@ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

Sounds like Meta may be building a universal face database. Why do I think this? Well, because a Meta spokesperson has told WIRED, "One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a universal face database.” https://www.wired.com/story/i-felt-super-violated-men-wearing-meta-glasses-on-dates-is-an-instant-red-flag/

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social I can't understand why Facebook isn't being banned by countries outside of the USA for all the same reasons that the US banned TikTok....

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world Exactly. It's not perfect (as the number of stuck-off doctors proves), but it's better than nothing and it allows employees to refuse to perform certain tasks for their employers if they conflict with expected professional standards. @PGBeattie@mastodonapp.uk

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world Yes, it's basically the bit of paper that lets employers and customers know that you can do your job, and most come with a set of ethical principles that members must abide by. This last part is what's largely missing from the privately-operated certification schemes. @PGBeattie@mastodonapp.uk

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social Radical thinking. Perhaps someone should organise a global class action for corporate theft?

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@PGBeattie@mastodonapp.uk @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world That's certainly a fair accusation against private company certifications, but membership of professional bodies is intended to guarantee a standard of ethical behaviour, even if individuals occasionally fall foul of the rules. In LL's case, there is an ethical code for nurses (https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/) and transgressors will be 'struck off' and unable to work in that profession again.

nmc.org.uk

The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates - The Nursing and Midwifery Council

Read and download the Code for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and see supporting resources.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jonsnow@mastodon.online 'If you allow it' in this context meaning if you dig through the depths of the settings menu to repeatedly disallow it after every update.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/116968765193162423 "Call us optimists, call us dreamers, call us whatever the hell you want but we're betting on people and we like those odds. The future is for everyone." If it's OK with everyone, I'll continue to call them parasites.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club True, but while we're all talking about the lack of profits and wondering what AI's killer application will be, these companies are quietly (and not so quietly) collecting vast amounts of public and private data on everything from historical academic text to people's shopping habits and social circle. It's possible that data collection and the onward sale and exploitation of that data for marketing, surveillance, dynamic pricing, etc *is* AI's killer app. @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop Tbf, it was funny to see the horror on centrist faces when they realised that their 'no one likes socialism anymore' mantra didn't apply to the electorate. @NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social It was more of a constitutional question, but I hadn't realised that civil war was even a possibility until I read your other post. @benroyce@mastodon.social @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/116947740614700624 I suppose being mugged by cats might be seen as an emergent benefit.....

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Voting is Your POWER: "Welsh and Ugandan researchers found that a lotion…" - Universeodon Social Media

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Hard to disagree with this, but as others have said it's likely to affect SMEs far more than big business, and big business could in turn support the move as a means of removing competition and forcing home workers back to air conditioned offices. Execution will be as important as intention here.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social Suspect that we're on the cusp of 'rewriting history to serve ideology' being turbocharged by AI. We may even end up without a decent grasp on the present.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@malteengeler@legal.social Nationalising AI to a fascist-adjacent government is plainly a bad idea, but socialising it to break up corporate knowledge monopolies and prevent the commercial exploitation and gatekeeping activities remains a sensible goal.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/tech-news-2simc09tz/-/a-N4XhcrczRvaQEgHkimK5Tg%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 How long would Facebook and Instagram need to be down before the fresh shoots of human intellect are reborn?

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Walrus@toot.wales He's vowed to scrap Welsh language targets. @ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot https://nation.cymru/news/reform-accused-of-having-no-interest-in-welsh-speakers-as-farage-pledges-to-scrap-one-million-target/

Nation.Cymru

Reform accused of having no interest in Welsh speakers as Farage pledges to scrap one million target

Emily Price Reform UK have been accused of having no interest in the Welsh language or communities after Nigel Farage pledged to abolish Labour’s one million Welsh speakers by 2050 target. In a video posted to X by Reform on Monday (June 23) Clacton MP Farage said: “Tell me a single government target that ever gets […]

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Agreed. How is as important as what here. @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social Is ranked choice voting a realistic possibility? I can't imagine either party embracing a policy that increases democratic representation and threatens their duopoly. @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social Thanks. Is it possible for it be implemented across most the country on a State-by-State basis? @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk I think Al is suggesting that every progressive move is aggressively countered by the usual 'scroungers'/'can't afford it' rhetoric, but I may be wrong. @alan@lighthouse.co.im

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/117032259702743530 Meet the new boss.....

