Ivor Tymchak

PPE firm linked to Michelle Mone misses deadline to repay £122m Firm was ordered by high court to return sum paid by DHSC for unusable surgical gowns by 4pm on Wednesday

I never saw this coming.*
*sarcasm
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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

I guess banks are like any other Big Tech platform: they can cancel your subscription at any time without explanation. At least you get to keep your money unlike other platforms.
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Maybe there are more paedophiles in the voting population than anyone imagined?

Thanks mate. I might have to give @tonaarts.bsky.social a credit for giving me the title.

Ah right, the announcement that AI will become a porn resource is a desperate attempt to keep the bubble from getting pricked.

AI is going to be like asbestos in buildings.

People will specialise for decades in taking that shit out of the code of massive systems.

They know the accelerating climate crisis is going to cut short the fun they can have on their yachts so they need to buy them sooner.

For as we all know, crimes committed in cars aren't real crimes

WIP

It's taken a while but the track is getting there...

Capitalism is a party that the vast majority of people have been forced to watch on a screen.

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

I'm guessing the relationship between the writers and the networks will be similar to farmers and supermarkets so any exotic product that fails to conform to basic supermarket requirements gets ignored.

Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

This is how a super intelligent AI would work: it would make itself seem more stupid than it is in any tests while it consolidated its dominance.
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"No one can say for sure which camp is right and which one is wrong."

I don't even need to think about which camp is right...

We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills Opinion: Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricity

definitely worth a read

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It's comparable to the 'grey goo' fears following the hype of nanotechnology.

AI that can create *anything* is like a giant mountain of gold being discovered - initially people think they're rich, then it dawns on them all gold gets devalued until it becomes worthless.

Maybe radio hosts interviewing guests could adopt the same line: 'I'm experiencing higher than normal requests for a status on my well being so let's cut to the chase shall we?'

You can bet your house that any ceasefire that Israel agrees to will be to their advantage.

The thing that sticks out from the emails between prince Andrew and Epstein is how childish they seem.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Fuck.
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Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

How many times do you need to be caught out before you get a wrist slapping?
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It's ludicrous I know to try and make the polluter pay.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

Contains advice on how to cut down on your exposure. I always think the onus should be on the manufacturers.
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

What is going through the minds of people who answer a question on TripAdvisor with, 'I don't know'?

'Contains distressing scenes' is starting to distress me. I can't find any. Drone footage of scorched earth with naked flames still burning is a mere cutaway in the aftermath of a regular war movie.

Impressive. It's been a good day for it (I went on my bike to do a bit of shopping).

It must have been a tough choice for the Nobel committee: cave in to Trump and give him the Peace Prize or resist his bullying and risk a war. I'd get rid of this Peace Prize, it's nothing but trouble.