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I have an Irish passport but my partner has a British passport. Going to get a relaxing coffee whilst he's queueing with the Brits is the part of the holiday I look forward to the most.
💯 justified outrage about AI slop. Source https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s
Father of two daughters. Started sitting down to pee when they were toddlers so if they walked in they'd see how it was done. 10 years later still doing it; so much more comfortable; less drips and no mess. Men; ignore the propaganda, sit to pee.

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.

Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.

The €200 billion/year Ukraine needs? Less than 1% of Europe's GDP. Frozen Russian assets in Europe? €300 billion.

"This is really a no-brainer," says the study's author. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/03/backing-ukraine-costs-half-deterring-russia/

Grandchildren over for the weekend. I made them their bedtime hot chocolate bit absent-mindedly used coffee. You know what happened next but no one knows why, certainly not Nana, & I'm only fessing to you lot.

Great article in The Guardian from @pluralistic.
“Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

The Guardian
The United States Secretary of Defense (aka, Major Pete) is either (a) openly celebrating Nazis and planning to destroy the US government from within or (b) a punk-assed internet troll trying to look tough to offset his gross deficiencies. Neither is good.

International impact of US policy - this is what is distroying US “soft power”.

https://bsky.app/profile/belfasttelegraph.co.uk/post/3lyhpgivy7227

Belfast Telegraph (@belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

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Wiley Miller (@wileymiller.bsky.social)

@gottalaff.bsky.social This cartoon was published last Saturday and I was afraid I'd get a lot of blowback, saying it was an unfair gross exaggeration of ICE targeting people by skin color. Yesterday, the SC validated it.

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"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_social-type=owned

#authors #books #AI

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The Atlantic