Kids banned from YT kids

Pigball Wizard@mlyp.bsky.social · yesterday

its basically a nation run by your nan

frog in the city

This is utterly absurd: a man who writes children’s books about a lost baby owl and a dog who can’t resist cake is so obviously not a terrorist

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chris Haughton, the children’s book author and illustrator and Ireland's national children’s laureate, was among more than 4,000 arrests.

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Just to add for people not super into this stuff: DeepSWE is a respected test of coding ability. But once you have a test become popular, companies are highly incentivized to tune their models to win at it. This test cleverly made irrelevant tweaks to the test, producing performance drops.

The whole idea was that there was no need for legislation: they would simply have the regulator declare How It Is, and then *the public* would ruthlessly enforce this tiny clique’s most deranged desires. And of course that hasn’t happened, because most people are not crazed with hate like they are.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

because to flip it, what are tesco supposed to do here? they've been told they have to restrict toilet access based on birth sex, how else are they supposed to do this other than gender stereotypes? www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

this article could've mentioned britian just passed a bathroom ban, that feels like useful context it's only the exact thing critics warned would happen www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Woman with alopecia accused of being male while using female toilet at Tesco

Helen Rowlands said she was questioned about her gender while visiting Tesco Extra in Trinity Square, Gateshead

chroniclelive.co.uk

This feels kind of like a conservative old guy opinion, but I do think that if you're receiving what amounts to a modest salary in Patreon money for podcasting for an hour twice a week, you shouldn't spend that time complaining about having to do so, or counting down the minutes until you're done.

we can never forget that they shot a mom and a nurse in the middle of the street and told us they deserved it

there we go. that’s the take. fuck olive branches. fuck “you almost have to feel bad for a guy losing so hard.” fuck “let’s bring him to gondor and use him for good.” elon musk “is, in literal and fundamental terms, incompatible with a functional and functioning society.” yes.

Defector@defector.com · 7d ago

There's no place in a functional society for Elon Musk: defector.com/there-is-no-...

I don't know if YouTube updated their algorithm or I accidentally watched something with high dolt viewership, but my recommendations are suddenly peppered with all manner of bollocks I'd never watch.

A terrible day for family annihilators.

Jess Morrissette@decafjedi.com · 6d ago

RIP Cybertruck. Your poorly assembled sheet-metal polygons will live forever in our memories.

Why Hasn’t Abdul El-Sayed Accomplished Any Of His Campaign Goals Since Winning 2 Minutes Ago?

lmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship

Whatever you think of Hasan Piker (and I don't think much of him), I will never forget how the world's wealthiest person is singlehandedly bankrolling multiple Republican Senate candidates, and is also posting about "Jewish DNA" on social media, and Republicans are never asked to disavow it.

lmao

Meanwhile Davie504 on YouTube has been talking for *ages* how dmca trolls are relentlessly fucking him over, and how YouTube's appeal system gives you a literal 3 strikes or die policy that makes it incredibly risky to even attempt to defend yourself

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The product would allow paying subscribers to use AI to create their own versions of popular songs, such as transforming a folk song into a dance track or making one artist appear to cover another’s music.”

How could we forget the TPUK CEO that worked with the current Tory leader caught on camera conspiring with a UVF hitman to offer to kill someone in exchange for money, who remains, as far as I'm aware, free and has not been charged? 'may not be conducive to the public good' bsky.app/profile/colf...

Barry Lyndon LaRouche@colfer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don't forget - 2024 Tory election candidate and head of Turning Point UK, an organisation that counts Tory MPs as members, caught on camera offering to have people killed for money. No arrests, barely a peep from the media.

Author Sally Rooney can't sell her books in the UK, academic Andreas Malm can't enter the UK, but there's nary a peep over Dame Claire Fox's prominent conference, Battle of Ideas, attended by many MPs, with a single bookstall from Oldspeak, a bookshop that almost exclusively sells fascist propaganda

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Climate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Incredible

Takashi Miike talking about VISITOR Q (2001). There’s a subsection of film fandom that really really needs to try and internalize this mode of creation/understanding.

I love how all these "how to write with AI" things start from the premise that the product is the purpose of the assignment. I promise you, there is no shortage of shitty student essays. The purpose is the process, to train specific cognitive skills. The product is a goal to help shape the process.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

can you imagine a more succinct distillation of the UK right now

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am feeling the Keminaissance. Behold: mainstream British politics.

Basically any open submission portal of any kind of going to be spammed to hell from now on; the era of being able to have *anything* unmoderated is over.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 3w ago

PC gamer hasn’t updated their account in 2 days so I’m posting it now but this is nuts. It’s DOUBLE the last Next Fest and filled with vibe coded garbage. Is there going to be any sort of modified qualification process moving forward or are we fucked?

Don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but this feels somewhat complacent, given that we arguably have at least three far right political parties, we’ve had two years of violent far right rioting and targeted attacks on minorities, and the largest far right march since before World War II was last year.

There is basically no chance we win. We are going up against four of the most popular streamers on the platform, including a guy who is like a top 5 most famous person in the entire world. However: "It would be funny if we won." Go here to vote: thestreamerawards.com/vote?categor... #VoteForDVDWeek

I think it's clarifying when they say it out loud. When we say these people prefer fascism to even minor socialism, even as a necessary corrective to fascist overreach, we're told that's just conspiracism. So, here we are, with them saying it out loud. Pin it.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville

That Reform is racist is a surprise to no-one with their head screwed all the way on, but to actually hear the duplicity is still arresting, and the plans of action, disturbing.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an absolutely gobsmacking report...

Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @josephcox.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/ai-company-l...