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net Absolutely. I blame Nick Clegg for the AV referendum. His one job in that coalition was to force a referendum on PR, and he conceded to Cameron's AV. Yet another example of public interest being binned when politicians from posh schools sit down together. @cstross@wandering.shop @NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr https://www.dw.com/en/dangerous-apps-in-the-web-of-data-brokers/a-76211474

dw.com

Dangerous Apps — In the Web of Data Brokers

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social All far-right parties are essentially conservative parties that pretend to support working people, usually as a pre-emptive means of preventing those working people supporting socialist and social democrat parties that might actually change the economic status quo. The current batch of dubiously-funded far-right parties in Europe fit the pattern perfectly.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social Yes. I got vaguely excited about the US Greens offering a genuine alternative to Dem-GOP some years ago and it only turned me on to the micro-managed and hyper-commercialised nature of US politics. @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social This is undeniably true for the USA currently because it's a systemic two party state with a near impossible bar to entry for new parties. That's not to say that the Dems are great because they'd be a party of the centre-right in Europe, but I wonder how much of the anti-Dem rhetoric on here is encouraged by Europeans who have better left-wing options available. @too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @farlukar@mas.to @mkoek@mastodon.nl

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@Sarah111well@mas.to That would coincide with the widespread adoption of SpAds and political appointments. @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Yes, that is true, although I wonder whether the same levels of national commitment could be summoned for what would effectively be a bout of robot wars. @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@eff@mastodon.social Meta are aiming for to sell 10,000,000 of these things before 2026 is out, which means Meta will control 10,000,000 data feeds *to and from* 10,000,000 morons, many of which may become very different people as a result.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@HaystacksTech@mastodon.social So you're Baha'i, right? @ariaflame@masto.ai @Sempf@infosec.exchange @peachfiend@mastodon.sdf.org

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk This will only get worse as AI gets better at reproducing human artefacts and humans start to adopt AI mannerisms and extracts in their original work. The potential for misinformation on a global scale is huge and examples of deliberate attempts to manufacture new 'truths' are already in the wild.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us There's a lot of ideology involved, and UK mainstream politicians have adopted the wrong one for public service provision. One of the points made here is imposition of 17 autonomous regions in the NHS, presumably installed to break up a public sector monopoly without considering the economies of scale that gave the NHS much of it's value.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@adamsteer@mapstodon.space This is a foreign policy issue as much as anything else, because US Big Tech has become an issue of national security for the US which puts sovereign govt use of US cloud services on a par with hosting US military bases.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@Lazarou@mastodon.social It'll be his own undoing. Under PR Labour would be pretty much guaranteed to maintain a decent number of MPs in Westminster, but under FPTP they could get wiped out.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@Lazarou@mastodon.social Yes, agreed. It seems that Sarmer's job was to neuter Labour's left-wing and gladhand Farage into No.10.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social ....in other words, 'populism' is literally fake news, and efforts on the left would be best targeted at exposing and eliminating the anti-democratic bias: Limits to political funding. Leveson. Banning political advertising on SM platforms.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116928681383901455 80 MPs and Lords sounds like a lot, but in reality it's relatively tiny in comparison with the proportion of the electorate that support sanctions. The views of citizens are routinely ignored in Western liberal democracies.

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social

Report: More than 80 British politicians have demanded that the UK government "impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel in line with the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion”. "The UK's obligations under international law are clear. What is needed now is the political courage to act.” "Keir Starmer’s government has continued to enable Israel’s atrocities." https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-politicians-call-sanctions-israel-starmers-gaza-legacy-slammed #USPol #EUPol #ICJ #BDS #IsraeliCrimes #news #palestine .

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@luciedigitalni@aus.social https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/digital-gangsters-the-inside-story

bylinesupplement.com

Digital Gangsters: The Inside Story of How Greed, Lies and Big Tech Broke Democracy

In an extract from his book, Ian Lucas reveals how dark forces have interfered in our politics on both sides of the Atlantic

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop The NZ govt has just agreed to a corporate climate change cop-out for corporations too. At some point we need to regulate the arse off these grifting companies and hold their shareholders to criminal account for the damage they cause. https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116562001751326392

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CelloMom On Cars: ""[New Zealand's conservative] government will pas…" - Mastodon

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk Yep, even the best LLM can only be a snapshot of 'today'. @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-URhQZnozS6yKHMrxZ8cBLw%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Hahaa! Reform UK snowflake Zia Yusuf reporting Polanski to police: "this is incitement to murder". "One of the images showed a man wearing a T-shirt which said: "We're only making plans for Nigel" alongside a guillotine.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world I can't imagine so. Having humans on the battlefields is important to foster national support for military campaigns. @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net .....I've even wondered whether Cameron's squirmingly contrived claim to be a Villa fan was conceived as an in-group play on 'AV'. @cstross@wandering.shop @NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space Agree completely, although it's probably worth noting that STEM subjects have also been focused on applied science and engineering subjects most likely to offer an economic return.

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@fname@kamloops.social I wonder why the bot service posting these articles is blocked?

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@david@social.gamefan.net Who honestly has the time to read the Ts&Cs for these services? Many of them are so large and change so frequently that they shouldn't really be contractually-binding at all! @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social Not to be outdone, Meta is pushing its own video selfies. Why would anyone voluntarily do this? https://mastodon.social/@lifehacker@robot.villas/116975989348223881

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Reg @ReggieHere@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world The combination of autonomous vehicles and AI may well throw up some unexpected outcomes. @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

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