Friday, May 27, 2022

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz receives sharp backlash for comments in wake of Uvalde school shooting | The Hill

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz receives sharp backlash for comments in wake of Uvalde school shooting | The Hill: "solutions that “try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. That doesn’t work, it’s not effective, it doesn’t prevent crime.” Cruz continued to say that targeting felons and fugitives and those with mental illness is a more effective strategy in preventing crime."

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Are people with ADHD considered neurodivergent?

(4) Are people with ADHD considered neurodivergent? What makes someone neurodivergent? : AutisticPride: "the rise of the "neurodiversity paradigm" is thus seen as a challenge to both the concept of mental disorder and medicalized accounts of cognitive disability."

Monday, May 23, 2022

DC sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach - ABC News

DC sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach - ABC News
https://apple.news/ADPXB0zRCQrGDhJPKqNOuuQ

Can personal debt affect citizenship applications in the UK?

1 new message: "In some cases, bankruptcy may lead to refusal of citizenship on the ground of lack of ‘good character’, but not if:
  • the person was discharged at least ten years ago
  • the person was declared bankrupt abroad

The effect of debts on immigration and nationality applications

The effect of debts on immigration and nationality applications | by John Donkersley | Adviser online | Medium: “where the person was made bankrupt or their company went into liquidation through little or no fault of their own, the application will not normally be refused. For example, they may have simply been a victim of the poor business decisions of others or their business has been severely affected by an economic downturn.”

Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s connection to MI6-style ‘research and influence operation’ - The Grayzone

Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel's connection to MI6-style 'research and influence operation' -Verify? https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/18/leaked-emails-uk-home-secretary-priti-patels-mi6-operation/

Nurturing Clever Cities | Urban Agriculture

Nurturing Clever Cities | The Intersection Between Urban Agriculture and Technology: "It investigates the benefits and drawbacks of technology in food production and distribution, the impacts of different forms of Smart City technologies and design, and where urban agriculture and forms of technology have been successfully woven together."

Friday, May 20, 2022

Big Tech's Services Are Not Worth the Surveillance

Big Tech's Services Are Not Worth the Surveillance: "Algorithmic content targeting is the foundation of omnipresent information businesses like Google and Facebook, and it affects you every moment you’re online. It can make you less informed, less unique, less thoughtful and less interesting, so subtly you don’t even notice."

World-first urban air port

World-first%2Air%20Port%20Ltd: "Urban-Air Port® – backed by the UK Government and supported by Supernal – will operate Air-One® in the heart of Coventry[i] for at least one month. Air-One® will provide a blueprint for more than 200 vertiports planned worldwide by Urban-Air Port® over the next five years to meet growing demand."

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Opinion: Elon Musk’s autonomous vehicle forecasts

Why the heck does big tech think human-level AI will emerge from binary systems? | TNW

AI AI captain:
And...
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deepmind-artificial-general-intelligence-b2080740.html?amp 

In Opinion “Surveillance made possible by minimally-regulated digital technologies could help law enforcement track down women who might seek abortions and medical providers who perform them,” writes Zeynep Tufekci. https://t.co/8lX8gUVIW1

nytimes (@The New York Times) Tweeted: In Opinion
"Surveillance made possible by minimally-regulated digital technologies could help law enforcement track down women who might seek abortions and medical providers who perform them," writes Zeynep Tufekci. https://t.co/8lX8gUVIW1 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1527403741581918215?s=27&t=zD2RHG2pXZ6eT5aNWk4OSg

NHS says 35 medical conditions will no longer get prescription from doctors - Liverpool Echo

NHS says 35 medical conditions will no longer get prescription from doctors - Liverpool Echo
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/health/nhs-says-35-medical-conditions-23998573

Windrush victim told to send selfies to DWP or lose universal credit | The Independent

Windrush victim told to send selfies to DWP or lose universal credit | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-universal-credit-benefits-glenda-caesar-dwp-uk-b2081807.html

NHS wants to take back my grant for paramedic training | Student finance | The Guardian

And also the GP intern 3-year thing. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report | Plane crashes | The Guardian

China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report. Also see "Germanwings crash in 2015. On that occasion, the Airbus A320 passenger plane was crashed deliberately by the pilot as it crossed the French Alps, killing 150 people."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/china-air-crash-that-killed-132-may-have-been-deliberate-says-us-report

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests • The Register

EPIC, Coalition Urge Zoom to Abandon Emotion Recognition – EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center

Tweet from Basic Income Images (@BasicIncomeIMG)

Basic Income Images (@BasicIncomeIMG) tweeted at 3:16 pm on Mon, May 09, 2022:
The conflation of work ethic with intrinsic value as a human being is one of the great tragedies of the western world. They are two different things. #BasicIncome https://t.co/XunwRUzOM3
(https://twitter.com/BasicIncomeIMG/status/1523668290928840704?t=xmvbTjSkNv3Ow3KY7gqEvg&s=03

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Tweet from Midlands Fraud Forum (@MFF_Forum)

Midlands Fraud Forum (@MFF_Forum) tweeted at 10:33 pm on Sun, May 15, 2022:
Convicted #Coventry #fraudster turned his life around after going to prison seven times
#lawandjustice #sentencing  https://t.co/x2gj98BDVH
(https://twitter.com/MFF_Forum/status/1525952589795311620?t=vAJiU356JOSI2MU8BkG1YQ&s=03

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The moment domesticated horses changed the course of human history 2500 BCE

The moment domesticated horses changed the course of human history is now revealed - CNN: "A dominant genetic horse population appeared on the Western Eurasian Pontic-Caspian steppe of North Caucasus, east of the Dnieper River within the Don and Volga basins. ... between 4,600-4,200 years ago, herders located in the Don-Volga region found a way to increase the local horse reproductive pool. This horse population then spread out and replaced the wild horse groups roaming across Eurasia within centuries." 

Hundreds of deaths caused by air pollution in Coventry and Warwickshire in just one year - CoventryLive

Mum campaigns against 'extortionate' visa fees after 34 year long immigration battle with Home Office - Birmingham Live

Mum campaigns against 'extortionate' visa fees after 34 year long immigration battle with Home Office - Birmingham Live
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-campaigns-against-extortionate-visa-23862534

The Material Impact of Cyberspace

Good stuff: The Material Impact of Cyberspace
Martin Pedersen, Nina Isabella Moeller

Gunther Anders Bio

Vita%20%u2014%20G%FCnther%20Anders%20Gesellschaft: ‘On the Bomb and the Roots of our Blindness toward the Apocalypse’