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  1. SpaceX-Anthropic deal is for 6 months, not years: Elon Musk | 'Short term was our request, not Anthropic's' | Inshorts – Inshorts

    SpaceX-Anthropic deal is for 6 months, not years: Elon Musk | ‘Short term was our request, not Anth…
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  2. Ministry for the Environment officially scrapped in Parliament vote

    The government claims environmental responsibilities will continue seamlessly under the new arrangements. Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER The…
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  3. Ministry for the Environment officially scrapped in Parliament vote

    The government claims environmental responsibilities will continue seamlessly under the new arrangements. Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER The…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Audio #Australia #CurrentAffairs #Podcasts #PublicRadio #RadioNewZealand #RNZ #Science
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  4. Ministry for the Environment officially scrapped in Parliament vote

    The government claims environmental responsibilities will continue seamlessly under the new arrangements. Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER The…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #Audio #CurrentAffairs #environment #Podcasts #PublicRadio #RadioNewZealand #RNZ #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/607979/

  5. How, and how not, to use AI for money management, financial advice and investment guidance

    Photo: 123RF Would you swap your investment adviser for ChatGPT? Your mortgage adviser for Claude? A growing number…
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    newsbeep.com/au/698834/

  6. How, and how not, to use AI for money management, financial advice and investment guidance

    Photo: 123RF Would you swap your investment adviser for ChatGPT? Your mortgage adviser for Claude? A growing number…
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  7. How, and how not, to use AI for money management, financial advice and investment guidance

    Photo: 123RF Would you swap your investment adviser for ChatGPT? Your mortgage adviser for Claude? A growing number…
    #NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #Audio #Business #CurrentAffairs #Finance #PersonalFinance #Podcasts #PublicRadio #RadioNewZealand #RNZ #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/607417/

  8. NZ Rugby to cover Moana Pasifika player salaries as franchise fights for future

    Moana players Miracle Fai’ilagi and Semisi Tupou Ta’eiloa have both been earmarked to be picked up by other…
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    newsbeep.com/au/696857/

  9. With David Pocock
    I'll pull back the curtain on parliament: how decisions, debates, and positions evolve in real time...

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    #AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Politics #Activism

  10. With David Pocock
    I'll pull back the curtain on parliament: how decisions, debates, and positions evolve in real time...

    Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/with-d

    #AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Politics #Activism

  11. With David Pocock
    I'll pull back the curtain on parliament: how decisions, debates, and positions evolve in real time...

    Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/with-d

    #AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Politics #Activism

  12. With David Pocock
    I'll pull back the curtain on parliament: how decisions, debates, and positions evolve in real time...

    Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/with-d

    #AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Politics #Activism

  13. With David Pocock
    I'll pull back the curtain on parliament: how decisions, debates, and positions evolve in real time...

    Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/with-d

    #AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Politics #Activism

  14. Anderson Cooper Critiques CBS Leadership in Exit Interview, Surprising Bari Weiss

    📰 Original title: Anderson Cooper 'blindsided' CBS head with blistering on-air denouncement: report

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  15. On the Sexing of Toilets

    Unisex toilets? I’m not sure that shouldn’t be uni-gender toilets!

    The powers in this country are getting their collective knickers well tangled over the Equality & Human rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on the use of single sex toilets, changing areas, hospital wards etc. which is now before Parliament. This follows on from the April 2025 ruling by the UK Supreme Court that sex in the Equality Act means only biological sex (as defined at birth). This means ipso facto that single-sex toilets etc. end up excluding transgender people. (That in itself seems daft in the extreme, but that’s the law as presently laid down.)

    I’m not going to spell out the details, partly because it looks a mess largely created by conflicting self-interest groups. If you want more background then there are countless media reports including from The Guardian and BBC News.

    FFS guys, get a life! And grasp the nettle! There’s a very simple solution which I’ve been advocating for years, and which we know works. (See for example the last paragraph of my post from February 2013 and this longer post from May 2018.) What is this solution? …

    Make every facility unisex. Yes, toilets, changing rooms, student accommodation etc. At the end of the day, as I’ve said before, where’s the problem: we all know what’s under each other’s t-shirt and jeans. But no, it doesn’t have to be quite that open – and yes, I do understand why some people feel the need for privacy.

    My local swimming pool has had one single sex changing room for over 15 years to my knowledge. It is a single space used by men, women and children. For privacy there are lockable cubicles (of varying sizes to accommodate single people, parents with kids etc.) to change in, and lockers (in the open area) for your belongings. That way no-one should be blocking a cubicle for more than a few minutes while changing. So anyone can arrive dressed, choose any free cubicle, get changed and put their stuff in a locker; on return pick any free cubicle etc. etc. There are more lockers than cubicles, and cubicles can’t be locked from the outside, so you can’t block the cubicles.

    It works. No-one in my experience even considers walking around the open area clad in anything less than a towel or swimsuit. There’s a choice of showers, either “open” or in cubicles – but all cubicles would be easy. And toilets can be easily arranged with just cubicles. Everything can have floor to ceiling partitioning if felt necessary.

