ReformUK have their first seat in #UKGE24 - but 50p Lee Anderson has lost votes since defecting from the Tories. Labour have held here and he just needs to keep showing himself to be the noisy twunt he is.
#GE2024 It's a shame that outgoing Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland has found a moderate voice. Shame he didn't use it when he was in a position to challenge Johnson and Truss.
E.g. Parliament has been a mess for the past few years, reasoned debate and due process bulldozed by May and Johnson. Whenever I watched a debate, opposition was ineffective and often grandstanding. Adding Reform into that mix is going to turn voters off even more.
Underlying all this fragmentation of the #UKPol map, the uncertainty of reconnecting to the EU: the UK itself is breaking apart after 200 years and needs rethinking before we can fix anything else.
3rd result in for #UKGE and Greens again getting a big boost for their size.
Whisper it quietly, but this is a very European style election result. FPTP is masking it in terms of seats though. #ge2024
Previous boost of the article by @tferrer is worth a pop through translate if you don't read Spanish. "Portillo and the Lettuce" is all about the glorious political memes and the joys of UK General Election night.
Por supuesto, no podía limitar mi nerdismo sobre las #elecciones🗳️ en #ReinoUnido🇬🇧 a Mastodon, no.
Como pueden imaginarse, me lo he pasado en grande escribiendo esto
#autobombo🥁 https://elpais.com/opinion/2024-07-04/portillo-y-la-lechuga.html
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!
Wondering if I can make room for this abandoned church organ. Kick the teen out, perhaps?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9778zy0e76o
“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 😎
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.
"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.
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
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!
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.