So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

If we let them proliferate for a generation, we lose institutional expertise; poison our environment at greater scale; and teach kids that so long as creative theft is monumentally gigantic, it’s okay. The reality is, a lot of hype is built to make you think you need this tech. You don’t.

Reminder: If generative AI platforms & data centres were erased from the Earth…we’d be fine. They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves.

They do eventually get to the thing I don’t understand: If you don’t learn how to do anything except plug prompts into chatbots, what do you envision anybody hiring you for? I would love it if people just *wanted* to be able to think critically, but it’s also practical?

First Past the Post is often dubbed a ‘winner takes all system’. But remarkably, it cannot even guarantee that the party with the most votes will win the most seats. This is what happened in Wandsworth, as the Conservatives managed to turn a second place in votes into the most seats on the council.

Vote ADHD: We're completely psychologically prepared for this. We'll always be absolutely convinced we're not really good enough.

This raises so many questions. Like why would she want to put such pictures in her resignation letter? And why taken specifically with children's phones? And what law did he block that would have otherwise allowed it?

Never concede an inch to generative images and text. It is a fascistic project by billionaires to undermine and destroy human culture, its goal is to destroy our empathy and human connections. We are already feeling the effect. It is far from being “just a tool”.

Non-Reform Party Councillors: Reform is a fascist, racist, discriminatory, anti-democratic party. Place a total cordon sanitaire around them: zero cooperation or contact. Don’t say good morning, hold the lift door or pass them a pen. Give their visitors wrong directions. Make them pariahs.

Is it bad to rely on geological solutions to political problems?

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

AI is the Japanese Knotweed of technology.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Can't believe there might be a place in AI for massively overconfident self-proclaimed geniuses who believe you can data-logic your way through any complex societal problem if you just reject complexity, empathy, morality and legality as obsolete weaknesses.

No matter what any AI bros promise, they DID NOT -and CAN NOT- solve for GIGO. They don't care if they're pumping sewage into everyone's pipes, filtered barely enough to appear clean, as long as the money keeps flowing. Generations trained to trust the computer will keep drinking the shit water.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Well this seems ever more relevant

I know it's important for me to keep tabs on my blood pressure but keeping tabs on my blood pressure freaks me out and is bad for my blood pressure.

This thread is objectively correct.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

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Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

I can't help but feel the only reasonable response to the demand "scan your receipt to exit" on those cattle gates at Sainsbury's is "absolutely the fuck not".

You writers using AI are really missing a trick. I pay someone else to lift my weights for me at the gym. They're still being lifted, so I'm going to be super hench in no time.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Maybe we should get on with building that big solar farm sometime soon

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

I wrote just last week for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on why it's a problem when media (and lawyers) cite AI models as if they're quoting a person, or even a corporate representative. www.techpolicy.press/anthropomorp...

"world book day" it's not a world book you idiot it's called an atlas

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

So what, those late diagnosed folks burning out and having meltdowns (for example) are just being 'hypersensitive' because late diagnosed people probably aren't "really" autistic? Sorry, but I'm not buying that at all.

The UK government is looking to make legal for AI companies that which any ordinary citizen could be taken to court for. It is on the cusp of approving theft *only* in this case, a truly unequivocal “rules for thee, not for me” scenario. That AI needs such special treatment indicts it utterly.

This government is properly shit. A crushing disappointment on so many levels.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

What else is there to say but: these people were warned and warned and warned again about this, going back well over ten years and further, and their constant response was: absolutely fuck you, you are all idiots and we are the smart, Sensible people whom understand what the public like and want.

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

Thanks to all the AI dickheads for making server and hardware costs go through the roof because of your shitty copyright theft brainrot machines THAT NO ONE WANTS

Parents, young person, NHS, educational psychologist and educational setting: "This young person is struggling with complex mental health issues and needs an EHCP to get the support they need QUICKLY before things get worse". Local authority: "Lol, no, we decided they're fine. CASE CLOSED"

The US built a whole tech industry off taxpayer dollars on defense and war. In the UK, ou health budget dwarfs defence, yet rather than use that to build our a socially useful tech industry, we outsourced that industry to military industrial tech giants from the US, like Palantir. It's mental.

Much of Palantir's "genius" is not genius at all, it's just smart data science. When did UK politicians decide the UK state didn't have the intelligence and capability to build it's own systems? Why does the NHS need a Palantir? It's just data guys, not Elvish spells.

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

I'm still not clear on what we're supposed to be doing with all the time gAI has freed up for us, now that we're not creating art, having our own conversations, making our own choices or having relationships with real people.

Vandalism.