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Honestly, I would say there’s a big part of the story missing, which is Google abandoning the wall between search and revenue. But also, Google’s AI is so bad it hurts. Google. www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
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Or the Tory party went mad over Brexit, sold itself to dark money, elected a compulsively lying charlatan who kicked out all the MPs of any talent to protect his position, and then finished itself off by gorging on US-imported culture war obsessions.
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The Dunning Kruger effect has never been more important to understand. The number of people who overrate LLM output so long as it’s distant from their own specialism is so depressing.
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Did this child steal the movies they watched and games they played?
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Trans people were lied to?? Using services based on ā€œself IDā€ (the gender role in which they present) regardless of GRC is right there in the EHRC’s 2011 Code of Practice. It’s in the EHRC’s own 2022 guidance. The Labour Gov recognised this too a matter of months ago. This is horrific gaslighting.
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Absolutely. These people were appointed by the Tories in order to attack a vulnerable minority. Kemi Badenoch has said this openly. Are you going to stand by and let this situation continue?
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I mean, the conference everyone is talking about where Bluesky was mocked was apparently almost entirely white.
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Because it’s the conference that’s being quoted. The idea that it’s the extreme left only that is unhappy with Democrat inaction is a myth. Is JB Pritzker a leftist?
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But that’s what’s being promoted at the conference.
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So why do these people talk like it’s more representative of the electorate they want to appeal to?
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But that’s now you ā€œshouting on Blueskyā€. Even though what you say is backed up by polling figures, that it helps Democrats to be assertively critical on this issue.
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But I have these sorts of conversations all the time. Far better than on Xitter. On Xitter the abuse is really bad.
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Eh? 1. Bluesky is LGBTQ heavy. It has been from the beginning 2. People at this conference have been arguing to abandon LGBTQ as a damaging group.
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How about *opposing* what ICE is doing? Because Yglesias says that’s bad.
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It’s just that all this noise about Bluesky and online not being real world is people trying to avoid real world practical discussion of how to combat the far right.
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Do you agree with triangulation as a strategy? Of being anti-immigrant and down on LGBTQ rights in order to court voters? Do you have evidence that it works?
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I see a lot of evidence-based criticism of triangulation on here.
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An even better point would be to listen to the people who should be your core vote and find out why they’re angry. Because turnout matters, and because if the triangulation strategy isn’t attracting new voters while it drives loyal voters away, listening might be good.
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Typical neolib anthropocentrism I’m guessing none of your close friends or relatives are viruses. <adds to block list>
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But Japan also really just needs to have more immigration. Which surveys show the population understands is necessary. 5/end
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These sorts of things are fixable. As is the cost of bringing up kids. The government is doing things like making university tuition free for families with three kids. They should extend such benefits to lower ages eg help the cost of cram schools (which so many kids go to). 4/5
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For example, schools tend to assume there is a caregiver at home available within working hours. Meanwhile employers struggle with the needs of parents to be able to guarantee they can leave work by fixed times. 3/5
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Partly it’s patriarchy - along with Korean men, Japanese men do the least amount of hours of housework, but also it’s various assumptions made by employers and schools 2/5
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Although a reversal of the trend may not be possible, I do think that an arrest in the decline is possible. Japanese society conspires somewhat against two-working-parent families. 1/5
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Trans women increase their risk of breast cancer if they medically transition. They get subject to sexism and sexist abuse. Rustin probably knows this (I’m sure she’s been told it) but she doesn’t appear to care.
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There’s a nature paper out recently that did a meta analysis of articles on AI in education that was all very positive. I started sniffing around the papers it analysed (a fair bit of mdpi😣) and at least one has exactly these phantom references: genuine doi but to a completely different paper.
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Risk -> fail. FFS autocorrect. ā€œRisk to graspā€ isn’t a fucking phrase.
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As a cis person, obviously I don’t *know* what *that* is like. But I’ve lived enough of life to know parallels in my own life and in the lives of people close to me that help me accept and support what trans people say. I think fear plays a huge role in cis people refusing to listen and support.