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And nothing of value was lost that day.

It might just be me, but men telling me ‘this would make a great podcast’ makes me grind my teeth

You really don't know what they believed then. They certainly weren't anti-tech.

This tech isn't particularly cool and it's not about being anti-tech anyway. It's about understanding the context and effects of it, as well as the practical capacities, and judging that. LLMs are a trash technology.

I don't think you know what the Luddites believed.

I can think of nothing less rewarding.

One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

Every expert and authority may agree on it, as well as the abundant evidence we can all see on rolling coverage but *you* don't agree and that's enough. Very comforting way to dismiss slaughter.

Both sidesing a genocide is certainty a choice.

Report: Google, Amazon agreed to alert Israel on foreign court data requests

F***k the techbros..

Who are these common enemies?

The weirdest thing about modern politics, is this thing where if people found out their favorite politician were secretly having sex with turkeys, they wouldn't say "he's bad" but just, "this sort of thing is really going to give ammunition to those people who said he was a turkey-fucker."

No, it doesn't push Labour voters right, it just loses them. 'Agents like me'? As in a voter who doesn't like what Labour does and so won't vote for them? No doubt if you keep blaming us loudly and long enough we'll fall into line.

target audience is almost never going to be anyone who has the easy option to critically appraise it. And if you're one of those who can do that then be aware of your luck while looking for ways to reach those more easily sold on the AI 'friend' grift.

One worry with outlets like The Guardian (rightfully) beasting this tech is that it allows for apathy from a lot of readers. 'I see this is terrible, I won't use it, if others are too stupid to see the same then that's their fault'. This stuff preys on vulnerabilities, naivety and loneliness, the

better but it's hardly novel to point out that power reinforces itself through propaganda, which these young men are absolutely subject to even if it rests on top of their wider privilege.

I'm not sure how that relates the question of gullibility? Patriarchal power structures are reliant on cultural and social reinforcement and adherence. Both of which are massively enforced by the culture industry and economic system. Doesn't mean that there isn't a/shouldn't be a capacity for

And how's the polling looking on that one..? Labour have gone from comfortable election win to apparent collapse by using the exact tactic of shifting rightwards you seem enamoured with.

I'm not sure your judgement counts for much when you clearly have zero understanding of the field, policies or Labours approach to them. As to the RW media bit... that's really not where my criticisms are coming from.

Almost as if imitating the Right, or more likely simply being on the Right ideologically, isn't a way to compete with them.

If the fix to that problem, as questionable as it is in the first place, is to increasingly pander to the Right then we have one anyway. As to the AI issue, if you don't know their policies around that then I'm not sure why you're so certain they're doing well.

Because an entire social, cultural and economic system pushes them to be?

Palestine, pandering to the Right on immigration, AI fetishisation as economic fix...

Big statements without knowing what data they'll contain, where and how that data will be held, who by, who'll have access to it, who'll have a right to see it and when etc.

Also worth noting that this case, which has triggered such vapors amongst Israel's apologists is pretty much business as usual. Fans have been banned for all sort of violence and hate speech. English club fans were banned from euro competitions for years.

and it's largely down to US backing that Israel gets the same pandering treatment.

Russia has been banned from numerous international events, plenty of countries ban their tourists too. Apartheid era South Africa had sporting and cultural boycotts against it. You're from the hegemonic super power of the day, your country has always dodged any accountability for its actions

American's spent years telling people they were Canadian when they travelled, still do.

No there aren't.