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1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

Tech firms, publishers and Which? raise fears over new boss at competition regulator Exclusive: Appointment of ex-Amazon UK boss prompts group letter to chancellor airing fears over approach to big tech

The appointment of the former boss of Amazon UK to lead the UK competition watchdog is a threat to its independence and pledge to hold big tech to account.

Further evidence of corporate control of govt.

No chance of breaking monopolies or protecting consumers from corporate abuses.

Is there a starker example of whose side Labour are on than the sentence “The Treasury has told City bosses spooked by the prospect of further tax rises that savings in the welfare bill will prevent that.”

They wanted to kill Palestinians so bad they let all this stuff happen rather than stop or even promise to stop

Pound shop Boris Johnson.

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...

ok and openai used millions of people's content to train its chatbot - now suddenly plagiarism is bad? Lol

Each day RAF plane has flown over Gaza to help Israel's occupation forces in their attacks.

60 % of intelligence missions for IOF over Gaza have been flown by RAF according to one report.

sorry do you think the democrats' problem is that they haven't been accommodating enough to republicans

WOW LOOK AT THAT, A TRANSPHOBIC CIS MAN WHO ALSO IS A MISOGYNIST, UNBELIEVABLE

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma The patient's doctor criticized the insurance company, saying that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.

"Tear it all down," the doctor said.

🔴 Dr. Zachary Levy has said UnitedHealthcare denied the claims of one of his patients, and that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.

Poland’s border buffer zone ineffective, says ombudsman A 60-km buffer zone has been in place since June.

Poland’s “exclusion zone” at its Belarusian border fails to prevent irregular migrant crossings…

But does prevent migrants from accessing humanitarian assistance, says Ombudsman.

😑Quelle fucking surprise tvpworld.com/84200398/pol...

IDF confession

IDF confessions

IDF confessoons

This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

German terror suspect was AfD-supporting Islamaphobe Taleb al-Abdulmohsen held "Islamaphobic" views and expressed sympathy for the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

German terror suspect was AfD-supporting Islamaphobe www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/german-...

Labour's cabinet has taken over half a million in donations from private healthcare lobbyists Canary columnist Dr Julia Grace Patterson's NHS advocacy group EveryDoctor reveals the extent of Labour's donations from private healthcare

Labour’s cabinet has taken over half a million in donations from private healthcare lobbyists
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

i'm speaking to Naoise this evening! just quickly trying to add in the option for non-UK dialing codes before i disgrace myself with something that can't handle Irish numbers 😅

hello - i'm working on a tool to make it easier for organisations to text-bank (/ send follow-up texts after phonebanking) - if that is something any of my followers ever do, and you'd be up for crash testing it, please hit me up 🙏

Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS

94% of A&E doctors believe patients are coming to harm because of conditions inside NHS emergency depts.

We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

got this bloody chunk of chainmail for doing sous vide and it was only a fiver!!!

"Don't bother, it doesn't matter any more. We're waiting to die."

Messages of Palestinian colleagues in Gaza on what to say to our politicians communicated by @rohantalbot.bsky.social of Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Israel is committing the crime against humanity of extermination in Gaza.

Easy to become desensitised to the horrific realities of inequality when you work in / around it, but I read this story & it genuinely made me cry.

Hunger is a political choice.

Keir Starmer approval rating tracker, by More in Common. Peaks at +11 in August, falls to -38 by end of October.

Anyone who says "Dems should be more like Starmer's Labour" is asking to replicate this:

Politico: "Top U.K. Labour strategists are heading back to Washington next week to explain to the Democrats how Harris bungled the election."

With Keir Starmer's team once again advising Dems, I am once again begging Dems to recognize that Starmer:

— got 34% of the vote, the lowest figure ever for a victorious party
— received fewer votes than either of Corbyn's campaigns
— has had his approval drop by 49% since taking office. Yes, 49%

keep accidentally looking at the discover tab instead of the following one and end up seeing people like ian dunt

One of the biggest shifts in housing policy over the past 50 years: we went from subsiding bricks and mortar, to subsidising landlords

this site makes me appreciate how much I relied on blue ticks to know whose opinion I could safely ignore

Can rent controls help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis? The evidence on the effectiveness of rent controls is far more nuanced than is often acknowledged.

Thanks to Emma Roddick MSP for hosting the briefing at which we presented on the economics of rent controls in the Scottish Parliament yesterday.

If you’re interested in finding out more about this, read
@lmacfarlane.bsky.social’s ‘Can rent controls help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis?’ blog:

MS Molly Shah To: support@bsky.app › 04.11.24 Gazan Accounts I am writing about the spam label/ suspension problem that many Gazan accounts are having on Bluesky. I try to message most of the new accounts from Gaza to try to help them avoid being labeled but it would really help to have some more specific guidelines, because many people I believe are following the guidelines l've been suggesting and still having problems. I understand that you probably cannot tell me specifics but even general information would help me help these accounts act in accordance with Bluesky's rules, which I'm assuming is the goal of both of us. It also may be helpful to publicly post some of this information (preferably in a few languages including Arabic).

Specifically I would really like to know: - Information on follower count leading to a spam label (is there a hard number they should avoid- is it overall/ by day?) Also are there any plans to just limit the amount of follows an account can do if a large following amount is something that is triggering a rules violation? -Information on how complaints come in regarding messages and replies and how they are generally assessed (once again I know that you can't give me specifics but it would really help to let them know what is going to happen if someone makes a complaint). Also in the case of replies- is it taken more seriously if the complaint is made by the person who got the notification or can anyone complain about a reply (even if it wasn't made to them) and it will be treated similarly?

-Information about how an account is assessed for spam if there isn't a complaint about a specific message or reply (for example if the account is reported as spam-what general things do you look for). Would just posting their own GoFundMe link on their page lead to a spam label or suspension if someone reported them? Do you take into account that sometimes Palestinians are targeted for reports because of their race? -Information regarding the appeals process-many times no one hears anything back after submitting an appeal (and sometimes they don't receive any information on what triggered the ban to begin with). Also in which cases would an account be asked to provide ID documents to stay in good standing?

I know that moderation is not an easy job but I think that most of these specific accounts would be willing to follow the Bluesky rules if they knew what they were. I really enjoy Bluesky as a community and I know that making it a welcoming place is a goal we probably both share. Thank you in advance for any information you can give me. -Molly Shah (@mommunism.bsky.app)

So I hate to tag the mods- but I sent this email about the mass deletion of Palestinian accounts over a week ago to @support.bsky.team and I haven’t heard anything back (apologies if I somehow missed an email). I’d like to ensure it will be seen by the proper people.