Prosaically if you keep telling people they have 'legitimate concerns' don't be surprised when they believe their 'concerns' are legitimate.
Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · 2d agoSadly not much shocks me anymore about the far right, but this is sickening. The quotes from the Reform councillors about people who aren’t white or muslim are abhorrent. And I’m sure this man would still call himself a ‘patriot.’
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
Different British govt, same old colonial mindset to Ireland. British govts will always protect the state.
Claire Mullaly@clairemullaly.bsky.social · 4d agoA British state cover up of three decades of conflict & their role in it. 'Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said: “For too long, veterans have faced uncertainty over historic investigations, despite serving honourably during the Troubles.' And there we have it - Irish bloodshed has no consequence.
incredible that a senior israeli cabinet official can brag that they’re ethnically cleansing southern lebanon which they plan to permanently occupy and that no one is stopping them and that it doesn’t even get mentioned in this article which hedges by saying “it appears” this way
Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · 5d ago“Israeli forces deliberately demolished homes, schools, mosques and roads... The scale of Israel’s systematic demolition has fueled fears among many Lebanese that Israel is seeking to permanently empty the territory of its population.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")
Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo agoapropos of nothing, here's a terrific feature about a meaningful, life-saving use of artificial intelligence, which I have been thinking about for over a year. it's just extremely stupid to say that AI has zero benefits even if you don't think it should be used in writing (which I don't)!
Everyone remembers the photos of Patsy Stevenson at the Sarah Everard vigil. What no one is even considering is that this photo would now get her convicted of a s.157 offence (one month in prison) for wearing a mask under the new Crime & Policing Act 2026.
👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · last wk."...police tried to reassure... Shine Night Walk that it would be safe for around 2,000 women to cross College Green" NO IT WOULDN'T BE SAFE BECAUSE THE FIRST THING THAT WOULD HAPPEN IS THAT SOME OF THOSE WOMEN WOULD CONFRONT THE FASH AND THE SECOND IS THAT THE COPS WOULD BEAT THEM FOR IT.
The Green vote has gone up by 3.5% on the combined Green/Andrew Feinstein vote of 2024. The Labour vote is down 3.7% . This is in the Burnham bounce and +during intense media focus on Polanski. Will Burnham's Labour get more popular ? Or will Polanski's Greens get much less popular? Nothing is fixed
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last wk.This is clearly a good result for Labour, but it also doesn't strike me as a terrible result for the Greens. Vote share held up from the local elections in a constituency that was never really a target for them
Used to be embarrassed for the people who I thought were smart that fell for the 3 card monte AI shit coming from the world's most evil people. I am no longer embarrassed for them, just realized that they were never all that smart to begin with.
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · last wk.Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
Again, sooner or later every single maintainer is going to have to confront the fact that their projecr will be used to farm GitHub star clout by the Internet's most psychopathic vibe coders There's a reason Wikipedia brought the hammer down IMMEDIATELY: they know full well who's out there
David Gerard@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · last wk.LWN says Nate Graham has backed off on the KDE pro-AI policy for the moment: https://lwn.net/Articles/1096518/ > However, Martin warned that he was starting to see ""an increase of purely LLM-generated merge requests"" where it was clear that the description and code were entirely […]
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last wk.interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
white supremacists took over the US government and in two years the country has become a laughingstock no one wants to work in or come to and planted a bomb in the global economy that can not be undone all because women asked not to be r*ped and Black people asked to not be shot by cops.
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
🚨Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, according to @financialtimes.com analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial project led by the US tech giant Another NHS/Palantir scoop w/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/2580543f-2...
ok i think this really needs to be said: zuckerberg is not a fan of high-end fashion, he is a fan of visibly expensive t-shirts
Josh Spero@joshspero.ft.com · 2w agoThis WSJ sentence about Zuckerberg can be read in at least three ways, which I think means it should have been rewritten
When AI guys claim that LLMs are conscious because the way they work is very complicated
What Braverman says here is 100% false. Mauritius was a poor, plantation economy when the British took over from France in 1810, and they kept it that way until 1968. The economic miracle that turned it into a diverse, upper-middle income economy came after independence. bsky.app/profile/jord...
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2w agoOmg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
I’m not much interested in the internal politics of the Greens but I will note here that the key difference between “chauvinistic militants” and “egalitarian liberals” on Palestinians is that the former roar for their eradication while the latter look pained and tell everyone to chill out about it.
Really need tech reporters to stop being credulous to the “Our biggest weakness? Maybe our AI is TOO powerful.” It’s already fucking the economy and environment and being used to murder people in Palestine, but the ol “don’t look at the man behind the curtain” routine works on Tech journalists
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoEXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1
AI-driven social analysis is truly the future. You can learn so much about what things are related to each other and it's so informative and reliable
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 3w agoExclusive: I asked Andy Burnham about the gangs of masked thugs marauding around parts of our country and asked if he and his government should be doing more to call out their actions He called them ‘poisonous’ amongst other strong words. His condemnation was unequivocal. Full story here 👇
The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god
Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3w agoIn Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan https://gizmodo.com/in-silicon-valley-the-end-of-humanity-has-always-been-part-of-the-plan-2000816237
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 3w agoHad a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 3w agoEzra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
"I wish for a free Palestine partly because I slowly gave up hope that the world would ever see we Acholi, even in death. That’s why the definition of genocide matters so much - it is not just technical, it is spiritual. It says: 'we were here and we mattered. We are here and we matter still'."
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote this about Palestine, Germany, Israel, genocide, Uganda, and the recent fallout from the Robert Kraft/Ed Sheeran/Macklemore affair. If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/genoci...
Phenomenal stuff. Keep this up and we could be looking at a convoluted headline singularity before EOD.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w agoAnti-migrant protester Danny Tommo arrested after boat with emergency worker on damaged in Channel
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3w agoOn Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
Headmaster waved a piece of fibre optic cable and claimed he was surveilling the school. He had to climb down after the local rag rang to ask whether it was true he was watching kids in the loos.
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w agoBizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”
we don’t solve this problem without solving the problem of loyalism — which permeates our entire culture, through government, policing, ceremonial leadership, etc. meaning to say, I don’t think a problem has any great interest in *solving itself*
