As far as I understand the affair, Angela Rayner got into a muddle about a complex personal tax issue and as a result of this confusion made a statement that was not true. The confusion seems to have arisen in connection with her attempting to provide for her disabled son.
Not great, but I can't get worked up about it.
What I do get worked up about is the long running campaign waged by the the Telegraph and the Mail to hound Rayner out of office.
These loathsome right wing rags cannot abide the thought of a decidedly unOxbridge, left wing, working class woman being in a position of power.
#UKPolitics #AngelaRayner #UKMedia #Labour
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A Toxic Trail Exposed: How russia Makes Chemical Grenades And Uses Them Against #Ukraine
Links between Chinese firms and russia’s alleged deployment of incendiary weapons whose use in civilian areas is prohibited.
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A Toxic Trail Exposed: How Russia Makes Chemical Grenades And Uses Them Against Ukraine
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the battlefield use of riot control grenades containing toxic gas.Kyrylo Ovsyaniy (RFE/RL)
Japan Times 2000: Prime minister pitches ‘e-Japan’ as way of life
Japan must “grab the historic opportunity of the IT revolution,” Prime Minister Yoshio Mori declared as the final Diet session of the century opened in September 2000.The Japan Times
AI startup #Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit
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Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots
NFL no Brasil: onde assistir ao jogo de hoje entre Chargers e Chiefs em São Paulo - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias
A Neo Química Arena, em São Paulo, se prepara para receber nesta sexta-feira (5) a segunda partida da história da NFL no Brasil, quando Los Angeles Chargers eGazeta Brasil
Finals of the Young Conductor Award from Salzburg - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Young Conductor Award. Finalists conduct the Camerata Salzburg. Recorded 1-3 August....www.worldconcerthall.com
Rio faz acordo com empresas chinesas e chama atenção dos EUA - Paulo Figueiredo
Instalação de 5,8 mil câmeras asiáticas em todos os municípios fluminenses desperta preocupação sobre soberania e privacidade O governo do Rio de Janeiro firmou acordo com as empresas chinesas Hikvision e Dahua para a aquisição de câmeras de monitora…Mickaely Spakoski (Paulo Figueiredo)
if you show up at buckingham palace and say 'pip pip guvner, got a touch of the scrofula, i need the king to lay his hands on me i do,' they have to let you in
it's in the magna carta
you have to say it in a cockney accent though or it doesn't count. that's also in the magna carta
Al GP di Monza la Ferrari ricorda il Mondiale vinto da Niki Lauda esattamente 50 anni fa
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Al GP di Monza la Ferrari ricorda il Mondiale vinto da Niki Lauda esattamente 50 anni fa
In occasione del Gran Premio d'Italia piloti e tecnici vestiranno di azzurro: è la Monza collection limited editionFrancesco Bonfanti (GQ Italia)
Chess.com confirms a #databreach affecting 4,500 users due to a compromised third-party file tool.
No passwords or payment data exposed. Investigations ongoing; impacted users notified.
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Chess.com Hit by Limited Data Breach Linked to 3rd-Party File Transfer Tool
Chess.com confirms a limited data breach affecting 4,500 users after a 3rd-party file transfer tool was hacked. No passwords or payments leaked.Waqas (Hack Read)
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OnTrac #databreach exposed sensitive info of 40K+ people, including SSNs, IDs, and medical data. Hackers accessed the network in April 2025.
Addio Plastic: l'iconico club milanese nei ricordi di chi lo ha frequentato e ci ha lavorato
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Chiusura Plastic Milano, i ricordi di chi lo ha frequentato e ci ha lavorato
Dal 1980 a oggi, prima che un locale il Plastic di Milano è stato una grande famiglia, che ha unito musica d'avanguardia, moda e sottoculture nel segno della totale libertà di espressione.Valentina Nuzzi (Vogue Italia)
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Handmaid’s Tale author considers suing Trump
Atwood is not happy that Trump has stolen her story of a dystopian society and turned it into reality. It was meant to be a work of fiction not a howto manual.
#DonaldTrump #MargaretAtwood #satire
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Carolyn Hax: Dad scolds child of his third marriage for leaving husband
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Frantic Trump Tries to Kill Vote to Force Open Epstein Files
A rogue Republican is rounding up GOP signatures.Cameron Adams (The Daily Beast)
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Maryland gets defensive, stymies Northern Illinois to move to 2-0
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Le Wagon Souk sanctionné d’une fermeture administrative jusqu’au 2 janvier 2026
Un arrêté préfectoral prononce la fermeture administrative du Wagon Souk pendant quatre mois. Un contrôle mené par plusieurs services de l'Etat a permis de constater plusieurs infractions. Le tiers-lieu festif se savait menacé. Par un arrêté daté du vendredi 29 août, la préfecture du Bas-Rhin a décidé d'une fermeture administrative de quatre mois pour le Wagon Souk. Cette sanction commence…
Le guide d’urgence pour les étudiants sans logement à Strasbourg
Des milliers d’étudiants peinent à trouver un toit lors de chaque rentrée à Strasbourg. Petit guide des solutions, de la chambre universitaire aux hébergements d'urgence. Chaque mois de septembre, c’est la même histoire à Strasbourg. Les amphithéâtres se remplissent et des milliers d’étudiants cherchent désespérément un toit dans une ville avec une très forte tension locative. Chambres du Crous prises…
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Le guide d'urgence pour les étudiants sans logement à Strasbourg
Voilà notre petit guide des solutions pour trouver un logement étudiant en cette rentrée 2025 à Strasbourg.Nicolas Thomas (MédiaLab)
Queensland: Flu cases still rising among children — warns CHO
🔹67,074 flu cases reported this year, 86% unvaccinated.