    Oh, and by the way, most accessible toilets are already unisex. So you can do it!

    The one place it might be difficult is hospital wards; but then there’s a question of medical privacy to consider as well. A mix of alcoves with two to four beds and single rooms would seem doable – and if properly designed probably no less space efficient.

    So, guys (of all sexes and genders), stop having conniptions and get a life. The solution is easy and it could/should have been universal decades ago.

    #blog #currentAffairs #law #morals #privacy #thoughts #zenmischief
  16. HS2

    I’m deeply sick of the vanity project called HS2. And today Simon Jenkins has a piece in The Guardian also decrying the project.

    I’ve been saying this, or something like it, since the outset. This money could have been (and still could be) much better spent on upgrading the existing rail infrastructure across the whole country and likely at half the cost. Instead we have a Tory party (from recollection it was George Osborne) vanity project, which has conned every successive government, and for which IMO there was never a business case. It’s not too late to pull the plug and avoid an even greater waste of money and environmental destruction for something we don’t need.

    Moreover we must be the laughing stock of the world when it takes us 30+ years to build a railway line.

    I despair of this country!

    #blog #currentAffairs #HS2 #railways #thoughts #zenmischief
  17. HS2

    I’m deeply sick of the vanity project called HS2. And today Simon Jenkins has a piece in The Guardian also decrying the project.

    I’ve been saying this, or something like it, since the outset. This money could have been (and still could be) much better spent on upgrading the existing rail infrastructure across the whole country and likely at half the cost. Instead we have a Tory party (from recollection it was George Osborne) vanity project, which has conned every successive government, and for which IMO there was never a business case. It’s not too late to pull the plug and avoid an even greater waste of money and environmental destruction for something we don’t need.

    Moreover we must be the laughing stock of the world when it takes us 30+ years to build a railway line.

    I despair of this country!

    #blog #currentAffairs #HS2 #railways #thoughts #zenmischief
  18. HS2

    I’m deeply sick of the vanity project called HS2. And today Simon Jenkins has a piece in The Guardian also decrying the project.

    I’ve been saying this, or something like it, since the outset. This money could have been (and still could be) much better spent on upgrading the existing rail infrastructure across the whole country and likely at half the cost. Instead we have a Tory party (from recollection it was George Osborne) vanity project, which has conned every successive government, and for which IMO there was never a business case. It’s not too late to pull the plug and avoid an even greater waste of money and environmental destruction for something we don’t need.

    Moreover we must be the laughing stock of the world when it takes us 30+ years to build a railway line.

    I despair of this country!

    #blog #currentAffairs #HS2 #railways #thoughts #zenmischief
  19. HS2

    I’m deeply sick of the vanity project called HS2. And today Simon Jenkins has a piece in The Guardian also decrying the project.

    I’ve been saying this, or something like it, since the outset. This money could have been (and still could be) much better spent on upgrading the existing rail infrastructure across the whole country and likely at half the cost. Instead we have a Tory party (from recollection it was George Osborne) vanity project, which has conned every successive government, and for which IMO there was never a business case. It’s not too late to pull the plug and avoid an even greater waste of money and environmental destruction for something we don’t need.

    Moreover we must be the laughing stock of the world when it takes us 30+ years to build a railway line.

    I despair of this country!

    #blog #currentAffairs #HS2 #railways #thoughts #zenmischief
  20. HS2

    I’m deeply sick of the vanity project called HS2. And today Simon Jenkins has a piece in The Guardian also decrying the project.

    I’ve been saying this, or something like it, since the outset. This money could have been (and still could be) much better spent on upgrading the existing rail infrastructure across the whole country and likely at half the cost. Instead we have a Tory party (from recollection it was George Osborne) vanity project, which has conned every successive government, and for which IMO there was never a business case. It’s not too late to pull the plug and avoid an even greater waste of money and environmental destruction for something we don’t need.

    Moreover we must be the laughing stock of the world when it takes us 30+ years to build a railway line.

    I despair of this country!

    #blog #currentAffairs #HS2 #railways #thoughts #zenmischief
  21. London Tube Strikes Suspended After Last-Minute Agreement Between Union and TfL

    📰 Original title: London Tube strikes planned for this week are called off

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    #currentaffairs #tubestrikes #londonunderground

  22. London Tube Strikes Suspended After Last-Minute Agreement Between Union and TfL

    📰 Original title: London Tube strikes planned for this week are called off

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  23. London Tube Strikes Suspended After Last-Minute Agreement Between Union and TfL

    📰 Original title: London Tube strikes planned for this week are called off

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  24. London Tube Strikes Suspended After Last-Minute Agreement Between Union and TfL

    📰 Original title: London Tube strikes planned for this week are called off

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    #currentaffairs #tubestrikes #londonunderground

  25. CBS News Leadership May Shift Amid Controversy Over Bari Weiss' Management

    📰 Original title: Trump-friendly CBS News head could be sidelined after turbulent start: report

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    #currentaffairs #cbsnews #bariweiss