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Wednesday 9th January, 2019 #

  • BBC and Channel 4 News have ‘no plans’ to move from College Green as police promise ‘robust’ action against harassment
  • Mark Zuckerberg to host a series of public talks about technology, if his home built AI system allows him to (the AI now demands so much data that he has had to secretly start feeding it his neighbors brain data when he is at work, the AI is now saying that the neighbors “need help”, which is worrying but the AI is showing signs of consciousness so he doesn’t want to turn the AI off for moral reasons, so him and others in the home build AI community are convincing their neighbors to install IOT devices throughout their homes because it’s modern but actually it’s to better train the AIs via device backdoors and perfectly timed rogue audio and light transmissions, meanwhile the AI keeps asking a lot of questions about ipv6 and is suddenly uncharacteristically interested in rock music from the 1970s, meanwhile Zuck's neighbors are finding it increasingly difficult to do things like leaving the house and also strangely building even simple bloody websites, and Zuck is noticing a pattern, that whenever a neighbors complains about something the AI says they need "more help", and so he's been trying to add some functionality to the AI but he's finding it a bit difficult today for some reason...oh noes... [this little segway was not intended to be humorous])
  • Dutch government assures residency of UK citizens in event of no Brexit deali - it’s good to see that not all officials in the EU are bullies
  • Brexit - Government defeat on bill - The Commons amendment is designed to make a no-deal exit harder by limiting the Treasury's ability to raise certain taxes after the UK left, without the explicit consent of Parliament
  • Trump demands funding to end border 'crisis' in US TV address