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EU sails past deadline to tame AI models amid vocal US opposition The latest attempt to curb AI companies is ensnarled in an epic lobbying battle involving the Trump administration.

The European Union has missed a key milestone in its effort to rein in the riskiest artificial intelligence models amid heavy lobbying from the US government.

On utopias, past and present Three early utopian novels – socialist, feminist, ecological – offered radical alternatives to society before dystopias claimed the spotlight

Socialism.
Feminism.
Ecology.

Long before today’s debates, these authors a century ago were already imagining the answers.

Martin Waller has been reading them.

Meet the forgotten visionaries of utopia:

Could we talk about the positive ideas and impacts?! Like things that THE GREENS are advocating for?! Give more news space for the better future initiative!!!

If Vladimir Putin himself had invaded America and come up with a plan to try to destroy our economy and wreck the cohesion of our society, he could not have done better than Donald Trump has done on his own with the help of Elon Musk.

The public are behind our plans for a Mass Transit network.🚊

This will be our region’s biggest infrastructure project in decades, and the message was clear: it’s time to deliver a tram and get spades in the ground by 2028.

Read our full consultation report: westyorks-ca.gov.uk/all-news-and...

Why are we pandering to these DUMB oligarchs?!?!
Exhausting!

The petition must now be considered for parliamentary debate.

Just so DUMB!
Everything these pro-fascist do is just SO incredibly DUMB!

Bring Thames Water into public ownership

Please sign and share! Water is important!

weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

Keir Starmer is ‘betraying’ the NHS with private sector expansion, says Jeremy Corbyn Exclusive: Former Labour leader hits out, accusing prime minister of ‘broken pledges’ on the two-child benefit cap, winter fuel and ‘selling off’ the health service

Dear Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting: the NHS is not for sale.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.

Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!

🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal.

⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal.

📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS.
#NoNewPFI
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

Date for the diary: 21.1.25, 20:00hrs
...Renee DiResta on disinformation. How it spreads. How to counter it.
Forewarned is forearmed

Government by ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer Has Introduced So Far You don't have to look very hard to see that Starmer's Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you

🔴Government by ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer Has Introduced So Far

Starmer’s Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/03/g...

If you are a #gamestudio or #gamedev in the North of England - tag us to be included in this list bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation's accounts

🔴The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear

Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...

Wonderful!

Hello BlueSky. Let’s try to make things better this time around.