Nicolas Chinardet
@zefrog.eu
French guy in sarf London, standing at a slight angle to the universe: current affairs, politics, photos, typos, and some sillyness. he/they 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ▪︎Deputy Editor for a trade mag ▪︎Photography, short stories, and more: www.zefrog.eu
NEW: Dozens of ads running on Meta platforms, some as recently as yesterday, contained AI-generated child sexual abuse material. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the story, which is, it should be noted, distressing:
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
The ruling comes after Polish President Karol Nawrocki recently rejected two bills known as the ‘cohabitation contracts’. Read 👉 buff.ly/0po0rFd #GCNnews
"None of England’s fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says
Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.
yorkshirepost.co.uk
The 1,700 capacity bike parking garage at Beursplein, Amsterdam, provides parking for the area's shops & other destinations. Open 24/7 and always staffed, it's free to park here for up to 24 hours. Bike parking isn't allowed on the surrounding streets or squares, creating more space for pedestrians.
Reform UK voters are the most likely to say it was acceptable for the Tories to select reformed neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate Reform: 36% acceptable / 44% unacceptable Con: 28% / 57% Green: 23% / 62% Lab: 20% / 62% LD: 19% / 70% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
Earlier Badenoch was doing the rounds explaining it didn't matter her candidate was a former Nazi because he was only standing to be a councillor and didn't have a national platform. Tonight, he's stood down and she's made him an advisor to her party. One step closer to a national platform, I'd say
If anything, given how little Badenoch thinks of Tory councillors, is it fair to say she's given him a promotion?
We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoThese businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/
Hilarious to mention the thin margins and disappearing gap in the polls without also mentioning this. I mean, completely expected from Politico and every publication like it. But pulling out it off with a SuperPAC-driven 9-to-1 spending ratio is absolutely a "big election night"
Politico@politico.com · 12h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 13h agoA writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha
Okay, so speaking as a professional archaeologist whose job it is to make decisions on this stuff, the moon should be given protections equivalent to, if not exceeding World Heritage status. What Musk is doing is an act of cultural and environmental vandalism and he should fucking swing for it.
Dylan MacKay@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 8h agoThere should be a trillion dollar fine for hitting the moon with junk
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
This is a very good explainer of why the EHRC code is surprising even within the current case law This is a legislative issue, the law will need to change to unravel this mess, but a greater degree of accurate clarity for duty bearers on these points would make a big everyday difference until then
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 10h agoWe have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
If you were a notable neo-Nazi, and you are trying to do better, that is good; but if you do not understand that "I will no longer seek power over anyone other than myself" is an essential part of that redemption you are not redeemed at all. You're still a fucking Nazi.
Not sure why she thinks it’s a defence that she personally does not consume the output that disqualifies him from office
James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 12h agoKemi Badenoch on Crewkerne Gazette candidate: "I don't watch his videos. I don't even like those videos. I hate AI deepfakes."
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
The EHRC code of practice comes in today, bringing in to the UK the most draconian regime for single sex spaces targeting trans people for a liberal democracy in the industrialised, under what is our nominally left of centre governing party.
Are you volunteering for the job, Mr Robinson? You sound rather titillated by this story #r4today
I see Badenoch's logic of having a former Nazi sort out people's bin collection... After all the Nazis were very good at running things, like trains... right? #r4today
It may not be a national platform, but you are giving him legitimacy by stick your rosette on his chest #r4today
Something we didn't do before a new law made it mandatory is not necessary?! Should the police ignore the law, then, Ms Badenoch? #r4today
Are the Tories that desperate for candidates that they have to select (and defend) former Nazis? #r4today #keminaissance