@HighlandLawyer

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Law, IT, & other stuff. Lingvemulo rather than polyglot.
North Scotland.
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Anyone else getting the feeling this is just a huge pump-and-dump scam on oil prices, with nuclear threats for added value? People need to be on trial.
I'm seeing a lot of people saying "no US president has ever threatened genocide before," and I would like to please remind those people of the existence of Andrew Jackson.

"No," the swordmaster said.

"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.

"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."

"You will regret this!"

"No," the swordmaster said.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"A formal mathematical proof from MIT and a preregistered empirical study in Science from Stanford arrived within a month of each other, and together they make the same unsettling argument: the danger of AI chatbots is not what they get wrong. It is how enthusiastically they agree with everything we get wrong. Not a chatbot that lies to you, but a mirror that reflects your beliefs back at you, slightly amplified, every single time."

https://c3.unu.edu/blog/the-echo-chamber-in-your-pocket

The Echo Chamber in Your Pocket - UNU Campus Computing Centre

Two landmark 2026 studies from MIT and Stanford show AI chatbots don't just flatter us — they erode our grip on reality and our willingness to repair relationships.

Artemis-ii crew: We’re back from the far side! We have to tell you about weird glowing portal we passed through. But first, what’d we miss?

CAPCOM: Welcome back, Integrity. We have President Trump on the line with some words of congratulations!

Artemis-ii: Haha that’s a good one, but April Fools Day was last week. Go ahead and put President Ocasio-Cortez on!

CAPCOM: …

Artemis-ii: Oh no!

#MicroFiction #sff

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@maggiechapman/116363110483555257

UBI + 4 day week = healthier, happier populace = greater productivity and innovation

Hmmm #Artemis2 has a 40 minute LOS. This is incredibly poor performance from NASA mission planning.

The mission should have been planned to have a 42:50 LOS.

This would give them exactly the right amount of time to listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon...

"Virginia Brown, a 69-year-old elder, recalls her traumatic experience: “I was forced into a boarding school when I was six years old. They cut off all our long hair and washed our mouths out with soap if they caught us speaking Navajo.”

This resulted in a generational gap in traditional knowledge and language that the Navajo are desperately trying to reclaim."

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/06/navajo-nation-the-fight-for-cultural-survival-photo-essay

Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival – photo essay

Rick Findler, photographer and Joan Wakelin bursary recipient, speaks to Navajo communities attempting to save a language and traditions that are being diluted by modern life

The Guardian

We fight not for glory or honour, but only for that freedom which no man surrenders, save with his life... For as long as there be but a hundred of us, we will in no way yield to tyranny...

#OTD Declaration of Arbroath, 6th April, 1320 CE

#History #Histoire #Scotland #Ecosse #DeclarationOfArbroath

I bought a sewing kit, but some joker had filled the tin with biscuits!