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@eco-g@stroud.social or this one

@MarkAB@mastodon.world @japipes@zirk.us @benroyce@mastodon.social @log@mastodon.sdf.org @thegarbagebird@theblower.au @lzg@mastodon.social voting in national elections is the absolutely bare minimum act of democracy. If you want good candidates you need to get involved locally, vote in smaller elections, make sure bad candidates don't go unopposed in small elections. Petty local bureaucracy is where most people actually see democracy in action and draw broad conclusions ("why is my local library so badly neglected? This country is falling apart! It must be the immigrants")

@wayne @ChrisMayLA6 the BBC has form on this - South Cambs DC has used a four-day week to solve a really bad recruitment and retention problem with positive results, but the article spends most of its time trying to find negative voxpops from people who don't know anything about it: BBC News - Can South Cambridgeshire council do five days' work in four? - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l97gnpyd5o?app-referrer=search

@NikkiDimes@lemmy.world @Wlm@lemmy.zip racism is about far more than tone. If you've trained your AI - or any kind of machine - on racist data then it will be racist. Camera viewfinders that only track white faces because they don't recognise black ones. Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands. Diagnosis tools that only recognise rashes on white skin.

@return2ozma@lemmy.world so they crash 12* more than human drivers, even though they currently *have* human drivers?! The AI makes human drivers 12* worse. Cool.

@oldladyplays I kind of imagine all of these billionaires just so removed from humanity at this point - surrounded by yes-men terrified for their jobs - that they view entire populations not as individual humans, but through a literal computer/TV screen showing whatever their favourite medium is. Friend count metrics, NPCs, Prime subscriptions, reality TV redshirts, ad views.

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network he should be SO much stronger on the digital publishers (because whatever they say, they *are* publishers. They choose what articles people see, and take revenue from those views.)

@cstross@wandering.shop our local radio station franchise (now a Heart) used to use the tagline "we don't talk all over your favourite songs" and it was *absolutely* aimed at the "press record as soon as the DJ stops talking" market (plus it meant they could leave it on a playlist when they didn't have enough DJs)

@benroyce I've been heartened to hear of some of the resistance being organised - both by looking on here, but also by listening to these two episodes of a British podcast presented by ex BBC journos (Emily Maitlis is the one who did the Prince Andrew sweating interview): https://pca.st/episode/cbf7fa24-0b9c-44c4-b3af-8302a1e85ebc https://pca.st/episode/4d7ccd12-34d0-444e-a071-673a12f6fe38 I've mostly gone off their in-studio stuff as it's a bit breathlessly inside baseball, but this just seems like honest documentary.

@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works @Buffalox@lemmy.world Marie Le Conte left X and joined Bluesky ages ago. She's mostly trying to make the point to some of her fellow journalists who are ridiculously clay-footed and don't seem to have realised that they haven't "made themselves a nice little corner of X", they're just swimming in fascist waters now.

@glitchdx@lemmy.world @ripcord@lemmy.world how good are either of them for compatibility with word track changes and comments?! *Really* want to come off MS Word after this but I need collaborative tools.

@CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk @c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io @DamonHD@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop yeah what the US calls trolleys we call trams. This is a shopping trolley/cart situation

@CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk @c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io @DamonHD@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop I once raced in a shopping trolley down a street in Brisbane when on a trip there as a student. Classic international activity apparently

@afewbugs@social.coop @CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk @DamonHD@mastodon.social I mean they are often related activities...

@thecasualcritic @KimSJ @wayne @ChrisMayLA6 actually more than Brexit I get annoyed about the wall-to-wall "immigrants are bad/immigration is high/small boats are illegal" and "taxes are too high/increasing taxes is bad". Neither of these hegemonies are ever ever questioned. Also I am increasingly entertained by how much time Chris Mason dedicates to how bad Starmer/Reeves are. The "Reeves lied!" thing went on for about two weeks

@KimSJ @thecasualcritic @wayne @ChrisMayLA6 but the entirely politically neutral board requires 100% balanced reporting - surely that's reasonable

@IronBird@lemmy.world @mirshafie@europe.pub did you use a comma where you should have used a semicolon there on purpose

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network The waves are still felt now from the Cameron/Osborne destruction of what had been a relatively effective crash survival strategy from Brown. I still blame way too many of our problems on the "that bigoted woman" hit.

