According to leaked documents revealed in the Washington Post, Huawei, China’s giant telecom, has helped to develop an AI system to identify Uyghurs, its oppressed Turkic minority in the province of Xinjiang. Allegedly the facial recognition system is programmed to send “Uyghur alarms” to the police when Uyghurs are spotted by security cameras. The documents say […]
An Austrian film called The Trouble with Being Born is winning high praise from critics at film festivals. It received a special jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. On Rotten Tomatoes, it scores 100% amongst critics. It’s a “hidden gem”, according to Hollywood Reporter. “A powerful and revelatory achievement,” wrote a critic for Screen […]
This is one of those stories that an awful lot of people will cheer, with very good reason. Regardless of your views on pornography in general, and whether it should be legal, or illegal, it shouldn’t be much of a matter of controversy to note that Pornhub, or, more accurately, it’s parent company, Mindgeek, is […]
A good, old-fashioned, spy thriller this morning, courtesy of – where else – the United States, where outspoken progressive Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell stands accused of getting, well, rather too close, to an attractive Chinese intelligence asset: California congressman Eric Swalwell has refused to say whether he had a sexual relationship with a Chinese honeytrap […]
It really is remarkable, how little these big tech companies understand about the way that people who believe in conspiracies think. If you ban discussion of something, the average true believer doesn’t suddenly wake up and realise that they might have been wrong. No. It’s evidence that big tech is part of the cover-up. Here’s […]
On November 7, 2020, the Sunday Express published an article by Patrick Basham, an American conservative, entitled: “Stalin said it’s not important who votes, but how they are counted.” The piece alleged “widespread ballot fraud” in the US Presidential election. The Express’s link to the piece now returns a 404 message — page missing — but a copy is still available on […]
Normally, when stories about people talking to Aliens from outer space pop up in the news, my approach is to write them off as the ravings of a madman, or madwoman. And in general, that’s not a bad rule. But when the claim that Aliens have been contacting humans for years comes from a retired […]
This weekend, as has become completely normal over the space of the past few months, the players of Millwall and Derby County, prior to kickoff in their Sky Bet Championship game, took a knee in the middle of the field, to protest racism. And the crowd, of just 2,000 supporters, booed them. The sporting media, […]
Seventeen-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg is rumoured to be a candidate for the next Nobel Peace Prize. She’s young; she has battled with autism; she has inspired young people to rebel against conventional wisdom. Good on her. Another name in the game should be Keira Bell, a 23-year-old activist who has won a stunning victory […]
Remember when this guy was the super-macho, helicopter flying, hard-man bad boy of the British Royal Family? What happened? “At the end of the day, nature is our life source,” the red-headed royal rebel said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Duke of Sussex also described the […]
It’s not likely that many airlines will want to make vaccines mandatory for travel, risking loss of business, but individual governments could very well make it necessary for arriving passengers, a step that airlines would have to comply with.
The European Commission has announced that they will be making perceived “hate speech” a crime under EU law, with particular emphasis on stamping out speech targeted at “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ)” individuals or groups. The report, which was released earlier this month, describes how “hate speech” will be added to […]