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The writer is correct. These are stories. Even if the players are confirmed to be vaccinated, each case is an N of 1.
Why should we care?
All kinds of reasons.
Maybe most importantly, stories matter.
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The writer is correct. These are stories. Even if the players are confirmed to be vaccinated, each case is an N of 1.
Why should we care?
All kinds of reasons.
Maybe most importantly, stories matter.
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A woman using her phone under a Facebook logo.
A woman using her phone under a Facebook logo.
The site will no longer automatically recognise people when they are in photos and videos. That tool was marketed as helping tag people in photos that were uploaded, but also allowed Facebook to build a vast library of facial recognition data on the people who use it.
Facebook also said that it would delete that data, in a move that will see it destroy more than a billion people's individual facial recognition templates.
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The man was shot on Monday evening, after he threatened station staff with a knife, leaving one security officer seriously injured, according to France's BFMTV.
According to French media, he was previously known to police, having committed acts of violence, but had not been known to the intelligence services or been considered a terrorist threat prior to the incident.
Comment: See also:
- Teenager who allegedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during knife attack on police 'infidels' shot dead in central Russia
- French police shoot man wielding knife & yelling 'Allahu Akbar'- follows similar incident 2 days earlier
- Attacker threatens teen girl with knife, 'yells Allahu Akbar' inside police station on Reunion Island
- Man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stabs Italian soldier in neck with scissors
- Knife attack by man screaming "Allahu akbar" in Sydney, Australia - UPDATE: Woman's body found in apartment near to attack
- Radicalized inmate shouts, 'Allahu Akbar' and stabs two guards in French prison - UPDATE
- Man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stabs police in Brussels - being investigated as terrorism
- 2 injured as car rams into pedestrians in southern France, driver reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar'
- 2 injured as woman with box cutter attacks people in a southeastern France store, reportedly shouts 'Allahu Akbar'
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Students taking an exam.
Students taking an exam.
On Monday, England's Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) published new draft guidelines aimed at addressing how some students are "unfairly disadvantaged by irrelevant features" in the education system. The proposed guidance also advises how exams can be made more "accessible, clear and plain" for students who are not familiar with the cultural "context" of questions that are based on social customs or life experiences.
In addition, the proposals recommend that exam boards avoid source material, context, images or colours that present "unnecessary negative, narrow or stereotypical representations of particular groups." The regulator also said exams must not "advantage or disadvantage any group" of pupils and have harder questions placed towards the end in order to avoid "demotivating" students.
Comment: That last statement from Williamson hits the nail on the head. All this 'inclusivity' is just a guise for lowering the standards of education and dumbing down the curriculum. It would be nice if a study was done to see if anyone is actually disadvantaged by non-inclusive language on exams.
See also:
- Michigan elementary schools cancel Halloween and Valentines Day to be 'equitable and inclusive'
- Pupils in England to get choice of topics and 'advance information' to make exams 'fairer'
- Parents fume as BLM campaigners subvert America's top high schools to get 'racist' entrance exams scrapped
- Bloody favoritism! Oxford University gives extra time to complete exams in order to boost female students' scores
- UCLA professor fired 'for not being lenient with Black students grades' because they were 'traumatized by Floyd killing'
- Professor at Catholic university docks essay grades for not using 'inclusive language' on gender
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JFK Jr. is a popular figure in QAnon lore and has been predicited to reveal himself on numerous occassions. JFK Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.
JFK Jr. is a popular figure in QAnon lore and has been predicited to reveal himself on numerous occassions. JFK Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.
A large crowd of QAnon believers descended on the AT&T Discovery Plaza on Monday, ahead of the supposed return of the deceased JFK Jr. before midnight today.
The Daily Beast contributor Steven Monacelli shared several photos that showed a dozens-strong crowd, with some wearing t-shirts that said "Trump: JFK Jr. 2024."
Comment: While Intel agencies (and the media lapdogs that peddle their talking points) love to paint the QAnon movement as a unified collection of domestic terrorists with absolutely insane beliefs, the truth is more likely that it's a collection of conservatives with a penchant for conspiracy theories, easily lead astray by savior rhetoric, with a great heterogeneity in their absolutely insane beliefs. But the QAnon label has become a convenient smear for any conservative expressing views counter to the mainstream liberal dogma.
See also:
- 'QAnon Shaman' to plead guilty in Capitol riot case
- Parents concerned about critical race theory indoctrination are now 'QAnon' according to NBC
- Is QAnon alive and well in the yoga community?
- US intel report warns of more violence by QAnon followers
- Michael Flynn's relatives sue CNN for $75 million over report alleging QAnon affiliation
- New HBO documentary 'Q: Into the Storm' is just like QAnon in that it is vapid entertainment selling itself as truth
- Elite exponents of fear politics deliberately exaggerate the 'terrorist threat' of QAnon to spread alarm across the US
- Police say man vandalized 'America's Stonehenge' with QAnon hashtag
The panopticon of the Smart City is a system set up so that free citizens police, interrogate, and report on each other.
