Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/
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Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/
I would guess that if the UK left the ECHR their Data Protection Adequacy status in the EU would disappear soon after, and much of their IT industry along with it. A lot of people (me included) were surprised they got it the last time. It won’t survive something as radical as this.
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Bluesky is shrinking rather than growing. It has no source of revenue. If it doesn’t grow, *it will die*. Constantly making it unwelcoming, saying who you don’t want here, setting rules for what other sites people should and shouldn’t use, and the like, will kill it quicker.
We’ll be hearing how it’s making the trains run on time any day now…
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
It’s a growing phenomenon. The use of truthful statements with intent to mislead. It’s a form of “hard bullshit” called “paltering” and it’s increasingly common. I’d like to say it’s shocking to see it in the NYT but, to be honest, it no longer is.
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Gabriel, we’re getting into the territory of Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance. These people demand respect for norms and hide behind our respect for norms, all while attempting to normalise the most horrible policies. As we saw in the US, when they finally achieve power, the norms go out the window.
There are layers on obliviousness in the graphic. I left others to be annoyed that the 26 counties were in at all. It was like all that crap they used to spout about Ireland suffering from Brexit, overlooking that (at the time) the UK had a huge trade surplus.
Why is Ireland broken in the picture? They’re making like bandidos at present. They cleaned up after Brexit. A €46 billion surplus predicted for 2024 & 2025. Granted, trade with the U.K. dropped around 15% last year, and is now near parity from a large U.K. surplus, but other trade made up for it.
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host
The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
It would help if we actually knew who funded them, and for what purpose. You claim that they’re researching and proposing ideas, but at whose behest? Not great chucking paint in their offices but God knows, their “ideas” have done a damn sight more damage than can be solved by an interior decorator.
![Think tank Transparify, which is funded by the Open Society Foundations, ranked Policy Exchange as one of the three least transparent think tanks in the UK in relation to funding. Transparify's report How Transparent are Think Tanks about Who Funds Them 2016? rated them as 'highly opaque,' one of 'a handful of think tanks that refuse to reveal even the identities of their donors.'[44] However, Policy Exchange does list some sponsors inside its reports, such as the European Climate Foundation[45] and the Gates Foundation.[46] In 2017 ExxonMobil, donated £30,000 to a US based Policy Exchange fundraising arm,[47] and, in November 2022, the funding transparency website Who Funds You? gave Policy Exchange an E grade, the lowest transparency rating (rating goes from A to E).[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ery72hsw4m4xbdekfntfpmp5/bafkreifqphk2ajpg3r4maronzouv6xosms6cwc3xvwiw2morzveua6gj5a@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This is true, but computers had been on people’s desks for 20 years at that point. Likewise canals, railways, radioactives… I used to be a business academic and did a lot of work in the mid 90s on the “IT Productivity Paradox” - that IT had not raised productivity at all outside the Telecom Sector.
It usually takes 30 to 40 years for Homo Sapiens to get the hang of a new invention. This was true of steam engines, electric motors, computers. Investors are often very limited in perspective and often more than a little dumb. It’s why I moved my pension into low risk assets yesterday…
Essential reading from @dziblatt.bsky.social. Hitler rose because of other politicians’ belief that “democracy’s protections could be bargained away but democracy itself could still somehow survive.” www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
You can have shit experiences with any airline, but Ryanair is the only one which makes clear that it actively hates you.
Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
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We’d have a word with the Ambassador but she slunk off when all the performative outrage shit she was doing just got the mickey taken out of her. Israeli can send a new ambassador over any time they want, but they’re still busy trying to make out we’re anti-Semitic instead of just anti-arsehole.
Yes, I have more photos of this great horned owl! #birds #owls #nature #wildlife
FFS it’s a wet morning! We get them occasionally. What do you expect to see from an Irish window? Sun-kissed golden sands? This is an Irish thing. 5,000 years of looking out the window and saying “still not Spain.” It’s been a pretty dry summer - there are semi-drought conditions in some areas.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
Now I think about it, they should be checking the data coming in anyway for apostrophes and other special characters to avoid nasty database hacking attacks like SQL injections.