@only_ohm @ChrisMayLA6 @wayne also I suspect the new reorg is going to royally screw over East Cambs

@CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk @DamonHD@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop trolleyed hammered smashed wankered pissed are the universal ones (pissed *off* is angry - gets confusing translating between US and UK sometimes). But you can verb any noun to do the same...

@qole @pluralistic just been reading about the Dawn supercomputer in Cambridge and found this article from June 2024. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/breaking-dawn-inside-the-uks-newest-ai-supercomputer/ On the topic of why they chose Intel over Nvidia: '“Nvidia’s direction is clear,” Dr. Calleja says. “Every move it makes is to make its ecosystem more proprietary so there’s more lock-in and it can keep its share price at the current level. It’s madness and it has to change because the ecosystem needs competition.'

@MarkAB@mastodon.world @japipes@zirk.us @benroyce@mastodon.social @log@mastodon.sdf.org @thegarbagebird@theblower.au @lzg@mastodon.social I'm British so for me it's parish and town councils and making sure the right party is organising bin collections. But I'm a big fan of Amanda's Mild Takes and this is her latest on the US version: the Republicans have been organising to get loads of boring administrative positions for decades. https://youtube.com/shorts/ECJ4D-pSOTs

@szewek @Veza85UE @PaulaToThePeople @leavex this has been British media for at least a decade. They are all addicted and can't see it.

@Holytimes wooooah. I thought voice controls not understanding women or accents was bad enough, but I forgot those things have eye trackers now. They haven't allowed for different eye shapes?!?! Insane.

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network absolutely. Amazing the damage you can do with a bacon sandwich.

@cmconseils@mastodon.social the Big Internet

@thefyuuri@infosec.exchange @pluralistic@mamot.fr alas, it doesn't look like it'll be the UK. Starmer seems determined to remain supine.

@maartje@blahaj.social @ayke@hachyderm.io omg

@riese@soc.iotaomegapsi.io @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net For example... there's probably a reason Dolly Parton isn't a billionaire but Taylor Swift is.

@CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk @afewbugs@social.coop similarly anything can be smut if you emphasise it right. He'll bake *her* beans, innit.

@glitchdx@lemmy.world hmm. I'll have to look into it. Most of the companies I work with are locked into office so I may be stuck with it but it'd be lovely to get rid.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @peterbrown@mastodon.scot according to the news agents podcast (they did two episodes from there) there is a network keeping eyes on unfamiliar cars, logging licence plates, turn up with whistles as soon as ice is spotted anywhere. They're doing an amazing job. And clearly it is freaking ice out. https://pca.st/episode/cbf7fa24-0b9c-44c4-b3af-8302a1e85ebc honestly worth a listen. Another guy is using a long lens to document all the dark flight deportations.

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network I didn't know it had a name!

@only_ohm @ChrisMayLA6 @wayne oh hang on, looks like @AntonyCarpen updated it here https://cambridgetownowl.com/

@Gsus4@mander.xyz @TheBat@lemmy.world the more worrying thing is how many times it has made something up that nobody has spotted because it looks normal. Proofreading spots spelling/punctuation/formatting issues. You need a deeper copyedit, not just a scan, to check the sense of something. And that won't necessarily catch factually untrue, but perfectly plausible, things.

@Xenny@lemmy.world @frongt@lemmy.zip it's definitely not good for words with any technical meaning, because it creates references to journal articles and legal precedents that sound plausible but don't exist. Ultimately it's a *very* expensive replacement for the lorem ipsum generator keyboard shortcut.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr @thefyuuri@infosec.exchange 🤞

@ArcaneSlime it's a real example, but actually IR. Loads of this kind of stuff happened in around 2015. https://www.mic.com/articles/124899/the-reason-this-racist-soap-dispenser-doesn-t-work-on-black-skin Pretty sure early smartwatch heart monitors didn't work on dark skin either for a while.

@cstross@wandering.shop @TimWardCam@c.im @mort@procial.tchncs.de ah but sometimes it has a QR code on it for a webpage with a search bar which may or may not yield some relevant results