🔹Nearly 400 hospital beds are filled daily with flu, COVID, or RSV patients.
🔹At least 146 flu deaths, including 20 under 65.
Source: archive.md/NjJNq
ABS data: Deaths due to acute respiratory infections by state and territory.
All deaths (both doctor and coroner certified) that occurred and were registered by 31 July 2025.
Reported deaths:
🔹2025 - COVID-19: 205
🔹2025 - Influenza: 94
🔹2025 - RSV: 23
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Deaths due to acute respiratory infections in Australia, July 2025
Acute respiratory disease mortality in Australia, including COVID-19, influenza and RSVAustralian Bureau of Statistics
The way wars are referred to in the U.S. – by politicians, journalists and in public scholarship – tends to serve state interests and power rather than necessarily reflect the realities of conflicts.
For instance, we call it the “Iraq War”, not the “US-Iraq War”.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •At work, I have recently been forced to use LLM text extruders. I put in the PRD Clarity Gem and a Product Requirements Document before I pull the lever instead of a loonie, but the process and result is the same as a slot machine. Maybe I get nothing usable, but maybe I get something good.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •4+ : in 1994, I bet that Italy woud lose the World Cup soccer game against Spain.
We were teens and the one winning the bet could keep the soccer ball we found the day before on a field. 😆
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •No, I didn't by more tickets with the dollars 😛
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •IMO, @tshirtman's point is key: “investments” are, in fact,gambling.
AFAIK, I'm the only #FOSS geek to spend time¹ as a part-time pro #poker player, so (hopefully clueful) rant follows:
Most who've never gambled for a living don't yet grok (to quote _Hunger Games_) “when the odds are forever in your favor” vs. (what we call) “bad bets”.
Pro gamblers seek games where they're “the favorite”. Lotteries & (most) casino games have a “house edge” & are “bad bets”…(1/6)
Cc: @BathysphereHat @finner
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •…many pro #poker players become investment bankers b/c the principles are the same. Wall Street is, indeed, a casino, where the wealthy have a “house edge”.
Any form of gambling — Wall Street, running a casino, or playing poker — one needs chumps (called “fish” in poker) to show up & play the game w/ no concept that others in the game have an edge over them. The sardonic _Hunger Games_ quote is apt, becuase if you're not from District 1/2, the odds are, of course, *never* in your favor…(2/6)
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •… for me, I eventually got disgusted that, as a pro poker player, I was the “house” for folks who didn't understand math. I was once¹ in a #poker game at Foxwoods casino (in CT, when I lived in MA) circa 2004.
A guy won a pot & he said “Now I have enough to get the diapers.” We all asked him what he meant, & he said: “my wife sent me out to by diapers 3 hrs ago, & I came here instead.” I thought he was lying at the time, but after he lost all his money & left, I realized maybe he wasn't.…(3/6)
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •… ultimately, @silvermoon82 is totally right that gambling does impact the same brain centers that some substances do & addiction is common.
If you're a pro #poker player or otherwise make a surplus in the gambling industry (which, BTW, includes Wall Street), *you are* the same as a heroin dealer (or, at least, a liquor store owner). I admit I occasionally still play #poker when I'm traveling & have an evening free, but doing it as my primary source of income sounds disgusting to me now … (4/6)
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •… I do sometimes buy lottery tickets.
e.g., rn #Powerball cash-payout ($826.4 mil) exceeds odds of winning (1 in ≈584mil — note ½ the odds b/c a ticket costs $2). That's a farce b/c odds don't factor in chance of a split btw winners (ie, N people *can* buy the exact same numbers), but while usually a $2 ticket is worth ≤ $1, my back-of-envelope calculation is rn a $2 ticket is “worth” ≈ $1.40 in expected value, so I take the gamble b/c of the NGO donations I could do with that money … (5/6)
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •… anyway, @evan polled on something of my interest.
¹I worked previously for FSF & SFLC. I wasn't paid enough to make ends meet in Boston-area/NYC-area (respectively).
Only way I could make ends meet was to play #poker on weekends
It was a *grueling* way to make a living: only job where you show up $3k in your pocket, work the whole day, & leave with $1k in your pocket (on a given day, of course).
I made roughly $25/hr playing poker, but games were easier then for various reasons.
(6/6)
Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@bkuhn I have a question for you: I really liked "Bringing Down the House", the book about the MIT blackjack team that made pretty decent money.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringi…
There's also a pretty good episode of This American Life about counting cards at casinos:
thisamericanlife.org/466/black…
Blackjack - This American Life
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@bkuhn both of them mention how tedious and exhausting playing blackjack for hours is. Counting cards requires doing a lot of arithmetic in your head and paying close attention to the table.
I think of poker as a much more intellectually stimulating game. You have to spend a lot more effort getting to know your opponents. It's much more about people than blackjack is.
My hypothesis is that, for all of its faults, playing pro poker is more fun and engaging than playing pro blackjack. True?
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •I liked _Bringing Down the House_ too. Since I gambled & lived in Boston-area for a while, I proverbially “knew people who knew people” who played on MIT team.
Your theory is basically correct: In Blackjack, counting cards is *literally* counting — +1, -1, +0, etc. — mind numbing. & you have to do it *perfectly* to gain the edge. The “strategy” part of Blackjack is trying to fool the casino so they don't ban your team (card counting is legal but casinos can selectively ban anyone)…(1/4)
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Which is probably true anyway, but I would say "never" except that, as some have pointed out, there are raffles (which is mostly about donating) and investments (which tend to be low-risk gambling).
Which should probably include self-investment: buying equipment for an enterprise I don't know will pay off.
And those are things I definitely have done.
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