It’s just crappy programming. They’re using SQL databases, and apostrophes are used in SQL programming to designate strings. Hence they can’t cope with them sitting among the data they’re trying to store. With a little imagination they could solve the problem, but that’s probably too much to ask.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
bsky.app/profile/anna... And that, pretty much, is that…
Look, I cancelled my subscription a year ago. Much more of this and I’m going to demand you refund what I paid you before then. God, and to think you used to be a paper worth reading.
In what way is it subversive to agree with the vast majority of people in your own country?!?
I’m not making that link. Nothing whatsoever justifies genocide. What I’m saying is the actual historical facts don’t remotely back up the Zionists’ claims. We don’t need to make up new ones.
The Palestinians are (barring the Samaritans) the closest line descendants of the inhabitants of the region around the 1CE. They’re not Jewish because their ancestors converted during the intervening 2000 years. IIRC The Jewish immigrants share around 45%-50% of their DNA with Iron Age populations.
Don’t deal with fictions by generating your own. There’s plenty of evidence that the inhabitants of the Levant were Jewish. Where the hasbara falls apart is in saying the Palestinians aren’t native to the region. In fact, they share around 80% of their DNA with Iron Age peoples in the region.
By the way, pretty much everyone in Europe, and most people living anywhere else are descended from people who lived in the Levant 2,000 years ago. We know this because they’re descendants of people who lived pretty much everywhere as well.
Historic claims… Let’s hear more about those? It’s like the Irish American community claiming they have “historic claims” on Ireland. I’d suggest the people who DNA studies suggest have been there for at least 2,000 years (ie the Palestinians) might have a better claim.
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
Honestly, an article only someone with a freaking Drama degree and a career paid for by others could have regurgitated. Utterly unmoored from everyday reality. “Proles, why can’t you be more picturesque? You’re offending my higher sensibilities!” I lived in the old Ireland. I’m glad it’s well dead
It’s along the same lines as people as disparate as @radiofreetom.bsky.social and Machiavelli have said. Democracy brings prosperity, which leads to decadence or complacency, which in turn leads to democratic collapse. Americans decided they could let their biases have free rein without consequence
“Deeply disrespectful and offensive” Delighted to see that the gesture was understood correctly.
Oh yeah, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Battenberg became Windsor and Mountbatten. 😊
This one comes from WWI. Until 1914 the English just called them lines. It wasn’t until they observed French troops lining up in orderly “tails” - queues - that the name caught on There were other WWI changes too e.g. - “barrage” stopped being pronounced like “porridge”, and receipts became recipes
This great horned owl looks a little wet. I saw it drink from a puddle, and I suspect it enjoyed a bath just before I arrived. #birds #owls #wildlife #nature 📷
…we invented queuing, which is why we use a French word for it… Not seeing it myself.
I'm gonna need a good car wash after today!🪶
I don’t know. Given the footage I’ve seen of him recently, he looks a bit too decrepit to blow as hard as he once did.
"...more than half of pregnant women and new mothers screened at the organisation’s clinics were malnourished..." 'Children in Gaza “too weak to cry” - Save the Children warns of worsening malnutrition in Gaza' www.youtube.com/shorts/1wSfd... #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
If the EU doesn’t pull economic supports from this toxic regime, anything you say in this respect is nothing more than empty rhetoric. You weep crocodile tears while literally delivering tens of millions of bullets to the regime. Spare us your hypocrisy.
"As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? .. (Stephen King) .. (cartoon David Horsey) .. #religion #quote
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Donald Trump's threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn't about safety — it's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won't let a dictator impose his will.
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
For most of them Israel is their home country. It’s not 1947. There isn’t a simple solution to this thing.
Well, in the Irish case it wasn’t really sabotage. It was attempted fraud - a large scale ransomware attack on the health system. I suppose given the fact that Russia is a kleptocracy out doesn’t make a difference, but the attackers were not state actors. Technically astute but otherwise stupid.
And Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who believes that the Jewish people have to all return to Israel so the world can end. 🙄
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
He’s just being realistic about what happens next. There are norms being destroyed now that cannot be fixed quickly or simply. There are institutions that have been ruined and won’t be easily rebuilt. If you say “the Courts will save us” the only question is - how many guns do the courts have?
That’s a pretty cynical headline. If even Politico doesn’t want to both-sides it…
You’re so close to working out what’s next…
For the moment. As long as the government can be bothered going to SCOTUS, in which case they can do what they like. I’m quite surprised this have gotten so bad so quickly. I didn’t expect troops on the streets of DC and other cities until Spring next year.
