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London (AFP) – Armed with signs and shouting slogans, thousands of anti-Donald Trump protesters descended on central London on Wednesday to decry the US president's unprecedented second state visit to the UK.

London's Metropolitan Police estimated that there were around 5,000 people at the protest, which culminated in a rally in front of parliament.

With Trump receiving the red-carpet treatment at Windsor Castle, around 22 miles (35 kilometres) west of London, demonstrators marched in the heart of the British capital to display their disdain on the first full day of the trip.

"We're protesting, I suppose, about everything about Donald Trump. You don't know what placard to carry, really, there's so many things" to dislike, former teacher Dave Lockett, 67, told AFP.

"He's sowing destruction and disorder throughout the whole Earth... If Trump's ideas get into this society, then what we're talking about is fascism in Britain," he added.

Left-wing lawmakers, including new Green Party leader Zack Polanski, were among those to address the crowds in Parliament Square at the rally hosted by well-known comedian Nish Kumar.

"We are gathered here united to say this is not in our name," Polanski said of Trump's invitation from the ruling centre-left Labour government.

"This is the moment to challenge everything Donald Trump stands for. This is the moment to reject the politics of hate and division."

Protesters had first massed early afternoon near the BBC's headquarters, holding aloft an array of banners, flags and signs, covering everything from support for the Palestinians to rejecting fascism.

Amid a cacophony of drumming, some demonstrators had recreated smaller versions of the giant balloon depicting Trump wearing a nappy which was famously flown during his first state visit in 2019.

Yashi Sriram, a doctor originally from India, turned out with a placard reading: "End the genocide. Stop Trump."

"I just wanted to show support for the people of Palestine, really, more than anything else," said the 32-year-old.

A group called the Stop Trump Coalition organised the demo, with a broad alliance of organisations sponsoring it, including Amnesty International UK, Black Lives Matter UK, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Greenpeace.

The coalition questioned why Trump would barely be in London during the visit.

"Because he knows we're protesting against him," the group said in a statement ahead of the march.

"Instead, he'll be hiding and having a sad little carriage ride all by himself in Windsor with a parade that no one will even see. This is because of the power of our protest."

Those at the evening rally repeatedly chanted: "Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump not welcome here," as various speakers railed against him.

London's Metropolitan Police deployed more than 1,600 officers -- including 500 brought in from other forces -- to ensure the event passed off without incident.

A purported counter-demonstration failed to muster, and there were no reports of disorder or arrests.

A lone protester, surrounded by police, displayed a sign reading: "We Love Trump," sparking boos as anti-Trump campaigners marched past him.

Trump remains deeply unpopular in Britain, with new polling Wednesday showing almost half of respondents thought it was wrong to invite him for a second state visit.

Only a quarter believed it will improve UK-US relations, according to the YouGov/Sky survey.

London mayor Sadiq Khan, who allowed the unflattering Trump baby blimp to fly during the American president's first-term visits, has been a persistent critic amid a years-long feud.

In the article, Khan -- the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital when he was first elected in 2016 -- accused Trump of "scapegoating minorities, illegally deporting US citizens, deploying the military to the streets of diverse cities".

"These actions aren't just inconsistent with western values -- they're straight out of the autocrat's playbook," he wrote.

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If AI ends up running companies better than people, won’t shareholders demand the switch? A board isn’t paying a CEO $20 million a year for tradition, they’re paying for results. If an AI can do the job cheaper and get better returns, investors will force it.

And since corporations are already treated as “people” under the law, replacing a human CEO with an AI isn’t just swapping a worker for a machine, it’s one “person” handing control to another.

That means CEOs would eventually have to replace themselves, not because they want to, but because the system leaves them no choice. And AI would be considered a "person" under the law.

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She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk

Now I won't need to block out a weekend to hold friends hostage to play it.

One in six intersex people was physically assaulted in the year 2022, an EU agency report said.

Ever since he shed this mortal coil, I’ve been looking for one source for a lot of the worst stuff Kirk said. I think Coates does that really well here. It’s mostly a compendium of some of the worst stuff that isn’t getting attention in the media, even the media that’s critical of him (which seems to be focusing on what he said about guns). And he sources all of the quotes. Coates isn’t going full Peter Daou but it feels like he is radicalizing before our eyes.

Sending this to someone in my life who was only vaguely familiar with Kirk but since he got shot has become a bit obsessed with him. They told me “the media is taking what he said out of context” and that they “didn’t agree with everything he said but a lot of what he said made sense”.

An Israeli air strike hit a car carrying displaced civilians fleeing Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding several others.

The strike hit the vehicle near al-Katiba Mosque in the Old City, west of Gaza, leaving it engulfed in flames.

Footage from the scene shows plumes of smoke rising from the car as civilians scream and rush to help the victims.

Several people lie motionless on the ground, bloodied and wounded from the blast, while others scramble to extinguish the fire.

In another video, bystanders gather around the smouldering remains of the vehicle, reduced to charred metal in the aftermath of the strike.

Tens of thousands of people, at any given time, are idly listening to the ambient, muted beats that accompany the Lofi Girl livestream: in solo studying sessions, taking tests in a classroom, and using the tunes as a stand-in for white noise to aid sleep. The livestream, which is one of the longest running live broadcasts on YouTube, is often hiding in browser tabs, leaving the perpetually busy Jade (the Lofi Girl) to lazily take her notes behind whatever Wikipedia page or spreadsheet you’ve got open. But she is always there, the googly eyes stuck to her headphones wobbling as she looks up from her notes, to peek in on, to study with, or to chill to—the details of the music become secondary to the vibe.

From a single livestream that’s been running in some form since 2017—the YouTube channel, which was started in 2015, was called ChilledCow before the iconic rebrand—Lofi Girl has grown into an empire. To put that growth into perspective, ChilledCow had 1.6 million YouTube subscribers in 2018, a number that grew to 5 million in 2020. Now, the channel has more than 15 million subscribers. The soundtrack of Lofi Girl’s brand of chill is pervasive, and the ubiquity of her aural and physical aesthetic made Jade a big business, her essence seeping into wider culture; Nissan harnessed the vibe to sell its electric car, Will Smith to sell hoodies, and even U.S. president Donald Trump in a maniacal attempt to sell his administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Lofi Girl—the company—leverages its influence itself, expanding from simply a YouTube channel into an advertising arm, merchandising enterprise, and full blown record label.