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FUCKING TAX THE RICH ALREADY Anti-Capitalist | Anti-Fascist | Anti-SARS-CoV-2 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Chronic illness & disability-haver [born at 342 ppm]

"this grocery store is great but I wish there were absolute fucking lunatics in here picking fights and taking upskirts and making AI porn of customers walking the aisles just for the sake of diversity." said fucking no one. ever.

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

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Rod Liddle

A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury

27 Sep 2012, 12:00am

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I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. We're talking secondary school level here, by the way and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive school a few teachers were known to be schtupping the pupils; one of them, a female teacher who was extremely foxy in a Pot Noodle scuzzy kind of way she copped off with some fifth-form lad, and another teacher (a man with a guitar and aGuardian

Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?

Rod Liddle

Tue 14 Jan 2003 04.12 EST

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I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn'tHow absurd the law is. But at least it is an appropriate reflection of our collective neurosis and confusion about paedophilia generally. The one laudable and necessary aim - to protect children from abuse - has become warped by our consuming, obsessive hatred for those who find children sexually attractive. There is no causal link between viewing child porn and abusing children. And even if there were, it would not be sufficient, within the philosophy of our judicial system, to simply assume that an unpleasant penchant for the former

Jenrick tells the Reform UK press conference this morning an official will come to your dying mother's bedroom to tot up her jewellery, confiscate her brooches and itemise her coats under Andy Burnham's new tax. Is there not a danger of just sounding so alarmist that you sound unhinged?

The vehemence with which currently healthy people demanded compliance from disabled and vulnerable people still at risk - and whom they immediately abandoned and ostracized if they would not comply - always suggested to me that this was not rationalism speaking.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 7d ago

One more thing I want to be clear about: Most people are not talking about the trauma of lockdowns. They’re overwhelmingly talking about the trauma of being forced “back to normal” when “normal” had a new level of danger and cruelty.

One takeaway that sticks with me is that the cost of giving every citizen everything they need for accessibility was outweighed by the gain to GDP from productivity by something like a trillion dollars.

"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.

ahhahahah they did a new AI 2027 called “AI 2040” that begins basically saying that in 2027 “most of the work of AI agents will be slop.” Turns out the thing that everybody took seriously was just dogshit science fiction written by imbeciles

2027: The Writing on the Wall
America has two workforces now. The first is people, 165 million of them.
The second is Al agents: millions of copies spun up and shut down every hour, working around the clock at superhuman speeds.
Most of their work is slop. But enough of it is good that people are paying ten billion dollars a month for Als that can, in theory at least, do anything on a computer that an employee can.
There is one job the AI companies want to automate more than any other-their own. They haven't succeeded yet; no recursive self-improvement so far.!
But they seem to be getting closer, and they're pulling up the ladder behind them: the strongest coding Als refuse to help competitors with AIR&D. Ever as the most bullish employees admit that things are taking a bit longer than planned, the skeptics notice that their usual dismissals are starting to ring hollov Why exactly will Al never be able to do my job? What's the barrier again?
Congress is starting to pay more attention. They've long been hearing about Al: datacenters using too much water,
, chatbots encouraging suicide, Mythos
hacking NSA systems-and of course, tech industry lobbyists warning that any whiff of regulation will make America immediately lose the race with China and spend the rest of history as a CCP tributary state."
Now they step back and ask: Where are we going with this? What does the world look like five, ten, or fifteen years from now? Will there still be jobs?
What if there aren't?
One question weighs especially heavily on their minds: Who will control all these Als?

“The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page" "If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be" www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page

newscientist.com

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo ago

Going on Bloomberg between 4:07 to 4:18pm ET to talk about how AI has no ROI and the greater AI bubble www.youtube.com/live/f39oHo6...

Six years since the start of COVID and this type of misinformation by omission is still rampant. The best protection against airborne pathogens is wearing a high quality mask.

What is the biggest infectious disease risk at World Cup matches?

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It's advice you've heard since childhood, but doctors say the best defense against germs is washing your hands. Traditional soap and water work on a number of levels, from the physical removal and destruction of microbes on your hands to cleaning away any dirt and grime.