Of course everyone’s rolling out the salad puns (they’re all in the replies to the post below, kindly spare us any more), but I just want to say: every time she declares it’s not funny to compare her to a lettuce, it becomes funnier

Countless pieces of sweeping, intrusive surveillance legislation have been passed by the Labour Party, all framed, in large part, as vital measures to protect children. And yet, when a website run by a powerful US billionaire actually becomes a firehouse of vile abusive content, they do nothing.

Trump seems to be threatening to NATO because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize (which he misspells). Of a piece with reports that he refuses to back Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corinna Machado because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize he wanted.

Huh just had an idea for an actually useful GenAi tool.

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc

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Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart

lol Palantir sound like psychos, good thing we've kept them at arms length...

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ELON MUSK’S XAI RAISED $20 BILLION AT AN IMPLIED ~$230 BILLION VALUATION, WITH NVIDIA, CISCO, FIDELITY AND OTHER MAJOR BACKERS PILING IN TO FUND ITS AGGRESSIVE PUSH IN AI.

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First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

i like it when philip swears

every country in central and South America has their own very specific answer to the question “When has the United States ever engaged in imperialism”

Introduce yourself by 5 cars or vehicles you have owned: Honda Concerto (Good!) Toyota Landcruiser (Big!) Honda Jazz (Bad!) Audi TT (Good!) Kia Niro phev (Meh)

I am WHEEZING. PLEASE watch all the way to the end

Now he's talking about the autopen.

Great thread. “Are you even a reality-based business?” will be my ‘any questions for us’ question from now on in interviews.

The Office brand is arguably Microsoft's most important - possibly more than Windows itself. To rename it after this slop generator is staggeringly foolish. Honestly, it's pushed me to spending more and more time in Linux and MacOS lately to escape this Copilot push.

Wow. This will prove to be a very ill thought through position.Like, even more than now.

"You are never more than six feet from a rat" factoid actually statistical error. Average person is over 18ft away from a rat. Kym Deyn, who lives in a rat nest, and keeps putting cute little rat bambinos in her mouth, is a statistical error adn should not have been counted.

Reporter: If you had to sum up Operation Absolute Resolve, would you say that it was about oil or it was about regime change? Trump: It's about peace on earth. Reporter: How is it peace on earth?

So it turns out the scheduled charging on our Kia Phev randomly forgets to actually charge, or does so only partly? A simple timer plug socket works better? Honestly, car manufacturers are not great at tech.

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans. I do support the death penalty for corporations. When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

For years, the UK has been allergic to talking about the issue of Russian influence in its politics, partly because neither of the traditional main parties has historically spotless on the issue of relations with Russian oligarchs.

A lot of people around here learning how fun* front-wheel-drive and snow can be

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

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Russia is no longer a great power and whatever is left of Moscow's regional power status is being destroyed in fields around Donbas

This meme is almost as old as my boomer father

The work of Shio Kusaka, contemporary Japanese ceramics artist #Womensart

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Excited for Tony Blair to explain why this is all fine on the Today programme on Monday

The Orb called, left a 40 minute message mostly in dub-whalesong

Cool cool Ed, "fix it" could you be any more vague?

The US is not our friend.

Yeah, this

Anyway, 2026 eh?

Five RTs. Six Likes. It would be more cost effective for Defra comms officials to dial random phone numbers and launch into a spiel about otters or whatever.

Omg it's beautiful

Forgot to post this one

[God creating dogs] Oh these turned out great. Im going to want all of these back at some point

we are so ill served by our media class it's insane

this too is slop

hothardware.com/news/sony-fa... Oof!

Almost every story I read about genAI makes me want to kick out the plugs. “But it’s here to stay!” “But I’ve found this positive use for it!” Bully for you. Just turn it off until we can regulate it properly so it doesn’t give dangerous health advice, tell people to kill themselves or generate CSAM