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Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

£22bn of water bill hikes will go to private investors - not cleaning up rivers Investors will see their returns from water bills double over the next five years

❗️Steve Reed has just been caught in a £22bn lie.

He claimed he had secure £104bn in “private investment” for water upgrades - funded by a 36% hike in our bills.

An FOI revealed £22bn of those bill hikes will go to shareholders & creditors.

We need public ownership.
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Helluva lot of empty space to be filled.

Kris Kross

The moon is blown out of Earth orbit in TV Programme Space 1999

With thanks to @mrdclark.bsky.social

The Brass Neck of Angela Rayner Emboldens the UK Duopoly's Free Zones Experiment The Labour Party are complicit in a dangerous gamble with the nation’s security, turning a blind eye to the festering corruption at the Teesside freeport

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#r4today

UK water watchdog woos investors with ‘guaranteed revenues’ as it seeks £50bn Funds are needed to back projects to improve Britain’s crumbling water infrastructure

Ofwat/Govt promised this to England's water company investors.

“right to collect” revenues from customers, “opportunities for upside”, “capped liabilities” and “investment positive” ... “no exposure to competitive or market stranding risks”

This is a licence to fleece people.
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#OSINT #EHRC

Finally Space 1999

An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed – with “utmost confidence” – as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

"For what is the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores some of the most marginalised groups in society while driving open toxic divisions?" liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/384...

Disgusting.

*his community*

PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter Letter: The government is wrong on the cost of bringing water back into public ownership, write Prof Becky Malby, Dr Kate Bayliss, Prof Frances Cleaver and Prof Ewan McGaughey

UK govt is wrong on the cost of bringing England's water back into public ownership.

Its £100bn number has no economic/legal basis.

The cost of public ownership is "closer to zero".

Companies are bankrupt, their shareholders and lenders have already extracted billions.

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DWP change to Universal Credit and PIP 'will plunge 50,000 into poverty by 2030' The Department for Work and Pensions are set to plunge tens of thousands of disabled and chronically-ill claimants into poverty by the end of the decade - 2030

DWP change to Universal Credit and PIP could put 50,000 people into poverty.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

The bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Tax the rich. Poverty is a political choice.

#fightback

Repeated criminal damage to vital medical care is unfair to trans people and an attack on democracy, Wes.

Classy bunch they seemed too. Hope they do promote the next one, I'll be there standing against the fash.

Neither of those are in the current govt punching down on the poor, vulnerable, trans communities.

My frustrations are with a Labour Govt that appears captured by corporations and right wing think tanks.

And there we have it. The false dichotomy.

The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.

Can get with that take. But more reason to be frustrated at a government that appears to be indifferent (at best) to the situation of vulnerable groups?

I've read that as the vast majority being well off, so they really need to stop moaning about the government's attacks on the vulnerable. Is that not what you're saying?

Ghislaine Maxwell is in her new prison while her victims are either dead or tormented for life. This monster should be kept in a high security jail.

So the vulnerable in society should shut up? Those more fortunate should cheerfully punch down and give our government a round of applause?

Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Unredacted.

In their entirety.

Off the rails.