↑ Footnote 25 in unique document: Cult members released from the Compound after the raid have stated that prior to the twenty eighth, Koresh had suspected that Rodriguez was an undercover agent. In a statement to the Texas Rangers, Koresh’s attorneys said that in one of their visits to the Compound in the course of the standoff between the cult and the FBI, David Jones (now deceased) told them that Peeler warned him to not go close to the Compound as there were going to be “60 to 70 TABC (Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission) guys in helicopters and a shoot-out would occur.” Peeler has denied giving this much detail to Jones. ↑ Footnote 24 in authentic doc: There are conflicting studies about what Peeler truly instructed Jones. TABC was not involved in the motion on the twenty eighth and Peeler is the one witness interviewed by the Review who believed that TABC was involved. Ok, so the election wasn’t all good news – loads of people merely couldn’t be bothered to vote, and a troubling proportion of people who did selected to place their ‘X’ in a box marked ‘racist, frog-confronted haunted ashtray’ – however, equally, at the very least I can now forget that Michael Fabricant was ever anything aside from a middlingly-profitable cell DJ who as soon as worked beneath the nom d’arte of ‘Mickey Fab’ (this is 100% true, by the way in which).
First up, this link – a directory of each single MP now in the Commons, with links to info (mostly empty at current given, properly, a big proportion of them have barely obtained their name badges but) about their voting information, their debate interventions, their bills (again, when revealed)… Cuba’s first function-size zombie film, and it’s a remarkably confident piece of labor from director Alejandro Brugués. Still, this might be of interest to some of you – the thought right here is it’s a creative collaboration platform, the place individuals submit their ideas for initiatives, recruit people to work on stated tasks alongside them, discover different expertise… Adimverse: On the one hand, this looks like fairly a cool concept and that i can see the potential; on the opposite, I’m barely annoyed that it’s backed by Rob McElhenny, who I’m certain is a superbly good man but who I don’t personally wish to enrich any further by promoting his portfolio tasks. It’s not that they don’t know they’re misstating the science, they’ve been informed. I am still Matt, this remains to be Web Curios, and after Sunday we’re by no means, ever going to speak about soccer again.
Anway, enough of all that, there are a fortnight of hyperlinks for you to get through while you wait for the nice man within the blacked-out beemer to point out with the seventeen grammes of low-cost cocaine you’ve ordered to ‘get you through’ on Sunday. A Bunch of Campaign Trail Photos: I know, I know, after 6 weeks of campaigning there’s a large a part of you that never, ever needs to see Starmer’s Easter Island head or Sunak’s sad, diminutive frame ever again (in the case of Starmer, good luck with that) – for the rest of you, though, this collection of marketing campaign pictures by one Stefan Rousseau is a nice overview of the form of weird images that find yourself being produced of electioneering politicians; there are some lovely (mad) shots in right here, together with a particularly brutal considered one of Mr & Mrs Sunak outside Downing Street after his concession speech the place she really does appear to be his mum come to select him up after school, bless. ↑ Footnote 26 in authentic doc: There were many acts of sacrifice and heroism through the assault on the brokers, only a few of which may be recounted right here.
Some AI Video Examples (Again): I really feel I want to put a quick caveat here – ‘fcuk’s sake Matt’, I virtually hear you mutter, ‘NOONE CARES’ – and clarify that I hyperlink to all this AI stuff not out of implicit endorsement but because I believe it’s attention-grabbing; to be very clear, although, I might personally desire it if we weren’t all rendered solely professionally out of date by The Machine, and that we didn’t render our planet totally-uninhabitable whereas that happened. Pivot to AI: Despite Tony Blair’s barely-ridiculous boosterism this week (should you happened to hear any headlines about his Institute’s analysis into the potential public sector benefits of AI, by the best way, it’s value additionally reading mentioned analysis so you can see that, on web page 7-8, it explains that the way the researchers arrived at their conclusion that AI might save the general public sector £37bn a 12 months was (I am not joking) BY ASKING CHATGPT), it does feel somewhat that we’re reaching the stage within the AI hype cycle the place people begin to Have Doubts (see the longreads part for extra) – this site, within the vein of ‘Web3 Is going Great’ by Molly White, curates the latest news on why perhaps this AI stuff is all bunkum and all of the people involved with it breathless snake oil floggers (fwiw, I don’t suppose it’s all bunkum however I do think it’s very frothy, if that makes sense).