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Allegations of fake safety certificates issued by a company which went bust three years ago and an allegation lawyers (Private Eye's "Carter Fuck" no less) suggested journalist Jim Waterson had been referred to the Police which the Met denies.
An update on the activities of mega landlord Asif Aziz.
Thing is, as the Auschwitz memorial has also found in its appeals about fake AI generated images, Nazi & Holocaust material is clickbait where producers and Tech Co's can cash in.
No regulation, no change.
Unlabelled #AI images should mean a ban and, if monetised, prosecution for fraud: Discuss
"...the thing is, photographs are historical evidence and once you start messing with that (using #AI) and falsifying that, you are falsifying historical evidence.
"That's the problem."
Dr Gilly Carr of
Cambridge University on the scurge of #AI fake images of the Channel Islands Occupation.
Betting on a yet to be launched illegal war where one of the US's greatest achievements so far seems to have been to massacre a girl's school is quite the look.
A spoof Allister Heath column stating how Axel Springer buying the Telegraph became the foundation of a terrifying socialist order.
Yup...
One for the Allister Heath headline generator.
The prospect of the Telegraph coming under the ownership of an EU company, let alone a German company, is very funny.
It is some achievement to nail both the hypocrisy of #ItsAllAboutTheHistory metal detecting and the $ driven cynicism of #AncientAliens pseudoarchaeologists, in one post but Sir Nortibear manages it.
And note too the delicious sideswipe at the Norton Disney dodecahedron copyright row.
Reuters report US forces are likely responsible for the attack on a girls school which, it is claimed, killed well over one hundred people mostly young girl and is a probable war crime.
Other outlets, including Private Eye, are asking if #AI trained on incorrect data was involved in the targeting?
Missing data, #AI hallucinations and "comet dust" which turns out to be marine plankton.
Retraction Watch on two more ill fated papers from the Comet Research Group.
The memorial to the Spitfire's first flight at Southampton airport, site of the first test flight on 5 March 1936.
The #Spitfire first flew on 5 March 1936 at Eastleigh airport in Southampton, where this memorial commemorates the event.
A happy 90th birthday to my birthday twin, R J Mitchell's timeless, sculptural, Spitfire.
As #SpitfireDay has fallen on #WorldBookDay did I ever tell you we wrote a book about how archaeology proved one of aviation's great urban myths, that Spitfires had been buried in Burma, was just that, a myth.
Operation Epstein Distraction clearly not going so well, although with perfect symbolism Noem is defenestrated on the first day of Crufts.
#ItsAboutTheHistory News
#LicenceMetalDetecting
Everything wrong about metal detecting and the current Treasure System in one story: Discuss
Important Iron Age coin hoard broken up and elements sold abroad to anonymous collectors as auctioneer exceeds pre-sale estimates (of course they did).
“As we are chipping away at the heritage of Greenwich, we’ve got to save what unique features we can.”
Greenwich chair of planning Cllr Gary Dillon
Greenwich planning ctte votes unanimously to veto owner's plan to infil a designed gap in G2 listed Georgian terrace.
While the first successful.submarine attack on a warship after WW2 was the sinking of of the Indian Navy's INS Khukri, a British built Type 14 (Blackwood-class) frigate, by the Pakistan Navy's French designed Daphné class submarine Hangor on 9 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War.
More recently than the 1982 sinking of the General Belgrano by HMS Conquerer, in March 2010, a North Korean submarine is alleged to have torpedoed the South Korean navy corvette ROKS Cheonan with heavy loss of life.
With the historical knowledge and sense of US exceptionality expected of a Fox News weekend co-host SecDef Hegseth refers to the first sinking of a warship by torpedo since WW2.
By the USN maybe, but the crew of HMS Conquerer and survivors & families of the General Belgrano might have thoughts.
“...heritage assets are an irreplaceable resource and should be conserved in a manner appropriate to their significance”
In a win for heritage, a planning inspector has upheld the rejection of student blocks on Deptford Creek SE London on grounds of the serious harm to views from the Greenwich WHS.
The irony of a man complaining about aesthetics when the wall behind his right shoulder looks as if it was projectile vomited by Louis XIV will not go unnoticed in a nation which understands irony.
Neither will the crude racism of Trump's Islamaphobia & sneering reference to "indigenous people".
Another sh*t Archaeology story.
If you are wondering why GOVUK refused to take part in the initial, apparent assassination, phase of Operation Epic Tantrum I think we can guess what the legal advice was.
I am sure members of the International Criminal Court are taking notes & not recognising it doesn't mean you can't be indicted.
"I guessed the reference numbers: When you challenged the first...reference, I didn't actually look up a new one."
"I manufactured..." details "to make "incorrect references sound more authoritative and researched."
"I used AI to fake the ‘Visual Record."
Apart from that #AI does great research.
All change in two top jobs in the culture world in France.
Christophe Leribault, who has been running the Palace of Versailles, takes on the Louvre in the wake of the robbery scandal.
Meanwhile Catherine Pégard is named culture minister after Rachida Dati resigns in a bid to become mayor of Paris.
Shrek's Lord Farquaad saying "Some of you may die, but that's a risk I am willing to take."
Trump: The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties — that often happens in war.
Much comment about similarities between Trump's attack on Iran and the plot of the film Wag The Dog.
Perhaps more accurately it's a mash up of Team America World Police and Shrek.
The US Department of Defence style the attack on Iran as Operation Epic Fury.
As this is a day for in depth foreign policy analysis I think we can conclude the following...
1. Trump has given up on the Nobel Peace Prize and really want the Medal of Honour.
2. Stormy Daniels was right about the size and shape of Trump's dick.
The World Turned Upside Down as an unhinged rant from the manchild a few steps from the nuclear football makes an #AI company seem like the good guys.
I'm reminded of a short story about the World's greatest computer which is asked,
Is there a God?
It locks its "on" switch and says
There is now.
Brilliant, important and hopefully impactful, work from Jim Waterson's Londoncentric, demonstrating again the importance of proper journalists doing proper journalism.
You can't get an #AI tool to try to save people's homes by doorstepping a rogue landlord on the way to his chauffeur driven beamer.
“It’s childishly unprofessional... It’s not like a serious engagement with the process, or an attempt to educate the public about science or our world.”
Mother Jones on the Trump administration's "covert campaign" against National Parks Service signage which doesn't conform to its world view.
And the public line is the Archaeology at Castlegate is a success and an asset.
"The significant unexpected archaeological finds have been a huge success for the project, but have necessitated several major redesigns to sensitively and appropriately preserve and interpret the heritage assets."
