Ben Tedds

Jury restriction plan clears first hurdle despite Labour dissent The justice secretary says the limits are required to stem a growing backlog of cases in crown courts.

Every MP who voted for this bill is a coward who is willing to throw our fundamental human rights under the bus.

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.

There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Because a parent’s homophobic discomfort is more important than letting a gay child out of their lonely closet.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

The most pathetic, childish excuse possible. My mere existence is not going to send anyone to therapy. Hatred, abuse, and bigotry send people to therapy. Pixar films have always had messages about accepting yourself because of - not in spite of - your differences. This can get in the bin.

Metro workers in Newcastle find buried vintage Hobbit tapes Operator Nexus says the discovery at the base of an overhead line mast is

"In a hole in the ground, there lived several cassette tapes of The Hobbit" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They have it doing war crimes now. But yeah, very cool that you're doing more commits per week

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

By jove. I shall pitch this gamechanger at work tomorrow.

A great start. Now rule that AI is not an exception to piracy or licencing laws xxx

There are many things that need urgent oversight, but a spelling out of what 'commercial AI was used for military targeting' means is one of them. Did they ignore human military intelligence and just do the first thing the autocomplete spat out?

EVERYTHING you have ever asked about or shared with OpenAI is going to intel database. Our government will know everything there is to about everything you asked or have offered to ChatGPT

"AI is revolutionizing health care"

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Bugger and damnation.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

From the 4kbluray community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the 4kbluray community

If you're willing to take a risk you can hack it yourself. I bought a cheap UB420 on Facebook marketplace and used this tutorial. All you need is a PC and a USB stick. Works like a charm. www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/s...

I always thought a preposition was a hot thing to end a sentence with

If any tech people do happen to have the ears of billionaires, I am here with my wallet open saying I would pay EXTRA for devices and software that don't have AI in them. Please take my money.

I had no idea this article existed. Amazing wall of shame for AI tells. Thanks!

This excellent article covers everything I hate about genAI too, and, of course, it begins with Douglas Adams.

In the meantime, anyone have any diet tips? Just what's worked for you in the past. I'm aiming to get back to my pre-university measurements this year so have a lot to do...

It is officially Lent, meaning I am counting on all of you to stop me from eating chocolate until Easter, a move which will save me many pounds in cash and hopefully shift a few in weight.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

i really wish the media would stop with this idiotic moral panic.

if you ban social media until 18 what you're doing is creating a generation of ppl who have absolutely zero idea how to discern information from disinformation in online spaces.

a new generation of facebook boomers.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

Oh please do fuck off.

Tell you what, now ask if pathetic far right incel ideology is doing the same, because let's be honest they are far more likely.

Starmer staked his reputation as a former human rights lawyer on the proscription of Palestine Action being lawful. He is entirely and directly responsible for this injustice.

I mean, come on, if your position requires you to agree with Putin, Trump, and Musk; to ignore the lived experience of children and adults; to ignore the entire medical community and a hundred years of history; and if your only "safe place" online is a child-porn generating website, then maybe...