David Wells

Another very good example of the Times spreading fact free propaganda.
It has been bad for a long time but feels like it’s getting worse over the last months.

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him

large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.

It's crazy how much AI is like the your worst coworker.

Doesn't do their job right, steals your shit, isn't funny, and in the end you still have to redo all their work and for some god knows what reason your boss loves them and never fires them.

The ADL's hypothetical scenario involving flyers critical of Israel's demolition program encapsulates many other issues that those who reviewed the material or completed a training raised. The scenario begins with a student leaving their dorm room to find a flyer taped to the door "warning that your residence hall will soon be demolished" "The rest of the flyer contains 'facts' about how many Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military to collectively punish and 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians," the toolkit continues. The ADL is referring to the highly charged debate over Israel's mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. The training material then offers the Israeli narrative around the demolitions, claiming they target "terrorists" and "deter others from terrorist action". *. Other homes were demolished because they were "built without proper permits", the ADL states. "While you may agree or disagree with these Israeli government actions, the charge that Israel has demolished these homes to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians is inaccurate and inflammatory," the ADL material states.

According to the Guardian, the ADL is now creating education materials for schools in which the civil rights organization justifies Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in occupied Palestinian territory.

When it comes to death in Gaza, apparently everybody has lost basic math skills. It was 39,000 killed by December 2023. Every building in Gaza is in ashes. You have seen footage of dead Palestinians every day since. You have seen verified footage of mass graves. Do the fucking math.

"Google and Microsoft have…admitted that they are far from reaching their climate goals, due to…investment in AI. Data center growth is putting immense stress on…power grids…

It's not just the material infrastructure and the climate catastrophe, but the careers and industries which have been upset"

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

88% of Israeli investigations into recent Gaza abuse allegations stalled or closed without findings, with just one leading to criminal sentencing - AOAV An AOAV investigation into 52 publicly acknowledged Israeli military probes since October 2023 reveals a systemic pattern of impunity, with 88% of cases either unresolved or closed without wrongdoing ...

***BREAKING***

1️⃣ 88% of Israel’s military probes into alleged Gaza war crimes go nowhere.

AOAV analysed 52 cases since Oct 2023. Almost all are stalled, silent, or closed without action.

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aoav.org.uk/2025/88-of-i...

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Re: The Bluesky Discourse of the Bay. The reason right-wingers can politicize "getting laid" is the same reason that left-wingers should not: They're reducing women's bodies into public infrastructure. Don't do that.

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says A pattern of “hostile language” in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy, researchers have found. The race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust analysed more than 63m words from 52,990 news articles and 317 House of Commons debates on immigration between 2019 and the general election in July 2024. Continue reading...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’

Exclusive: The FBI redacted President Trump's name, as well as the names of other public figures, from the Epstein files under privacy exemptions.

This is why they want you to use it for everything. If they can’t start charging you soon, they are going to lose a colossal amount of money.

ADL web gone

Shortly after Trump’s election in November, the Internet Archive registered major changes to ADL’s website. Sections devoted to voting rights, racial justice, and other civil-rights issues were all gone. (3/x)

rolling into town like a jrpg character and demanding to see the mayor

Pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to this research with Human Digital and @vox-pol.bsky.social.

The ongoing proliferation of illegal content on gore sites is undermining broader efforts to counter terrorism and other harms online.

Among the key findings of the research:

UK followers may be interested in the below Home Office job postings, two of which have a specifically online focus. More info at www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... Closing date for applications = Sunday, 10 Aug.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

An underrated tell for 'is it time for you to step away from the computer for a bit and think about something that isn't politics?' is 'are you still capable of understanding that a handful of random people complaining about an advert are not an organised movement?'

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests These numbers are legitimately shocking.

"According to [cybersecurity firm] CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake."

mashable.com/article/x-tw...

Slovenia bans import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel

"In such circumstances, it is the duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others" 🇸🇮

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp ... When an unstoppable force (environmental review) meets an immovable object (also environmental review): Sam Enright'... Subscribe Sign in Ireland's state-owned energy supply company is now planning to decommission its own wind farms, because it failed to file an environmental impact assessment for them in 2003. In a Kafkaesque twist, the project may be saved, because tearing down wind turbines itself requires an environmental impact statement.

Right-wing abundance-bros operate in an ecosystem of ultra-low-information, mostly on a combination of X and substack, with the big accounts just spewing out vaguely correct-sounding chunks of text that crumble at the slightest interrogation.

This has ~1.2k RTs on X, and it's just....made up

so even after the Johnson-appointed bigot Falkner goes, the Government’s politicisation of the EHRC and its war on trans people will continue apace, over the objections of two committees of MPs. Seems a lot like Labour trashing its own Equality Act legacy to me

Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats—including deeply personal details about mental health, relationships, and trauma—are appearing in Google search results, raising major privacy concerns.

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

This is going to ruin so many cis women's lives. They had to end it in the 2000's because it resulted in women having their lives destroyed, partners leaving them, family disowning them etc. After some high profile suicides and attempts , they had to stop.

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