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- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 1 day ago:
How is that legal?
- Comment on Peter Mandelson ‘called Jeffrey Epstein my best pal in birthday book message’ 1 day ago:
We all knew there was something sleazy and wrong about that guy, but now to find out he was friends with Peter Mandelson? That’s really the final nail in the coffin.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI 4 days ago:
🤡
- Comment on DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I just did a couple of test searches and it didn’t work at all. Obvious AI images stayed in the results, and the ones that it removed when I selected “AI: hide” were obvious photos or human artwork.
Hopefully they can improve their detection method and make it actually useful.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents that allows them to offload repeatable tasks.
So a completely normal pivot from something more general to something more specific within the same subject area. This isn’t really newsworthy, and the rest of the article reads like an ad.
- Comment on UK online safety law is going to change the way we use the internet 1 week ago:
Terrible article that doesn’t even speculate about how it’s going to change the way we use the internet.
- Comment on ‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts 1 week ago:
At the root of the issue is land ownership. Most land within national parks is privately owned and, particularly in the uplands, used for grazing by farm animals. In Dartmoor, just 7.5% of land is publicly owned, and conservation is seen as secondary to economic interests.
Across UK upland national parks, overgrazing and moorland burning are driving these areas into poor ecological health, and a heating climate is heaping on the pressure. Conservation bodies and park authorities often have limited funding to monitor and restore ecosystems.
In 2024 the first full assessment of how national parks are supporting nature recovery found that just 6% of park land in England and Wales is being managed effectively for nature.
- Comment on MPs vote to establish independent regulator for men's football in England 2 weeks ago:
What about an independent regulator for parliamentary ethics?
- Comment on Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Palantir.
- Comment on Keir Starmer has broken his promise to end sleaze 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Brave Becomes First Browser to Launch On-Chain Naming Service, Unlocking .brave for Over 85M Users 4 weeks ago:
Is it really decentralized though? Why are they “partnering with Unstoppable Domains”? Couldn’t they just do it themselves?
- Comment on Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 4 weeks ago:
Someone’s gotta pay for those hexacore CPUs (yes we did get one).
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 4 weeks ago:
There aren’t any, thats the point I’m making. Petitions produce sample bias that excludes the opinions of people who don’t want their legal name and home address printed on a document that might get passed around God-knows-where.
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 4 weeks ago:
Information on Personal Data:
To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes. Specific measures are in place to ensure the protection of your data. See our privacy statement.
Perhaps if signing a petition didn’t require doxxing yourself then more people would sign.
I realize that it’s to prevent fake signatures and allow verification that the signatories are residents of the jurisdiction under petition, but this method inherently creates a sampling bias.
In the same vein as age verification, we need a solution for digital attestation that preserves anonymity and privacy. There are some initiatives in this direction, so perhaps we will get there some day.
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 5 weeks ago:
Already widely used in the western world
Really?
- Comment on A factory sim in which every pixel has physics is the latest from Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse 5 weeks ago:
Oh it’s like that Earthworm Jim level.
- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 5 weeks ago:
The article: www.nexusmods.com/news/15301
Don’t read the comments.
- Comment on Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says 1 month ago:
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since July 2024
also
By the age of 25, he was accepted on his third attempt to become a student at the University of Sussex, where he gained a degree in geography, international development, and environmental studies, and later a doctorate in community development.
🤡
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 month ago:
“Many of the participants expressed a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness. They showed particular sensitivity to situations they perceived as unjust or discriminatory. This extended to issues specifically concerning men.”
No shit.
It comes after rising violence against women and girls (VAWG) in England and Wales. Data published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in July 2024 found that about 3,000 VAWG offences a day were recorded by the police in 2022-23, an increase of 37% since 2018, with one in every 12 women a victim each year.
Separate expert studies have found some evidence that the language of the manosphere can escalate into physical violence. A submission to parliament by a group of UK academics cited cases in which incels had gone on to commit offline acts of violence, including Elliot Rodger in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and Jake Davison in Plymouth, England, in 2021.
The Ofcom study involved 38 men, and more misogynistic men may have declined to take part. Some potential recruits refused to take part, considering the government-appointed regulator to be part of the “mainstream”. Perhaps the most impressionable group, boys under 16, were also not included.
Oh so this study is completely worthless then.
- Comment on Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion looks like a boomer shooter for the Newgrounds generation, and it's out next month 1 month ago:
- Comment on CIO wants to clone top techies as digital twin and AI agents 1 month ago:
What he’s suggesting is just science fiction.
Tell you what, Dr. Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer at the University of California San Diego, why don’t we start with automating your job with agentic AI so that you can focus on these “exquisite” attacks instead and we’ll see how well that goes.
- Comment on Reform plans risk destabilising markets, warns Bank of England 1 month ago:
There must be a better news source reporting on this.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
Chainsaws have existed for quite a while already.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
superdeterminism gang represent ✌️
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 1 month ago:
It’s an optional mode for those who like it
They probably said that when they added BR to Fortnite too.
- Comment on Exclusive: RuneScape developer Jagex slammed by staff for Pride Month U-turn 1 month ago:
- Comment on All civil servants in England and Wales to get AI training 1 month ago:
🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦
- Comment on GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 1 month ago:
Wow that slashdot discussion is a train-wreck.
- Comment on Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree 1 month ago:
