The sort of bloke who mouths 'Elephant juice.' to you as the widening crevasse forces us apart. Martial artist, gamer, philosoraptor. #GreatBritishFuckOff
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[prigozhin logging into telegram tomorrow] hey guys im back, some hacker got into my account and posted a bunch of weird stuff about launching a coup yesterday haha. hope none of you thought that was real lol
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Passing by a school today, I saw a child whose gender I couldn't at once identify. Naturally suspicious, I asked them what they identified as and they replied "Your mum".
What kind of world is this where teens are permitted to "identify" as 70 year old women? It's woke gone mad.
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As funny as it is, the billionaire marinara sub really overshadowed the story about the hundreds of refugees that drowned last week off the coast of Greece.
But what really should be getting more attention is that these drownings weren’t simply a tragedy, they were mass murder.
ALT https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greece-boat-disaster-migrants-capsized-unfolded-fggpl6nvg
ALT https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greece-boat-disaster-migrants-capsized-unfolded-fggpl6nvg
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Billions of people doing clickwork for AI sounds more dystopian than most of the AI safety risk scenarios that have been proposed tbh
ALT Annotation reveals too much about the systems being developed, and the huge number of workers required makes leaks difficult to prevent. Annotators are warned repeatedly not to tell anyone about their jobs, not even their friends and co-workers, but corporate aliases, project code names, and, crucially, the extreme division of labor ensure they don’t have enough information about them to talk even if they wanted to. (Most workers requested pseudonyms for fear of being booted from the platforms.) Consequently, there are no granular estimates of the number of people who work in annotation, but it is a lot, and it is growing. A recent Google Research paper gave an order-of-magnitude figure of “millions” with the potential to become “billions.”
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Average house price today: £285,000
Average salary today: £26,000
Multiple : 11x
House price 1993: £56,500
Salary 1993: £17,800
Multiple : 3.2x
To those saying “oh we survived higher interest rates in the 90s” : YOUR house price was NOT 11 times your salary!
#InterestRate
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"For him to say there is 'no connection whatsoever between austerity and the unequal impact of the pandemic on disadvantaged communities’ is quite staggering". Our President @martinmckee responding to George Osborne's appearance today at the Covid Inquiry. bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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A mountain of unused packs of personal protective equipment has been discovered dumped on land in the New Forest in Hampshire trib.al/T4hNm6J
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It's amazing how many people are like "if you just give them the right facts, they'll be converted!"
we literally know, through science, that people will refuse facts outright if those facts contradict what they already believe.
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I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
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Tonight the Manchester Evening News has published a special report from @PaulBrittonMEN. This is one of the most heart breaking and important stories we've published in some time. Here follows a short thread:
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An online attitude that’s developed in the last 20 years and really bugs me is the idea that all historical information is available somewhere on the web. No, it’s not. There are historians working at the evidential coalface every day to make it available
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Before the week is out, read @esmithwriter on what's lost when Spec Ops: The Line is remembered only for its popular reputation as "a games about games": bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023…
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BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
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Staggering statistics. Real average weekly earnings are same today as in November 2005.
A completely unprecedented period with no earnings growth. Hard to compare but likely this has not happened over any comparable period since Napoleonic wars.
Long view on today's labour market stats is price-adjusted average pay is down £35/wk since Feb 2008
A drop from £532 to £497 over 182 months' of data
Few would have guessed possible (without a revolution!) -- except those who knew the US horror story
ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
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BREAKING: Public told to stay away from 8 beaches in the North West that have been polluted with sewage
@Ofwat you need to stop hiding, you need to be accountable, today, you need to explain exactly what the fu*k it is you've been doing the last 30 years
itv.com/news/granada/2023-06…
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As of just now, AskHistorians has taken its forums offline to protest @Reddit's policies regarding API and third-party developers.
You may well be thinking: why has such a dry-sounding issue managed to spark one of the largest user revolts in social media history?
Well... 🧵
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Industries built on the work of artists, whether it’s writers or visual/audio creators and performers, have all systematically and intentionally devalued our work to the point of abject poverty while raking in record profits across the board. When I say “reckoning” I mean it.
