Lou

not in SYDNEY

why does the game start at EIGHT PM on a school night ffs

30 mins if they want to get food/drink, 15 if they don't

sadly no

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

nah NPL is on at all sorts of weird times. also probably wanted to make sure it was done and dusted before the Matildas

but I gotta use a paper straw at the pub (this is bad because they get soggy which is gross)

from the bottom of my heart: fuck pixar, fuck pete docter, and fuck the bad parents who are too cowardly to have a real conversation with their children. they might need therapy anyway if they're dealing with you whiny bitches.

Targeting #UN peacekeepers is unacceptable. We clearly condemn the strike on a @UNIFIL_ base in southern #Lebanon that has left several Ghanaian peacekeepers wounded. We urge all actors to ensure the safety & security of UN peacekeepers at all times. 6:31 AM • 3/7|26 • 562K Views

This weird game where you condemn the act but not the perpetrator because your entire self conceptualization as a state in relation to the Middle East is to back that perpetrator is very off putting. Why not just stay silent? That frankly would be more honest.

International Women’s Day asks us to 'balance the scales': What is football's role in this? Column: International Women’s Day asks us to “balance the scales.” This Women’s Asian Cup shows just how far football still needs to tip them.

today’s International Women’s Day theme is “balance the scales”, and the #Matildas have become an example of what that looks like in football. but this #AFCWAC has shown us how much further Asian football still has to go to address gender inequality.

football360.com.au/internationa...

Lebanon’s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed has announced that approximately 454,000 Lebanese people have registered as displaced. She urged those who have not yet registered to do so, and said the Sports City Stadium in Beirut would be opened as a shelter for families in the municipality. In Akkar there are also multiple shelters. Sayed added that “hot meals and food rations are being distributed in various Lebanese regions in cooperation with organisations and associations, with numbers increasing gradually to ensure no person is left without food.”

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have displaced more than 454,000 people in just a few days.

454,000 people. Because they felt like bombing Beirut.

Sign the Petition Provide protection for Iran’s women’s national football team

almost 23,000 people have already signed a petition started yesterday calling on the Australian government to provide protections to the Iran women’s national team #AFCWAC

c.org/wcrwVZBysc

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.

How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?

The ALP in your head is long dead.

Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards

Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

What the world allowed to happen in Gaza has totally normalized the intentional targeting of schools, hospitals, children.

This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right

Nigeria’s captain & PSG forward Rasheedat Ajibade expresses her disappointment with the handling of WAFCON. CAF made the decision to move the tournament to the summer due to “unforeseen circumstances” 12 days before it was due to start.

Players & fans deserve so much better.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

"Hold talks"...This is getting utterly ridicuous.

As Brian Glanville said (and said again, and again), "it's football. It doesn't matter".

I'm a bit more concerned by crooks, criminals, autocratic states and dodgy private equity funds buying our clubs myself, but priorities, eh.

more statements coming out re: Iran’s women’s national team. @fifpro.bsky.social Asia/Oceania is calling on #FIFA and the #AFC to uphold their human rights obligations and protect the players.

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

A post by that dickhead Robert Peston reads The final report of the Water Commission includes this calculation: "We estimate that over £85 billion has been extracted from the English water system by shareholders and affiliated parties since privatisation." Given the parlous, creaking, under-invested condition of Britain's water industry, this was egregious pillaging by shareholders that was licensed by successive governments and the regulator. As the report says, company executives and boards, regulators, ministers, all were to blame. It summarises: "this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined.".

From what I’ve been told by several human briefcases, it’s not economically viable to nationalise the water industry

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Hong Kong’s democracy fight is also a battle for women’s freedom Despite gendered repression, smear campaigns and imprisonment by Beijing authorities, women in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement continue to lead and resist.

Commentary: On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds.