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Paul Stevenson
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I don’t like cat pictures, yet here i am on the internet
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.
Child pedestrian casualties are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas
Child pedestrian casualties are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas
Official figures expose widening gap in road deaths and injuries between poor and wealthy postcodes The number of children killed or injured crossing roads is almost five times higher in England’s most deprived areas than its wealthiest, official analysis suggests. Department for Transport figures show a widening gap over the past 10 years in road casualties between those living in the poorest 10% of postcodes and the most affluent 10%. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
futurism.com
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
At a talk where someone talked about “shrinkage” without invoking George Constanta, confined the slide
Everything has to be Odyssey-themed right now. Even my hotel is on Homer St.
This is very troubling. Protesters not prosecuted as terrorists as prosecutors feared they would not have been convicted. So charged with criminal damage. Guilty. And now CPS wants them sentenced as terrorists. bit.ly/4x5xiRf What is happening to our sense of justice?
I am floored by this sign outside the lift (on the ground floor)
The section of “smart thinking” books at the airport bookshop. I’ve read far too many of them, as my book club companions favour them in the non-fiction months. The best (few) of them make an honest attempt to distill complex ideas in a simple way, but the influence of their … 1/2
I said I said I said I said I really like that tiger bread
Ruin a book by adding a word: Smiley's People Carrier The Ipcress Nail File The Magic Mountain Goat The Prime Numbers of Miss Jean Brodie Farewell, My Lovely Horse Tales of the City Council Tristram Lager Shandy That They May Face the Rising Sun Newspaper
Paul Stevenson@pdstevenson.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: The Tropic of Bowel Cancer
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Tropic of Bowel Cancer
Neville Morley@nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: A Line Dance to the Music of Time
I appear to have got a candle-blowing-out action shot where the flames have been blown off the wicks.
The right-wing press certainly thought Ed M was Jewish when they mocked him eating a bacon sandwich. “Not one of us” is always the subtext, often just the text
Going on a long haul flight at weekend. Might watch a film on it. It’s been a few years since I last watched a film, when I did Barbie in one direction and Oppenheimer on the way home.
I know, let's recreate the complexity of an operating system, but inside a browser. Then you can open your operating system, open a browser, use it to run an operating system, and put applications inside that. They'll work just like native applications
There’s only one reason I put the word “big job” in quote marks and it’s not to refer to a cabinet position. More like an “early day motion”
Saw your boyfriend on the train and immediately texted the British Transport Police on 61016 to report something that doesn’t look right
sitting on a ~2h train journey from Euston to Warrington. Presumably there will be cheering in the carriage if goals are scored
I tell you what, we need to move graduation ceremonies to winter