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Labour overturned a 4,500 SNP majority in Hamilton and the BBC spun this as somehow a victory for Reform. The BBC News department is not fit for public service.

submitted 13 hours ago • 91 comments

England's water industry running amok. Govt's reforms can't work. Govt says it will ban unfair dividends. But shareholders can extract returns with share buybacks, interest payments on intragroup loans, artificial management fees and other charges. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

submitted 5 hours ago • 156 comments

I'm far less concerned about the general public misunderstanding LLM's as consumers, than I am about the ass clowns in our government insinuating it into every system they can access. Maybe Luddite should be our new political party?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

More bad news for sea ice monitoring (key satellite observations for tracking for sea ice) "The Defense Department has informed National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) that they will reduce the priority of processing the SSMIS data, resulting in likely daily data gaps" nsidc.org/data/user-re...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

The thing about Elon Musk is that he spent $275 million to elect a man he knew to be on the Epstein client list

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

UNBOUND AUTHORS: We’ve prepared a letter you can send to administrators to demand things like expedited rights reversion, no AI use, return of electronic files (cover art, typesetting, etc) and the option to get any remaining copies of your books. DM me and I will send the template over

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

“At one time, Ukraine handed over strategic bombers to Russia because we wanted peace and security guarantees. But Russia used them against us, bombing our people. Now, part of their strategic aviation has been destroyed in response,” said the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Yermak.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

🇺🇸🇷🇺"Trump asked Republican senators to hold off on discussing a bill to impose or tighten sanctions against Russia," said Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Операція «Павутина», or in English: Operation CAPTCHA

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Billions of dollars to be given by Trump to Musk and others to create the Golden Dome missile defense while the bigger threat might be fleets of tiny exploding camera drones launched out of containers.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Every so often, my brain comes up with a solution to losing all my Unbound royalties. But it’s always “People like your stuff. Make something cool. Ask them to pay for it.” Then I realise I already did that, and that was the money Unbound stole. I bet lots of authors are in the same hole.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Also, UK publishing is worth £11bn and yet our IP and creative resources are being given away...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Folks, there will be a break in the frequent Cammo Tower pictures. I crashed badly on a pothole on Cammo Walk, nearly died. Saved by my bicycle helmet. Thanks to the kind folks who looked after me and called an ambulance. #cammo #edinburgh #cyclecommuting

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

“NATO enlargement caused the war” is basically saying “I had to rob that house because he was buying an insurance policy and a burglar alarm”. It’s nonsense bollocks

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

If MPs’ salaries had grown at the same rate as junior doctors’ since 2010, they would earn about £72,312 today — roughly £19,000 less than their actual 2024 salary of £91,346 That's why doctors are balloting on potential strike action

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Because free speech.

submitted 11 days ago • 1617 comments

Cammo 20250527am #cammo #edinburgh #cyclecommuting #photography

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

£536m NHS cataract contracts given to private operators. 5 companies dominate, 3 private equity (PE) owned. £169m profit. Average profit margin 32%; range from 17% to 50%. £68m interest paid on PE debt NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts. Profiteering = money buys less. Expand NHS capacity

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

I have long suspected the eventual fight will come down to either killing copyright or killing the tech industry. If copyright wins, you're potentially looking at $25k per infringement. If AI wins, you're looking at the collapse of copyright and IP, which means the collapse of creative industries.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

17 years on, the Tories still paint the £45 billion bailout of RBS as a once in a lifetime economic disaster that proves Gordon Brown was a terrible PM. Brexit costs just as much every 19 months. Tories spent last week demanding we keep it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Waterloo monument #photography #scotland

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud. Laws against the rich are not always enforced. Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers. It is class war

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Either fit fire engines with cow catcher blades or ban parking on both side of the road. Crap that this is socially acceptable yet people lose their rag over emergency service access when there is an ltn or cycle lane in the mix. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

submitted 14 days ago • 62 comments

If your industry can't exist without stealing other people's copyrighted work, then yeah no. Goodbye.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Ramsgate Marina Art Deco, Seawater Pool, opened in 1935 and closed in 1975. It is now a car park!

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

“I agree with Nick.” Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again? Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

whether it's weed or pornography or relationships or games or talking to a professional who isn't their wife their fundamental belief is nobody has any self control and must be protected from themselves, except in the case of extreme wealth and guns for which self control is the only guard necessary

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

On June 3rd, 2016, Michael Gove told Sky news that Brexit was: An opportunity "to take back control from unelected, unaccountable elites...." and to "fire them." That's Lord Gove to you plebs...

submitted 16 days ago • 89 comments

The 50% drop in net migration just announced will surprise precisely nobody who has been paying attention to the issue, as opposed to exploiting and lying about it for clicks & votes. I doubt the stats will change the toxic narratives of the latter group, though.

submitted 16 days ago • 89 comments

🔴Why the Home Office’s ‘AI Asylum Success Story’ Was Anything But The Home Office briefed the media that their AI tool would save officials 44 years of working time. What they didn’t mention was all the mistakes that it made bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/h...

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Cammo 20250522am #cammo #edinburgh #cyclecommuting #photography

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Cammo 20250521pm #cammo #edinburgh #cyclecommuting #photography

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing how quickly the rhetoric of “personal choice” drops away once they’re in a position to impose their crackpottery on everyone.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

America, where we restrict access to vaccines and healthcare, but you can have all the guns you want.

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

Cammo 20250521am #cammo #edinburgh #cyclecommuting #photography

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