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Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

I could not agree more with the conclusion to this excellent piece from a serving Labour MP who actually understands public opinion. The party has got stuck veering back (and now perhaps forth) on the social dimension but that is not what will win back voters. They need to focus on economy full stop

Iran condemns US attack on Iranian desalination plant, issues a veiled threat - Türkiye Today Iran strikes US naval base in Bahrain's Jufair in retaliation for US attack on a desalination plant on Iran, as Tehran warns US set a precedent

⚠️ Iran says the US attacked a desalination facility.

If true, this is a war crime.

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

The utter disregard of the #US government for the #environment and their peoples #health always leaves me speechless.

Dumping 17,000 tons of unspent WW1 chemical weapons in front of your shores, & never recovering it, what could go wrong?

arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

1/2 #USPol #USA #America

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

We of course want applications from people of all ages and life stages. My sense is that in Birmingham we need someone with at least a few years’ writing experience, whereas in Glasgow we’d be open to a relative newbie to journalism. But please share the links with anyone who might be interested.

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For them, yes. Trump has sanctioned ICC judges for issuing a warrant against Netanyahu.

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Who was that criticising the Iranian president for being weak? Was it Kemi Badenoch?

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Ireland? (alt text)

UK arguments for US operations from its bases blur the line between lawful self-defence and unlawful war on Iran The UK claims any US aircraft flying from bases like Fairford and Diego Garcia can only act in defence of British regional allies. Such a distinction may be unrealistic in a theatre of war.

"Compliance with international law is not optional for the UK. According to the Ministerial Code, members of the government... have the ‘overarching duty to comply with the law, including international law and treaty obligations’."

Badenoch would drop that; Farage would drop the code.

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This is a phenomenal initiative from a group of educators, taking the National Emergency Briefing message through the education sector - equipping teachers with what they need to know about the climate & nature crisis impacting us right now.

Our thanks to all involved. #NEB2025

Josh Kale: An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto. This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research team. The AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training. It

UK arguments for US operations from its bases blur the line between lawful self-defence and unlawful war on Iran The UK claims any US aircraft flying from bases like Fairford and Diego Garcia can only act in defence of British regional allies. Such a distinction may be unrealistic in a theatre of war.

The UK claims any US aircraft flying from bases like Fairford and Diego Garcia can only act in defence of British regional allies. Such a distinction may be unrealistic in a theatre of war. https://bit.ly/4lggYsn

I wonder exactly what Trump - and I know I'm taking him seriously here - thinks will take another four or five weeks.

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Record of the items on BBC Radio 4 Today on 7 March 2026

@bbcr4today #AsItHappened Saturday 7 March 2026

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He was probably doing a reasonable job at the time. Were the other pictures they took worse?

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I suspect he's picked up the "poorer people spend more of their incomes on the basics" thing, and expressed it very badly.

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Such a Dad's Army idea!

Amol Rajan has had far, far too much time to write this introduction to the story of iceberg A23A.

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I could pretend to be a media man, and wince, but this looks fairly real.

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What have they got wrong?

My complaint is about what they're not asked/allowed to look at.

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I'm not an economist (or a lawyer, soldier, knitter, and all the usual stuff), but aren't the Gulf states weak simply because they've been riding waves of money which this war has made them realize might need other foundations?

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Of course I don't, which is why I waited for further information on the Minab case.

Bellingcat and others geolocated the site, then other information began to emerge.

I don't consider the BBC to be a state broadcaster. It would be much stronger if it was.

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A Starmer fan (?) on Threads think it is jumping on a right wing media bandwagon to point out that Labour just made its first gain ever in a council by-election from Reform.

🤷

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What selection would you expect from a neutral account?

Is the selection of images related to recommendation by social media platforms, or something else?

Are the images even real samples from social media?

I don't know, but - as I said - I trust Verify people when they actually work.

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