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What isn't illegal but should be?
  • Rent seeking and usury (the charging of interest)

  • Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City - then couldn’t get on the stage
  • It honestly seems worse.

    It's pretty easy to get a ramp built, fixing stupid is much harder.

  • www.disabilitynewsservice.com Fresh DWP fears after Kendall helps launch report that calls for ‘duty to engage’ and cuts to disability benefits

    Comments by new work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and her support for a controversial report, suggest she wants to increase pressure on disabled people to move off benefits and into work, wh…

    Fresh DWP fears after Kendall helps launch report that calls for ‘duty to engage’ and cuts to disability benefits
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    www.thecanary.co Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City - then couldn’t get on the stage

    Anna Landre was awarded the Freedom of the City, but it was marred by the fact that she couldn’t actually get up on the stage

    Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City - then couldn’t get on the stage
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    Mark Zuckerberg open sources 3 new LLMs
  • https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source

    The actual licence is here: https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/

    iv. Your use of the Llama Materials must comply with applicable laws and regulations (including trade compliance laws and regulations) and adhere to the Acceptable Use Policy for the Llama Materials (available at https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy), which is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.

    v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).

    1. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.
  • Starmer suspends seven rebel MPs including McDonnell over two-child benefit cap vote
  • It's telling how they never have to "do the sums" for bombs or missiles.

  • Mark Zuckerberg open sources 3 new LLMs
  • The Llama licence isn't open source because of the restrictions it has.

  • www.independent.co.uk Starmer suspends seven rebel MPs including McDonnell over two-child benefit cap vote

    Show of strength by new Labour prime minister after work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said the government had to do ‘the sums’ before it could commit to abolishing the limit

    Starmer suspends seven rebel MPs including McDonnell over two-child benefit cap vote
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    Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue
  • You can thank Torvalds for supporting TiVoization.

  • LGBT activists protest Glasgow Pride ‘pinkwashing’

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    Peace activists arrested while delivering letter to Lakenheath airbase

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    Amazon worker threatened with the sack for taking time off after cancer diagnosis, festival hears

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    Jeremy Miles drops out of race to be first minister and nominates Baroness Eluned Morgan

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    Labour must deliver or risk populist rise, top ministers say
  • If I was a gambling man I would be placing a bet on our next PM being Farage.

  • Bridget Phillipson says term-time holiday fines 'here to stay'
  • "punishable by a fine" just means "legal for the rich"

  • Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
  • One of the biggest rules in IT is always have a backup.

    A cashless society has no backup.

  • Striking TSSA members accuse Eslamdoust of bullying, anti-union tactics

    skwawkbox.org Video: striking TSSA members accuse Eslamdoust of bullying, anti-union tactics

    Angry members go in front of the camera with damning allegations Disgusted workers at the TSSA rail union have marked their escalating strike action with a scathing critique of the conduct of the m…

    Video: striking TSSA members accuse Eslamdoust of bullying, anti-union tactics
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    Botanists vote to remove racist references from plants’ scientific names
  • That isn't what they're saying.

    Renaming would be disruptive, while replacement names could one day be seen as offensive

    They're saying if we rename the Hitler beetle the Bob Ross beetle, it could one day come out that Bob Ross committed genocide or something, so then they have to rename it again.

    I'm not saying that's a good reason, but it's a slightly better one.

  • Is there a way to make it so that your devices (sd cards, USBs, phones, laptops) etc can't be copied without knowing the password ?
  • There are USB flash drives that self destruct after the wrong password is entered too many times.

  • What makes CrowdStrike so ubiquous that their error created such catastrophe?
  • A lot of companies install it for compliance checkboxing.

  • Lammy announces restoration of UNRWA funding but rejects Israel arms embargo

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    An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.
  • An algorithm is never to blame, some pencil necked desk jockey decided the criteria to get help that was used to create the algorithm, the blame is entirely on them.

    That said, I doubt it would make any difference if a human was in the loop. An algorithm is still al algorithm, even if it's applied by a human. We usually just call that a "policy" though. People have been murdered by the paper sea for decades before we started calling it "algorithms".

  • Cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school have pay cut by 12% after strike vote

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    Gething resigns as first minister of Wales

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    YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos
  • Great, now the AI is going to have permanent youtube clickbait face.

  • If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes?
  • I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body.

  • Nuclear war never closer, CND campaigners warn as they camp outside RAF Lakenheath

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    Union warnings after Starmer says he won't grant above-inflation pay rises

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    skwawkbox.org Labour starts term with massive war boost

    Starmer shows his priorities – and they are those of the ‘forever war’ Establishment, not ordinary people The Starmer government has begun its term with a huge programme of spendi…

    Labour starts term with massive war boost
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    police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets

    www.theguardian.com ‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets

    Police Federation says title for series about new recruits is ‘disgusting choice of language’

    ‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets
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    skwawkbox.org Labour makes legal threat in bid to stop scrutiny of Nargund’s finances and declarations

    Skwawkbox contacted Corbyn opponent for comment – party responds with ‘confidential’ legal threat, despite police involvement, in what appears to be a repeat tactic The Labour par…

    Labour makes legal threat in bid to stop scrutiny of Nargund’s finances and declarations
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