The Daily Populous

Sunday January 5th, 2025 day edition

image for Elon Musk Pushes For Britain’s King Charles To Dissolve Parliament—As Lawmakers Say Tesla CEO Is ‘Misinformed’

The world’s richest man is “misjudged and certainly misinformed” about the British government’s ... [+] handling of “grooming gangs,” officials say.

Musk shared a post on X saying he has called on King Charles to dissolve parliament, writing, “It is my earnest hope that [King Charles] considers this matter in the interests of his subjects.”

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King Charles could dissolve parliament, though the monarch historically acts at the request of the prime minister, who would only request a dissolution to carry out a general election.

Robinson’s X account was reinstated by Musk, who has falsely claimed Robinson was imprisoned for speaking out against instances of child sexual abuse.

Musk has spoken about political affairs in other countries, including Germany, where Musk has supported the far-right Alternative for Deutschland party.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has also touted her friendship with Musk, who has supported anti-immigration policies in the country. »

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies

Authored by cnn.com

As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

It wasn’t clear how many Meta AI bots existed before the company began purging them on Friday.

At this point in our chat, I wasn’t sure when Meta had launched the AI accounts, so I asked Brian when he first got on Instagram. »

January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise | Arwa Mahdawi

Authored by theguardian.com

The birds chirped, children frolicked and thousands of unarmed patriots gathered peacefully in Washington DC for a “day of love”.

Across large swathes of the US, a brazen coup d’etat seems to have been successfully recharacterised as a protest that just went a teeny bit awry.

To be clear: when I say “coup” I’m not talking solely about the events that unfurled on 6 January. »

Bat poop used to grow cannabis kills 2 in New York in unusual cases

Authored by livescience.com

Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using or planned to use as fertilizer to grow cannabis.

The first man, who was 59-years-old, had purchased guano online to use as fertilizer for his cannabis plants.

The other man, 64, was intending to fertilize his cannabis plants with guano he'd found in his attic following a "heavy" bat infestation. »