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Surreal interview with Jensen Huang whose company's chips power much of today’s AI. Says he doesn’t think it matters if children forget basic maths. I love AI as much as the next person, but the head of an AI company arguing that children don’t need the skills to question AI should worry us all.

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Pope Leo praises France for "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed here in Paris.. Creating a general consciousness of inalienable rights to dignity"

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You know the joke: “Find someone who looks at Mamdani the way Trump looks at Mamdani.” We can now add: find someone who looks at the Pope the way Macron looks at the Pope. And honestly, it’s lovely to see Macron smiling like the Cheshire Cat 😁

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Lady in green, "With Canada and the EU forging closer ties. Is now the time for the Uk to rejoin the EU within the next ten years?" #BBCQT My view: Yes!

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The Conservatives want to restrict people on benefits from buying alcohol. Yet they’re uninterested in restricting the cheaper alcohol sold in Parliament’s bars and restaurants. Why is one use of public money treated as morally unacceptable while the other is apparently fine?

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Josh Babarinde, "It's one thing to protest, it is another thing to intimidate and abuse our volunteer lifeboat crews" "These are people who put their lives on the line for us. And anyone who gets in their way is pathetic, patriotic, and unBritish"

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Jonathan Reynolds, "I agree that we have a situation where too many people are going onto long term sickness benefits" #BBCQT My view: ONS found that people reporting long COVID 30–39 weeks after infection had 45.5% higher odds of being economically inactive than before infection

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Helen Whateley explaining the Conservative's latest policy idea of restricting purchases of cigarettes and alcohol for people on benefits on #BBCQT "Supermarkets can have a code which stops people from purchasing a particular (item)" then cites "Aspen cards used by failed asylum seekers"

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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, "The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" My view: The Bank of England was founded in 1694, during the reign of William III and Mary II.

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Good morning, happy Friday ☺️

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Helen Whateley, daughter of a surgeon and a physician, who attended private schools and then Oxford university, "When I was younger, I worked as a waitress, I worked as a cleaner, I did all sorts, being a receptionist, they were not my dream job, but they were a way of earning some money"

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Josh Babarinde, "The Conservatives cut student grants, cut youth centres, cut access to work, live and play in Europe, now they want to cut their benefits" "They way you help young people into employment isn't by punishing them, its by investing in them" #BBCQT

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Andrew Neil, "The big problem we face is 6.7 million adults of working, who aren't working, and living on out of work benefits" #BBCQT My view: Only 71,000 are actually on Jobseeker’s Allowance.

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Labour's Jonathan Reynolds slams Conservative Helen Whately on #BBCQT "Frankly there's no evidence to suggest that unemployed people spend all their money on fags and booze" "It's just a way of you saying you don't like poor people"

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Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well"

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Conservative Helen Whately, "Our welfare bill is out of control.. We can't afford it.. We have a problem of long term unemployed.. Living a life on welfare" #BBCQT My view: Whately wrongly bundles pensions, disability support and unemployment together as “welfare”.

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BBC News, "A few years ago.. Labour would be expected to win comfortably.. But the Greens have been eating away at their vote" Zack Polanski, "Voting Green in Holborn & St Pancras is a vote to reduce the cost of housing, reduce people's bills, putting more money into people's pockets"

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Netanyahu speaking at the UN calls the dozens of UN delegates who walked out before his speech, 'moral cowards'

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The six most recent Ads on my Twitter account. Not a particular of either of them but how is this allowed?

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The law Andy Burnham wants to change? Drinking at football matches The law he hasn't shown an interest in changing? The one Cooper and Mahmood rolled out and enforce that has seen thousands of non violent protestors being arrested, including the daughter of a Holocaust survivor

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Good morning, happy Thursday ☺️

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Gillian Tett on Newsnight, "3/4 of world leaders talked about AI in their speeches at the UN" Meanwhile Labour still giving contracts to Palantir...

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#C4News ask whether Zack Polanski and the Greens can challenge former Labour PM Keir Starmer's constituency of Holborn & St Pancras. They even find a constituent who said, "I don't think Sir Keir Starmer did much for people who live around here"

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Australian PM Anthony Albanese, "An AI agent has infiltrated an Australian gov website.. June this year.. An OpenAI agent gaining unauthorised access into the public facing Medicare portal" My view: That is terrifying. Not because AI is “evil”, but because an autonomous system got past safeguards

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Tony Blair dismisses the phrase, 'Free Palestine,' saying "Palestinians living in Gaza they don't a slogan, they need a solution" My view: “Free Palestine” is not an alternative to a solution; it is the principle the solution must deliver.

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BBC News report that despite there being 15 candidates for the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, it's really between Labour and The Greens. My view: I want Zack Polanski to win as it was Keir Starmer’s seat, yet after using it as a stepping stone to become PM, he abandoned his constituents.

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