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Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source Online encyclopaedia editors rule out publisher as a reference citing ‘reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism’

I mean, this has something to do with it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Sarah Pochin and the new age of open racism What the Reform MP said was appalling. The Tories’ refusal to condemn her is arguably worse

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

I find this dynamic, where MAGA types have begun breaking with Trump over AI, so fascinating. @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into it www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l... just has me thinking about this meme...

How MAGA learned to love AI safety The AI industry is engaging in one of “ the most blasphemous endeavors,” a leading MAGA figure told us

“I think it was the first time in recent memory I’ve seen the tech industry suffer a defeat like that.” Read @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into how MAGA's embrace of AI Safety is causing trouble for Trump's newly cosy relationship with Big Tech. www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l...

AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know

“Can you set an AI on a general task of, ‘Break into this network’ and have it do so? ... the results aren’t great ... They’re not zero, but they’re not great.” Read @stokel.bsky.social
on why experts aren't — for now — too worried about catastrophic AI-enabled cyberattacks.

What happens when the AI bubble bursts? The world is prepping for an AI crash. History points to what that might look like

Great piece on Transformer by @jamesrball.com .... "As ever, there will be silver linings and small mercies — but there is little point sugarcoating it. A crash, whenever it may come, is likely to be brutal."

(I think it is often interpreted as satirical rather than a serious call for regression and destruction of all machines.)

Dune appears to have taken it from this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_...

Age of Technology The Age of Technology, informally often referred to as the "Dark Age of Technology," was the zenith of Humanity's scientific knowledge and technological prowess in the Milky Way Galaxy, which lasted f...

Spread across various things but summed up here (with references): warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Age_of_...

I mean, it's a specific war against AI that tries to wipe out/oppress humanity (thus leading to the dark age), which is pretty much what it is in Dune?

Buttlerian Jihad, tbf, doesn't come from computer games. Most famously from Dune books, and Warhammer, and originally a 19th century text...

🚨 Very pleased to say that Moya Lothian-McLean has become the first Managing Editor at @millmedia.bsky.social. Along with @cameronbarr.bsky.social, who joined recently as
Investigations Editor, we're building a formidable team of senior editors. And editors are the 🔑!

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"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

*sighs*

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Places noticeably busier on Thursdays tho

Yup I did wonder and has been pointed out. IMO the original is the best!

Ah, I did wonder!

There is literally already a relativey decent example of some mitigation already done by Google for Veo 3 in the shape of SynthID that would probably be quite easy to implement...

YouTube video by matdinozzo The Replacements - Androgynous (REMASTERED)

The Replacements version is particularly excellent. youtu.be/f8J9WssSj7Q?...

ChatGPT alone has nearly double the number of paying subscribers as the NYT.

Nearly 50 news and media organizations have signed an amicus brief supporting AP in the ongoing legal case over White House press access. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932.2139056.0.pdf

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All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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This is very good. And is a pretty close reflection of my views, too.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

The department’s outsize presence in Vermont is attributable to one man: former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. For nearly half a century, Leahy steered a tsunami of federal funding to the state, particularly after he became the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and then the Senate Appropriations Committee. In 1991, according to the Burlington Free Press, Leahy helped bring a branch of what was then known as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to Vermont. Over the next few years, he brought precursors of the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center and the Law Enforcement Support Center to the state. “If it can be anywhere, why not have it in Vermont?” the senator said at the time, according to the Free Press.

Boston Globe follows up on my reporting last Friday, which placed the formation of a new ICE surveillance unit in Vermont.

The Globe asks and answers the question: "Why the hell Vermont?"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Yeah, she is not qualified to run a whole big news operation. Also, news reporting is quite different to running opinion/features!

Oh yeah, but like, also just fundamentally almost old school antisemitism (at @tbij.bsky.social we found this when digging through the Southport riot linked groups on Telegram, for instance).

Fully agree with this broadly, though I'd add that it's more than a convenient weapon for a very large proportion. You dig into these groups that are ostensibly pro-Israel while being incredibly Islamaphobic, and there is almost always a core of antisemitism.