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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11h

What strikes me about this is how much more clearly incriminating chats with ChatGPT are going to be than Google searches in criminal investigations

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 15h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Dr Stephanie Hare @dr-harebrain.bsky.social · 10h

"We took the freedom of speech away"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 10h

Interesting that in Oz, the incompleteness/unfairness of face-based age estimation is built into the law. This is also the first article about this breach that puts emphasis on the gov id leaking via appeals - the direct gov id based method probably does delete ids as soon as checked, as claimed.

Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 10h

Article fails to mention whether the OfS Freedom of Speech czar is onto these universities willing to monitor their students' social media on behalf of the weapons industry. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21h

if nothing else it's very funny to say you want to get rid of english degrees two days after you give everyone chocolate with "britian" written on it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

The whole world watched Britain pretending to believe the UN aid agency was a terrorist organisation, then we all watched as UNRWA was replaced by criminals firing machine guns at starving people trying to get bags of flour, while press and politicians pretended not to understand what was happening.

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Channel 4 News *
@Channel4News
X.com
The prime minister has described plans for pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the UK today as
'un-British' and has called for them not to go ahead.
Students from several universities are expected to gather in London and other cities.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 1d

"I didn't see a single white face" presented as a negative sentiment represents a racist thought. We don't need a new word for people who have racist thoughts.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Me, I understand well enough what these NNs do, which is at a micro level; at macro level there is massive emergent behaviour, but due to structure and scale of it, it constitutes magical thinking to believe that there is a deeper understanding of it yet to be uncovered.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

This journalist is literally inviting Jenrick to share his views, while being accused of shutting down the debate! Astonishing.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm. Sometimes the point of disagreement is the knowability / interpretability of what they are doing - the posture sometimes means "we're upset you don't believe there's some knowable deeper understanding of how they work which we just haven't fully comprehended yet".

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that kind of integration… ah well… nevertheless

Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 3d

Empathy limited to objects that can be *imagined* as subjects but that won't actually confront you as subjects is an essential aspect that ties a lot of fascist and fascism-adjacent projects together, imho. Animals, robots, unborn children, even the anti-feminist imagination of women, etc

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes

rationalists, man

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul.

Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too

then we can talk about your nonsense.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading:

1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the
initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations.
2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by
summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among
human reviewers.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2d

The list seems to be back now, but given recent and ongoing bsky dev drama it's pretty concerning.

As several of the comments ask - what precipitated this? E.g. did one of the devs get added to the list and throw their toys out of the pram, by any chance?

Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 3d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

it literally isn’t though

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 2d

To me the interesting demonstration here is that the imperfection of age estimation as a "verification" method by requiring "appeals" using gov id massively increases the security attack surface.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Reform UK’s Councillor Dave Poole has put out this bizarre graphic littered with spelling errors.

Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 2d

Don't follow this "reshaped", we've had a couple of slightly less broken US xfer schemes since with current one still in force, Irish DPC hasn't started enforcing anything substantive, and adtech rules.

EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 3d

📢 10 years since #Schrems (C-362/14) – the landmark ruling that invalidated the Commission’s “Safe Harbour” decision, found US data protections inadequate, and reshaped #digitalprivacy in the EU and beyond 🔒

Learn 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

#EUlaw #DataProtection

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting, tell me where to look.