Not only would I not care if AI vanished overnight, I wouldn't even NOTICE.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 21h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

UK residents - we need to keep fighting the good fight against generative AI, those who support it, and those who refuse to condemn it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'll be on BBC News television TODAY ~3:40pm ET (8:40pm London local time) to discuss--what else---the climate change-fueled weather extremes we're seeing around the world this summer. Please join me: www.bbc.com/live

It’s really starting to grind me down

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.

I clicked thru to the ‘proof of human authorship’ and for the record, if you wrote a 345 page book in 19 hours, no the fuck you didn’t

One surprising thing going back to Some Mothers Do Av Em is just how subtle and crafted Michael Crawford's performance is, often all too obviously so next to the guest characters. Many of the latter have aged terribly, all OTT fury or camp grotesques. Frank Spencer is a far more authentic creation.

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

From the Shaping London's AI Future summary: "Bring employers, workers, educators and trade unions together to ensure that AI is introduced in ways that support people as well as technology." Erm. We don't need to introduce anything to support technology; we do not have obligations to technology.

I'm seeing various people praising Tim Stanley for his article saying climate change is real without apparently have read what the article says, so here's a précis lest you think the gallant defender of Boris Johnson's right to eat cake has had a sudden conversion to sanity.

More new boss surprises incoming

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last wk.

#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"

It's the thing that makes angriest about book bans. Kids are already reading about all these topics online (and that social media ban isn't going to work at all). If I don't talk about those things in a book, then I'm leaving a young reader to navigate it all alone. How is that the moral choice?

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Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

I see the owner of the other place is encouraging stochastic terrorism against UK politicians.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

"The year is 1996 and they are bringing Sylvester McCoy back for the wilderness years" "The year is 1999 and they are being Sylvester McCoy back for the wilderness years" "The year is 2026 and they're br-"

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.

So...this new Johnny Depp movie is, I guess, a prequel to A Christmas Carol? A Christmas Carol is already a prequel. Staves two and three. They're right there in the novel.

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

You can enjoy the second part of my short story RECTANGLES on BBC Upload today - listen from 6-8pm on BBC Radio Kent or on BBC Sounds at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio Kent - Upload with Leo Ulph

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Leo Ulph.

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Hear me out, what if Nolan tried to keep the linearity by cutting the timeline down to a day and setting it in Dublin

Anthropic has just been ordered to pay 1.5 billion dollars to copyright holders. But the harm is ongoing. They aren’t stopping societal wide copyright violation. So people have in effect been forced to issue licences against their will.

Currently the most popular choice of story in the tops and bottoms lists…

I'm catching up and had to pop in to say that although on some points @jameslark.bsky.social and I will never agree, his deconstruction of his #1 bottom episode deserves a standing ovation and a lifetime supply of the best chocolate.

It’s wild to watch Starmer standing there again talking as if he did a great job. It’s the same pompous empty rhetoric that defined his premiership.

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

Hannah Elias@hannahelias.bsky.social · last mo.

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Burnham “I can’t make changes that are not in the manifesto” Labour 2024 manifesto ‘We will not issue new licenses… because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis’

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A year long plan to become prime minister that seems to have been wholly untroubled by questions like 'why is there a looming vacancy?'

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Burnham is visibly not across the detail of what the Starmer government has actually done in office which is going to make his first months in office absolutely crackers.