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This puts migration to the UK into perspective.
One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report | Refugees News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/one-in-67-p…

One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report
About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.

Donald Trump presents himself as strong, indomitable, and always forceful.
But when disaster strikes — whether hurricane, flash flood, or pandemic — he’s oddly helpless.
To hear Trump tell it, he has infinite power to do good and no power to do bad
-- and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the country.
To believe in MAGA is to believe in his simultaneous omnipotence and impotence, depending on whichever is convenient for partisan purposes.
This dynamic h…

Disasters are for the greater glory of Trump
He cannot fail. He can only be failed.

»L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem«
The US has fallen and the Trump dictatorship hierarchy is final!
📰 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice
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L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem
A federal judge plans to rule soon on whether to limit the role of the military in the immigration raids that led Senator Alex Padilla to confront the homeland security secretary. He was removed and handcuffed.

US senator forcefully removed from DHS event in LA, triggering Democratic outcry on Capitol Hill (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/alex-padilla-removed-noem-press-conference
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p6#a250613p6

KI-Training: Britisches Oberhaus standhaft gegen Freigabe geschützter Werke
Die britische Regierung will geschützte Werke fürs KI-Training freigeben, wer nicht will, soll widersprechen. Viermal stimmte das Oberhaus nun dagegen.

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
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Sen. Alex Padilla removed from Noem's press conference by security
Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has been forcefully removed Thursday by security officers from a news conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice. He tries to push back …

Calif. Senator Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting Noem (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p82#a250613p82

Kritische Sicherheitslücke in Microsoft 365 Copilot zeigt Risiko von KI-Agenten
Der KI-Agent von M365 konnte per E-Mail und ohne Mausklick zur Freigabe sensibler Informationen verführt werden. Microsoft hat die Lücke jetzt geschlossen.

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.