Michael Forshaw

@michael4shaw.bsky.social

i love cats we need a wealth tax i make tunes he/him

The radio news is being led by some extremely odd shit said by yet another rich AI weirdo with a vested interest. Just reporting what each one of them says no matter how actually literally deranged it sounds. If some rando down the pub said this you'd edge away

The head of Microsoft AI has said that unless adequate restrictions are implemented in the development of artificial intelligence it could lead to the emergence of a new silicon species which would compete with humans

He described rival firm Anthropic's approach of treating AI like it is human as "misguided" as he warned against creating a technology humanity cannot control.

Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

Mr Socko@laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 18h ago

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)

The National Autistic Society have just definitively stated that autism is genetic. Glad to hear this but I’m not delighted by the forces at work that meant this urgently had to be clarified.

Facebook post: 

National Autistic Society Scotland
We can now say definitively that autism is genetic.
For a long time, we have only been able to say that this was likely, but now we have looked at all the evidence and the answer is clear: autism is genetic.
autism-matters

Purple graphic with text reads:
Autism is genetic.
You're born autistic and you're autistic for life.
Most people are autistic because of genes they got from their parents.

Fucking hell, racists need to (redacted)

Wisdom Projects@wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 19h ago

A fake ad called “My First Ankle Monitor” uses #AI to depict a Black toddler being fitted with an ankle monitor. The only thing worse than using racism to hate Black kids is a Judge named Caroline Glennon-Goodman who shared the ad as a "joke." atlantablackstar.com/2025/01/13/w...

While no partition should have existed in the first place, the criminals who designed this one should feel truly ashamed. Madman borders. There is no good faith here. It is designed to fail on purpose.

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Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

Another BBC News live page on shoplifting as inflation remains high and wage growth low - fucking tone deaf. Its relentless focus on addicts and prolific offenders doesn't begin to scratch the surface of why this is happening, just there to demonise the underclass and lionise valiant business owners

This is one of those arguments that *should* be picked up by all the people who claim to want to attack universal benefits because they benefit the well off as well as the poor. Absolute example of Dillow's "fairness error" class of policy mistakes. And yet, barely anyone mentioning it.

Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is. youtu.be/BfcjgWXk36c?... Commentators are saying we cannot afford pensions for the most vulnerable. But none of them is questioning the £83 billion a year spent subsidising the pensions of the wealthiest. Why is that?

You'd think the UK state pension must be among the most generous there is the way some go on about it. It's never fairness in that sense either (are people in this country being treated as well as people in others).