Björn W
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Mat, sprit och lite arbetsmarknadsfrågor.
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 12h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
The Tiffany Problem, Sending a fax to Japan, That the Emperor read. Lincoln is dead. (to the tune of Eleanor Rigby)
This issue was resolved by US v Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir 1991), codified by the CFAA in 1996, and clarified by Van Buren v US, 141 S.Ct. 1648 (2021). They intentionally deployed an unauthorized access tool. It's no defense to say they didn't intend the resulting damage; Morris lost on that. 1/2
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d agoAfter Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
also this genuinely unrehearsed jam session from the same tv special. need 5 friends who can break out into 6 part harmony spontaneously with me
ABBA, Olivia Newton-John & Andy Gibb Jamming and performing Beach Boys Rare 1978 Remastered
YouTube video by Style Record Group. com
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If you see someone online ignorantly claiming that entry into Ceuta entails entry into mainland Spain/the Schengen area, here's the text proving otherwise. (Plus almost everyone who entered Ceuta returned within a day)
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5d agoHere are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.
you shouldn't be mad about destroying books. you should be mad about who is allowed to have access to the scans, and why the public isn't able to benefit from this at nominal fee to be paid directly to the author, rather than the knowledge being rented from a middleman.
it probably works best as a Calvin bit but I believe I speak for many people when I say I would read the shit out of a fully committed Tracer Bullet story from Watterson no question he could pull it off
Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · last wk.💯
There was a lot of talk about future drone warfare when I was a RAND fellow 30 years ago, but degrading civilian morale by singeing an adversary's mail order dildo supply was not something that came up
När man är i stuga i östra Finland gör man kalljästa frallor på frihand till frukosten, det är sen gammalt
They're doing great! It's a burly thrupple living together in a cabin and doing bizarre manly coded shit for no reason. My favorite points are slamming an axe onto an empty stump, working by lantern light during the day, and "fixing" a wireless generator with a hammer with a second hammer nearby.
Lyse@lyse.myatproto.social · 2w agoMen? You guys okay?
…why does this hotel’s complimentary lumbar support pillow look like a sex toy made by a board game company?
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
1) this is mostly rational 2) and also why income inequality is expanding. most people have precarious finances and it makes it impossible to take even risks with very high payoffs. 3) an illustration of the declining marginal utility of money which makes inequality so pernicious to human welfare
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w agoIf you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
not to kink-shame here but i simply would not have made the drink blood red
Bisarrt att se detta postat på årsdagen av Breiviks terrordåd. Och inte av nåt anonymt nazitroll, utan av världens rikaste man. Terroristen Breiviks sjuka manifest - med besattheten av att bevara vitheten samt konspirationsteorin om ett ”folkutbyte” - har vunnit häpnadsväckande stor legitimitet.
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
Just for reference, here is an actual example of Mycenaean armor. Not that fantasy shit below.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoPresumably including a historically accurate cyclops
Vet ni vad jag älskar? Kommunikation som är samhällsnyttig och mänsklig och varm på samma gång. Mera sånt!
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
We have a new data point to answer the age old question, just how scummy does one have to be to be too scummy for the russia. Credit where credit is due. The world would have never gotten this data if not for the assistance of the Tate brothers.
ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2w ago1/ The arrest in Miami of Andrew and Tristan Tate is being celebrated in Russia, where a few weeks ago they were guests of honour at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Now they're seen as too scummy for Russia; one Russian blogger calls them "genetic garbage". ⬇️
This thread is right that the convention that historical films written in English are performed with English/Brit accents makes no logical sense. It’s a fascinating quirk of English language film, though – over the last century it became such a norm that people find it jarring when films don’t do it
Paul Cornish@paulgcornish.bsky.social · 2w agoInteresting bit in this Variety article about The Odyssey where the American writer takes issue with the characters' American accents, dismisses Greek accents as "a bit much", & argues that British (I assume he really means English) accents would have been fine. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
