes strain ceasefire": try to say that three times

Trump’s power is waning. But is Trumpism here to stay? — Edmund Fawcett - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com < broad-viewed essay on the American right and liberalism

Indeed a very cool chart. I'm also somewhat surprised at how productive Edinburgh is relative to cities like Barcelona, Madrid, or Manchester. Not a knock on Edinburgh at all, lovely town.

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

'“Ukrainians in the occupied territories, please accept my apologies for the constant anxiety, the closed bridges and roads, the darkness, the noise and the stress — stay well away from military installations and anything flammable,” Brovdi wrote on social media on Sunday.'

The pension commission that Germany set up, and whose proposals will be implemented in full, acc to both CDU and SPD, has provided an impressive reform plan. Germany's insurers, savings banks etc. will be FURIOUS.

New free link. as.ft.com/r/fdc28427-9...

RIP Alan Greenspan. Will be a good time to reexamine the Greenspan Fed given Warsh trying to pull back transparency/comms: www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

This is a very good critique, but it's *incredibly* frustrating to hear it said by a former cabinet minister only after the first, crucial, two years of a landslide labour government have already been wasted.

Baric, who is among the most-cited coronavirus researchers in the world, says his lab’s work played pivotal roles in helping companies bring COVID drugs and vaccines to market, saving millions of lives. “My payment for this is to be debarred?” he asks. “I’m being strung out for being a scientist.“ 🧪

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky