Dr Emma Byrne

From Hansard 2024. Yes, it is possible to both speak against the Iranian regime and today's US-Israel attack

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"It remains the Department's policy that there is a human in the loop on all decisions on whether to employ nuclear weapons," a senior defense official said. "There is no policy under consideration to put this decision in the hands of AI." But that still leaves room for AI to influence decisions on targets and speed of response. In a recent nuclear war game at King's College London, many leading language models including versions of ChatGPT, Claude and Google's Gemini all quickly favored launching warheads. That could influence a human's decision to fire, said Paul Dean, vice president of the global nuclear program at the nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative. "It's not simply ensuring that there's a human being in the decision-making loop," Dean said. "The question is, to what extent will Al impact that human decision-making?"

Yes. This. Correct.

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

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Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank

Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

A vastly important issue, powerfully clearly explained by @sundersays.bsky.social

Trump and Israel started bombing Iran while in the middle of negotiations

Trump is starving Cuba

He’s threatening to annex Canada

He removed the leader of Venezuela

He’s threatening Greenland

He’s aiding a genocide in Gaza

This is the man who took your tax dollars for his “Board of Peace”.

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’

There is no proper legal framework for use of #FacialRecognition technology known to be biased.

"Far higher rate of false positives for black (5.5 %) and Asian (4.0 %) faces than for white faces (0.04 %)"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A geographical silhouette of Iran with text over it “Trump bombs Iran - the UK must oppose it”

Trump has attacked Iran, in a brazen US-Israeli act of aggression that is still ongoing.

Our statement: stoptrump.org.uk/trump-bombs-...

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

Can't believe the Labour strategy of going door to door since the election, punching their voters in the face and yelling 'What are you going to do, vote for someone else?' didn't work out.

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INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

“It’s high time Labour stopped courting right wing voters who are never going to back them, and focus on delivering for the progressive majority.

"The Greens have broken through not because the system helped them, but despite it working against them at every turn."

Will Labour learn a lesson from this?

Will the fact a progressive party won by quite a massive amount be the talking point?

Will this move political discourse and government policy to the left?

Will they all shut up about immigration and accept it's a made up issue?

Probably not.

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.

Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

‘Magic beneath the surface’: pioneering geothermal plant launched in Cornwall A mini power station and lithium extraction plant near Redruth set to bolster energy and jobs

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stories like this give me hope

A classroom scene with a teacher standing at the front of the room and pupils seated at desks in the foreground. Overlaid text reads: “REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.” and “WHY ARE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS LEAVING?” Beneath this is a quote asking what assessment the Government has made of the comparative loss of experienced upper pay range teachers in academy and local authority-controlled schools, and what assessment has been made of the extent and impact of settlement agreements and confidentiality clauses when such teachers leave employment. A small circular image of Natalie Bennett appears with the label “Natalie Bennett, Green Party Peer,” and the Green Party logo is displayed at the bottom.

When experienced teachers leave, pupils lose expertise, stability and leadership.

Ministers should publish their assessment of teacher losses across school types and the impact of settlement agreements and confidentiality clauses.

#EducationPolicy #Schools

Shout out to everyone doing science communication for the greater good while some of the biggest names in science were conspiring to spread white supremacy and misogyny. Maybe don’t invite those people to your festivals anymore though?

😭in British

Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’ Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestry

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The palantir of the 1930s

McSweeney won't be missed. (Or long remembered.)

But the rot goes much deeper. It wasn't one adviser who decided to send Mandelson to the US to suck up to Trump.

It was the prime minister and the whole rotten logic of the government's Trump appeasement.

That must end.

Sent and shared

Write to your MP: Release the Mandelson files in full Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/mp-mandelson/

Ask for a public enquiry and transparency around the relationship between Peter Mandelson and Epstein and his associates

Well, shit.

The Green surge shows British politics has reached a turning point - and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski | Aditya Chakrabortty At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Now's a great time to join us!

join.greenparty.org.uk

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WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast

“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said

More in tonight’s Status

Just saw a reference to the Nolan principles of public: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership. How's your government matching up?

I love the notes of subversion. A la…

“Fuck your false binary choice. It’s the system that’s broken, and we know how to break that system. Reject the binary harm-is-inevitable options fed to you. Look for ways to do better.”

Also. Go organized labor.

I tried to watch the reform party political broadcast. But all I learned is that Nigel Farage doesn't know how to use a weather forecast and that he "likes the sea".

As unilluminating and as nauseating as the Melania filme

Reform Political Broadcast. What a load of claptrap. They criticise our NHS when we all know what Farage actually plans for the NHS. They criticise and criticise and tell us they are going to improve everything but there is no word about how they will do it. Nothing but hatred.