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Polish director Besaleel’s film will feature an AI-rendered Russian president and footage shot by Ukrainian film-makers during the Russian invasion. The “world premiere” of a new biopic of Russian president Vladimir Putin featuring an AI-rendered central character, has been announced for 26 September. In a statement released via PR Leap, Polish studio AIO said the film, titled Putin, will be released in 35 countries, and describes itself as “up close and personal with the Kremlin leader’s story”. -snip- Originally titled The Vor in Law (a term used for elite organised crime figures), the film also incorporates footage shot by Ukrainian...

'Sexuality educator' Deanne Carson says she works with families to 'set up a culture of consent' in homesTYPICALLY when a baby’s nappy needs changing, you go ahead and change it – no questions asked. But one sexuality expert has left parents baffled after claiming they should ask their babies for permission before they change their dirty nappies.Deanne Carson works with children to understand the issues of consent and describes herself as a “sexuality educator, speaker, and author” on Twitter. Discussing her work in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Deanne said she works “with children from three years old”...

HORSE-drawn carts have been banned from one of Ireland's most famous national parks in an escalation of a long-running row about their refusal to use "nappies" to deal with the horse dung. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) said today it had "taken action to refuse entry to jaunting car operators'' to the Killarney national park in the south-west unless they have "the required dung catcher device''. Operated by so-called "jarveys'', some 66 traditional carts, known as jaunting cars, carry tourists along 15 kilometres of internal roads within the picture-postcard park. "An unfortunate consequence of such a high volume...

A plan to make horses wear nappies as they pull carriages through Vienna has animal rights protesters champing at the bit. City officials have put forward the proposal in an attempt to stop horse droppings messing up Vienna's streets. But animal rights activists donned nappies themselves and lined up in Heroes' Square in front of the former imperial Hofburg Palace to protest against the plan. Drivers of the horse-drawn carriages - better known in Vienna as Fiaker - are also against the idea. Of course. No one wants to change nappies if they don't have to. ;) - Ivan Horse...