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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rod Liddle was a stone-cold arsehole who actually said in a national newspaper that he couldn't be a teacher because he would inevitably try and shag the kids Apparently his editor has said, 'he challenged conventional thinking' If you mean 'was wrong in every conceivable way' then, yes

AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue

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Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems

Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems

Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert

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For anyone wondering why information about deviant behaviour only emerges after a well know person dies, the answer is the Defamation Act. There is often a wide gulf between what you know and what you can prove in a court of law. #SpéirGorm #speirgorm

If you want to be entertained, watch a movie. If you want to see something about history, watch a documentary. If you want to see how ancient Greeks battled Nazi flying saucers, watch the History channel.

In amongst all the tributes of Glen Hansard, I’ve come across posts about his behaviour around teenage girls, saying many people, including those writing tributes, knew of this behaviour. Would those who wrote the tributes care to comment? #speirghorm

Nigel Farage is the kind of person who would try to deport Paddington.

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

So GenAI companies are destroying books. We live in a more dystopian world than Fahrenheit 451.

Treating drug use as criminality rather than a mental health area has led to so much pain & unhappiness. A person who is addicted has more than enough challenges without the courts being involved. Methadone demonstrates the success of positive engagement. If we can allow gambling & alcohol…

Though it's about time that General Staff got its shit together and ordered the 422nd Unmanned Systems Regiment to get rid of its overtly Nazi SS-style unit insignia. Not even Göring's Luftwaffe used the dented-corner shield: that was generally associated with SS panzer divisions.

Theres no place for this in society. Particularly when you consider that he's gone with the elbow. That suggests a level of training to me as its not something most people would go with. He wanted to do as much harm as he could to this man. #Speirgorm

Igo@igo107.bsky.social · 2w ago

#SpeirGorm #IrishPolitics @angardasiochana.bsky.social surely this is assault and this thug needs to be in front of a judge? East Wall bigots posting this and bragging about it.

#SpeirGorm #IrishPolitics @angardasiochana.bsky.social surely this is assault and this thug needs to be in front of a judge? East Wall bigots posting this and bragging about it.

The framing of this as "crashing" frustrates me, because this was absolutely a stunt arranged through & with the support of Comic Con, probably to avoid the protests & pushback if people had known about it in advance. It's not a fun perk for fans, it's stealth marketing of a domestic abuser.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 2w ago

Johnny Depp surprised fans at Comic-Con by showing up unannounced at an unrelated panel in character as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything

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Authorities in Co Kerry have said a fire in Killarney National Park which spread to over 25 hectares of land was caused by human activity, possibly a disposable barbeque

'Human activity' thought to have started Killarney fire

Authorities in Co Kerry have said a fire in Killarney National Park which spread to over 25 hectares of land was caused by human activity, possibly a disposable barbeque.

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Nailbiting. Heartbreaking. Every step of the way you have done us proud @England ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Gutted. But proud. England gave it everything - and London backed them all the way. Thank you to the team for everything you’ve given.

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs. The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in the northern district of California, points to Meta’s workforce reduction of about 8,000 employees earlier this year. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The suit alleges that Meta used a “constellation of internal artificial intelligence systems”, including AI performance ratings and keystroke- and activity-monitoring data, to pinpoint who to lay off. Continue reading...

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my theory is that the people who have BS-ed their way through life are the people most impressed by AI tools. and let me tell you, those of us with substantive knowledge and critical reasoning still see right through you.

Mussolini had the Blackshirts Hitler had the Brownshirts Trump has ICE

Want to get Scambler Bikes removed from the roads? Claim they interfere with the operation of nearby data centres. #SpéirGorm #speirgorm #SpareGollum

Another recent Grok translation error

Unless you have a giant space ark, you will not get to be a "Climate Refugee". Either fix the planet or die here.

Lindsey Graham was not a particularly strong supporter of Ukraine. He made all the right noises, but ultimately he mostly just contributed to keeping pro-Ukrainian Republicans quiet. He gave them an illusion to cling to, that any moment now Trump will finally get tough on Putin.

The nerd hackers who gave us personal computers, the internet, the web, all these empowering technologies,they're gone. Today, tech is mostly advertising, and the parts that aren't are entirely focused on destroying all that is still green and good in this world. There are no "good guys" left.

Crazy game!