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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

i was teaching java back when netbeans was a popular ide lol and it had a wysiwyg editor for ui that generated absolute garbage code where i could tell a student used it even if the assignment said not to. their code worked though, but they locked themselves into the netbeans editor.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

"WHAT? So rich people just get to do WHATEVER THEY WANT and poor people have to do what they're told AND THEY DON'T EVEN GET HARDLY ANYTHING? THAT'S NOT FAIR! Whoever came up with that is MISGUIDED and CRUEL!"

I chuckled "Capitalism?"

"WHAT -ITALISM?"

"Don't worry about it, Baby Karl."

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

What's this from?

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

bsky.app/profile/benf...

If I were Labour, I'd be using the cushion provided by having 400+ MPs to race to implement PR in time for the 2029 GE.

It could literally be the party's last ever chance to participate meaningfully in UK politics if they don't shake the electoral system up.

You're either frolicking in this field with me Or You're frolicking in this field against me

Why We Struck Iran The machine that all but made the decision itself

From the regime that got into power in part by complaining about Obama's supposed fealty to 'the blob' www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-we-str...

#corydoctorowwasright

Tired: BrewDog has betrayed its punk roots by accepting private-equity cash
Wired: BrewDog's "punk" schtick was always an expedient marketing sham
Inspired: BrewDog incinerated billions of dollars of implied value and made global capital interests look stupid, finally fulfilling its punk mission

Wasn't there a Depeche Mode song on this?

Is this like STEAM but religious studies?

I talk a lot about how lifting heavy has made me more assertive, stronger and all that jazz. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek.

More seriously, the small improvements are the ones that have changed my life the most.

I can now do heel raises without support.

I don’t trip and fall as much.

This is monstrous.

And on top of that, there's a two year window where you could register to vote, but not register for tictok

Today: The Government rolls out a bill, which suggests 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote.

Also today: The Government rolls out a consultation, which implies that young people probably won't be trusted to have a Discord account until they're 16.

🤔

I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit.

If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

You know what they say, if he walks like a duck, has tattoos like a duck, and quacks like a duck, he's probably goose stepping

Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy Legislation working its way through the UK parliament would ban children from using social media and virtual private networks – but the proposals would endanger online privacy and may not make childre...

First question to look for is: what do they call “social media”? After all, the OSA was five years of fighting cynically drafted attempts to chuck any site/service on the open internet under the Facebook bus. And they are still trying with separate legislation.

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

It's not 1979. An oil crisis right now has a solution, full stop.

Feel like people don't discuss the 'independence from foreign oil' side of moving to an all renewables electric grid enough, seems quite relevant right now.

What if there was a way to get electricity from the environment around us, so we we're no longer dependant on a global extraction supply chain

Gosh it's almost like these aren't tools for information retrieval or something