Serena Lander

And not underwhelming so

Instead of wasting my money on contorting data sets to "prove" abusers are of a certain nationality, I'd like the same efforts protecting children and women from the only thing the data set proves most perpetrators are

But if I've learnt anything from the last few years, is that we will be forced to accommodate tech giants' profiteering rather than the other way.

I'm less concerned getting into a driverless Uber, than I am cycling near one (given they have a reputation for randomly halting, and that Texas / California are far less pedestrians and cyclists)

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright.

The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.

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Masked as a matter of women's safety, I recognise its historical context. Terry Kogan: "policymakers were motivated to enact toilet separation laws aimed at factories as a result of deep social anxieties over women leaving their homes—their appropriate “separate sphere”—to enter the work force."

It really shows how shallow this debate is when so few have actually questioned the matter of sex segregation in its origin.

A man said to me in my office "I like girls but I don't want to use the toilet with them", upon discovering that we now have unisex toilets.

So much of the supreme court ruling on sex has been revolving around bathrooms. No discussion around why we have gendered bathrooms. No discussion why people want gendered bathrooms. No discussion on the history of bathrooms.

Potential is lethal

Deaf Internet theory

EHRC can make a case-by-case judgement on whether companies comply with equalities act, but not whether a person is a woman

While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer. Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact. A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmbo, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US. "American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers, " said Qi.

Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE

Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center New footage has found that Musk's xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility.

“Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its ‘Colossus’ supercomputer facility”

“why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?”

even knowing how horrifying Tesla's rampant pollution at the Fremont, CA plant is, the environmental racism on display at the XAI cluster in Memphis is nothing short of shocking

'Henry's in love' has now become my song of the month. What a banger.

To be fair, it's entirely possible he's looking at a chart upside down.

Not all of them do.

Goldberg and Grady both begin with G?

for those of you who don't use signal, these are the automated suggested time periods for message retention. they can auto-delete after 30 freaking seconds and the national security advisor set it to four weeks 👍

OPSEC as clean as your conscience

My name isn't that uncommon and I still find it disconcerting. I want to forget my existence when I switch on telly, not keep jumping to attention.

My feed has gone from cats to politics to complaints about backache.

Melania has got to be severed, right?

Labelling violence against Tesla showrooms 'domestic terrorism' while pardoning Capitol stormers is such brazen theft of Erdogan's intellectual property.

"I'm not going to listen to resounding criticism because mummy told me we're all special in our own way"

Since DOGE ran by a 'tech, cars, finance bro' was so successful and cool in the States... who else should run the UK version other than our highly revered 'beer bro'?! /s #brewdog @brewdogofficial.bsky.social

Remember when everyone rinsed me for having heritage to a country which changed its name to Türkiye?

AI Reasoning: humans smelly. AI not smelly. AI doesn't need clothes. Bye-bye human bodies. Solved! No more laundry.