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[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

oh my god

inflicting ai tutors on the poorest in society, when their effects are so little understood, is the height of irresponsibility.

this government has been entirely captured by the tech industry

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

I didn't believe this quote could be accurate but I've just looked it up and - staggeringly - she actually did say this.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

How to sleep during a UK heatwave:

Open the window (invites 400 moths).
Turn on the fan (just blows hot air around).
Remove all sheets.
Accept that sleep is a concept from a past life.
Just wait for the 5:00 AM birds to mock you.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.

Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.

The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.

Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.

The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.

The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

To be clear: they’re not protesting against the sexual torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities. They’re protesting against the NYT for reporting it.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Her story needs to be taught just like Anne Franks was

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

And so it begins.. The UK Media PR campaign to sell you a Mandelson trained, Palantir owned, backstabbing, pet shop burning, Israeli dickrider, by trying to allude that he’s a ‘working class’, man of the people & none of the things you’ve seen with your own fucking eyes.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data.

This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide.

We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

How can anyone argue this policy is anything other than completely evil?

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

WE DID NOT CONSENT for NHS England to share our private health data to private companies which include Palantir - a company involved in mass surveillance & genocide!

This should terrify & ENRAGE us all.

This is OUR personal data!!

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

If a Green candidate called for Jews to be melted down and used to fill pot holes, Keir Starmer would call a Cobra meeting and proscribe the Green Party, but a Reform candidate can say that about Nigerians and silence. This is what we mean when we say there is a racism hierarchy.

[Glumcore @theprimalplot]

One the most haunting images of a genocide that flooded our screens with endless horror.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Auschwitz had a pool, Warsaw had a poker club.
They were resisting genocide through small moments of humanity.

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

They put a black man -Clive Foster- in charge of the Windrush compensation scheme, so that when they make racist decisions like this, they can claim it was not about race.

£1k is not even a full month's salary. He lost over a decade! He should be having 6 figures at minimum.

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.

[Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick @C_Fitz_]

This makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. Arbitrary age limits are discriminatory. Young people who have significant impairments will have LESS independence and LESS ability to participate in society. This is a disgusting policy.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

If you're a woman who reports getting sexually assaulted on a train, though... Well, they might turn up a few weeks later to take a statement to file in the shredder

[Georgio Konstandi @georgiokon]

Another perverse detail emerges regarding the 1992-1996 Siege of Sarajevo: rich "gun enthusiasts" who paid Serb forces to shoot at Sarajevans competed with one another to see who could shoot the most beautiful Bosnian woman.

This, in addition to the assertion that these foreign participants in the atrocity paid the equivalent of $72,000 to shoot pregnant Bosnian women.

The barbarity of the Bosnian Genocide clearly knew no bounds.

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

"There are literally hundreds or thousands of people who have just vanished... and many of them have been last seen in the presence of Israeli troops."

@AlexCrawfordSky tells me about the newsroom-wide effort to trace the last known movements of a mother and daughter in Gaza who were last seen alive in Israeli military custody.

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