They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

So AI provides unreliable information, creates mediocre work, enriches billionaires at everyone else’s cost, was created by plagiarism, and is environmentally completely unsustainable. But other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

My final reflection on what I learned about Figure Skating. The women are more skilled than the men. Misogyny reacts by making the bit that needs brute strength - the jumps - worth more so men score higher, but that means men fall more which is worse. In a sane world jump scores should deflate.

Kyle Bassinga, 21, was found hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Police quickly ruled it a suicide, yet most such acts occur privately, not in public. Why is the mainstream media silent on this? We need answers and transparency.

There is a third type, of course: people who say "AI will probably never get so smart that it meaningfully, or even efficiently, replaces human labour, but tens of millions of people will still lose their jobs because there is currently a $10bn hype machine telling every CEO on earth that it will".

Alyssa skated clean, and had a lovely spin but my heart breaks for Kaori, whose programme was exquisite.

Just caught up with the figure skating and the Japanese women are everything! Joy, poetry and strength.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

How To Get To Heaven from Belfast - I am now sleep deprived. Lisa McGee has done it again. Cracking dialogue - check. Surreal and batshit side chars. Check. Women friends forever. Check. Demented cameos. Check. Perfet genre bomb *and* the cheeky wee sequel to London Irish 13 years on. Oh my ❤️

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Unsurpassed ice dance commentary

I'd love to see Robin Cousins have to respond to a question about menning? Am I evil?

And here’s a cartoon which takes us full circle

Well. THAT was a memorable Figure Skating competition. Maybe they'll downgrade the quads now so as to never repeat such an overwhelm ever again.

Fuckity fuck. RIP James VDB

unmute this now, this is the best thing you will hear all day, carry it in your heart

I get fasch poster boy vibes from Mallinin. Lot of dog whistles, not least his narcissistic skate track vo. Went on an internet dip to find out if I'm being unreasonable. Brandishing the yellow socks of an open Putin supporter... uh huh.

Being dazzled by Adam Siao Him Fa has led me to this eye-opening history of racism in figure skating through the medium of backflip.

Ignore the headlines and make an effort to find the short programme that French figure skater Adam Siao Him Fa performed tonight. It was perfection.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

“You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists, meanwhile, are never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious,”’

Facing racism in the sport head on, Surya Bonaly landed the banned backflip on one foot and made history anyway ⛸️ 💥

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

I just think it's weird that not a single person calling for Starmer's head is calling for the American embassy to be expelled.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

Wonderful Bfigit Day parade @brigitdublin.bsky.social . Delighted that after 27 straight days of rain, #Brigit blessed your gorgeous parade with fair weather and even a hint of sun

Being rejected by a woman breaks even "good" guys because at the end of the day, they're all products of the patriarchy and they're more invested in sustaining that identity than risking their egos by trusting women.

I can't think of anything less patriotic than allowing a corrupt pedophile to suspend the constitution so he can murder citizens, enrich himself, and imprison journalists.

... gonna be honest here and say the first problem is connecting a random action generation machine to your data and bank accounts

one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

They are Nazis.

Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

This has turned into a fab recs listing

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Sinners baby! This means I'll be able to rewatch at the cinema.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The cognitive dissonance of getting an amber alert for a missing white child as the state kidnaps, brutalizes and disappears hundreds of black and brown folks…

In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.