Academia, with its woke newspeak, is a god-awful thing. Only through the complete destruction of language can actually fascist policies, which threaten to eradicate humanity, be passed off as progressive, even social-democratic. Our aim is to build upon our previous chapters to show that these were not intellectual fishing expeditions - we're here with the receipts.
Academia, with its woke newspeak, is a god-awful thing. Only through the complete destruction of language can actually fascist policies, which threaten to eradicate humanity, be passed off as progressive, even social-democratic. Our aim is to build upon our previous chapters to show that these were not intellectual fishing expeditions - we're here with the receipts.
Comment: Keep in mind that most things that enter post secondary institutions will find their way into society.
- India plans to build 100 elites-only 'smart' cities
- Urbanization: China's smart supercities powered by 5G to become new growth engine
- Smart cities should be sharing and cooperative rather than solely technology focused
"I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider 'F**k Joe Biden' emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president," NBC reporter Ken Dilanian said on Sunday. Facing backlash for what some commenters saw as an attempt to demonize an anti-Biden meme, Dilanian defended the query as a "reasonable question."
He tweeted his comment linking the anti-Biden message to a threat of violence after authoring an article noting that gun dealers were engraving variants of "Let's Go Brandon" on firearm parts and ammunition to boost sales. For example, he wrote, a dealer in South Carolina is marketing a lower receiver for an AR-15 assault rifle as a "LETSGO-15."
Telegram and Facebook have had an influx of people searching for paid jobs after states and territories implemented mandates covering a range of industries from health and aged care workers, teachers and police to construction and hospitality workers.
On some job boards, businesses that are happy to accept unvaccinated people advertise that they are "welcoming of everyone".
Beauty therapists, childcare workers, disability support workers and accountants are among 20,000 people who are members of the largest Facebook group for unvaccinated jobseekers in Australia.
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Emergency services personnel inspect the site where two trains crashed near Salisbury, Britain October 31, 2021
Emergency services personnel inspect the site where two trains crashed near Salisbury, Britain October 31, 2021
The incident reportedly happened after one train derailed and "knocked out all of the signaling in the area" after hitting an object on its approach to Salisbury station. Another train then collided with it.
Comment: The derailed train was a sitting duck as warning signals to the accident ahead were absent:
The incident happened near Salisbury station in Wiltshire on Sunday night when the rear carriage of a Great Western Railway (GWR) service from Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads derailed. At least 17 people were injured, with passengers being thrown around pitch-black carriages. Firefighters and paramedics rescued around 120 people, including a three-week-old baby girl.
BTP confirmed there were no fatalities, but a "small number" of people, including the driver of one of the trains, were taken to hospital to have their injuries assessed. One of the drivers was cut free having suffered a suspected broken ankle.
A senior Network Rail engineer told MailOnline that when the GWR service derailed, there should have been an automatic obstruction warning to stop any train entering the same mile-long stretch."There has been a major flaw within the signalling system within Network Rail. The system says that the line is not safe for the passage of another train because there is an obstruction on the line.A statement released on Monday read:
"According to my system, the signalling system was aware seven minutes before impact. It should've automatically stopped the train. It should've automatically set all signals to red. If the driver didn't see the signal, the system should've made the train stop.""At around 6.45pm, a Great Western Railway service from Southampton to Cardiff collided with a South Western Railway service from London to Honiton as they both entered the Fisherton Tunnel in Salisbury.
"Both trains were travelling in the same direction and one train struck the side of the other, causing it to derail whilst in the tunnel. The front few carriages remained upright while the back tipped on their side.
"Ninety-two passengers were on both train services. Around 30 people attended a casualty centre which was set up in a nearby church, the majority of who were walking wounded and assessed at the scene."
"Unfortunately, the driver of the train was more seriously injured and his injuries are believed to be life-changing. He remains in hospital in a stable condition this morning, and his family have been informed.
"We have now moved out of the rescue phase of the operation and into the investigation which will involve the trains remaining in situ for some time. The investigation remains at an early stage but a senior detective has been appointed to lead the enquiries as we work to establish the full circumstances of how this incident came to happen.
"This will no doubt have been an incredibly frightening experience for all those involved and our thoughts are with them and their families today.
"Specialist officers and detectives remain on scene in Salisbury and we are working closely alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and the Office of Rail and Road to establish exactly how these two trains came to collide.
"We are keeping an open mind but at this early stage there has been nothing to suggest the train struck an object or that there was any significant delay between the trains colliding and then one derailing.
"This has been a large scale, multi-agency operation and I would like to pay particular to thanks to our emergency service colleagues for their efforts in safely evacuating passengers, and to the many members of the local community who reached out with offers of help."
Comment: So Facebook "will continue to work on facial recognition technology within the company," they just won't offer it to the users of their platform. How is that the least bit reassuring? Not being unwittingly tagged in a photo is rather minor in comparison to corporate entities using facial recognition data behind the scenes (and letting intelligence agencies have access to that same data, no doubt). This reeks of a PR move for a company whose public image is currently on the rocks.
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