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“You will recall that at the recent and lengthy meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was a ‘fascist but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect’ invoked considerable reaction from members of the [staff] common room.”

64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and warning that journalism cannot be criminalized. The statement came after a court sentenced Altaylı to four years, two months in prison for allegedly “threatening” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in remarks he […]

One of the most remarkable episodes of The Analyst Inside Cricket is this one from 2020 of "The special sounds of cricket", featuring commentator Dean du Plessis, who is BLIND. Even by the amazing standards of visually impaired people, he's next-level.
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EPISODE 227: The special sounds of cricket
Podcast Episode · The Analyst Inside Cricket · 03/06/2020 · 53m

After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer,
it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them.
Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding’s photo mode to bypass face scans.
But in the end, the simplest solution won out: --- VPNs.
Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks,
letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks neve…

The VPN panic is only getting started
The UK government is facing calls to add age restrictions to VPNs in order to stop them being used to… get around age restrictions.

I don’t just mean this as a flippant remark. I’m deadly serious. If whipping up a fake war keeps Epstein off the front page, they’re going to keep doing it. Our best hope for preventing a war is to make it not work as political cover for them.

Wow. In a series of astronomical photos of the night sky, they found >100,000 star-like objects suspiciously only present in some images.
You could think they're just satellites (e.g. Starlink). However, the photos had been captured 1949–1957, before Sputnik was launched (1st human-made satellite)!
Remarkable: The “transients” were 68% more likely 1 day after a nuclear-bomb test! (That “argues against bomb debris … as a plausible explanation.”)

Thank you @… for reminding us that even on the day of her death Brigitte Bardot should not just be remembered as an actress but also as a very prominent racist.

Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.

"5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun"
The grumpy old man in me hates the clickbait-y title, but it's an otherwise nice overview of different types of runs (tempo, strides, progression, etc.) and their intent. I wish I had something like this when I was starting out.

5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun
Speed work isn’t just for serious runners. Up your pace just a little for a more efficient workout.

Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318

郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) on X
Intel expected to begin shipping Apple’s lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…