Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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@winkleink My thinking on this ocassion, and also I want that to be considered in (hopefully) a future discussion about Proportional Voting. But I suspect for the majority of voters, these sorts of nuances are less important, and those that do care will have a party membership anyway.
@KimSJ This is particularly important as smaller parties are also more likely to lose their deposits. The Greens lost £232,500 in 2019 because of the number of candidates they put forward.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50781957
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If you know anyone who is planning on not voting because ‘it won’t make a difference’, explain to them how public funds are allocated to opposition parties (so-called Short money). £38.75 for every 200 votes gained by the party. Every vote counts!
@kegill "The Machine Stops" also describes a world where everyone is an influencer, but nobody knows how things work.
Wondering if I can make room for this abandoned church organ. Kick the teen out, perhaps?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9778zy0e76o
He handed those templates over to me. Sorry it's taken a while.
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“Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone | MIT Technology Review”
> Luccioni says she hopes the research will encourage people to be choosier about when they use generative AI and opt for more specialized, less carbon-intensive models where possible.
'Use smaller, more specialised models' was literally one of the main recommendations I put in my book a year ago 😎
@randahl Relax, it's Tbau mineral water. He just talks like a drunk all the time.
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When you live in a country, where the dictator can never be wrong, the only ones left to blame are the citizens.
So now that Putin has killed so many young men, that birth rates are dropping catastrophically, Russian Deputy Minister of Justice Vsevolod Vukolov reports, that new laws will make it illegal for women not to have children.
Do try to keep up, Republicans — you are so much behind the forefront of the dystopian nightmare.
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"This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between 'too rotten to stand' and 'too big to care'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car
Outside the #Glastonbury headliners, lots to look out for this weekend on the telly. LCD Soundsytem coming on shortly. Later: Sofia Kourtesis with a bit of luck. Other days: Janelle Monae, Peggy Guo, Keane, Justice, The Feeling...
But not as many of my faves as usual. I would always struggle in person because of clashes.
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I knew Brewdog was a shitty company but I didn’t know they ran actual Nazi bars. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/27/brewdog-sacks-asian-woman-over-reaction-to-edl-members-meeting-in-bar
@jon Looks a bit like a Soviet version of the hotel lobby in The Shining.
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Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)
A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!
@Jennifer @stevesilberman
How about 1690?
"[The letter] states that these 13-year-old girls will only be allowed to return to school if they agree to confess in front of the Wells church, school and community that they were worshiping the devil when they took part in the Sunrise Dance. They must promise never to do it again."
@NanoRaptor Someone on Etsy is making stickers along those lines: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1376165840/lgbtq-stem-ee-pride-flag-electrical
@phil_stevens @bascule This was my take, then and now. And since the time he "fled persecution", those who actually did the leaks, did time in prison for specific charges relating to espionage. And they stand by their actions.
Here's two who were involved in exposing abuses by US and AUS military forces. https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-justice/david-mcbride
#2951 Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
@xkcd It *almost* feels like it could be useful... but I can't think how.
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I understand the impulse to get angry at creators who use AI.
I do.
But you'll achieve more by spending the same energy actively sharing and promoting creators who don't.
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