David Hardman

YouTube video by IFC Films Good Boy - Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films

Indy for the Oscar! 😍
#GoodBoy
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A screenshot of Trainline’s AI Assistant beta, with a warning that ‘its content may be surprising or inaccurate’.

‘Surprising’

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
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This brave Jewish mother was among 488 people arrested in London on October 4th for holding cardboard signs at a Lift The Ban peaceful vigil.

“This is not terrorism, how dare my government say otherwise!?”

The ban on Palestine Action must be immediately lifted.
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This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

Exactly what I expected would happen. Why do the police never seem to learn?
#protest #Gaza #Palestine

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DRC women artisanal miners face exploitation as unions seek better working conditions On 7 October, in the noon of a blazing sun, women miners stand in nearly knee-high mud pools processing cobalt from nearby pits at Mutoshi, Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Lua...

DR CONGO: DRC women artisanal miners face exploitation as unions seek better working conditions www.industriall-union.org/drc-women-ar...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

The American Public Health Association brings shame upon itself
#health #Gaza #Palestine
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Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint

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FT headline today: ‘Sunak to accept senior advisory roles at Microsoft and #AI start-up Anthropic’. The disgusting gravy train continues. In a few years it’ll be #Labour ex-ministers getting big money jobs at #tech companies as a reward for their AI policies.

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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MIT declines to sign the compact: "[it] includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression..independence..and..the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

An urgent warning from the last six surgeons general about RFK Jr’s threats to America.

It’s long past time for this hack to resign.
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Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...

The risks to schoolchildren of embracing AI in schools
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Hahahahahaha… no comment 🤣

Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week:
- all about OpenAI's Sora 2
- Apple and Google's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps
- subscribers: a massive update to our Flock reporting

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Online notice of flu vaccinations at a health centre

My health centre is advertising a walk-in service for flu jabs, no appointment needed. So I walked in this morning. Could they see me? Could they fuck. I had to make an appointment for over a week away.
#NHS #flu

OpenAI and Anthropic are considering using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits on.ft.com/4mWEfyK

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”

In the UK, you can be arrested for "terrorism" saying you disagree with a government decision At an anti-genocide protest, a woman was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for holding up a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action.”

they're taking away our free speech for Israel

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‘Too dangerous for our children’: Lawmakers call out Waymo after school bus incident The incident comes days after another Waymo was pulled over in California, fueling concerns about the safety of autonomous taxis on public roads.

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Good to see the Conservative party will be discussing how to "defend free speech" and end the "climate of censorship" while banning any journalists who criticise them from attending to cover it

Promotional leaflet for Gary Kilroy, standing for the office of TSSA President.

The #TSSA election for President closes on October 15th. I’m voting for @gary-kilroy.bsky.social, an experienced frontline rail worker and union rep with great integrity.

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

A salutory piece about the dismal history of technology promotion in education
#tech #AI #education
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.