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Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

Interesting developments in Italy: variable geometry moulding to produce bespoke carbon fibre bike frames.
https://road.cc/content/feature/check-out-first-truly-bespoke-monocoque-carbon-frame-316497

Check out “a revolution in the world of cycling: the first truly bespoke monocoque carbon frame”
Italian brand Gregario uses a patented variable mould system to build an aero road bike that’s sized just for you

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Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone sets the scene, as does the government's National Planning Policy Framework.  That means that there are some very real constraints on what can be put into a so-called Local Plan (not very local - in the case of…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

Help End Experiments on Monkeys! #AnimalRights

Help PETA End Experiments on Monkeys!
Experimenters at Dutch research institute KNAW implant electrodes in monkeys’ brains and deny them water – urge the KNAW board to end these experiments now.

An interview with Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester about the outlet's £4.99/month paywall, for which sign ups are "slightly ahead" of expectations (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leader

Manchester Evening News editor 'fed up of playing algorithmic games'
Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester has said she is "fed up of playing algorithmic games" as site launches first paywall.

Trump confirms secondary physical included MRI, cognitive test (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5574520-trump-mri-cognitive-test/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p33#a251027p33

In what appears to be a dog whistle to far-right extremists,
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a bizarre new video to social media platforms on Thursday
featuring footage of federal agents arresting protesters in Portland, Oregon.
The video uses a song that became very popular among Nazis and white supremacists at the tail end of President Donald Trump’s first term
DHS captioned the video,
“End of the Dark Age, beginning of the Golden Age,”
…

Homeland Security (@homelandgov.bsky.social)
End of the Dark Age, beginning of the Golden Age. JOIN.ICE.GOV