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Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

Neben #startrek Starfleet Academy ging's in meinem Science-Fiction-Januar auch um diverse Weltraumsagas (von 1968 bis 2025) und um Ken Lius Thriller in einer AI-gesättigten Welt, All That We See or Seem.
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Science Fiction und Fantasy im Januar 2026
Ich fange mit dem Bildschirm an, das ist einfacher, weil in den letzten Wochen recht reduziert - zum einen deswegen, weil meine Kinder mehr Lust auf Gesellschaftsspiele als auf das gemeinsame Filmgucken hatten, zum anderen, weil ich meine freie Zeit neben Arbeit und Wahlkampf dann lieber in Lego ges

This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-labours-fg-mastermind/

The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.

A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Thursday to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The coalition gathers outside the federal building every Thursday, but the protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
"Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end…

Protest planned at downtown federal building following Minneapolis ICE shooting
A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building today to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

From The Maple
How did labour fare in 2025?
In many respects, last year was a mixed bag for workers and unions in Canada. Though union wage gains were relatively healthy, the overall economy continued to cool with unemployment creeping up and many workers still feeling the cost-of-living crunch.

Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
Union wage gains were relatively healthy, but unemployment crept up and workers felt the cost-of-living crunch.

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

How NASA's #KennedySpaceCenter is a film lover's dream: the new video #photo and #film buffs alike as the narrative takes unexpected turns every few minutes.

Trump on Wednesday (January 7, 2026) signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organisations, agencies and commissions
following his instructions for his administration to review participation in and funding for all international organisations,
including those affiliated with the United Nations.
Most of the targets are UN-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labour and other issues that the Trump administration has categori…

U.S. to exit 66 international organisations as Trump further retreats from global cooperation
The U.S. plans to withdraw from 66 international organizations, primarily UN-related, under Trump's administration, emphasizing national interests.

Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …

Top Senators expose Trump’s fascist playbook
WASHINGTON—Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20, progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans, often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.