PlanetSlade's song of the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkm...

(You've Got To) Love Her With A Feeling

YouTube video by Taj Mahal - Topic

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"Some bad things" = total dislocation of society, for example? I think I'd like to pass, thank you. What do you mean that's not an option?

@mb5741.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sam Altman Says Society Must Accept “Some Bad Things” for AI Benefits - The Greek Reporter

This is a very important idea. I am really glad to see Ed Davey and the Lib Dems taking the political lead on highlighting the existential risks to humanity posed by super-intelligent AI. The negotiation of such a non-proliferation treaty won’t be easy, but it is an absolute necessity. 🔶👏 #LDconf

Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem

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Unfortunately, this is not shocking at all.

President Obama Shows Us What Leadership Looks Like.......

So, another year and another golden master OS release from Apple for all devices – Macs, iPhones, iPads, TV – yada, yada. But before you all rush to install, just hold off a couple of days. Remember the old adage – never install software with a point zero version number. You know it makes sense.

I can quite see how 'sudden death' could occur. One slip, head hits pavement ... They walk among us.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · last mo.

As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

"The digital system they’re working on to reject ballots would toss out every ballot mailed in large batches through USPS, even if just one ballot was ruled invalid." "The new system [...] effectively [gives] the Trump regime veto power over who gets to vote." gizmodo.com/heres-how-tr...

Here's How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections, According to a Whistleblower

The plan sounds chaotic, but the chaos may be the point.

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Norway – behave yourselves. This the sort of thing I'd expect from some soulless American multinational. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Norway: Stop the flooding!

Norway calls itself a champion of Indigenous rights -- yet its own state-owned energy company is about to drown a sacred Mapuche territory in Chile for profit.

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Anytime someone online calls themselves an “independent thinker” or “independent researcher,” you know you’re about to read some of the stupidest shit imaginable from someone spectacularly detached from reality. Their “independent” means independent of a functioning frontal cortex.

“Is Kemi still anti-net zero?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

If anything requires a Public Inquiry then it's this sorry affair. Signed. #JasonArday goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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My new book is out this week!

Well that was a dramatic sunrise from Glastonbury Tor! More photos to follow later as it went from a very dark inky blue with flashes of red appearing in the clouds to this beautiful golden sunrise. Put it this way, I had to move quickly to capture it all 😂

Here's some more details. www.planetslade.com/moshpit-memo...

One of the many brilliant jokes in this weeks issue of Private Eye Make sure you get your copy now at all good newsagents (and not so good ones too) or subscribe at www.subsonline.co.uk

Kindle & paperback editions available here. www.amazon.com/Moshpit-Memo...

Hooray!

PlanetSlade.com@planetslade.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new book is out this week!

spot.fund/v42c2rtsb Please don’t forget Jason and please help if you can🙋‍♀️💙😇💙

Click here to support Major Jason Watson Legal Trust's story *HeroStand4Democracy

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Several of these I might reasonably expect to find on a maps app. I guess Apple's way of telling everyone to go use another app. www.macworld.com/article/3192...

Apple Maps ads won't include plumbers, crypto, or bail bondsmen

Newly announced rules for advertising on Apple Maps prohibit plumbing, roofing, electrics, and pest control, as well as crypto ATMs, bail bonds, and the usual sex and violence.

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Behold… the Arc de Trump. Finally, a monument that captures the scale of the ego… and the size of the insecurity. 😏 #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #TrumpIsNoHero #TrumpIsADickhead

Give this video a watch! It is sadly true! Credit: Seattle Indivisible

Musk. One Trillion. Very uncomfortably numb.

BBC News found this lady in the crowd outside yesterday's Mexico v South Africa game. The character of La Catrina was created by Mexican print-maker José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) to make fun of his country's wealthy elites.

I live these days in Devon, consequently a captive customer of South West Water – fortunately not in the Brixham area but nonetheless... Now ask me why for the first time in my life bottled water is a regular buy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

South West Water fined £1.85m over parasite outbreak in Devon

Utility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans

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I always love the Paul Foot awards saluting the year's best investigative journalism - often involving young reporters on smaller publications. Check out all the shortlisted stories on Private Eye's Page 94 audio podcasts.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Joe Duggan (i paper) told the story of workers who have suffered and even died of silicosis after cutting quartz kitchen worktops without sufficient protection. The reporting has been followed by a criminal investigation into one death and the tabling of a bill outlawing unsafe quartz cutting.

AI: "It's not progress". www.thenerve.news/p/interview-...

‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future

The US reporter and bestselling author was one of the first journalists to get inside OpenAI – and was alarmed at what she found. Six years on, she tells Carole Cadwalladr, a coalition of resistance i...

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Here's a New Yorker cartoon for the computer professional in your life.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.