I would simply not let short form video trends define my experience of the world.

The Covent Garden stabbing incident details could not be less terrorism-related. Sorry, X. 😢 • 47-year-old woman • Mental health issues • Homeless • Scissors recovered at scene • Frequented the area • Known for unstable behaviour • Victims chosen at random www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Woman arrested after four men stabbed in Covent Garden – latest

Police arrested a woman in central London after four men were found with stab wounds in the shopping and entertainment district

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To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

A superficially similar picture has been published by Reuters. In both pictures, abandoned shoes can be read metonymically for missing bodies: an established visual trope, legible as an allegory of human suffering. But while the Reuters photographer documented a scene of real-life suffering … 2/

Licensable picture: Migrants cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

A float and shoes belonging to migrants float in the sea at El Tarajal beach, amid mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish...

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This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

I was there (as a kid) during Thatcher. Boy howdy was there culture war. And it had a hell of a body count.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2h ago

I was there (as a kid) during Reagan. Boy howdy was there culture war. And it had a hell of a body count.

“Search ‘how much gold does a Flock camera have’ and Google’s AI Overview doesn’t even push back a little bit. Instead, it flatly asserts that a ‘Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its internal circuit boards and wiring.’”

Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper

Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.

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I remember when Gemini replaced google assistant. I said "Okay google, set a timer for five minutes", and instead of setting a timer like it used to, it said "I can't do that. Would you like to hear some things I can do?" so I cannot WAIT for this change to make my phone significantly less useful.

The Verge@theverge.com · 7h ago

It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th. www.theverge.com/tech/975516/...

Anyone who claims AI is a great support tool for neurodivergent people is welcome to gargle my entire unwaxed nutsack because they just held a pillow over the face of one of my most-used ADHD support tools to replace it with the million wrong opinions with a lanyard around its neck machine.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage.bsky.social · 7h ago

I remember when Gemini replaced google assistant. I said "Okay google, set a timer for five minutes", and instead of setting a timer like it used to, it said "I can't do that. Would you like to hear some things I can do?" so I cannot WAIT for this change to make my phone significantly less useful.

Do cis people understand that these laws effectively are forcing trans people to use the bathrooms that *don't* match their gender identity and presentation? That this will make them a target for not just mistreatment but violence?

Right now in many parts of this country, I'd feel unsafe entering a men's room, even though I have M on my ID and I'm by all appearances a man, that's how fucked this broader situation is. If you're cis and you've never had to contemplate such things, indeed! We're experiencing different things.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 8h ago

Do cis people understand that these laws effectively are forcing trans people to use the bathrooms that *don't* match their gender identity and presentation? That this will make them a target for not just mistreatment but violence?

He saw the light while in Prison and has since delivered lectures to schools and the Bizzies about the evils of the XRW. While joining the Reform UK LTD adjacent Tory Party. He's now going to advise Bad Enoch on "Inclusion". I am not making this shit up.

I understand that people like computer and want computer to be real, but you cannot convince me that anything computer provides is worth submitting to fascism and a free flow of CSAM.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

As UK opposition leader I vigorously defended the selection of a neo-Nazi and convicted antisemitic abuser as a local candidate, and when he withdrew, made him an adviser on party culture

Learning over the last 3 years: 1. Publishers don't have your back if someone steals your work, as long as that someone has deep enough pockets. Turns out copyright stuff was bluffing all along. 2. Writers' organisations are susceptible to AI bullshit and bad faith actors. 3. Governments. Pfah!

Did you know that when the government did its consultations on AI...they didn't even ONCE mention water usage? Despite an early house of lords report that the UK currently operates at a 5bn litre per day shortfall? committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 2h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.

Quick thought on "the 'Be Kind' mob" stuff the Telegraph likes to shart out on a regular basis - they've mistaken a politics rooted in compassion for one that mistakes civility for kindness. Sometimes brutality is necessary, because your opponent is too powerful and too belligerent to be

A laptop computer now vs 1986 obviously no contest. And the network infrastructure that allowed you to send that post. 64kbps X.25 anyone?

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Synthesis and sampling so much cheaper. A sampler in 1986 would be the equivalent of $25k (Emulator II). You can do that on your phone now.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Guitars are so much better put-together at the value end of the price table. It's amazing what quality you can get for very little money compared to 1986.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Judge her on "introducing segregation"

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

“Protect users from discrimination and harassment” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting for a code that is explicitly designed to target, harass, and enable discrimination against trans people, who should be protected by the Equality Act 2010

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

I wasnt even joking, look this article has copy and pasted chunks of the press release. bsky.app/profile/equa...

Them Fatale,@mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 11h ago

What in the "Just copy&paste the Press Release or the Puppy Gets It" dogshit journalism is this? Oh its the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A late-discovered autistic woman who spent her whole life masking her autistic traits in order to avoid attracting attention has recently been accused of faking her autism diagnosis to obtain said attention.

Woman who spent life masking autism to avoid attention now accused of faking autism for attention

A late-discovered autistic woman who spent her whole life masking her autistic traits in order to avoid attracting attention has recently been accused of faking her autism diagnosis to obtain said…

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This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

I'm fascinated by this new form of PR that's emerged with LLM companies where they leak stories like 'our product spontaneously assembled an army of domestic appliances & announced it would exterminate the lowly hairless apes - we barely managed to pull the plug' to imply it's really powerful