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Prince Andrew proves the Monarchy should be abolished, claims Patrick Harvie King Charles has stripped his younger brother of his Royal titles following more embarrassing revelations over the prince's friendship with late US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The monarchy is an undemocratic, antiquated relic that serves no useful purpose in the 21st century.

An unaccountable billionaire family bankrolled by the public purse.

To become a fairer country it’s time to finally abolish the monarchy.

I've found some of my most solid friends while gaming. If RW agitators try and mess around in my gaming communities they get run out of them and blocked. We don't suffer them and protect our spaces. Thank goodness for the block feature of my main game.

I am once again asking people not to install any kind of web-connected surveillance into their homes. If you must have a surveillance camera, do it local so only you have access to the output.

Block the slop

Reason number 354593897349 to cancel Spotify. The best time to cancel was reason 1, second best is now.

The Fate of Dying Empires: An Interview with Historian and Activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz recall a large map in our rural school in Oklahoma that featured a flood of red, indicating communism, pouring over the North Pole, reaching the northern border of the US. Now, Trumpism is sort of lik...

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Time to stop using Uber Eats. Don't comply in advance. Why is a food delivery demanding govt level biometrics? So messed up.

It's a seriously big shift in the collective. People have had it.

No Kings protests outside of the US

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

Genuinely, wealthy classes as well as their political punditry have lost their damn minds and humanity. What a rotten lot they are. It's such a problem that they are clearly so corrupt and unwell in almost every sense. Reality and sense are seemingly beyond their ability to exist in.

The Guardian coming in hot with the pro-racism take.

I genuinely wonder Why anyone even bothers posting any results from AI when they know people will assume it is incorrect slop and that they look foolish and an easy scam target by doing so?

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

the imaginary of the entire managerial class is that everything of worth comes from ‘ideas’ when in fact it comes from *doing things*

The billionaires will never be able to buy or steal talent and they can't stand it. Whilst having sold their humanity long ago, they still think they can buy the collective opinion. But AI sucks for so many reasons and is only getting worse not better. Who wants a smooth brain and suicidal ideation?

Oh dear. We often see fraud + risk explode during a bubble as everyone wants a piece of the gold rush. But what happens when it's time to pay the piper and every AI company has used the exact same, round tripped and hyped 100 billion dollars as the collateral/hype and creditors want paid? All crash

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

The EHRC removed the "interim guidance" that has been devastating the lives of trans people for months from it's website.

We wonder why...👀

I do wonder if they were given Hilary Cass deals, ruin your reputation forever/trade your career for the culture war against trans people and get a peerage. Because who else would be so stupid?

Gavin Newsom sucks. Trading one shill for another. Time for a better politics.

It's almost as if fascists don't care who they hurt.

Now, I may not be overpaid think tank talking head or a pollster with techbro friends who post Nazi memes in the group chat, but it appears to me that being openly and vocally supportive of trans rights is somehow part of a successful electoral strategy in a nation gripped by transphobic media.

I can't seem to find the video of the Water Company CEO, Mark Thurston, being stopped and placed under citizen's arrest. It was on Novara media on another platform but not here.

YouTube video by The Daily Show Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

AI is genuinely and absolutely disgusting.
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What? Roundtripping/securities fraud, passing the same 100 billion around with nVidia and the other AI companies and claiming they all made 100 billion revenue? Stock fluffing bubble.

To be a part of and profit from anything of JKR's is to declare oneself a bigot anymore. No excuses.

Interesting. I wonder. It's back now.

Down Detector shows YouTube is having a spike in issues for video streaming. I keep getting an error message. downdetector.co.uk/status/youtu...

I'm getting errors on every video as well. Is Youtube having issues?