Ingrid Birchell Hughes

I was shocked to find out that 51% of content published on the internet is now done by bot. And 37% is bad faith.

"Current AI is a very complex hammer that doesn't understand what it's doing, or what nails are, but we're letting it add new shelves to the library of human knowledge"

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

the thing they are trying to manufacture consent for here is LETTING PEOPLE DIE

just had a god botherer at the door

them: hi, where do you get your information?
me: the internet.
them: there's a lot of it isn't ther-
me: the internet? yeah. quite big.
them: and some of it's wro-
me: but some of it's right.
them: have you thought to ask god?
me: does he know the bus times?

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

A crucial turning point.
Time to get on board, Keir
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Just filed my claim for compensation for the illegal use of my work by Anthropic AI. A past version of myself would maybe find it quite exciting if I told him he would be involved in a worldwide battle against robots. But probably less so when he found out the robots are invisible, tedious twats.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I'm sorry but Cheryl wins the internet

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

My girlfriend plans to use @skynewsrss.bsky.social's blatent sexism regarding Sarah Mullally (Archbishop of Canterbury) in her A-Level English lesson on Gender Theory. They gave us her husband's name before telling us her name 🤯

Sky News have changed it now, but we have the original screenshots.

‘Potato surprises’: Successful EU campaign continues to promote potatoes among millennials until 2025 Following the success of the promotional campaign “Potatoes, prepare to be surprised – Europe’s favourite since 1536,” which launched in 2020 and concluded at the end of last year…

Just learned about this EU-funded campaign to promote potato consumption among "millennials" (looks like an overlap of millennials and Gen Z from the details in this article) in Belgium, France and Ireland. www.potatonewstoday.com/2023/04/04/p... If we hadn't left the EU, this could be us!

The British Podcast Awards featured a strange “glitch” that everyone found amusing; but has interesting implications. Most of the winners were upstairs in the cheap balcony seats, meaning there was a few minutes’ delay on almost EVERY award as the winners went down the back stairs to the stage. >>

a woman in a white dress is standing next to another woman in a black dress Alt: A diptych depiction of light and dark. On the light side woman which white hair in a white dress, holds out her hand and watches bubbles float up. On the dark side, another woman, with dark hair in a black dress faces away. The sky is dark blue and purple and the stars are raining down.

Staggered to realise I’m almost two different people depending if I’m having a TN flare or not. On a deep deep cognitive basis. When I have less pain I can actually think, make decisions, plan, have conversations. It’s amazing.

just saw a video about how harmful it is to put shoes on babies because their feet are still developing and wearing shoes regularly can make them grow wrong. and i thought damn. have i been reading too much into that hemingway story

😂

Magnificent big pointy ears on Big Bobcat and little nubby ears on Little Bobkitten as they rest their paws side-by-side on a gnarly fallen log and do serious faces as they look into the distance, surrounded on all sides by hundreds of red and purple flowers in the long green grass of a meadow.

For anyone who needs it, Big Bobcat and Little Bobcat doing a bit of fieldwork.

Ohhhhh that looks amazing

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Th tabloids are shocked women are being paid

love this 😂

also - ewwwwwwwwww

This is just to say

I have sweepened
your crab apples
that were dropping
in my yard

and which
you were probably
saving
for a neighbourly offer of assistance

Forgive me
when I curse you
they were
so reek and so old

Preaching to the choir on bsky but my sister is deaf due to measles, our family size curtailed after father got mumps (1970s), + as a kid my mother lost 3 classmates to polio. RFK jr has 83 infant deaths on his hand in Samoa (2019). The tsunami of tragedy on the way is incomprehenshible.
#Vaccines

Are you trans, want to escape the UK, but only have a British passport? You can live in Ireland and get an Irish (EU) passport by naturalisation. No visa needed!

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding.

Note: Healthcare is still free.

If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.

👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

#cats

YouTube video by Daniel Titchener Life Inside "THE LINE" - Why Saudi Arabia’s Glass Megacity Will Fail (An Architectural Analysis)

First I'd heard about Saudi Arabia's 'The Line'. Really insightful examination by architect Daniel Titchener. youtu.be/c-jtIRvmbsk?...

"The Mid Disappointment"

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