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New Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
"At the last poll, both UK Labour and Fine Gael were on 18% support. It appears that Morgan McSweeney's political project has reached its successful conclusion."
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-labours-fg-mastermind/
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox News expects CNN under the Ellisons to be a "strong competitor", but adds that "running news is hard" (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/lachlan-murdoch-paramount-wbd-deal-cnn-fox-news-n…
"Face Š l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience"
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/03/01/face-a-l-ia-generative-des-enseignants-optent-pour-l-objection-de-c…
Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/02/alcatraz-r…
I've eaten at a lot of fish and chips places in England and Wales, and around the US. In the UK I like plaice, a kind of fish we don't get here on the west coast of the US.
For some reason, I believe that fish and chips are best consumed outside when the weather is nice, even a bit warm.
My favorite two fish and chips places are:
Scrumptious Fish and Chips - A food truck here in the Santa Cruz area. Their rockfish is especially good.
And the Sea Pal Cove in …
»Überwachung —Das Schweigen der Trump-Regierung zur FISA-Reform:
Der US-Kongress steht vor einer Deadline - In zwei Monaten läuft die Rechtsgrundlage für massenhafte Auslandsspionage ab. Abgeordnete streiten über Reformen.«
Wer wehn und wie überwacht ist immer auch wer über wehn macht hat und ausübt. Die Ausführung der Macht ist meistens (fast immer) auch die egoistische Bereicherung wenigen.
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Rumor has it that Neil Armstrong was such a diva that he *insisted* on filming on location, however...
An Oral History of the US Government’s Attempts to Fake the 1969 Moon Landing - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-oral-history-of-the-us-governments-attempts-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing
""The problem with treating politics as a doughnut, where the centre is consistantly defined as the hole where policy doesn't belong is that it leaves the parties of the Hole to just react to wherever the dough is.""
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-labours