RT: @RespectIsVital You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.

Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.

Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.

So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.

And so it begins:

In Derbyshire a policeman has been discovered using AI * associated technologies to 'create evidential material in a number of cases'....

And you can bet across the UK's numerous police forces there are more cases of evidence manipulation & generation by AI that have gone un-noticed or been quietly ignored.

This may not be new (Police have fabricated evidence in the past) but AI makes it much easier & more difficult to detect!

#AI #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/police-officer-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-use-of-ai

The JUNO detector, a huge sphere full of 20,000 tonnes of transparent organic goop, is detecting antineutrinos produced by two nuclear reactors each located the same distance away. After just 2 months, it measured some things about neutrino masses better than ever before! A paper was just published on this.

We're trying to understand the masses of the 3 neutrinos. A big problem is that most experiments can't detect the actual masses, only fancier things that are easier to measure. So we don't even know which neutrino is the heaviest! JUNO should figure this out, though.

Let me tell you a bit more:

The 3 neutrinos have masses called m₁, m₂ and m₃. Yes, physicists are very creative about naming things.

We know m₁ and m₂ are really close to each other, while m₃ is further away. We also know m₁ < m₂, thanks to neutrinos coming out of the Sun. But we don't know whether m₃ is bigger than both the other masses, or smaller! So right now there are two possibilities:

• Normal ordering: m₁ < m₂ < m₃, so m₃ is the heaviest and sits above the closely-spaced m₁, m₂ pair.

• Inverted ordering: m₃ < m₁ < m₂, so m₃ is the lightest, sitting below the closely-spaced pair.

There's a bit of evidence supporting the normal ordering, which is why it's called the 'normal' ordering. Like I said, physicists are very creative about naming things.

In about 5 years, the JUNO team should know which ordering is the right one! But right now, after just 2 months of taking data, they've just measured m₂² - m₁² more accurately than ever before. So they are happy.

But the whole business of neutrino masses is weirder than I've made it sound.

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TIL there is a river in Peru that can boil things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanay-timpishka

#Peru #TIL