Drew

Well you might say that, but I'd rather wait for a more reliable source.

Within the next year the majority of companies will ditch almost half their workforce - says Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter.

Musk says his tech will soon be able to do all human jobs.

If so, society is in big and imminent trouble.

So why isn't the topic being discussed on TV and radio?

“It’s not “unethical” to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That’s just “a search engine””

Yesterday, 100k hits to mapit.mysociety.org by “Mac” “Chrome” (50k of them 5:30-6am). 72,831 IP addresses. Blocked at 8:20am.

It’s not unethical in theory. It is unethical in practice.

I wonder if they realise how transparent it sounds to a listener?
Humphrys was the same - pally or pushy.

I wonder about the potential for AI that analyses voice tone, av. duration of uninterrupted speech, vocabulary and count of unchallenged claims, because human analysis is often seen as partisan

As a direct result it avoided the near-gleeful breaking news thrillseeking tone we hear these days and had none of the rubbernecking style of commentary that has become so popular with rolling news TV.

One national UK radio station's first news editor ran out of the newsroom in tears when a particular dark & upsetting story broke, leaving the team struggling to know how to react.

He returned within 5 minutes and the coverage he put together was really sensitive, filled with a sense of compassion.

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Where do I start?! 1/4

The cover of the Lancet says it all.

Corbyn set to lead Your Party in Commons after executive vote win JEREMY CORBYN is set to be named parliamentary leader of Your Party after the election of its first central executive, with a mission to get the troubled party “back on track.”Candidates endorsed by t...

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corb...

You think If they had done they'd have caused a significant disruption?

This looks a bit coat-tails.

Plumbers and politicians have much in common. Both have to deal with Gross Domestic Product.

Wow.

A fairly famous Tesla scene from London. My feeling was always that if these cars are so technologically advanced, this simply shouldn't be possible.

But while fanboys disagree, Grok went one step further when someone asked it to analyse the scene. Apparently no crash and no failure!

See reply👇

In what universe could you look at this and think yeah let’s reopen this to cars.

Albert Bridge may close for up to a year to repair cracks Kensington and Chelsea Council says the bridge may open sooner if a

“Albert Bridge to remain accessible to cycles and pedestrians for the next year.”

Fixed it for you, BBC.

(This local resident is fucking DELIGHTED! It’s a joy to cross right now - children & runners & people on bikes & even dogs all smiling across the full width.)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@jitensha-oni.bsky.social I stumbled upon this old post and wondered if I had entered a parallel universe.

I see @geminiapp.bsky.social is getting a bit sassy:

Every Day He Eats the Book This week: my god I want Matt Goodwin to lose. Also: a new way of seeing the world; and some very old work on a very old bus.

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust."

On one of the worst people in British politics.

Slightly surreal moment in the Commons as Speaker Lindsay Hoyle confirms he was the person who passed the Met a tip that Peter Mandelson was a flight risk, prompting his arrest this week.

That sounds like a very corporate way of shifting blame, doesn't it?

I had one of those "well it's the software, sir, it's not us" retorts - as if they don't design, implement, test and control the software.

I don't even know what it is - hadn't heard anything about it :/

The bank...

"we're improving the way you gain access to the mobile banking app:

You'll no longer need to use usernames or passwords.
If you've enabled face recognition on your mobile device, it will automatically verify you and log you on"

Why, what could possibly go wrong?

Having one of those special, healthy days where I'm just ploughing through months of LinkedIn automated cold-sales messages and pasting a message saying

"Frankly, I couldn't give a shit."

I'm there for relevant, genuine, personal, human connections.
Which are few & far between these days.

We're not there yet!

I see the Olympics commentator is DARING to state how much more difficult it has become for British ice hockey players to practise and train post Brexit.

I'm sure someone somewhere would rather attack him for sayng it than accepting the downside of "this is what we voted for".

Now I'm hearing people talking about Tories again - suggesting the fact so many of the most toxic and racist have gone to Reform is actually the best thing that can happen to the party.

While it's clearly the case they left us in a terrible mess, the more of a clean out they have, the better.

All from the same person.
She'll have justified it to herself, of course.

People also don't seem to care about the effect of the wealthiest (ergo 'most successful', to many) man in the world telling students not to bother going into medicine or train as surgeons.

This reaches far more people than Tate.

If his message gets through, it's trouble:
bsky.app/profile/drew...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James - the man who most stands to gain from deterring teens from studying medicine is getting away with spreading this message without media coverage, challenges, or any gov response.

Why is this not a big story?

It's a *commercial* position that risks influencing kids.