🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)
How do I reduce the US political content on here? Anyone around too see this?
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A two part coming. On the top panel, a gray caricature of a person is labelled "Open AI" and is smiling while reaching for a yellow balloon labelled "Intellectual property theft". In the bottom panel, the same scene is presented but zoomed out slightly; this time, the person is looking backwards nervously at a pink monster also labelled "intellectual property theft"
ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all
Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
Tell me more about these economic systems with no classes...
I do this so much when I'm out and about and I don't understand why I don't see more people searching for music they hear! Always leads me down unexpectedly great roads.
Side note: gutted that Google took this away when they "upgraded" my phone to Gemini 😢
This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”
I'm not one to sing capitalism's praises but pretty sure abuse of power is a lot older!
Wow this is wild!
Dear Keir Starmer,
Please don't "unleash AI' to try to create the mythical growth you're always on about. AI is losing money at a rate of millions of dollars per DAY. It's biggest cheerleaders live off investor money by promising Big Things In The Unspecified Future. It is flim flam.
Regards, Sooz
Oxfam: During the pandemic, the ten richest men doubled their wealth while the incomes of 99% of humanity fell. They now own over six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people. Inequality contributes to one death every four seconds.
This is not sustainable or just. Don't accept it.
The original write up is very good and has more detail
www.civiceconomics.com/indie-impact...
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
However hard your life is, remember that you have more dignity than the richest man to ever exist, who used a sock puppet to post this about himself.
Wondering if anyone else has been affected by any of the issues in Kafka's The Metamorphosis? At the moment I'm just putting out feelers.
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[opens WaPo app]
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this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer
Beyond imagination!
A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)
cool, shut it down
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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Guy watching TV: OH BOY CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS! HM! THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD I ENJOYED IT *Guy is now watching a reviewer online named "cool man" review the show. Cool Man: IT WAS SHIT Guy: IT WAS SHIT WASN'T IT.... THIS.... HAS BEEN MY OPINION ALL ALONG...
My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Greggs Wallace ponders if he is out of touch, but decides it's middle class women if a certain age who are wrong
@dustyweb.bsky.social - thanks for a really interesting read of dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
Also thanks to @autonomic.zone for pointing me there!
Fred: Hey Shaggy have you seen Velma?
Shaggy: It wasn't me!
Fred: What??
Shaggy: It wasn't me!
Fred: Guys, I think we picked up the wrong Shaggy again.
Shaggy: Mr Lover Lover Mmmm
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a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
