Marie Gardiner

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Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.

Jot that down 💀 lmao

New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade' Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.

If you've not had a flu jab then you might want to get one if you can, they're saying flu season has started early and is shaping up to be a particularly nasty one. Reminder that you can get one from Superdrug for about £10 with their (free) loyalty card.

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a large abandoned farm house from the back, mostly intact.

a large abandoned farm house from the front, mostly intact. but with a collapsing left side and no windows or doors, just holes

a large abandoned farm house from the front and side (different side to the other picture) on scrubby winter-looking grass. A window and chunk of side/roof is missing, as is the roof from the porch

the same house but from a distance, on a summery looking day with blue skies and green frass. Sheep can be seen grazing in the background

Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.

Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography

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I remember we made the decision to stop seeing people the week before official lockdown. I tried (and failed) to convince my family to do the same. They ALL caught a nasty dose of Covid by mixing together. We thankfully avoided it.

The government failed, and the cost was incredibly high for many.

Thank you 🥰

We have one of these and it is a lovely thing.

increasing costs that are already unaffordable for many, removing some services entirely. Hey, even death will cost you more as they're increasing crematorium costs. Even this, all of this, will bring them nowhere near their 'target'. Why is this allowed? We should be in the streets, man. 2/2

graphic from English indices of deprivation showing much of the former industrial north, including the north east, heavily coloured blue, which represents the most deprived

Among specific savings: increased parking charges will bring in £525,000 in Durham City and towns around the county and a 40% rise in resident and visitor parking permits will bring in £40,000. School crossing patrols (hard to fill anyway, says the council) will be reduced, saving £80,000. Pensioners will have to pay £1 instead of 50p to travel before 9.30am, to be phased in over two years. Bus routes 35A and 104, said to be under-used and unviable, will be withdrawn, saving £84,000 in 2026/27 and £117,000 in 2027/.28. Utilities will be charged for carrying our roadworks on busy routes, bringing in £310,000 next year. The culture, sport and tourism services will be restructured, axing 4.5 FTE jobs and saving £225,000. Business Durham will increase its rents on commercial properties, raising £250,000 over four years. Funding for the Care Connect service, which provides emergency home alarm and telecare services to around 10,000 clients is to be “realigned”, saving £400,000, pending a review. A vacant managerial post in building safety and housing standards will be axed, saving £43,000. Business support will be cut by £634,000, losing 18.7 FTE staff. Axing grants to town and parish councils will save £750,000. The frequency of spraying weeds on footpaths across the county will be reduced, saving £121,000. A reduction in summer bedding will save £50,000, grass cutting £96,000, litter picking £193,000, parks and countryside staff, saving £44,000, and playground inspections £17,000. Crematorium charges will be increased, raising £88,000.

Looking at the north east in the English indices of deprivation stats and (like much of the post-industrial north) its neighbourhoods are largely deprived. Now look at what Durham County Council (where I live) are planning to do to save money. Taking a hatchet to already strained services 1/2

Golden Larch Forest (2024)
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The richest man in the world and the biggest loser in the world are the same person. Makes me wonder how many of the other billionaires who are shitting all over the planet are equally stupid and cringey.

It's lunacy that these fools have been allowed to seize so much influence.

This is what's in it...

Changing Landscapes Zine Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…

Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!

40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.

£10 including UK postage.

#Photography #Zine

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YouTube video by Lonely Tower Film & Media BACK ON TRACK - Locomotion No1, Restoring a Legend

Enjoy our new short documentary 'BACK ON TRACK'. The story of how the 'Locomotion No.1' replica was brought back to life for the S&DR Bicentenary in September. youtu.be/0PM1qx21np0
#SDR200 #Locomotion1 #railwayhistory

Haha no, we were having a relevant conversation. The guy I blocked just kept replying to me with things that weren't related to the original post.

a series of graphics demonstrating data broken down into squares, roughly showing the reliability of a variety of LLMs. Google's Gemini performs incredibly poorly, with a high error rate of answering incorrectly

But an LLM can't reliably fact check, and you said you fact checked it... both can't be true. I find it wild that people will use an admittedly flaky and unreliable system to do 'research' or to 'fact check' and say it's a great tool.

(source for graphic: www.seroundtable.com/ai-search-en...)

Okay, but you said, 'Obviously fact checked results. Gemini knew the text (stolen, as it's Copyright) but provided valuable and correct insights (mostly).' So were you fact checking Gemini or was Gemini fact checking you? Because you just indicated it didn't always get facts right?

But then surely the overriding point is that you didn't do this, an LLM did?

I've just had a quick look and I still don't understand the point of this. It seems like you just asked it a lot of questions that you should in theory, already know, if you've read the book? What was the intended reason/output?

What do you mean by 'work through details'? As in, what did you ask it to do, and if you had to thoroughly fact check it, did this actually save you time? And I suppose another question is, if it's been right once, and if it was again (and again) would you stop fact checking it?

Even if we put the theft and environmental issues aside, I'm yet to hear/see a genuinely good use/application of generative AI, its potential for error is just too high. Not only this, but the idea behind many of the tools is to take a person or people out of the equation.

😭 Maggie Smith reading this out would be perfect

Should have specified 'in my mentions mansplaining to me' lol

Sorry guys, got out of my circle and instantly stopped being fun so have limited the replies.

Love blocking guys who simply can't stop. Don't even read their last reply, just 'oh, you're still going, okay' *zap* to the bin.

If you can't understand the difference between AI and gen AI (what the post is about) you don't get to quote post OR mansplain in the replies.

None of that is generative AI. What are you hoping for from this exchange?

Irrelevant to the point of the original post then

None of those tools are gen AI