Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Happy 66th birthday to John Leguizamo, who has always understood the assignment.

Eww. Gross

IGN@ign.com · last mo.

An AI reproduction of Gene Wilder will narrate Netflix's new Willy Wonka reality show, Wonka's The Golden Ticket, a nine-episode series where contestants will face physical, mental, and moral challenges. https://bit.ly/4v9Jn6F

Yes, but don't forget to wear sunscreen!

Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last mo.

I just think in general a lot of grass-touching would be beneficial

"The problem with the internet is anonymity" ok but people on nextdoor are insane next to their full name and address

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

"Where someone has committed criminal damage, that can be dealt with using ordinary criminal law - Rather than using broad and poorly defined anti terrorism powers."

Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · 2mo ago

In a disastrous ruling, the Court of Appeal in London has overruled the High Court and upheld the government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Defining a protest group as terrorists has created an absurd situation where thousands have been arrested for holding up signs.

Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

Rest in peace to Marjane Satrapi. If you haven't read Persepolis fix that today

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

me when I see a dog: 🫳

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

"check your phone to finish signing in" do you have any idea how hard it was for me to get off my phone and on the computer just now

DONT LIKE MY LAGUAGE???? - dashare.zone ADMIN

I could do a spot o' damage to a blackberry tart right now. Wouldn't mind if it was hot or jolly well cold...

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

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This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S.

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crazy to think this happens every day

"You boy, what day is this??"

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

If you're on the liberal centre in the UK: this is the movement you've been fleeced by. This is who is behind your little gender critical op eds. There's still time to stop publishing them. You can admit you were wrong and ask forgiveness. Just saying.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

What a nightmare. Can we please not? news.sky.com/story/magist...

Magistrates and judges to use more AI, says Lammy - as jury trials reduced

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has confirmed he wants to see more AI being used by courts, as he confirms fewer jury trials will be taking place. The Law Society has warned that decisions "with ser...

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FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years. This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator. Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.

Move aside, Karl Marx. I got this one. Crapitalism

Keir Starmer has got a nerve lecturing other parties on security when his government appears to have no qualms about making every aspect of the UK’s essential infrastructure more & more reliant on Trump-supporting tech firms that have clearly shown themselves hostile to liberal democracy.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN

Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.

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