Judge slaps down SLAPP-SLAPP claim | The Freelance A win with a new anti-SLAPP procedure

Freelance Mar26: Judge slaps down SLAPP-SLAPP claim - new anti-SLAPP procedure win

I vote we send the taoiseach to visit the Choctaw Nation every St Patrick's Day instead of the White House

Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.

".... Unlike perhaps, say, a glamour portrait photographer, a photojournalist’s job isn’t to make the subject of the photos look good. A photojournalist’s job is to capture a representation of what happened. I’m not sure what photographs were allegedly “unflattering, ..."

Companies House suspends online filing after glitch put personal data at risk Bug on UK’s official corporate register allowed potential fraudsters to change personal details and upload accounts

Oof #2 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Companies House suspends online filing after glitch put personal data at risk

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

GB News Under Fire After Airing ‘White Genocide’ Conspiracy Theory From Former Boris Johnson Aide Ofcom is under pressure to investigate after the channel promoted his claims that white Britons face demographic "genocide" by ethnic minorities who will "turn on" them

Ofcom have 24 complaints about this broadcast on GB News.

"We are assessing the complaints against our rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate" - Ofcom

GB News - "it is important that different perspectives can be aired and scrutinised"

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By way of background, the last time the FEC looked at this issue they decided to exclude paid influencers from disclosure rules otherwise applying to paid online advertising.

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I’m having Vietnam War flashbacks to when the US claimed that we were winning because we were dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people. (We lost the war.)

Outdated Intel Likely Led US to Carry Out Deadly Strike on Iranian School, AP Sources Say Outdated intelligence likely led to the U.S. carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iranthat killed over 165 people.

U.S. Central Command relied on target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the person familiar with the preliminary finding.

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Sign the Petition Replace the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square with an Evangelion

It is not enough for Churchill to be replaced on the £5. We must also replace his statue with something that can truly unite the country at this difficult time. Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/uk-parliam...

‘Stop the light going out and fund the World Service now’, BBC journalists urge government Journalists at the BBC World Service have urged the UK government to deliver a proper funding agreement amid reports of a real-terms budget freeze.

Members at BBC World Service have urged the UK government to deliver a proper funding agreement and "end this annual uncertainty by enshrining a long-term, predictable, and sufficient, inflation-linked funding settlement for the World Service in the next BBC Charter."

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The parents in the study were interested in the toy's potential to teach language and communication skills. However, their children frequently struggled to converse with it. Gabbo didn't hear their interruptions, talked over them, could not differentiate between child and adult voices and responded awkwardly to declarations of affection. When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

NHS England ran an open competition for the £330M contract Palantir won. Critically, though, the US spy-tech company was allowed to carry over work from the covid-era NHS system it built (£60M in awards, no competition) creating an unfair advantage, critics have pointed out.

‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

Applying this policy to people already in the UK is particuarly self defeating as they can… just claim asylum anyway. In fact, if arguably forces some to do so who might not have otherwise because they had an alternative legal route available. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Standard headline: “Journalist donates kidney to girl, 16, after mother appeals to local newspaper”

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Terms for local paper journalists seem not to be getting any better...

When you write “people”, I keep thinking “men”..

This is part of a pattern I've started to notice: There are people out there who are loudly committed to off-loading their work to chatbots and come seeking my validation for their position.

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Luckily, there are enough unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth on Getty Images to last a lifetime

we dare you to find a museum more ready

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

Tell your MP now about the Brave New World of 'AI' - best before 18/03/26 | The Freelance Educate their assistant on the impact of 'AI' ahead of government report

Freelance Mar26: Tell your MP now about the Brave New World of 'AI' - best before 18/03/26

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And... I am struggling to make sense of the dates as given, which is extra unfortunate given the basis of the finding.

¿“alleged conduct on 21 September 2025”?

A sub-editor writes:

“50. ...We have not investigated the reasons for this [fuckup] failure and nor do we seek to attribute blame.”

DPP loses appeal of the decision to throw out case against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh.

The DPP threw a lot at this appeal.

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As U.S. Military Threats and Actions Escalate, Coalition Calls for Ending Preparations for a Military Draft:

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About — Don't Steal This Book AI companies are building their products by copying millions of books without permission or payment. The UK government is considering legalising this large-scale theft. We urge them to rule this out....

If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
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Respect to: Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Kim Johnson, Ian Lavery, John McDonnell, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Jon Trickett and Nadia Whittome for rebelling

Labour is finished now though, as a party decent people can support