Honestly. It frustrates me that people don't understand why they shouldn't delegate putting sentences together to a machine. That's the sad thing. It's mostly voluntary. AI should be analysing qualitative data. Not writing 4 sentence emails

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Zack Polanski is a gay Jewish man telling us to love and embrace our neighbours while the leaders of the other parties are telling us to remove our own protections and hate everyone outside our families.
Is it any secret as to why the Greens won?

The role of Musk's X in the 2020s is remarkably similar to that of Rothermere's Daily Mail in the 1920s and 1930s. It pushed a narrative which claimed we were being "swamped" by "aliens" (mostly meaning Jews), undermining British interests and values, threatening "our" women and children ...

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Been saying this forever. Streets covered in chewing gum give me the ick.

❤️

Awful news. Genuinely shocked & saddened. What a talent to have lost.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Big Tech is offering you a Faustian bargain. It promises to remove all the friction from life, to keep you from having to think or study, and the result is your brain will become pudding, you’ll become incapable of creativity or communication. They want to make you a non-person.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I will stand by this til the day I die - you can be a technically brilliant dancer and leave the audience cold - it’s the person that moves you that will always rise. Same with acting, music, art… always. #strictly (yes Karen moves me …) #scd #strictyuk #strictlycomedancing #strictlyfinal

People are now blatantly watching actual telly on their phones while driving. I've seen it multiple times but put it down to 'maybe the kids are watching it in the back of the car' but tonight just some dude watching a sitcom as he drove merrily through the city. Terrifying stupidity.

Your entire oeuvre has already been devoured. You'll just have to write another. Soz, I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️
Thank you so much for the recommendations! That's Christmas & birthday sorted.

If a law student has all the @barristersecret.bsky.social books & wants a new book for Xmas in a similar vein, what would people recommend?

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

I don't understand why people won't stop buying stuff!! Just stop

By 'stuff' I don't mean food and books etc. I mean Teslas, crap from Temu and £50 water bottles

Look at Facebook:

Advert, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper other side of U.K., Advert, Advert, Reel, Magazine Article About Comic Book, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper the other side of U.K. but in a different direction to the last one, Advert, Status posted by Friend.

There's definitely been an uptick in AI interference in WhatsApp & beyond. My spell check is 'correcting' fully correct words for entirely different (& inappropriate) ones. Losers becomes lovers; Rosanna becomes Hosanna - in a Contacts name field?!

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

'[...]the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen & you’ll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match – which [...] is located 17 places down in a [...] search result.'

Tommy Robinson aka Steven Yaxley Lennon gurning his face off surrounded by various bald white men in stone island and Fred Perry sports clothing, on some form of march, with Union flags flying around him

Confused about Netanyahu inviting racist convicted fraudster, stalker and Luton Town and low-quality cocaine fan Steven “Oh Tommy Tommy Robinson” Yaxley Lennon to 🇮🇱?

Don’t be.

Short 🧵 1/