This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

in this article, it says: "By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week." I work at a newspaper. Writing IS my fucking job! This is like saying "by removing patients from a doctor's workload..." I wanna buy that student a coffee.

utterly disgraceful behavior

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories. Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.” You can’t make this shit up. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

The big lad from the Horniman Museum

What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about

I am but a roving bard. However, I have visited every continent aside from Antarctica and experienced many temperature extremes, calculated in Fahrenheit as well as Celsius, and the answer to the question of which is better is always going to be "the one with which you have the most experience"

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

Just a little one

Frustrating that for centre to centre-left parties the tactic for getting right wing votes is always "pandering" while the tactic for getting left wing votes is "yelling at people"

“Are you a good enough person to vote for a very bad person?” does seem to put the onus in the wrong place

"Look, it's okay for moderates to say they won't vote for someone because they're too progressive, but progressives aren't allowed to say they won't vote for someone for being too moderate/conservative"... for reasons. Uh huh. Sure.

Yes, I too need Remarm and love Form, Matt.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Homicides in Scotland are at a 50 year low. Fewer people were murdered in Scotland than Denmark. Why do the police need guns?

corporations doing their very best to ensure ever more people hate the effects of capitalism, whether regulated or not capitalism has always been about killing geese for golden eggs

You have to be a complete sociopath devoid of a soul to say something like this about fellow human beings. This is a sickness and Brianna is rotten to her core.

EXACT SAME "we liberals are better people because we like our ETHNIC CLEANSING QUIET & COMPETENT" energy as Walz callin for NIGHT RAIDS bsky.app/profile/full...

If it's at the caucus, I presume there will be other people who aren't Satan running. I would support one of those.

People need to stop being weird (in several directions) about AEW signees. If they're good and used well, they'll add to the show. If they're bad, they'll be shuffled off TV. #wrestlesky

The cartoon I hate most in the world (and there are a lot of candidates) came up on my Facebook memories

"Guy I used to follow until he start showing transphobic tendencies is now arguing for reducing immigration" is an entirely unsurpising turn of events

The @bostonglobe.com opinion page this morning is headlined by white supremacist Richard Hanania, whose racist views have been smoothed over in recent months by centrists

If you’re a parent, your kid doesn’t need your permission to do a walkout or a protest. Your kid is not your property.

man alot of you will repost anything without taking half a second to look into it, huh its ai generated if you didnt know. useless

So they've put Legion on Amazon Prime. And I've never seen it before, but so many shows in the past eight years have ripped it off that it feels really familiar.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

If people did this shit about anywhere other than the American South- like if someone said they grew up in Kenya and another person was like “I’m so sorry” we would all quite rightly roast them. every place has good and bad qualities. the South isn’t evil

if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender

Your reminder that the problem a lot of mainstream Democrats have with the activities of ICE come down to inefficiency and vulgarity rather than its core purpose. This is why they are opposed to its abolition.

I spend the evenings watching TV with my wife or playing D&D with my friends.

Just saw someone call boycotting Germany an “anti Jewish boycott” and I mean that’s something to say I guess

Average Gavin Newsom voter

"[Berlinale] jury head Wim Wenders said, “We have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics,”" Of course, political movies, we can't have that! 😱

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level. the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.

People had speculated on what went into ‘books2’ for years. Now we know; pirated books powered the hugely successful launch of ChatGPT. IMO this should be mentioned every time ChatGPT is discussed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... /end

Followers will know that my views on AI are nuanced, but it does seem to me that this should be given a higher profile. Related: AI companies keep knocking library, archive and museum catalogues offline by their relentless and inconsiderate automated scraping of content.

Mods are asleep, post Thai chefs covering System Of A Down while cooking youtu.be/Ru4aqzjvplw?...

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

So deeply unfair. She did nothing wrong at all, was the victim of a vicious, grifting, bigoted bully. And she's the one who has been forced out of public service.

Look, I already said I was sorry. Not to you, granted, or about this, but the point remains.

It scared one guy, the screenwriter of DEADPOOL, and I've seen like a dozen separate articles that all state that this one guy now represents all of Hollywood.

Hilary Cass, who called people concerned about trans kids killing themselves "shroud wavers" on the BBC talking about toxic debates

Yes, BY YOU, you vile arsehole www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know basically nothing about geopolitics but I have to imagine that it must boil Vladimir Putin's piss that four years later he has been unable to win or even symbolically declare victory in Ukraine. Real reminder of the actual condition of the Russian war machine.