David Meyer

Still the face of a spoiled kid at the age of 66

UK Close to Imposing Hash Matching for Revenge Porn The United Kingdom inched closer to requiring tech firms to scan all user-uploaded images, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer said sexualized deepfakes and so-called

The UK may soon be forcing large and small services to scan all user-uploaded images
www.bankinfosecurity.com/uk-close-to-...

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real Germany's Merz wants to end online anonymity: A rant

Friedrich Merz wants a real-names mandate and I do not think this is a good idea youtu.be/3OsLmoAxjJ0

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Pls note: we do not have an advertising regulator. We have an industry body which they hold out as an effective self-regulator.

The sentencing of ex-President Yoon in Korea for insurrection reads like one long subtweet.

This is a good thing. Even better would be for the UK government and all others that oppose racism, Nazism, sexual assault and paedophilia to come off platforms that enable them.

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

gosh

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

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... Riding the backlash has significant political potential, though I do agree that we need an alternative positive story to tell/sell about AI as well - one that plays up safety and addresses the concerns behind the backlash, rather than simply going AI=bad

Another framing would be that the hard right is associating itself with slop and degrading its own credibility (I know, bear with me here) in a way that leaves it open to attack from a leftist candidate who is willing to play that up...

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"Bethelhem gave up driving her taxi 2 yrs ago. Rising cost of gas & spare parts needed to keep her old car meant that she couldn’t earn enough to make ends meet.
“It was no longer worth it,”

6 months later, she was back on the road, this time in a brand new BenBen E-Star, an EV made by Chang’an."

The basic line between Restore Britain and Reform UK is simple: Restore is openly racist, Reform veils its racism.

Even the BNP wasn't as openly racist as Restore; for them to have Parliamentary and significant local govt representation feels a Rubicon crossed.

This is neat - here's my new Blento page (and yes I think I will also make this my homepage) blento.app/did:plc:53xy...

FT article: Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://help.ft.com/faq/gifting-and-sharing-an-article/what-is-a-gift-article/. https://www.ft.com/content/0c9ec7b1-f9a6-41db-9493-3ff09f6943ef But across the US, citizens, clergy and elected officials in conservative communities are leading a grassroots rebellion against the rapid rollout of the technology. Political strategists fear this could wreck Republicans’ chance of maintaining their majority in Congress this November and become a defining issue in the 2028 presidential race. Brad Littlejohn, a director at the conservative think-tank American Compass, said: “There’s a real danger here that you get a Democratic candidate who really builds their message around this . . . and wipes the floor because the Republicans have been pigeonholed as the friends of the AI companies.”

A useful point to note in the debate over whether the left is making a huge mistake by not being "willing to engage seriously with AI" www.ft.com/content/0c9e...

I don’t particularly care what anyone misses out on in their personal lives. But if one set of activists/institutions/candidates makes use of AI, and another doesn’t because they’re a priori convinced it can’t possibly have any utility for any function, I’m concerned insofar as I care who wins.

An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard.

Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure.

But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial...

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Mind you, I had to tune down half a step to hit the high notes

Did a little acoustic cover of Charli xcx’s Altars, which is such a great song

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose. "Who on earth gives that advice?"

This company should not exist

-in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations. The AI tool even recommended playlists to match his drug use.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Social Platform Directory We are mapping all the social platforms in Europe. This directory is growing every day based on input from people all around Europe. It is a collective piece of work. The platforms mapped are here bec...

Hey European ATProto companies, add yourselves to www.rebuild.net/directory/ so that we can make a strong case for AT as a shared foundation! Cc @flashes.blue @tangled.org

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.

First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

Lovely story

Also really, really dumb to think he might play along

The grim message in the ‘rusting’ Arctic rivers The bright orange waterways are a sign that permafrost is thawing rapidly, with potentially hazardous consequences

FT Big Read: Why rivers are turning orange

Climate change is doing what mining used to - causing metals to flow into the water
www.ft.com/content/2ffa...

Horrible in general, but good for Talarico in particular. Why are they so scared of a youth pastor who says the minority America needs to worry about is the richest 1%?