I only very recently (after 11 years of being married to a Pole and speaking Polish) realised that their version of bacon is called 'boczek' because it is the diminutive of 'bok' meaning 'side'...because it's from the side of the pig 😆🐷
This is actually, genuinely huge news
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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As a translator of some 11+ years, I feel this
tired of people trying to pass off their genAI slop as "art". it's not art. it is hollow visual noise without any emotion or intention behind it. you did not make it. and no, generating queer AI slop does not somehow make it art. queer slop is still slop!
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
Go for an agglutinating language to pack more in
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Literally nothing has changed, except that now legacy media won't even report propaganda, let alone on-the-ground realities
What about the hostages, was the cry.
Overnight Israeli soldiers have seized over a hundred more Palestinian hostages.
But they never meant Palestinian hostages, did they?
Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."
They were 8 and 11 years old
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
And yet there are people who genuinely believe AI can help solve the climate crisis 🙄
The journalistic malpractice is, at this point, quite astonishing. How can any of these newsreaders say these things with a straight face?
One woman is killed by a man* every three days in the UK. *Not a trans person Not In Our Name NION logo
This is not just a shocking statistic. It is the lived reality of women across Britain. Each number represents a life lost, a family broken, a community grieving.
When we hear this, our anger should be directed where it belongs - at the systems that fail to keep women safe - not at trans people.
I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
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Norwegian encyclopaedia Store norske leksikon complaining that AI summaries cite them as reference but info doesn’t always coincide.
Most worryingly where the AI summary says a particular mushroom isn’t poisonous if you cook it long enough, citing their article which says that’s an old wives’ tale.
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"At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza"
Ceasefire? What ceasefire.
So feminism. Much empowerment. ...
I think I love this little piece a little too much if that's possible
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
I cosign every single word of this
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Honestly getting sick to the back teeth of explaining why I don't think it's a good idea to let a machine that can't actually think do things that humans can do perfectly well just so that a few companies can save some money and some fascistic tech bros can gain even more power and doom the planet
Continuing in the trend of "AI bros simply don't know how to be a human being"...
