Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
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Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
What if AI just makes us work harder? ft.trib.al/ZlSWAMm | opinion
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
Doesn't Transport Focus have something to say about this or are they prioritising "simplification"? It can only be viewed as a reduction in consumer protection, surely?
Evergreen.
Poop is so mimsy, isn’t it?
I object to the use of bartender, tbh. This is Tulse Hill, not Tulsa!
(As Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine reminded us.)
Also v useful for muting, blocking and search reasons. As always what’s accessible for one group of people is accessible for most…
Another little thread on alt text, which I think is the bit of the iceberg we can see on accessibility. 🧵
1. Despite all the 'scolding' about alt text (talking about it quite reasonably) that goes on here, lots of people still don't add it to images. Is it because they are arseholes? Probably not.
Agree that note taking is a useful memory technique, but no one is going to ban pens even when we have AI...
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines.
If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends.
leeds.ghost.io
It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
I’m v sceptical about LLMs etc, but the thoughtless, illogical arguments against it are incredibly maddening.
oh for fuck's sake stop writing these pieces. AI is not a knowledge engine. Using it as such is idiotic, and writing a gotcha piece about how it didn't know something very specific to you makes you look stupid.
the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile
by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein
they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time
Exactly this. This is a very very good, natural-seeming communicator.
It takes a lot of practice and skill to get this good/this natural/this normal.
Poor old Peter Mandelson. How many times will he have to resign in disgrace over how many decades before posters spell his name correctly?
This is incredibly petty by @manchestermill.bsky.social - it was obviously done without my knowledge
manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...
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Early days yet, I know but Drum has only sold 25 copies which is a bit of a reality check. I clearly need to up my promotional game so if anyone wants to invite me onto their podcast or do an interview or anything comedy related, you know where I am. Don't be shy.
It's not just Teams and Zoom which LaSuite is offering an alternative for: but also GMail, Google Docs, WhatsApp, etc.
Feeling quite patriotic today I must confess.
lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr
France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
It’s me! #commspride
Oh god.
Friendly tip for PRs working in beer - when you win a new beer account, don't assume that professional beer writers have never heard of the brewery, just because you didn't know they existed until three weeks before you pitched for the business.
Very grim.
www.ft.com/content/c894...
