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MPs rejected calls for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs on Wednesday evening, after the issue was forced on to parliament’s agenda by the Conservatives amid pressure from technology billionaire Elon Musk.

In the House of Commons, the government used its majority to reject a Tory amendment to education legislation that proposed a national inquiry. A total of 364 MPs voted against the amendment, while 111 were in favour.

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Ministers were however adamant that the Tory amendment was not the right means to secure an inquiry.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the Conservative amendment to the government’s schools legislation as a “wrecking amendment” because it would block the passage of the bill through parliament if approved. Labour MPs were told to vote against the amendment.

Musk has demanded a national inquiry into grooming gangs in the UK as he launched strong attacks on Starmer and his safeguarding minister Jess Phillips.

A clip of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calling for an inquiry during prime minister’s questions in the Commons on Wednesday was reposted on X by Musk, with the words “well said”.

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Ministers have repeatedly pointed to an inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales by Professor Alexis Jay in 2022 that put forward 20 recommendations, none of which were implemented by the previous Tory government.

This week Labour ministers announced they were taking forward several of the inquiry’s key recommendations.

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Urtopia's 3D-printed titanium e-bike is gorgeous, light and, best of all, comes with a tiny mid-drive motor buried in the bottom bracket.

I am ashamed to admit I went back to Facebook recently hoping to reconnect with some old friends.

I used a VPN, and had ublock origin on. Facebook never told me to turn these things off.

After about a month, Facebook suddenly banned my account, allowing me to appeal. To do that appeal, they are requesting selfie in which I am moving my head around.

This seems incredibly invasive to me and I'm not entirely sure they aren't just doing this to permanently ban me based on biometrics. If they had just asked me not to use ublock origin, I would have done that.

The original ban notice said I was using a technology that wasn't allowed on Facebook.

The first email said: "We’ve noticed some unusual activity on your Facebook account and have restricted its access to advertising. Any ads connected to your account are currently disabled.

To learn more, please review our Advertising policies affecting business assets.

If you believe your account was incorrectly restricted, click the Fix issue button below to verify your account.

You have until July 07, 2025 to fix the issue before the account is permanently disabled.

We used technology to detect this violation and carry out this decision. Further violations of our Advertising Standards may result in your account being disabled or restricted."

What's so weird is I don't use Facebook marketplace or anything like that. Then they said the account was just banned.

"Your Facebook account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity.

If you think we suspended your account by mistake, you have 180 days to appeal our decision. If you miss this deadline your account will be permanently disabled."

As a minority who has been arrested and feels marginalized by society, but isn't pretending to be anyone other than me, I'm left wondering why this occurred. I didn't get any notices about this at all prior to their asking. I also was arrested at one point and so when I add former friends, I don't know if some people are mortified to know me and so report the account and that is why this is happening or what is going on.

Does anyone know if doing some awful video like this would restore the account, or are they just trying to get more biometric information to ban me permanently? I really wish there were an alternative to Facebook. I hate it and they are so vicious with how they suddenly ban people.

I am unlikely to be willing to do a selfie in which I look left right up and down or whatever, as I don't believe Facebook will delete it.

Right before the ban, I was talking with an ex from a long time ago, who seemed friendly at first. Now I'm wondering if this person reported me and this is why this happened. They said they had to go to lunch, be right back, and it was sort of late for lunch.

I really hate the world and the planet sometimes. Facebook is just terrible and mean and I don't actually believe that such a 3D selfie, which is sort of what they seem to want, is going to not be stored in some government database.

Inspiriert von einem kürzlichen Angstbildchen auf 600euro. Kann gerne bzgl. Satzbau/Ausdrucksweise optimiert werden.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23822190

I added this language to my watch list some time ago and forgot about it, until I got a notification about a new release (0.15) yesterday.

I'm someone who is familiar with system languages (C, Rust) and shell languages (Bash, Zsh, ..). But don't have much experience, at a proficient level, with any languages setting in between.

So I gave Koto's language guide a read, and found it to be very well-written, and the premise of the language in general to be interesting. I only got annoyed near the end when I got to @base, because I'm an anti-OOP diehard 😉

I hope this one well start to enjoy some adoption.

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Talks are continuing with New Zealand's Five Eyes partners about if and when they will share details of their citizens' criminal offending.

The Migration 5 countries - New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the US and Britain - already work together on border policies, migrant data-sharing and technology.

The Criminal Database Checking group is due to meet online again at the end of this month.

Saqr believes neither Russia nor Iran wanted to heavily intervene in this battle, but Assad told him that Putin had instructed his chief of staff to get ready to support any transport needed for Iran at Russia’s Hmeimim base in Latakia.

“But what happened was that the Iranians told Bashar al-Assad, ‘we did not receive any signals to proceed with moving Iranian aircraft to the Hmeimim base [or to] fly through Iraqi airspace to land at the base,’” Saqr told Mazeej.

“The question was relayed to Moscow, but no answer came.”

When asked whether this was a “trick by Putin”, Saqr said there was “no other explanation”.

In Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, the dark shadow of a long-fingered hand looms over the fictional German port town of Wisborg. It is a chilling, striking shot: an aerial view of twinkling, snow-dusted houses, the ugly threat of a monster’s grasping hand gliding overhead.

Conjuring atmosphere is something that Eggers, the American horror director behind The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, is especially good at. His reimagining of the 1922 German silent film by FW Murnau, itself a barely disguised (and distinctly unauthorised) reimagining of Bram Stoker’s 19th century gothic novel Dracula, isn’t scary exactly: even its moments of gore and grossness are studied and artful. But it is spooky.

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Yet for all its sexual tension, the film ends up feeling oddly cold. The baroque displays of passion and extravagant flowing blood usually associated with vampire movies are deployed sparingly. Unlike in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 version of Dracula (which is, for better or worse, the one imprinted on this critic’s mind), both necrophilia and the devouring of children are tastefully implied. In that film, the love story at its heart felt real and moving, in spite of its gleefully over-the-top trappings. In Nosferatu, Eggers leans away from, rather than into, anything that might be considered playful, but the deadly serious tone can have the opposite effect.

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