Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Horrific stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morrissey, somehow managing to be a more ridiculous version of Stewart Lee’s ‘These days if you say you’re English’ parody

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

The trans community’s trust in the NHS’ new puberty blocker trial is low and I can’t help but wonder whether they could have prevented that by involving ANY trans people in its design or operation, and maybe not involving several people who have attended conferences of anti-LGBTQ hate groups

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I'm up for doing this...

I won’t say what I want to say but this is unethical. You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on. Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen. Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.

TIME TO OPEN UP THAT BOTTLE I'VE BEEN KEEPING, JUST WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT!!!!! ROT IN JAIL YOU PIECE OF A HORRIBLE PAST WE NEVER WANT TO RELIVE AGAIN! 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

This article is crap. It gives voices predominantly to one side, and does not mention the large amount of academic criticism directed at the Cass review. It's just *shit*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This has stayed on my mind today.

Completely agree. The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked. European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.

Well if there’s one thing we learned about Trump this week it’s that he likes his Democrats hung. He’s been full-throated about that.

I bet she would though

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he sees all

Every country that does this only bans it for trans people. It's still approved for cis children www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

It does rather beg the question - what *would* be classified as a hate symbol?

I lost my wife. I listened today to at Trans Day of Remembrance to people suffering from loss, trauma, and grief. And I witnessed a racist transphobe incapable of sympathy. I cannot comprehend them and they must be stopped.

This is grotesque. Before trial they are accused. They are not yet criminals. Taking away jury trials because they are criminals is a presumption of guilt and it is profoundly wrong and unjust.

I feared this in 2016, but now it’s happened: The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.

Ffs. What the fuck? I mean what the ever loving actual fuck?

Waiting for speakers and waiting for collective remembering

We have normalized horrifying, shocking, and unacceptable behavior from this president. It has to stop. Now.

Oooh merch store too! *spends money*

Dear god look at this mess www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Fuck Lawrence Krauss. Up the arse with barbed wire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...

My cat is a dork

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

The Joe Rogan subreddit remains an incredible place. As we cover every week, Joe’s political positions are being tacked more and more towards the extreme, and more and more the fan base he grew by talking to comedians and MMA fighters isn’t very pleased with the direction of travel.

This article is full of bollocks as far as I can see. A diet 7 up is not worse for you than salami. Unprocessed red meat is still not great for you, and supermarket bread isn't that much worse than home baked. It's just founded on bad bundling into these categories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some incredible fake movie titles on this SQL training website.

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

Going to plug for Clocktower friends, my friend Louisa's new YT channel of games. It has a me, so of course I'm plugging it. If you don't know what Blood on the Clocktower is it's probably not for you, not without some more introductory viewing on the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPl...

"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

As a Labour cabinet minister surely you should be worried if a bunch of backbenchers vehemently dislike your policy, and Badenoch is supporting you.

Just unbelievable that Labour have basically come up with a near 100% tax on the people who have just about nothing, rather than any sort of decent increase on the people have more than everything.

What an abominable ruling.

Things I’ve learned. Streaming Clocktower is *hard* and I respect people that do it well. You need to talk to and listen to up to 15 people, while also talking to and listening to a big chat. It’s a talent to do it well.

Dipped my toes into streaming Blood on the Clocktower. Didn’t tick the right tickyboxes to save it, but great games with brilliant friends. Will do it again! (Don’t expect to be big or make money, just have fun)

I am CRYING 😭🤣 had dinner tonight at a *Michelin* restaurant and the amuse bouche had gluten so my mom and I got "fresh crudite with ranch" PLEASEEEE this is the funniest gluten free item I've ever been served

A reminder that "Alien observations" is an anagram of "Avi Loeb's insane rot"

I'm going to repost this a lot, even more after watching Streeting railing against striking doctors. Such a Labour approach 🙃

Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee https://theonion.com/cat-follows-man-through-apartment-like-racist-walgreens-employee/

Is Wired threatening me?

Also, and this really is me blowing my own trumpet here, This thread about my joke explanation stand-up set from Joel is fucking delightful. Joel is a man who has worked on some of my favourite comedy stuff and REALLY knows his comedy onions, so reading this thoughts on this is a genuine joy to me.

Do you ever get the impression that the people making this stuff don't really have any meaningful connections with other human beings? They've seen it in movies and on TV but they've never experienced it so genAI nutraloaf feels satisfying to them because they don't know what real food tastes like

Seems like there's some diminishing returns kicking in here lads.

The asterisk in B*Witched is covering the letter A. It's an old Scottish insult for "I had a testicle rash"