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PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NO LONGER (ESPECIALLY) ACTIVE ON 'ๅ'.
The ongoing behaviour of Elon Musk (both in relation to the former 'Twitter' and generally) = Is SO appalling - It has motivated me to transition to #Bluesky.
Same handle - Do please join me:-
bsky.app/profile/danrjohnsonโฆ
Stephen Wilson Jr. - "I'm A Song" (Live at the Print Shop) youtu.be/jFMJat9OJOw?si=5TNvโฆ via @YouTube
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๐ This has to win Clip of the Year.
Nigel Farage confidently predicts Trump will defy the polls because Republicans are brilliantly organised and Elon Musk didnโt spend $450 million just for fun ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Hours later: Trump repudiated, both houses lost and Muskโs money incinerated, even in Texas.
Perfect. No notes. ๐
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Good Wednesday! ๐
๐ค Made with AI
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Seems like @Nigel_Farage social media bots are malfunctioning. Same happening with @LeeAndersonMP_ or @RobertJenrick accounts ๐ might have something to do with the fact that Meta backend rolled out a tweak that essentially, for lack of better phrasing, digitally concussed the bots, so they can't completely touch base with the central LLM.
So it's defaulted to absurd nonsensicalisms from the bots.
Just shows that Reform is basically a bot farm. Something that we knew for a long time.
Chris Stapleton Performs "Whenever You Come Around" | CMT Giants: Vince ... youtu.be/xuZGBeF3_P0?si=esOdโฆ via @YouTube
It must have seemed such a good gig when one is working in Moscow and is compromised by the FSB (the successor to the KGB); To be offerred the opportunity to come back to the UK and take a position as a MP representing Putin's Russia under a mantle of Right-Wing Populism (Tory)
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๐ด Later today Danny Kruger MP is giving a speech about Reform's preparation for government at Policy Exchange.
Policy Exchange wonโt say who funds it. But weโve found donations to its US fundraising arm jumped 74% last year
And that's not all.... ๐งต
democracyforsale.substack.coโฆ
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The iPhone Duo display failure controversy may be far more serious than we initially thought.
According to a report by Chinese media outlet Jiemian News, a Foxconn employee revealed that Apple had previously relaxed certain quality control standards to ensure sufficient iPhone Duo supply amid production constraints. This could mean that some devices that would have failed stricter inspections had a greater chance of reaching consumers.
Even more concerning, the Foxconn employee claimed that the iPhone Duo production line has already urgently replaced a batch of components in response to the reported issues. However, overall production and shipment plans reportedly remain unchanged.
Now, let's connect the dots.
Back in September, reports suggested that the iPhone Duo's final assembly yield was only slightly above 60%, with the hinge and display being major manufacturing challenges.
Fast forward to today. Less than a week after its official launch, multiple users have already reported cracked inner displays and other screen failures.
This raises a serious question:
Did Apple already know about these potential quality risks before launch, but decide to accept a higher failure rate in order to maintain its initial shipment targets?
If the Foxconn employee's claims are confirmed, this could become a much bigger controversy.
Apple needs to explain exactly what quality standards were applied to the first batch of iPhone Duo devices, and whether potentially defective units were allowed to reach consumers.
For a device this expensive, customers deserve transparency.
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Use of AI in Mathematical Research โ A guide for young mathematicians: dropbox.com/scl/fi/us2lx72xtโฆ
#Mathematics
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly pissed after asking his staff why his Truth Social feed is suddenly full of complaints about gas prices, inflation, and the Iran War, and one staffer explained that, without millions of Russian bots, he was finally seeing real people's posts.
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Last week, Bristol Rises planned a big public demo to block off a major public street. At the same time as Cancer Research UK had planned themselves a charity fundraiser.
The police asked the Patriots to please, very kindly, relocate or reschedule their little demo so that the run could go ahead and money could be raised for charity.
The Patriots weren't having that. ๐
"Don't you know, this country is being invaded? This is an emergency! That's why we're going to stand around in nonce bonnets for a solid couple of hours, and block off a busy public street!"
Cancer Research UK subsequently postponed its annual fundraising walk.
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"This is a tax paid only by the very richest estates โ 95% pay no inheritance tax at all. Cutting it would do nothing for ordinary people. This is the same old Tory playbook: cutting taxes for their rich mates and leaving working people to pick up the bill."
@Conservatives
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Journalist, "Had Brexit been good for London?"
Kemi Badenoch, "Not interested in having a row we had ten years ago"
Journalist, "But do you think Brexit has been good for London?"
Kemi Badenoch, "I don't think Labour has been good for London. People of London are voting Conservative or Labour, not on Brexit"
My view: Kemi Badenoch is asked twice whether Brexit has been good for London, and twice refuses to answer.
Instead, she reaches for Labour. But that is not an answer; it is an evasion. If Brexit had delivered greater prosperity, opportunity and influence for London, she could simply say so and explain why.
She cannot, because the record is too clear: Brexit has created new barriers for a global city built on trade, talent, investment and close ties with Europe. Pretending the question is an old argument does not make its consequences disappear.
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Reform in a nutshell.
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We must not overlook Jeffrey Archer deploying his status and clout to mercilessly crush Monica Coghlan, a troubled Northern working class woman he paid for sex then ruthlessly wrecked to collect ยฃ500,000 and save his own reputation.
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/loโฆ
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Dan Driscoll, until recently US Army Secretary, has told Rolling Stone that watching Ukraine was humiliating. Kyiv had a fraction of the Pentagon's budget and still fielded better weapons of war, which he called a wake-up call. He might have added that the alarm had already gone off, loudly, in a German field.
At Combined Resolve in Hohenfels this spring, some 3,500 American troops, mostly from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, attacked a position defended with help from Ukraine's 412th Nemesis regiment. They arrived with their own drones, jammers and counter-drone kit. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainians eliminated the entire brigade anyway, spotting the armor by its dust clouds and finishing it with bomber and FPV drones.
Nobody has published an exact body count, because the umpires apparently lost the will to keep one. The kills came so fast that destroyed vehicles had to be "re-spawned" again and again over two weeks simply to keep the exercise alive. The world's most expensive army survived on video game rules.
The full story๐
gandalv.substack.com/p/nato-โฆ
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After mistaking the Royal Pavilion for a mosque on their last visit, Ryan Bridge and friends have managed to make fools of themselves in Brighton yet again.
This time they think that an art sculpture called โUnder the Brighton Rainbowโ at Palace Pier is about Gay Pride.
In reality, itโs a BookBench painted as a seaside scene - deckchairs, the beach, Brighton landmarks under a big rainbow, as a colourful celebration of the cityโs look. Itโs placed by a Sussex charity supporting families with disabled children and nothing whatsoever to do with Gay Pride.
Not the brightest, are they? ๐๐
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Suella Bravermanโs parents emigrated (they were horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates).
She went to Cambridge for free and didnโt collect ยฃ27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger.
She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked.
Horrible
