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I have some bad news about your most recent Black Friday purchase, the AI Pervert Toilet.

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

Just trying to speak to a GP already causes unhealthy amounts of stress

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Apparently we’re now pioneering twee protest

Please join me in congratulating Steve for trying his best!
(And making himself this award)

The hands of the damned pulling earth into hell award

Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone.

The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

"I’ll never forget the look of hatred [Farage] had for me, seemingly simply for existing. Without knowing my name but just looking at me with what appeared to be no appreciation of my humanity and simply because of how I looked."

Boid

ko-fi.com/s/1b509a25cb

The penny has dropped FINALLY

Late Capitalism: A Horror Story

Another one for the interpretation class
(always grateful to friends for sending me examples)

Hold on to your hats - the EU Commission has fined Elon Musk's X €120 million for breaches of its digital services act, including:

- Deceptive design of X's ‘blue checkmark'
- Lack of transparency of X's ads repository
- Failure to provide researchers access to public data

Comic strip comparing AI artists to people buying a McDonalds claiming they made it

I've been blocked by many AI "artists" replying with this image 😂

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Man sought over trousering of Stamford hedgehog statue Lincolnshire Police say a man was seen putting the statue down his trousers.

Its the accompanying image that makes this story great 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour were already enchanted by "self sustainability" and other such buzzwords before the Browne report, so one could predict they were planning to cut the sector off even before the coalition. It's largely been sliding downhill ever since, so thanks for that, all involved.

It doesn't surprise me re the property stuff - the expressed wisdom iirc was that there was money now, they already guessed there wouldn't be later, and so buying property was "making hay while the sun shone", and "an investment" and yadda yadda.

Impossible to exaggerate what a brilliant writer Henry is. Pisses me right off tbh.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Almost 530 museums have closed since 2000, study finds - Museums Association Research project shows that first decade after opening is the most precarious for museums

This is some depressing, but entirely believable, reading. Over 500 museums closed since 2000 - particularly grim reading about local authority museums.

www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

(It’s here:)

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

On the upside, when the resultant new god finally manifests, you can expect not only that it will be a Kafkaesque nightmare highlighting the inherent absurdity of the human condition and all that stuff, but also that it's going to be an absolute demon at pub quizzes. Be sure to get it on your team.

case in point: once in New York I saw a cockroach on the wall at a bar, and couldn't think of anything to say other than politely pointing it out as I paid and left. fair enough, it wasn't in my drink, but in retrospect a tad more outrage might have been appropriate.

I don't think I'd dare - but nonetheless, respect!

generally, nothing short of a caterpillar in the salad will persuade me to say anything other than 'very nice, thank you'.

so this is the day my kebab anxiety worsens into paranoia? lovely :P

He's always been very helpful to me! Gave me a sweet halberd, admittedly I couldn't wield it for ages, but still.

Seriously, first time I saw him I sneaked around him then tried shooting him with an arrow from inside that church. So he followed me in. In retrospect, lucky he didn't kill Kalé.