On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon. www.wired.com/story/astero...

Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds gizmodo.com/students-are...

It's the consistently principled nature of the Labour right that is the source of my deepest admiration for it.

What I have learned over the last ten years is that public consultations largely means nothing. The decisions are already made. Now they are blocking the ability to challenge the decisions too. They can’t play by the rules so they change them instead. Crafty bunch.

This was adopted in the teeth of fierce public opposition- as clearly catalogued by @fplogue.bsky.social previously bsky.app/profile/fplo...

Here is an explainer for what they've just done. We described it then as one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. Now it has come to pass www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

This is a dark day for the environmental movement. In one of most regressive moves I've seen by this Government, they are effectively shutting down the majority of environmental public interest litigation. Over 1400 people told them not to do this. Did they listen? Of course not.

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extremely relevant here is the fact that many Gardaí do not want to be doing roads policing. let's not forget that AGS commissioned a report into this themselves and the findings were -not good-

Labour has pushed for this for months, and finally they achieved it, ending universal human rights by making them conditional upon political will and bringing back a version of the Rwanda deal via the backdoor. 90/ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Beijing will be happy with Trump comments on Taiwan "Xi probably liked you haven't approved weapons to Taiwan." Trump: "'like' is maybe too strong of a word…China's a very, very big country. That's a very small island. It's 59 miles away. We're 9,500 miles away…[Taiwan] stole our chip industry."

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

"It’s an age-old question. What would you have done? What are you prepared to do today?" Well over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its assault in response to the terror attacks of Oct 7th. I'm interested in Oliver Sears answer to his own question. Never again.

‘An hour of abuse’: Jeremy Corbyn on Labour coups, and whether he feels sorry for Starmer

One might ask: where's the fucking Prime Minister? He was more than happy to stick his oar in when it wasn't needed, but now it might actually yield something he's not having panicked press conferences and no police forces are suggesting extra protections for anyone. Weird.

US commentators like Ben Shapiro knowingly, gleefully lying down with rabid neo-nazi sympathisers years ago and only now caring about getting up with fascist fleas is peak FAFO

The fact that a New York mayor marked Nakba Day is historic

BREAKING: SCOTUS has denied Democrats' request for a stay on the Virginia redistricting case. This means that the VA Supreme Court ruling stands. This is what Democrats get for asking permission. It is beyond absurd that they asked a 6-3 MAGA fascist court for permission. They need to ACT ASAP.

SCOTUS gutting the VRA has kickstarted a right wing effort to gut state level VRAs. Our Illinois State Director Dylan Blaha details the attempt to gut the Illinois VRA. If successful, MAGAs will make this nationwide. Here's how we stop this fascism. letsaddressillinois.substack.com/p/first-the-...

Philadelphia will send a Democrat to Congress in November. But will that Democrat be a cautious backbencher or a transformational leader? AOC, Ro Khanna, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party and DSA say Chris Rabb is ready to hit the ground running.

A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Fudali spoke with us inside the new Trump-Epstein Memorial Reading Room in NYC. Watch full livestream inside the room containing 3.5 million pages of the Epstein Files www.youtube.com/live/r_rwB9G...

The number of gardaí involved in Roads Policing Units has dropped by nearly 40% since 2009, the latest figures released from the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána have shown.

Did Zionism take a wrong turn or was it always destined to be a "racist" and "genocidal" ideology animating the state of Israel? Historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy debate.

"Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada on Nakba Day.

Maybe Americans shouldn't have voted for that dumb shit "to own the libz" or "for the lulz" or whatever stupid reason drove the nation to electing the decaying orange mass of wasted space. It turns out that people love to fuck around but hate to find out.

Bro thinks you can wish for more wishes

Don't make up facts! I say to the bullshit machine. You are the smartest boy ever, I say, as the irony meter explodes.

If users can simply tell it not to hallucinate, why wouldn't the model itself come with default instructions to not hallucinate?

one funny aspect is he could probably accomplish the same output with a third of the prompts, but that wouldn't allow him to cosplay as an enlightened supergenius that's intellectually beyond pesky mortal concerns about ethics and equality

outside of the prompt being too long to be helpful, stuff like "don't remind me about ethics" and "don't be politically correct" are cues to feed him a steady diet of right wing bullshit, dressed up as him being fair minded and wanting level, objective responses they're all so wildly un self-aware

"Your answers do not need to be politically correct." "Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask." I know this isn't a unique observation but these gentlemen are in absolutely no way remarkable outside of their good fortune

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

In last 24 hours •Iran War Powers resolution fails 212-212 because Centrist Democratic Rep Jared Golden votes with Trump •Democratic CO Gov Jared Polis gives clemency to 2020 convicted felon Tina Peters for election fraud •VA Democratic trifecta govt rejected by SCOTUS to allow VA redistricting 1/2

He says the EU has made no effort to push back against the US wrongfully targeting his daily life on European soil for his work protecting international law in a European city — the Hague.

“French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou is no longer allowed to travel to the US. All his accounts with American companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, have been shut He has no email accounts. He is on a list of 15,000 others including Al-Qaeda, Putin, and other terrorists.”

Shona Murray: “… at no point has the EU moved to defend European citizens from specious accusations. This goes for the EU’s weak support of the institutions of criminal justice such as the International Criminal Court (ICC).” @shonamurray.bsky.social

Delighted to speak at the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) conference on Thursday in Croke Park. Some of the key points made during the panel I spoke on are summarised in this Journal Article www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-co...

Virginia Dems asked for permission instead of forgiveness. A mistake, IMHO.

The Trump administration is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to send reckless federal agents into our communities to violate our rights, while cutting necessary programs that our communities need. Tell Congress to act and pass legislation that will hold federal agents accountable.

In fairness, I honestly think she will happily continue talking like a sociopath

in a few years someone close to her will come out of the closet or get deported and she'll leave the industry, which will be fine because they'll have hired another infant who doesn't understand the world yet to talk like a sociopath for long enough to destroy themselves.

this kid is five years out of harvard undergrad and has every fellowship on earth dedicated to turning rich kids into sneering tyrants. it's very depressing, not least because it's the highest-paid role in journalism.

how many diapers did you go through making this

"None of the individuals at the scene have provided sworn statements to CUPD, despite CUPD’s repeated attempts to collect sworn statements in the days following the incident." Good. Everyone gets an A. They would not use those statements to investigate fairly, they would use them to screw you over.

A couple of weeks ago Marc Andreessen posted an extensive "do not hallucinate" type of warding prompt for "AI" on the former Twitter and the Internet responded as you would expect and as it should have, with effusive mockery futurism.com/artificial-i...

I’d be happy cheering on the end of technocrat screwing of the huddled masses if what would be resorted to next by the elites wasn’t fascism. We’ve been down this road before in the Thirties, and very few polities managed new social contracts to stave it off (such as FDR in the States and Dev here)