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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 2h

Where are the AI systems that will make daily living tasks easier? Where's the AI that will help around the house, cook meals for us, take the dog for a walk, etc. That sort of stuff could be a huge help to the disabled. It would open a world a leisure for all, but I guess it's not profitable 2/2

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting how the development of AI is all about doing human's work foro them; it's all focused on the generation of wealth, or perhaps another way of putting it - on the removal of humans from the work force to increase profits. None of it seems to be about making people's lives better. 1/2

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 12h

Me too but so much of this shite has to be shredded, eg Worldpay post details of all transactions each month to me. I don't need it, don't want it, and could just download it if I did. But I have to shred it.

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 16h

that’s a great description almost all the jobs in our service economy,Royal mail could not survive to send the important stuff without junk mail & unless clerks are adding junk to spreadsheets no one will read more than once our entire fake system collapses that’s why people are scared of AI

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 16h

About 50% of the post I get could have been an email. 40% of it need never have existed at all. Only about 10% is something that needs to exist and be posted. Much of what I get is both useless and needs to be shredded. I can't tell you how frustrating this is to me.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Letter sent to Nigel Farage by Patrick Sargent
Former Reform UK regional Chairman

He is surprised to find out that the limited company he joined:

• Has no democratic structure
• Is not a meritocracy
• Is a Farage vanity project
• Has no policies
• Is not a professional outfit

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 17h

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 17h

Is that the same man who put so much effort into resisting FOIs?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h

I applaud Michael Gove's fervent commitment to gov't transparency on intelligence matters, however newly-discovered it is. ~AA

Michael Gove
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Are we really asked to believe a single civil servant is alone responsible? I fear he may be being made a scapegoat. Why not publish the evidence, publish the correspondence between NSA and Deputy NSA, and have the NSA answer parliamentarians’ questions?
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Breaking:

The government says that Matthew Collins, the Deputy National Security adviser was entirely responsible for the evidence given to the CPS in the China spy trial

'The Deputy National Security adviser was given full freedom to provide evidence without interference'

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Tory minister repeatedly dodges questions on secret Russia report on UK interference as pressure mounts over 'cover up'
Michael Gove insists report being dealt with appropriately, as former MI5 boss says it should be made public

Andrew Woodcock
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Tuesday 05 November 2019 10:38 GMT

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1d

It was Tory ministers who allowed these people get where they did. If I were Badenoch I'd shut the feck up.

BBC News - Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions

In a letter to Starmer, the Tory leader claimed his government's account of the collapsed case had "changed repeatedly".

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not so sure about that. I just logged into X and was immediately met with a KC taking the piss out of a barrister for getting the law wrong on his Youtube channel, a barrister bragging about a courtroom victory, & a third discussing a new court case. They're def there & talking law,

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 4d

It was two OUP books.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 4d

Very pointedly the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded the prize to Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has had to go into hiding, for “keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness”

Something Trump is decidedly NOT doing. Driving his country to civil war instead.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 4d

The whole listed house thing seems nuts to me. I've never bought one and don't think I ever would. The whole thing seems bizarre anyway. Houses are going to come to the end of their life at some point and maybe we need to accept that & build something modern in their place when it happens.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah loads of them. I occasionally log into X, usually when I want to check if a screenshot of a tweet is real, and there was most of the legal community still chatting away like nothing ever happened.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks. It's just started working again for me. Maybe it was a temporary error they fixed, or maybe my computer was just grumpy at being woken up.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Ditto all the lawyers who rage quit X and pretended to delete their accounts only to slink back a couple of weeks later, accounts miraculously undeleted.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29d

Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29d

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 5d

We had to commission a special bat survey which cost c.£400 (but might have easily been £1K) as a condition of planning permission to demolish a conservatory. It was the most insane & pointless piece of bureaucracy. So stupid, in fact, that the ecologist first wrote about our loft in error...

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Can anybody else access CJSM? I'm getting this error when I try to log in.

Screenshot from Firefox, which says it cannot connect to www.cjsm.net due to an invalid security cerfiticate.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently, they were the lucky ones. Their architect said another family was delayed building their house for 9 months while they waited for their 'bat licence' to be granted.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Watching Grand Designs. I really think this country needs to make building easier. Family in this episode spent £6500 & were delayed in building their house as a bat might be in the roof of the old house. Turned out the was no bat! How can you stop building for a bat let alone an imaginary one.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

"We will reimagine income tax. Our innovative new system will cost you, the taxpayer, 75% less money each year and will raise 200% what the government currently takes in so we can provide you with better public services and free pizza once a week".

If you're going to BS then just go for it.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, the news also mentioned that judgment but I can't say I've read it.

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