Child of Prog

@michaelspicer.bsky.social has a brilliant take on this type of programme:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjnm...

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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I like the reference.

That said, this post may not be accurate.

I mean, it's only a matter of time before that shit happens, but the evidence on this one is still thin.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

They're right that nothing Micheal Martin could say to Trump would make a blind bit of positive difference - in which case, don't go.

Next guy is saying that we need to take morality out of all of our decisions. (Which is, in itself, a moral choice.)

I've always suspected the business classes in Ireland were taught to prioritise income over ethics, and these fuckers are confirming that.

An iconic horror movie moment: The scientists warning of an imminent existential threat to planet Earth watch baffled as two TV presenters treat it like some kind of comedy segment.

Some teacher somewhere who was trying to get their dumbass teenaged students to engage told them "your opinion is as valuable and valid as anyone else's" and I swear that's been the greatest error humanity has made this century.

Yeah, it's me. Thanks for the reminder.

It's astonishing how social media has taught us that we're qualified to comment on anything and everything, despite knowing next-to-fucking nothing about any of it.

"Oh wait, it's NATO they're not part of."

Jesus fucking Christ, lady.

Imagine having the confidence to ring Liveline and then say "Is the war against international law? I thought the US wasn't part of the UN."

I want Downton Abbey, only it's honest about the class power dynamics... and it's set in present-day Dubai.

Cyril. Cox'n of the lifeboat in an Irish fishing town. Hero on the water, drunkard on land.

Johnny. Engineer. Helped build the Mulberry concrete harbours and float them across the Channel after D-Day. Invented vacuum packing for furniture. One-upped Cyril's boozing with the added bonus of gambling.

This is funny. Also, I'm sure this that isn't Luton Airport, but what idiot put the terminal at the end of the runway?

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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.

All that money that's getting poured into the AI bubble? A big chunk of it is going on lobbying governments to remove protections.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman on the money as always.

If you're in the UK, he delivers this year's Reith Lectures, they're on Sounds and they're great.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The United States would never deliberately target a school..."

Presumably because schools don't host weddings.

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

(This may not be based on how things work now, so feel free to correct.) It used to be that big headliners would take 50%, the promoter the other half.

To lower ticket price, the artist would have to lower their %. The new split would soon become standard. Prices would creep back up anyway.

@devindoyle.bsky.social
In thee conditions in Gaza, with severe shortages of medical care and treatment, my son Qais has been infected with a dangerous virus. I am unable to provide him with the treatment he urgently needs, especially in this cold. Any help could save his life

If you think it's an exaggeration, I need y'all to watch the docuseries Shiny Happy People. The first season focuses on the Duggar family and the fundamentalist church

The second season is about the massive evangelical youth org Teen Mania that's been training an "army of god" since the 80s

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Ludovic Coirier of the Electric Beans, live on stage - complete with cowboy hat and Fender Stratocaster.

Thanks for letting me play with you, Ludo. I'll value the memories always, and arms around his friends and his partner and those who loved him.

I honestly hadn't known him all that long. I won't go into how great he was or any of that, it's not like we were super close. But he and his buddies invited me - the new fella, and a foreigner to boot - into their band, and treated me well when I came along. /

Band went on hiatus as Ludo started treatment.

This weekend just gone, Ludo died, surrounded by people who loved him. /