My theory is that all the data centers being forced on us aren’t for future public demand, they’re for current military/govt demand—that AI is the backbone of the new surveillance state but they can’t say that so they pretend it’s because people love making videos of Pikachu.

In case you haven’t heard: Women are suing Pfizer in a class action lawsuit because the birth control shots (Depo-Provera) have been found to cause brain tumors. 1 in 4 women use this birth control. And Black women are prescribed it at double the national rate.

Madness, absolute madness. Hyperscale data centres typically are: - hugely resource intensive (typical equivalence would be 30-50k homes’ water use) - of limited impact on productivity - create very few jobs - depreciate rapidly - you’re building a white elephant. Paper below

I admit it: that’s the first time I’ve cried over a party political broadcast. Years of fear, hate, insecurity, death. This was like coming up for air

NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action. Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real

1. The Starmer government has been repeatedly caught lying in claiming it has limited arms exports to Israel during the Gaza genocide. In fact, Ch4 finds there were record arms sales to Israel in June and September. 2. The only major group trying practically to stop arms exports

What Zack is paraphrasing (and exemplifying) is Raymond Williams' “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.” Naturally centrists are falling over themselves to fulfil their sacred duty towards the second part.

“Do you think President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?” Slovenia's President, Nataša Pirc Musar: “Francesca Albanese deserves the Peace Prize for this year”

I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening to the UK. Big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, who are in turn making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure. Deregulated free

NEW | Instagram has removed the verified account of Gaza slain journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi, who had 4.5 million followers. Archived snapshots of his page on the Wayback Machine, the largest public internet archive, also appear to have been wiped or disabled, raising concerns

Quds News Network x.com/amaniuniverse/…

Remember when Saleh found that Palestinian boy lying on his mother’s grave at night? He showed us their pain and strength, being our eyes and ears in Gaza. Through him, we felt their suffering and love. He inspired us all. What a beautiful soul. We’ll miss you, Saleh. 🌹💔😢

“I do understand that this is inconvenient for you, but I’m afraid the charge of public nuisance is very serious.” Activist Isobel Rock and a group of women from Citizen’s Arrest Network just placed Mark Thurston, CEO of Anglian Water, under citizen’s arrest. They charged him with three

Ash has a real gift of communication - she has the entire room listening intently, one of a kind.

Every single person who describes people who chant "death to Arabs" primarily in terms of their Jewishness, not their rabid ethnonationalism, is endangering Jews.

The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

So... the people who currently pay no taxes will leave the country if we make them pay taxes, and we'll lose all the taxes that they don't pay. No, let me try that again...

BREAKING: Today the Algerian parliament passed a law stating that “full and fair compensation for all material and moral damages caused by French colonisation is an inalienable right of the Algerian state and people”. Unequivocal support for this.

PAUL HOLDEN STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERVIEW WITH JOSH SIMONS ON BBC NEWSCAST Yesterday, BBC Newscast published a lengthy, forty-minute interview with former Cabinet Minister Josh Simons MP. The interview addressed how Simons, as a director of Labour Together, had appointed a