WhiskeyStu
@whiskeystu.bsky.social
Irish writer/shitetalker/creative. #ActuallyAutistic
Encouraging to see almost half a million workers striking for better deals in Ireland today. May the experience of this galvanise working people against the neoliberal FFG fuckery www.thejournal.ie/public-secto...
Taoiseach says government is 'open to negotiations' to resolve public pay row
Public sector workers are striking across the country today to call for a new pay deal.
thejournal.ie
Ukraine took out 2 huge data centers, and just like that--POOF! Pro-Trump/MAGA posts on US social media plummeted. Same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. The primary function of those Bots is to boost groups Putin believes will destabilize the west. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response ...
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
tomshardware.com
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
The longer City are allowed to play unpunished the more the PL becomes meaningless. Ridiculous soft yellows changed the game allowing the cheats to take control.
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
Abu Dhabi Andy is hugely misreading the level of anger at City's cheating across the football community. Could be politically ruinous for a new PM with a hopeful message to align himself with the powerful against working class fans in stadiums around the country. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts
The primer minister said: ‘City have been a huge partner in building modern Manchester,’ while the Independent Football Regulator said it is monitoring the case
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The craziest thing in the City case is that all those lunatics on Twitter calling Pep a bald fraud were actually right all along.
For someone who claims to have no knowledge of cheating by City, Pep Guardiola has spent a lot of his career in close proximity to cheating. Accused of doping at Brescia. Refs paid off during his tenure at Barca. And now the biggest cheating scandal in the history of football at City. Smoke = fire.
One thing I'd love to know about the Manchester City thing is how is £900 million pound of fraud not a police matter? Why aren't Scotland Yard detectives kicking in the doors of City's offices?
If the United Arab Emirates wanted to launder their reputation through Manchester City then I'm not sure cheating on an industrial scale presents the best image of your country.
This is unequivocal. City are done. An investigation needs to be opened up for the years 2018 to present, there's no way they cheated for a decade and then stopped on their own. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
premierleague.com
I first came across Nick's work in 2014 and had been following it for years as he's been banging the drum not only on City's cheating but on the role of nation states and billionaires in football. Can only imagine the vindication he's feeling these last few days after being hounded by City fans.
Mikehausen ⚒️@mikehausen.bsky.social · 3w agoOn this special day, a big shout out to @sportingintel.bsky.social, who's been reporting on Man City's cheating for years now. The abuse I've seen this guy subjected to over on Muskistan from City supporters was vile and prolonged. Well done and thank you for not backing down!!
Mancini refers to ‘double’ Manchester City contract and says it ‘isn’t my problem’
Mancini refers to ‘double’ Manchester City contract and says it ‘isn’t my problem’
* Coach alleged to have been paid for advisory work * Mancini says City ‘not guilty’ after Premier League ruling Roberto Mancini appeared to acknowledge he had “a double contract” when he managed Manchester City after the club were found guilty of breaching the Premier League’s financial rules. But Mancini, who in 2011-12 coached City to their first Premier League title in a half century and is now in charge of Italy, also said that what is developing potentially into the biggest scandal in English football history was “not a problem that concerns me”. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
nytimes.com
Almost half a year off the smokes. Genuinely one of the biggest achievements of my life.
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
wired.com
A second Elephant Graveyard has just hit Joe Rogan. youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo
How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption and Depravity
YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard
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An entertaining, erudite interview with Cory Doctorow about this current spate of ex-AI staffers blowing the doomer trumpet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDU...
This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Just saw Na Hong-Jin's movie Hope. One of the most bat shit, thrilling action movie experiences I've had in a long time.
Funny how this dumb ChatGPT 80s trend "organically" comes out days after OpenAI are getting negative press. Nothing sus there at all.
Five years using the same opening word finally pays off Wordle 1,889 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My issue with this is that they’re stewing in a cesspool of “race science,” Nazis, persistent degradation of marginalized genders, reactionary politics, and CSAM, and their focus is on not being yelled at for pro-AI views that can be curated via aggressive muting and blocking tools.