Because of course Trump is going to stop right now and the system isn’t going to deteriorate any more. If the Feds were to grab Garcia tomorrow, what would stop them? I don’t think you quite realise just how bad things have become. From outside, it appears the autogolpe is well underway.
It’s kind of quaint that you think the American justice system might still be functional.
Reading this and trying to take in the full enormity of what is happening. The scale of it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
"It's like a PhD in every field!" "Can it reliably do college-level work, such as accurately identifying and summarizing pertinent information?" "No." "So what is really does is sound like an expert to people who aren't experts in that field?" "Yeah! That's what everyone wants, right?"
UK invests 18.2% of GDP in productive assets. France 26% Germany 25% OECD average 23% Why? Poor corporate governance Companies hollowed out by excessive shareholder returns. Execs rewarded for short-term returns. Long-term neglected. Lack of direct state investment in infrastructure.
As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
The painfully stupid and needy Donald is trying to spin all the European leaders coming with Zelensky as somehow an honor. It is an honor to Zelensky. And a disgrace for Trump. They are there because they thought Trump treated Zelensky shamefully last time. And they don't trust him.
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
Traditional Irish restaurant cuisine is straightforward. You can order anything you like but whatever you order gets given to the English couple the next table over. You get boiled potatoes. After arguing unsuccessfully with the waiter you then feck off to the American restaurant across the street.
You forget, the ship sank… Quite the insurance scam.
If you chuck around untrue ad-hominem statements like Kamm, yeah, maybe. Even in the US the 1st Amendment only guarantees free speech. It does not guarantee speech free of consequences.
It was always hard to see how they'd get around this. Trump's US administration has long been critical of the EU’s various digital regulations, which it likes to claim damage the big US tech companies and stifle so-called “free speech”.
It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
Once again, I am ded. 🪶
I think you can tell them the person is dead and they will take it down. I’ve removed a couple of dead friends from LinkedIn that way. A significant proportion of the people on Facebook and Instagram are dead, by the way.
I recall reading that there was some discussion about whether he’d earned the decoration because his heroism in getting the plane home had involved some degree of self-preservation. Then George VI heard about it and insisted everyone to cop-on (or words to that effect) and give the man the medal.
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LaGuardia switched between being a Republican and a Progressive, back in the days when that was possible.
"President Trump, I just saw your press conference with president Putin. And it was embarrassing. You stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy … You literally sold out … our intelligence community, our justice system, and worst of all: our country." youtube.com/shorts/zsGwd...
that summit could've been an email
No interviews with anyone who knows anything about LLMs. No indication the author understands that LLMs are designed to tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily what you need to hear. If you substituted "tarot cards" for "ChatGPT" you'd end up with the exact same story, beat for beat.
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Another genocidal statement by an Israeli government minister.
Here’s a photo of it on fire from end to end, taken from one of the RN cruisers that finally sank it with torpedoes. I think this is also a perfectly acceptable photo of Bismarck.
Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs explains that the volume of aid entering Gaza is still far below whats needed and Israel continues to impose impediments that delay & obstruct safe delivery.
Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.
I see it as a sub case of Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance. You should be tolerant of all views except those of the intolerant. And Oasis. You can be as intolerant of Oasis as you like.
What on Earth do the Gallagher Brothers have to do with Western Civilisation?
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-...
Who were the Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza? Sky's International Correspondent Diana Magnay reports. Read more: trib.al/Y2ZRC21
Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim.
therefore be quicker than the baddie. The students expressed doubt about this hypothesis (because you absolutely didn’t say “Bullshit!” to Neils Bohr) so the next day Bohr turned up at the lab with two toy pistols in holsters so they could test the hypothesis. This is why everyone liked Neils Bohr.
…going to win. “Why obviously?” asked the students. Bohr explained that axiomatically a) the good guy would not draw first and b) would not miss. The bad guy, drawing first would consciously have to move his hand to his gun, draw it and fire. The good guy however would fire by reflex and would…
My favourite Bohr story is when two of his grad students took him to the movies - a Western. After the film was over they asked him if he liked it. He said that he did (of course, because Bohr was a nice person) but that the gunfight at the end was entirely predictable. The good guy was obviously…
Using a random text generation program as a replacement for reading and critical thinking results in errors, finds study arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...
