
MarieSW
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BREAKING: Trump just attacked NATO and then goes on to say that "25 years ago" he said that NATO was a "Paper tiger" and that "they would never come to our rescue".
FACT: 25 years ago was March 26, 2001. Less than 6 months after that, on September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time ever. They lost 1100 soldiers fighting for us.
Trump is a Moron.
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When you treat underfunded schools like businesses, and publicly shame the ones which don't (for complex reasons) get the best results, you can incentivise cruelty.
The top 500 secondary schools take in half as many disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) as the average comprehensive, in what is believed may be a deliberate strategy to boost grades and improve finances.
New research from the Sutton Trust has found that pupils with Send, and especially those who also come from a low-income background, are significantly less likely to attend top state schools, even if there is one in their local area.
theguardian.com/education/2026…
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@ZackPolanski @SagalAshour Call it 'Epstein-funded Palantir'?
Not everyone is aware that Palantir founder Peter Thiel co-managed investment funds with known Mossad agent and convicted sex-trafficker Jefferey Epstein who was an early investor in Palantir.
dispatch.the-citizens.com/palantir-peter…
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Palantir is burrowing into the heart of the UK's institutions - our health, our defence, our finances.
Join me in telling the govt to send this dangerous company packing:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…
LBC@LBC
Palantir has been awarded a contract by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to analyse internal intelligence data. lbc.co.uk/article/palant…
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This is Selection by Compliance.
I've named it & defined it in 'Taking Control 3' for the first time in print. It's time we all used this phrase to describe what appalling practice is going on in some schools and trusts.
Selection by Compliance is real.
news.sky.com/story/pupils-e…
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Not really top-performing then are they!
The Sutton Trust@suttontrust
🚨 NEW: Top performing secondary schools are effectively shutting out disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs. Our new polling suggests this is often a deliberate strategy to limit the numbers of these pupils coming through their school gates 🧵⤵️
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🚨 BREAKING: You asked AI to improve your writing.
It changed what you were actually saying.
New research just proved it.
In a controlled study, heavy AI writing assistance led to a 70% increase in essays that gave no clear answer to the question being asked.
Not unclear writing. Neutral writing.
The kind that sounds polished but commits to nothing.
Here's what makes this worse:
Researchers took essays written in 2021 — before ChatGPT existed — and asked an LLM to revise them based on real expert feedback.
The instruction was simple: fix the grammar.
The model changed the meaning anyway.
Every time.
It can't help it. The training pushes toward inoffensive, agreeable, averaged-out text. That's not a bug they can patch. It's the objective function.
And then there's the peer review finding.
21% of reviews at a recent top AI conference were AI-generated.
Those reviews scored papers a full point higher on average.
They also placed significantly less weight on clarity and significance — the two things peer review is supposed to evaluate.
So we're not just talking about your email sounding a little corporate.
We're talking about AI quietly flattening scientific discourse.
Laundering opinions into non-answers.
Replacing your voice with the mean of everyone's voice.
The industry keeps asking: is AI-written content detectable?
Wrong question.
The right question is: what are we losing when a billion people let the same model edit their thinking?

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Let's be honest about this @Ofstednews are the root cause of this, school leaders are terrified of not meeting OfSTED's targets and so game the system to do so. It's time to scrap OfSTED and return inspection to its safeguarding roots, time to end this edu carnage @bphillipsonMP
The Sutton Trust@suttontrust
Are top performing schools accessible to disadvantaged pupils with SEND? 🔎 Our new report takes a closer look at the relationship between disadvantage, SEND, and access to state schools. Out tomorrow.
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Wherever Reform UK goes, the same thing happens. Extremists get through, leaders look the other way, and critics are told to grow up.
Scotland. Wales. London. The same story, every time. This is who they are.
#ReformUK #MalcolmOfford #Scotland
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🎈HELIUM SCARCITY… Hospitals worldwide perform millions of MRI scans, making MRI the single largest consumer of liquid helium (often cited as 15–30% of global demand). While MRI is usually closed loop—MRIs need to be refilled with helium over time (just like Freon leaks from air conditioners over time). Helium cannot be made—only extracted, & any loss is permanent. However, Iran just destroyed a $20 billion Qatar refinery, & the Strait of Hormuz is blocked. Helium also needed in quantum technologies. Helium already scarce. Helium shortages can delay scans, raise costs, or force prioritization of urgent cases. In respiratory: Heliox (a helium-oxygen mixture) reduces airway turbulence, easing breathing in conditions like severe asthma, croup, or upper airway obstruction. It is delivered via masks or ventilators and is particularly useful in pediatrics or emergencies, and there is no substitute for helium in Heliox. All this will not be good if we suffer an even greater shortage of helium / price spike of helium if the Iran conflict continues.

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"It was that collusion between regulator and water industry"
Robert Forrester was an Environment Agency whistleblower who is portrayed in Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' #GMB
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