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If Mel Woods had their way, everyone would treat the Harry Potter series “as a regretfully significant cultural artifact of a moment in time” in light of J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans activism. With their new collaboration, Tim Hortons has done the opposite. https://ow.ly/WJUW50Zw1aA
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Used google to search for a Chinese name + 號 of a woman I saw as author of two poems published in 1797. Forgot to add "-ai". So above all the irrelevant links, was presented with a full classical bio with name, birthplace, other 號, period of activity etc. 100% hallucinated.
I do think the water thing with AI gets overplayed compared to the technology's other environmental and social harms, but AI boosters like to pretend it's entirely invented. The potable water industry in the UK - no tree huggers here - makes it clear than no, this is a very real issue.
Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
theguardian.com
One of the most precipitous events in the decline of HK's autonomy and the rights of Hongkongers was the disappearance of five staff members from Causeway Bay Books in 2015. What was then done covertly and abroad is now done in HK itself, in broad daylight.
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 4w agoI am tech support to the bone and do not like to mystify computer stuff but I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that printers have demons in them. There is literally no other explanation.
We are in a climate emergency and it is killing people. Stop illustrating these stories with old timey cute beach huts and other faux boomer memorabilia. This is serious and we are in trouble. Start treating it as such.
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last mo.Parts of the UK are expected to experience the third heatwave of the year this week, with conditions predicted to be less humid than during June’s heatwave. Find out more in our latest news release 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
It’s so fucking awkward to have to inject “places I cannot go because I’m illegal there” into normal ass conversations about “what did you get up to on your holiday?” “Omg I went to Turkey! You should go!” “Oh you should go to Egypt and see the pyramids!” Yeah, I’d love to. I’m illegal there.
UnicornsRockUK@unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4w agoLooks like Turkey is saying they don't want EU membership. Also looks like they're not going to be a safe place for LGBT visitors either. A worthy consideration when booking your hols this year or next! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
God these people piss me off. They've got a whole site "New to birding" all SEO'd up to hell to capture newbie birders' search queries. Spam ass bot doesn't even know what birds are.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo agoThese fuckers came for fountain pens with SEO-heavy AI slop. Now they're coming for birds, again with AI slop attributed to an author who doesn't exist? This is personal.
People of colour suffer racist pogroms at the hands of fascists boosted by the world’s richest man on his own platform that is also used by the UK government Newsnight: is it time to talk about immigration’s impact on national security?
New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...
Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
404media.co
As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.
Chloe "in ✈️ at home" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · last mo.piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time
it started absolutely *pouring*. shortly after they illicitly consecrated their bishops. if i was the kind of person who believed in god this is probably the sort of thing that would worry me
I did a version of this years ago based around the actual illustration from a real army recruitment ad
Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you like playing football, you might also like shooting at and getting shot by people. Top quality World Cup tie-in from army recruiters.
I was asked to make so many changes to the painting—a product of art direction by committee—that I felt compelled to make one addition of my own. 3/4
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
volkskrant.nl
Who needs Game of Thrones when you can just have... bees 😱🐝
Cormac (Bee guy)@jagungal.bsky.social · 2mo agoYep - at some point the colony decides that they aren't going to need to make a new queen until spring, and they immediately eject all the males to freeze & starve.
GREAT NEWS. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Return of the schhhhhlorp: canned, frozen juice from concentrate makes a comeback | CBC News
Canadian freezers could soon be stocked with juice again, as grocery giant Loblaw confirms plans to bring frozen concentrated juice cans back to the Canadian market.
cbc.ca
7. China vs overseas dissidents China's United Front Work Department has been systematically infiltrating the Chinese interpreting community in order to intimidate & threaten dissidents, and to deliberately not translate or pass on certain key details. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Chinese dissident says he was berated by ‘pro-regime’ interpreter for UK police
Hong Qi, who orchestrated protest against Communist government, claims interpreter on 101 call launched political tirade
theguardian.com
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
404media.co
Still incredibly proud of the bredlik I wrote when this was first posted: My nam nuthatch And wen ys spring And all the birdes Are roostening I put kernels Under my butte I keep them warm I hatche the nut
Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · 2mo agoNuthatch. An older comic.
Please read this and remember. Utterly devastating reporting by @andrewkersley.bsky.social. How many others are in the same, or similar, situations due to a litany of errors and failures to protect them?
The Londoner@londonermag.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market. She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her. It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?
Dear pundits, I’m begging you. Please stop calling Bundibugyo virus a strain. 🙏
