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Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong

Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong

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After being arrested in connection with a years-long, country-spanning string of murders, the alleged leader of a “Roko’s Basilisk” cult is insisting she hasn’t done anything wrong — and that she should be granted access to a vegan diet. As the San Fransisco Chronicle reports, Jack “Ziz” LaSota spoke ramblingly during her Maryland bail hearing last week that occurred after two young alleged “Zizians” were apprehended for a pair of slayings that took place in California and Vermont. “I haven’t done anything wrong,” LaSota told a judge during the February 18 hearing. “I shouldn’t be here.” A militant vegan whose animal rights beliefs are at the center of her writings — as does the concept of “Roko’s Basilisk,” a hypothetical artificial superintelligence that would retroactively torture anyone who didn’t help it come into existence — the 33-year-old former tech worker also begged Judge Erich Bean, the jurist presiding over her hearing, to give her food she could eat. “I must… I might starve to death,” Ziz told the judge. “I need… I need the jail to …

Plaid Cymru Leader Rules Out Working With Reform In Any Way

Plaid Cymru Leader Rules Out Working With Reform In Any Way

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Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth in London, July 2024. (Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo) 4 min read03 February Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has ruled out working with Reform UK in any way after the 2026 Welsh elections in which Nigel Farage’s party is expected to do well. With the introduction of a pure proportional representation voting system for Senedd elections, and the rise of both Plaid Cymru and Reform in the polls, some in Labour fear the party could be out of power in Cardiff next year. The alternative to a Labour minority or Labour-led coalition could see a combination of Reform, Plaid Cymru and/or the Conservatives teaming up. But ap Iorwerth used an interview with PoliticsHome to rule out the possibility. “We wouldn’t work with Reform,” the Plaid Cymru leader said. “That really is not on the cards.” “We’re talking about sort of a worldview that is that is fundamentally different, and it’s not just on the independence issue,” he added. “When you look at Reform …

U.K. to Turbocharge AI, Gain up to Billion a Year as World Leader

U.K. to Turbocharge AI, Gain up to $57 Billion a Year as World Leader

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Artificial intelligence will “be unleashed across the U.K. to deliver a decade of national renewal.” At least, that is the vow made by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he unveiled a plan that his Labour Party government says will “turbocharge AI” and “deliver a decade of national renewal” by “backing AI to the hilt.” Agreeing to take forward all 50 recommendations set out by Matt Clifford, chairman of talent investor Entrepreneur First, in his “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” which he was tasked to draw up last summer, Starmer and his team said on Monday that AI could help with “revolutionizing our public services and putting more money in people’s back pockets.” Citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimate, the government emphasized that “if AI is fully embraced and productivity gains are fully realized, this could be worth up to an average £47 billion ($57 billion) to the U.K. each year over a decade.” Concluded the government: “Today’s plan mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation – revolutionizing our public services and putting more …

Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Is Optimistic Despite Everything

Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Is Optimistic Despite Everything

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Late last year, Venezuela’s democratic opposition set out to choose, jointly, someone who could challenge Nicolás Maduro, the country’s autocratic president, in an election that was sure to be violent and unfair. Hundreds of thousands of participants from different political parties voted in a primary held across Venezuela and in exile communities abroad. Although they risked harassment and arrest, people donated space in private homes and offices to make the vote possible. Others stood in line for hours, in parks and plazas, to choose the victor, María Corina Machado. Machado’s career began when she founded an election-monitoring group more than two decades ago, and she has since then served as a member of the National Assembly, as a party leader, and as a persistent voice in favor of international sanctions on the regime. The Venezuelan leadership responded, over many years, by repeatedly accusing her of conspiracy, treason, and fraud, even banning her from leaving the country. After Machado won the primary, Maduro’s regime also barred her from running for president, and then blocked a substitute …

11-hour school day pays dividends, says leader

11-hour school day pays dividends, says leader

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More from this theme Recent articles A headteacher says an 11-hour school day could be rolled out across more schools after a £20,000 trial boosted behaviour, homework completion and students’ “sense of belonging”. Andrew O’Neill, the head of All Saints Catholic College in Notting Hill, west London, ran two non-compulsory extended school provision (ESP) pilots for year 7 and 8 pupils over the summer and autumn terms. A report on the trials showed missed homework sanctions were down 12 per cent and stars for good behaviour were up 16 per cent for those who took part in the summer pilot. O’Neill plans to open the initiative up to more students next year, adding: “What excites me most about the ESP is its scalability. “This is not limited to our school – it has the potential to inspire a new approach to education across the broader community and beyond.” The 10-week summer term and four-week September pilots saw the school day extended from 7am to 6pm on Monday to Thursday for 120 and 85 pupils respectively. …

Pace African & Oceanic Art Shutters, But Continues Under New Leader

Pace African & Oceanic Art Shutters, But Continues Under New Leader

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Pace African & Oceanic Art announced via social media that it will officially close its doors on Friday, December 13. The news of the closure was confirmed by ARTnews with director Carlo Bella. Pace African & Oceanic Art is owned by Pace Editions, which includes Pace Prints. Though the owner of Pace Gallery Arne Glimcher is involved in the business, it is primarily overseen by Richard Solomon, who recently decided to step down. Pace Editions was also sold recently, though the details of the sale have not been made public. The new buyers, according to Bella, decided to discontinue Pace African & Oceanic Art. (Pace had yet to respond at press time.) Related Articles Pace African & Oceanic Art was in operation for more than 50 years, having been established in 1971, as the only American art gallery specializing in African art from central and west Africa and Oceanic art from the Pacific islands. The gallery was known for selling quality African art including masks, figures, and other objects. “It is a pity that the …

Israelis and Palestinians React to Assassination of Hamas Leader

Israelis and Palestinians React to Assassination of Hamas Leader

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new video loaded: Israelis and Palestinians React to Assassination of Hamas Leader transcript Back transcript Israelis and Palestinians React to Assassination of Hamas Leader While some Israelis expressed hope that the war might end soon, many Palestinians were doubtful that the death of Yahya Sinwar would lead to a cease-fire. “We are kind of, let’s say, happy to see some kind of justice, to see that Sinwar is dead now. But as I said, what’s most important is that we want to see all the hostages coming back.” “The leader is gone now. But this does not solve the problem. The problem now is that all the hostages that Hamas have in Gaza, and it depends now on the Israeli government.” “I hope it’s going to bring peace as soon as possible. And quiet, and not a war. The war should stop, and I hope it’s going to be positive stage for the State of Israel.” Recent episodes in Middle East Crisis Show more videos from Middle East Crisis Source link

Death of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s military and political leader and architect of October 7 attack

Death of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s military and political leader and architect of October 7 attack

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Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader, in the Gaza Strip, April 14, 2023. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS The Israeli army had expected to find Yahya Sinwar somewhere in the network of tunnels he had helped to expand and perfect since his return to Gaza, in 2011. Instead, he was killed in broad daylight, after more than a year of deadly war, during an Israeli army patrol in the south of the enclave. He was born in 1962, in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the enclave’s south, where his parents, originally from Ashkelon, fled to during the Nakba, the forced exodus of some 700,000 Palestinians after the state of Israel was created in 1948. In those troubled times, the neglected town of Khan Yunis became a stronghold of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that was started in Egypt to resist the British occupation. Read more Subscribers only ‘I sleep fully clothed’: Gaza war revives old Palestinian trauma His political consciousness grew, especially after he began studying at the Islamic University of Gaza, founded …