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They're still releasing PS4 games FFS!

Screenshot of Angus MacDonald MP reposting an X post by Lee Hurst saying "Next time don't unilaterally launch a mass murder, kidnap, rape spree on your neighbour you total twats" above footage of devastation and ruined buildings in Gaza.

The Lib Dems have, rightly, condemned Israel's genocide in Gaza. Here we have Angus MacDonald, one of our MPs, reposting and endorsing a statement blaming innocent Palestinian civilians, including 20,000 murdered children, for what happened to them.

He needs to lose the party whip. No ifs, no buts.

The French Government 🤝 Sheffield United

A great reminder that no matter how clear you think you have made the meaning of your work, there will always be avid fans of it who nonetheless miss the point entirely.

Is it just me or has Bluesky been having more glitches than usual these past couple of days?

Dril Post saying: oh, youvve read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 posts.

It's probably less than ideal that she embodies this one.

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Look, I get it, being made fun of sucks. But it's not, y'know, actual stochastic terrorism.

just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Horrified and appalled by the attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

My thoughts are with the victims, our brave emergency services and the entire Jewish community.

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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A black cat lying on a bed with a weary expression.

She would like to wish you all an excellent day.

On top of everything else, Maurice Glasman is just so, incredibly, tedious. Just an absolute bore.

A Nintendo GameCube

Finally out of storage after all these years!

Iconic scene! But it's sad that the incredible talent of Tim Curry (and countless other amazing actors) was wasted on RA3, which was easily the weakest game in the C&C franchise (and yes I am including Renegade in that list).

Classic!

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

1. Natural Language Processing (comes with my job really)
2. David Lloyd George
3. The Personas 3-5

Mahmood vows to change modern slavery laws after bid to deport Eritrean man thwarted Appeal court rejects home secretary’s attempt to appeal against blocking of return of man to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies.

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100% Agree. And this is more reason for him, and the Lib-Dems as a whole, to abandon X/twitter altogether.

A literal Stan Kelly comic in editorial form theonion.com/daze-of-whin...

Fleetwood Mac (Rumours predominately, I heard that album so many times), Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd. My dad has great taste in music.
Also Brother Louie by Modern Talking; as a five year old I was obsessed with that song and kept asking my folks to play it when we drove anywhere.

All the other abject stupidity of Kyle's statement notwithstanding, would it surprise anyone to know that Peter Kyle has a PhD, the literal embodiment of 'exploring research and knowledge'. (And good for him, but now he's choosing to be a dick to others for wanting the same thing)

But this from Kyle is batshit: "Too often people go to University to 'explore research and knowledge'". Yes, Peter, that's what a University is for - it's not to create businessmen, something it's not suited for.

If you listen to this you will die in seven days.

If you see this, repost with a vampire that's not Dracula.

All for Ed Davey leaning into the Newsom strategy except instead of being slapped on the back by a twinkly wine bro on a tour of his Napa vineyard it's your uncle showing you the homebrew kit in his shed.

I love my party but some people within it, when considering speaking to the press as "Lib Dem Sources™" should really instead consider a "shut the hell up" approach.

This! So many right-wingers that the media hold up as being "working class" are just well off SME owners or their kids who happen to have a regional accent.

So now that it’s confirmed that none of the messages on the bullets were pro-trans, maybe we should have a national conversation about how multiple newspapers repeated a lie about us on their front pages hours after doubts had already been cast over it?