We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
š¬š§š Olly Foster on X: "I was on the Huntingdon train.
I only know of one attacker, he got on the train from Peterborough. He was black mid 20ās. We ran from the back of the train to the end as everyone was screaming to run, explaining there was somebody stabbing everyone and everything.
At first I thought it was a joke, but quickly I realised they were serious. Some people coming thought he had a gun, we really didnāt know what we were up against. As I ran I put my hand on a chair, when I looked at my hand it was covered in blood.
There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from 2 of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me.
A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead
And I think another on his neck. We all ran to end the of the train and pretty soon we realised it was a short train. Everyone was queued at the front and I was one of the people at the back of that queue.
I was standing there with a few others trying to find any kind of weapon, one person I knew got ready with a Jack Danielās bottle. I had nothing. For what felt like 10 minutes, I watched that carriage doorway waiting to see a figure appear.
I knew he had a knife from everyoneās wounds but from somebodyās previous comments there was a chance he had a gun. So I stood there praying. We all tried to keep calm but you could feel everyoneās adrenaline.
The train eventually stopped. And I thank god I didnāt see anybody come through that doorway. Everyone ran out the train at Huntingdon, and as I ran out I looked to my right knowing thatās where the attacker would come.
And thatās when I saw about 20 people running in pure panic. Atleast 3 of which were covered in blood. One guy was holding his stomach of which blood was pouring out, shouting, āhelp help, Iāve been stabbed.ā
We all ran together, being completely unarmed against an attacker or attackers that we thought had a gun, you really did feel helpless. To the policeās credit, as we left the train station, they were all arriving. The response was really good.
Then the scene became everything youāre seeing on social media.
Iām not sure how travelling on trains will feel after this. I havenāt really processed it all. It felt genuinely surreal and is something I donāt wish anyone to experience.
Knowing somebody has weapons and you have nothing, knowing theyāre willing to strike woman and I think children. It wasnāt the England I grew up in.
That was barbaric."
š Olly Foster
š®š·š«š¢ My analysis of the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours.
If the tankers use the Iran route, they are dominantly Iran-related. If the tankers use the Oman route, they are not, and never sanctioned.
I have heard from ship owners that most tankers cannot use the Iran route because the EU has not lifted sanctions on IRGC. Using the Iran route would risk sanctions, making the Oman route the only viable option.
With more conflict going on between IRGC and the US, the visible AIS data on Oman's tanker route is going to go dark again, which means Iran will have to keep escalating in order to completely halt flows.
For the US, the fact that the Oman route might be blocked presents it with a big ultimatum: either the US escalates or gives IRGC control of the Strait of Hormuz. Logic says there's no way that would happen, so escalation will continue.
Given that Trump has made it obvious that he does not want to escalate, I fear that the IRGC would just keep escalating until ...
š§ šŗšø šØ Meta introduces Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-to-text decoder with real-time sentence decoding from brain signals. It achieved up to 78% word accuracy in tests and builds on research published in @Nature. Training data included 22,000 sentences from 9 participants using MEG devices. Meta is open-sourcing the training code for v1 and v2, and a partner is releasing the v1 dataset.
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š š„ š¬ What is notable about Citizen Vigilante is that it drags the vigilante genre kicking and screaming from the 1970s to the 2020s. | Millennial Woes
The average liberal instinctively bristles at the tropes of classical vigilante cinema - āsoft judgesā, ānanny stateā, ātimid policingā, āmoral declineā, ācriminal parasites living off hard-working decent ordinary peopleā - but they long ago came to accept the genre as a necessary sop to right-wing idiots. I think the attitude was: āLet them have their trashy bread and circuses, if it keeps them docile while we remake their world around them.ā After all, the tropes referred to realities that were incidental, not fundamental.
But today there are new realities, which todayās liberal cannot stand to see acknowledged because this strikes at the core of his worldview. These realities are fundamental, not incidental.
The first reality is that diversity has, far from improving White societies, degraded them in ...
šµ šŗšø š¤ US to implement Digital ID if "KIDS Act" passes in the House today
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all usersā ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data.
Supporters of KOSA have said the bill doesnāt require age verification. And technically, the KOSA section of the bill does say that KOSA shouldnāt be read to require age verification.
Throughout the KOSA section of the legislation, special protections, controls, messaging settings, and parental tools are required whenever a website or app āknows or should have knownā a user is a child (defined in the bill as anyone under 13) or a teen (defined as ...
