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More creative uses for AIPolice have launched a criminal investigation into an officer accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to "create evidential material in a number of cases".
The Derbyshire Police officer has been removed from frontline duties, pending the outcome of the investigation, said the force.
The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but no arrests have been made, said police.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said they were working with police, adding: "We are engaging with defence teams and the courts in appropriate cases."
They added: "As police inquiries continue, it would not be appropriate to comment further."
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World Cup soccer/football threadthey'll kiss anybody's ass for it
Trump wins inaugural Fifa Peace Prize
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First peachesI love this time of year, too!
I love berry season, which has started here. Been grazing on serviceberries for the last week. Bumper crop. Also looks like I'll have good raspberry and black currant crops. There was severe dieback on one of my two red gooseberry bushes, so that crop will be much smaller than usual.
Here are some tomato recipes. We need to get ready for those pups! I have tons on the vine.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/tomato-salad-recipes
Corn and tomato salad:
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Are our Chicago friends staying safe?Here's a recap of the damage. Several EF-3 tornados.
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Kennedy CenterSo they didn't have tarps up to hide what the workers were doing when they put Trump's name up there, but they did last night when they took his name down.
Waste of (more) taxpayer money.
edited to add (I missed that they used cherry pickers to put the name up back in December):
Workers spent hours Friday slowly putting up scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center to reach the letters. Several commentators noted that when the letters were installed back in December, cherry pickers were used to do the job much quicker, leading to speculation the scaffolding was ordered to create additional delays and give Trump’s appeals more time.
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Another rollback - National ParksA US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.
In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.
“Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at national parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths,” Kelley wrote in her decision.
Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the NPCA, said in a statement after the ruling: “Americans count on national parks to help us understand our full, rich history. Stories of triumph and tragedy alike deserve to be told out loud at parks.”
Emily Thompson, executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a fellow plaintiff in the suit, echoed the sentiment. National parks “exist to preserve and interpret the full American story, not just the parts that make some politicians comfortable. This ruling will help ensure that remains the case,” she said in a statement.
The Trump administration has 21 days to comply with the order.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-national-park-trump-displays
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Kennedy CenterMan, they don't miss a beat, do they?
In a last-ditch effort to halt the judge’s order, the Kennedy Center sought to block it late Thursday. The judge denied that request Friday, hours before the deadline for removing Trump’s name.
In a filing to a federal appeals court seeking to block the judge’s order, the center argued for the first time that taking Trump’s name off the building would result in having to return hundreds of millions of dollars that the center has raised for renovations due to a previously unannounced change to the center’s bylaws.
“All of this money, hundreds of millions of dollars, will have to be immediately returned, or not received by the Center,” the filing said.
The filing said the “reason for this clause is that people and companies, who have given, or will be giving, millions of dollars to the Center were only willing to do so with the name ‘Trump’ on the Building.”
It does not say how, when or where the change was made to the center’s bylaws. The Kennedy Center did not respond to inquiries about when the changes were made and exactly how much money might be at risk.
The appeals court on Friday night denied the Kennedy Center’s request for a pause.
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Librarians on horsebackThe New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes
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Meta's AI gulagThe natives are not happy.
Anyone who works at Meta or knows anyone who works at Meta will tell you the same thing: It is not a happy place, particularly given the seemingly endless layoffs the company has executed over the last few years — cuts that have only accelerated as the company funnels billions into AI.
Now, a new report in Wired suggests the company’s Applied AI team is on the verge of revolt.
The drama kicked off when someone hijacked a livestreamed, employee-only presentation this week with an expletive-laden meltdown, demanding that attendees tell a senior Meta AI executive that he was “a piece of sh*t.” One presenter reportedly covered their face with their hands.
That outburst, Wired reports, reflects simmering rage inside the three-month-old unit of roughly 6,500 engineers and product managers who have been tasked with supporting the company’s AI research ambitions.
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networksOr, there is a fungus among us.
Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals
The first global map of subterranean fungi networks reveals how massive its reach is worldwide.
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Beyond Red and BlueAmerican politics is deeply divided along partisan lines – and for many Americans, the choice between the two parties feels stark, even existential.
But beneath that familiar red-blue partisan divide is a much more nuanced picture: Many Americans hold a complex mix of values and beliefs that don’t always fit neatly into either major party.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/06/10/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/
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Are our Chicago friends staying safe?Big line of storms came through. Tornados south of the metro Chicago area. I think there were some pretty big storms up near the Wisconsin border. My area, northwest of the city, just got some rain. Last night was worse, with some pretty significant winds. Some nice weather coming our way for the next few days.
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Ken Salazar has a book coming outFor nearly four years, Ken Salazar — the U.S. ambassador to Mexico under former President Joe Biden — grew increasingly frustrated with the White House’s border plan.
Salazar says he begged for a “border czar” to run point on interagency coordination; he never got one, and instead, the moniker was inaccurately and problematically affixed to then-Vice President Kamala Harris. He asked for the White House to openly call it a border “crisis”; the designation came too late.
Salazar became so distraught that by July 2024, three weeks after Biden’s disastrous presidential debate performance, he decided to take matters into his own hands: “I should run for president,” Salazar told himself, according to his forthcoming book, a copy of which POLITICO obtained before its July 28 release date.
“There was political failure to understand the reality of the crisis at the border, and the political consequence it would have on Democrats in the 2024 election,” Salazar told POLITICO.
Salazar doesn’t want his party to repeat the past. His book, Borderlands: My Fight for an Inclusive America, is part-memoir, part-manifesto. Salazar — the former Interior secretary, Democratic U.S. senator, and Colorado attorney general — makes a case for what he calls “a new North American alliance,” in which the U.S., Canada and Mexico integrate their supply chains, jointly patrol their shared borders and promote cultural and educational exchanges. He sees it as a revival of former President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress.
But the book is also a warning to future 2028 Democratic presidential candidates.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/ken-salazar-biden-border-security-2028-00958607
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A prankster on the National MallThe U.S. Department of the Interior said on Thursday it is investigating what appeared to be a large tracing of "8647" into the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
A Reuters photographer atop the Washington Monument saw the apparent marking in the grass near the World War Two Memorial shortly before authorities arrived at the scene. It shows the numbers eight, six and seven, but a four is not clearly defined.
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Socioeconomic factors and children's brainsThe most powerful factors affecting a child's brain development involve socioeconomic opportunities, according to a study in the journal Science.
The analysis of more than 2,300 9- and 10-year-olds found that environmental factors ranging from household income to education to neighborhood quality are associated with brain differences that can clearly be seen in MRI scans.
The researchers also found that preteens who'd grown up in neighborhoods with lower incomes and limited social support had brain differences associated with less sleep and more stress.
"Something is going on in these neighborhoods," says Scott Marek, the study's first author and an assistant professor of radiology at WashU School of Medicine. "We need to find out how socioeconomics is becoming biologically embedded."
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Rahm 2028?Will Rahm Emanuel run for president? New Hampshire bike ride fuels speculation
While Emanuel hasn't made any formal announcement about his plans, his New Hampshire bike ride gave him a chance to introduce himself to the state's notoriously picky voters before the rest of the field swoops in after the November midterms.
