New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
Somewhat disgusting to hear Nick Robinson on Today talk about "trans rights" versus "women's right to safe spaces". That ain't it Nick
We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why
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The EHRC code of practice comes in today, bringing in to the UK the most draconian regime for single sex spaces targeting trans people for a liberal democracy in the industrialised, under what is our nominally left of centre governing party.
This is the same reason why The Godfather sucks as a movie: The characters all talk about being honorable family men but they don't act that way. Total failure.
as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis
"Too hot for dogs" can apply equally to the weather, and sausages.
I reserve the right: A) to laugh at the Tory party because they're awful and the Tories failing is funny B) to be deeply alarmed about the collapse of the centre right and rise of the far right We can't have every election be a game of Russian roulette with our democracy
Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 5d agoOn both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.
Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat's the difference between a landlord who sneaks into your apartment to rifle through your underwear drawer and an AG who sues for your abortion records? The state health director keeping a spreadsheet of women’s periods isn’t any less creepy than the abusive ex who still tracks your location.
Just a heads-up that if you see some old guy wandering around Tesco doing their shopping in their slippers, I can explain.
If the left doesn't enthusiastically turnout for centrists, it's the left's fault If the left sucks it up & votes for an awful centrist, it's proof that moving rightward was correct If centrists refuse to turnout for a left wing candidate, it's the left's fault www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Some Wisconsin Democrats claim they'll vote Republican if democratic socialist Francesca Hong wins primary
Hong's rise in the Wisconsin Democratic primary has exposed a sharp divide, with some voters saying they would cross party lines in November rather than support a DSA-aligned candidate.
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Why does transphobia in particular so often lead to psychological collapse? This makes Morrissey look like a live-and-let-live kind of guy
Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 6d agoRoisin Murphy trawled through Instagram and found one of her old pop songs. When she saw that almost every commentator was critical of her newfound status as a deranged swivel-eyed TERF, she screenshotted their profiles & made a video of them. All completely normal behaviour 😬
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Rain! Not much, but we have rain! (Never imagined saying that after moving from Spain to Ireland.)
A developer colleague this morning said code-writing has always been the easy part, and that's what Claude is good at. With a decent budget it can write a **lot** of code, quickly. Making decisions has always been the hardest part, and at this pace the problem has become "decision fatigue".
I know Apple TV has a reputation for top-notch shows, but I've just seen the first episode of Lucky.
I understand the impulse, but—oh, sweet teenage daughter of mine—don't throw away that bound notebook just because you used 3 of the pages on some thing you don't want to do any more.
My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
Making us stupider is one of the few things for which we have data and studies confirming it is already happening.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w agoI don't accept the stupider point at all but I think the lonelier argument in this piece is much more profound. I wish development pointed away from the anthropomising element of LLMs and had them answering in much colder manner, to emphasise that it's a machine.
Just exempting care workers would be ridiculous. Basically it would be a case of designing a policy to kick out care workers, panicking when you realise how stupid an idea that is, and then kicking out a load of engineers, scientists etc out of sheer stubbornness.