Defund the police? Here's what that really means.(tags:police usa )Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong(tags:racism behaviour viaMorag )Henry Dundas descendant defends ancestor's recordI really would like to understand the right of this. Would it have passed without his amendment? Anyone know an expert?
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Saving this for my own use, for next time my Synology NAS goes slow(tags:speed storage Technology ) Evidence that it was *always* the plan to discharge Covid-19 patients into care homes. 1,800 beds were block booked in care homes by the NHS and councils for that exact purpose....And they're still being discharged.(tags:Pandemic UK OhForFucksSake ( Read more... )

Obviously THE LAST JEDI’s Throne Room Fight Scene Is About Online Dating (tags: relationships StarWars funny ) Gatwick investigation police say always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place (tags: drone police wtf ) JK Rowling mocks 'Saint Jeremy' Corbyn's Brexit stance (tags: UK europe jkrowling ( Read more... )

The poorly reported Aziz Ansari exposé was a missed opportunity (tags: sex feminism patriarchy viaMorag ) How public school education can look like cleverness while covering up the lack of intellectual thought (tags: intelligence education fraud ) The 1969 Easter Mass Incident (Blasphemy! Hilarious food-related blasphemy!) (tags: religion wtf ( Read more... )

Thousands of Poles march against Jews, Muslims, and "unclean blood" (tags: racism Poland nazis OhForFucksSake ) It only takes three stories from small news outlets to make Twitter discussions of a topic go up by 62.7 percent, and shift public opinion by 2.3% (tags: twitter media ) A A Milne versus A A Milne on pacifism and just war (tags: war ( Read more... )

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• The secret codes that stop you photocopying money
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• Leaked AdultFriendFinder database tells the world if you were having an affair
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• UK sells off unused net addresses
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• What do AI researchers think about AI risk?
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• Indie labels are approaching digital music quite differently to the major labels
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• Mom Contacts Company Over Missing Girl Characters, Company Responds It Is Because Boys Think Girls Are Gross
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• DEA Orchestrates Disinformation Campaign To Conceal Surveillance Powers
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• A German Cloud Company Is Offering Free Heat If You Have Room for Some of Its Servers
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• EU scraps science advisor role - now are you happy, Greenpeace?
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• What should happen to a released rapist?
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• “Too Many Cooks:” an analysis
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