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It doesn't take long, and it's super great. Driving through English narrow streets at 30 feels insane.

UK road safety push could see mandatory eye tests for older drivers Ministers also considering lowering drink-drive limit among measures to reduce road deaths and injuries

Doesn't say if England is going to have a 20 mile limit, like Wales has successfully done. If safety is the emphasis, the numbers speak for themselves.
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A scruffy black and white dog with a chew stick in her mouth

Attack the day with the same energy my 16 year old spaniel-cross enthusiastically goes at her chew

holy crap.

"In Ireland, there are more than 80 data centres, gobbling up 50 per cent of the electricity in the Dublin region, and hoovering up more than 20 per cent nationally, as they work to process and distribute huge quantities of digital information."

Sure but couldn't transfer a file. Tried both

want to be in a throuple. not for love, just the homes i want to buy require 3x my income

The Trump regime seems to think Russia has "earned" land by murdering Ukraine's civilians, kidnapping its children and raping its women.

I assume one of you lot designed Universal Credit? See me later

FYI many critical government online services are still very hard to use for many of their users. Why does this person need to upload a file?

Helping neighbour fill out universal credit, on their iphone. Have to upload a cv. They've done one using OpenOffice on their windows laptop. Laptop has no internet. How to transfer Cv to that form on a phone?

I couldn't do it, she had no chance. We took photos of the laptop screen instead.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

We are dealing with a decades-long legacy of poor building standards, cold homes, and a transport system built around cars.

Turning this around is not going to be cheap, but  it's probably one of the best investments we can make into the future.

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right [FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

And another on.ft.com/4oyrV9S

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices.

To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

"like talking to a PhD expert in any field" .. a field of soft fruit in this case

Close the 24 hr gaming and vape places if you mean to clean up high streets.

Why England’s new towns should look to medieval France The UK government’s taskforce is preparing to publish its next-generation proposals. Could the markets, maisons and master planning of Europe’s still thriving 13th-century towns provide the answers?

This is a great read for a Saturday morning, emphasising the importance of planning how *communities* can be established when building homes: www.ft.com/content/e5d0...

I see Pinterest is all slop now too. Fucks sake, how dumb are these companies?

It's a great book - you should sell copies!

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

Steady on, "objective thought" alone is a ludicrously high bar

Makes me laugh every time I see the company name Meta. Meta fucking loser, metaverse my arse

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK Opinion: A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond

While this is certainly a good idea, I'm seeing momentum in the opposite direction. Future GOV people will regret the decisions made now, probably not reversable either.
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Pondering what the washing instructions are gonna be for a graphene T-shirt...

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

The Welsh voting for an English nationalist party, populated by failed Tories is something I will not get my head round

Absolutely no good reason for the government to be dabbling in AI when it cannot even get IT right in routine process situations.

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

'judges and lawyers had not been informed [of IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost], as HMCTS management decided it would be "more likely to cause more harm than good"'

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if I suddenly turn away from you and walk away amidst an otherwise unremarkable social interaction, it's almost certainly because I just noticed you are wearing the Fascism Glasses and I'm doing my best not to catch an assault charge

How to not build the Torment Nexus This is No Gods No Masters, 2024, painted by me, in wax. 65x78” Join the $2 Lunch Club! This week’s question comes to us from Will Hopkins: When your job and...

This is fantastic. And more importantly, true.

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