flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attackEnglish
211·2 days agoOn a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast’s Shankhill road, the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside.
As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks.
As they stormed the property, some claimed to be “liberating” it. Graffiti nearby demanded “local homes for local people”. A woman in the crowd said to her friend: “There’s wee girls inside”.
Christ, this is grim.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Necessity is the mother of inventionEnglish
3·3 days agoDid you mean to post this comment 4 times?
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phonesEnglish
10·4 days agoThe ultimatum comes a month after Jess Phillips quit her post as safeguarding minister claiming that Starmer had failed to introduce changes to halt the ability of children in the UK to take naked images of themselves.
I don’t see the issue with kids being able to take naked photos of themselves? Like I get that the fear is that they will share these with adults exploiting them, but the Online Safety Act already requires platforms to limit sharing images in sensitive contexts (like DMs). You could also just require phones for children to not have cameras, but this isn’t actually about children taking nude images of themselves.
“For too long, people have been told that [children sharing explicit images] is simply the price of modern tech – that nothing could be done. That government is powerless. That parents just have to accept it,” he said.
Just don’t buy you kid a phone? Or just get them a phone plan without data? Parents are anything but powerless.
“That is why today, I am calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce vice controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. Because this is not an impossible challenge.
You solution is literally technologically impossible, though. There does not exist, and likely will never exist, an algorithm that can identify explicit images from non-explicit ones with fault tolerances approaching acceptable.
The announcement has been driven by an explosion in child sexual abuse referrals. The UK’s National Crime Agency receives 1,700 referrals every week. Last year nine in 10 child abuse images were generated by children, many of whom had been tricked or blackmailed by abusers they had met on the internet.
These are social issues for which technology alone cannot solve. Tech won’t save us and it can’t govern for you, Mr Starmer.
The proposal is designed to sit alongside the Online Safety Act, which requires companies to have processes for removing material that is illegal or harmful to children.
Bullshit, this literally works against the OSA’s regime. At least with the OS age stuff happening elsewhere, you don’t also have to upload your ID to every website that might host a nipple.
I’m all up for legislation requiring certain standards from system parental controls. My take on the OSA’s age verification regime is that it should just be an API that tells apps/websites if parental controls are enabled. But this is about the most blatant trojan horse I’ve ever seen.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•THE CRUSADE AGAINST ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE BEGINSEnglish
46·4 days agoI think you mean the Butlerian Jihad.
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gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world•"Sir, there's been a second rainbow"English
21·4 days agoMaster Chief, wake up! They rainbowed fucking Reach Master Chief

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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Cake sheds are making bakers £1,000 a week - but the dream might be overEnglish
161·5 days agoBut red tape is now threatening the future of many bakers’ culinary creations as some councils in England are reviewing their street trading policies, and questioning whether cake sheds should require a licence.
What is this framing by the BBC? ‘Red tape’ is very ideological language. Most street food businesses don’t make anywhere near 1K a week, but I should feel sorry for these people having to follow the same rules as everyone else because it’s twee enough?
In Nottinghamshire, council officials have even suggested they should receive a slice of any money being made.
This is an insane way for the BBC of all institutions to frame a licence fee. If you’re middle class enough, the public broadcaster will frame fucking taxation as robbery. I can see the argument that £1000 annually is excessive for these type of businesses, but this is not the BBC’s framing.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Necessity is the mother of inventionEnglish
121·5 days agoThe fact it’s secured with a piece of sellotape is just *chef’s kiss*.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•This now appears on x.com (formerly Twitter) nag screensEnglish
14·5 days agoJust use xcancel.com, no need to go to the actual racist’s CSAM site.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Necessity is the mother of inventionEnglish
11·5 days agoAh, now I see it. Thanks!
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Necessity is the mother of inventionEnglish
401·5 days agoWhat does this even mean?
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Selfhosted Mod Crashes Out Over Slightest Criticism: Makes critics new moderators and removes self from moderating team.English
8·6 days agoThis is honestly just funny.
Moderation by sortition is also an interesting idea, even though this isn’t quite that.
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Yuri memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•American yuriEnglish
33·7 days ago
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•rsync is being vibe coded now. We are so cooked.English
446·13 days agolot of eyes on it I think the quality will remain high
This was bullshit when Raymond argued it in the 90s and it’s even more bullshit now.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•BBC Question Time Assembled a Panel on AI and Forgot to Invite Any CriticsEnglish
4·13 days agoInspired, I asked ChatGPT to, err, unlock the full potential of my newsletter writing.
This is like eating a spoonful of shredded plastic while commenting on microplastics.
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•Blair wants to leave our future to the markets. I believe democracy can still shape our lives for the better | Wes StreetingEnglish
5·15 days agoYou can really tell when a Labour politician is addressing party members. Like this is fairly good, the exact stuff you’d expect to hear from a social democrat. No chance he gets into Number 10 and continues saying half of this stuff, let alone acts on it.
Except the AI stuff. He’s wrong about that, but he’ll give it his full backing. The SW1 class has already capitulated to ‘AI’, so this shouldn’t be surprising.
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpEnglish
19·16 days agoA senior Labour source said: “Tony has evidently not been near a working-class Brit for decades but he’s clearly been away with the tech bro fantasists.
“Reheated Blairism has absolutely no answers to our national decline since the vultures were let loose. There was a time he would have stood up for social democratic values, but this shows just how far he has fallen.”
Can this senior Labour source be put up in the upcoming leadership election, they sound better than what’s currently on offer.
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpEnglish
24·16 days agoIt was 33 degrees yesterday, what nutter responds to that by attacking climate policy.
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Feddit UK@feddit.uk•Are thumbnails broken?English
1·18 days agoCan you try loading the web ui from a private tab? If it’s speedy there, then you can clear your site data for feddit.uk (you’ll need to log back in) and that should sort it out (the web ui has issues clearing old data).
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Carnists be like...English
51·18 days agoYeah, I agree with the point about dairy being bad, and it’s one that’s easy to make without objectifying women.




















Do you have any examples of people actually like this? Or are you making up a person to be mad at.
Most of the people I’ve seen who critise Robinson also critise Lucy Connolly, who has (AFIK) no links to either Russia or Israel like Robinson.