Prosecute Noem. Don’t forget about her.

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

a photo of JG Ballard

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”
—JG Ballard

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

anyone with enough brain-damage to think that running this is a good idea deserves worse than what they will eventually get

Glasgow Caledonian University to cut 100 jobs as part of £10m saving plan GCU said it follows a drop in international student recruitment

STV reporting Glasgow Caledonian University plans to cut 100 jobs - link in article 👇 contains interview with UCU branch president #StopTheCuts #SaveHE news.stv.tv/west-central...

If there were any justice, Sam Altman's impact on the world would be measured in mass graves.

To say that everyone involved in Anthropic, OpenAI, nVidia, Oracle, and the rest of the spicy-autocorrect bubble that surrounds these scum should be burned alive is AN INSULT TO FIRE

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

I’m not sure “we’re trying to end the world” is a great message for improving morale.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven:

“We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

This is the basis on which Starmer was elected Labour leader.

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

The blatant consent-manufacturing lie about Iran possessing nuclear weapons threatens to overshadow the promotion of the Iranian version of Ahmed Chalabi.

these people should all hang

the burden of proof is on the people who just wiped out a grade school.

now I'm sure they're going to claim this was an accident. a sad consequence of where the school was located. this is nonsense.

unless proven otherwise you should assume those children were targeted maliciously.

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base

if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

Listening to the Simpsons’ Monorail song while driving home, I had a sudden realization that the line “Oh it’s no use. It’s more of SHELBYVILLE idea.” is how AI products have been successfully sold to management in every sector.

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

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.

The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

Okay, I have to talk about it, Kemi Badenoch responding to her candidate LOSING HER DEPOSIT by insisting she was the only normal candidate in the race and is a sign of a new party is a spectacular insight into the Conservative's woes and I keep thinking about it.

The thing is, Keir, they do have the activist base, because it is in no small part the old labour activist base that you chased away. 💀

I'm amazed that they managed to get exactly the tone and wording right as I'm sure nobody would be so crass as to actually do that.

(after @jayrayner1.bsky.social, whose description of sauces that manage to "mimic" cheap cornflour-thickened takeaway stuff has stuck with me)

I saw the dumbest shit yesterday, an article about the online misogyny faced by teenage girls, that pivoted 2/3rds of the way through into what read like a government press release for age verification and social media bans.

For some reason the bluesky-themed Panic! At the Disco cover band was less successful