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With a little bit of luck, we can make it through the (very long) night.

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 2 days ago • 445 comments

Oh, buddy.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

In case anyone wants the academic analysis of why Yvette Cooper’s ‘backdoor’ mandates are so awful, here’s the classic journal article. academic.oup.com/cybersecurit...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Your friendly reminder that the people who were freaking out about online misinformation have a massive blind spot about the problems of traditional media. Also, the criminal offences in the Online Safety Act have an exemption for traditional media outlets.

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Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Can't imagine why people aren't lining up to buy the new iPhone.

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“Disruptive workplace protest” is why we have weekends, holiday pay and the minimum wage. You’re welcome.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

submitted 67 days ago • 57 comments

I very much hope the claimant in this case sends two text messages to her former employer. The first being a link to the Employment Tribunal judgment. Then... 🤗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What if we could host our Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a version of Animal Crossing designed by someone who had never felt joy in their entire life?

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If you are in court and the other side has a lawyer and you have ChatGPT… yeah, best of luck with that. If you are programming, a large language model is a way of writing code that you don’t understand. This is code you will not be able to spot bugs in. Again, good luck with that.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I mean copyright IS broken, but "AI companies aren't able to take advantage of it" isn't one of the ways it is broken.

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Next up: how ID cards will fix potholes. They can fix every other bloody thing so why not potholes too?

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The Metropolitan Police are very good at hiring sexual abusers and racists, plus shooting unarmed Brazilian electricians and covering up for their own misdeeds. They’re remarkably bad at solving crimes though and make up for this by objecting to anyone in the city enjoying themselves.

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Many years ago, there was a story about a jury in a criminal trial who consulted an ouija board to find out if the defendant did it. How long until a trial collapses when someone asks an LLM?

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In a sensible country, as opposed to the UK, this kind of story would prompt both the populace and the political class to be considerably less deferential to the security services and their unending demand to undermine our right to privacy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Beans in chili are woke. What a great bit

submitted 16 days ago • 88 comments

I very much prefer that my anaesthetist learned everything they know from a pamphlet rather than those damn fraudulent textbooks.

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Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”

submitted 16 days ago • 109 comments

"Vegan rationalist death cult" wasn't on my bingo card for 2025. Nor was a backstory involving trying to live on a dilapidated old tug boat leaking oil all over the place before giving up and dumping the costly job of cleaning it up on the San Mateo authorities. archive.ph/5eEQb

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Well this is very interesting! Leaked AI Action Statement. I don't agree with the Transformer analysis; think this is an interesting bit of technopolitics. Quick 🧵 on themes: 1) The existential risk approach to safety doesn't figure, so no wonder the AI Safety guy doesn't like it.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Twenty years ago, people were asking BBC News to link to the scientific papers they’re reporting on that purport to show that whatever reduces the risk of cancer. Still doesn’t happen for legal cases or proposed legislation. How much longer until journalists grasp that hypertext is a thing?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

submitted 19 days ago • 343 comments

Good news. Maybe we don't have to build hundreds of still-only-hypothetical miniature nuclear power plants with little British flags on the side in order to "mainline AI into the UK's veins". We can use the spare GPUs to play video games while drinking cups of tea brewed with the spare electricty.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

When anyone in the British government starts talking about evidence-based policymaking, remind them an unscientific parlour trick is part of the criminal justice system. That said, if a thing that doesn't work is the baseline to compare against, that's good news for the government's AI agenda.

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Time for the young’uns to go read the history of 1990s cryptographic export control: people having to smuggle copies of PGP or Netscape with proper SSL encryption through U.S. customs in the form of printed source code. Worked out great. Totally workable technology policy. bsky.app/profile/404m...

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Online Safety Act, likely reality: BigTech will do some paperwork and vaguely pretend they care. Small/indie/community/fediverse site owners get stressed by bureaucracy/fines so shut down. (A win for the tech monopolies.) Those who campaigned for it will be disappointed. Rubbish policymaking.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Narrator: it definitely wasn’t defamatory. But you only know that if you spend time learning stuff.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Best of luck with that.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Artificial empathy is the closest some people in Silicon Valley get to empathy. Artificial intelligence and artificial creativity too.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I have a radical idea for improving the British government: instead of prattling on about AI pipe dreams, we could just fix the website. (Also the SJP is a horrible mess that shouldn’t exist.)

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Putting enormous numbers of disabled people out of work—which is the practical consequence of not making reasonable adjustments—would significantly increase the benefits bill. The cruelty is the point.

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This is the tech Sir Keir Starmer wants to mainline into the UK’s veins. futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

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Good thing the data subjects had a choice in… oh, wait, they’re school pupils. Fuck.

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The Administrative Court has found the consultation preceding recent changes to the Work Capability Assessment (determining eligibility for disability support) was unlawful R (Clifford) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] EWHC 53 (Admin) www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment