The post below has the wrong link but this is some good old-fashioned investigative journalism.
10.03.2026 14:45
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The post below has the wrong link but this is some good old-fashioned investigative journalism.
Waiiit, are you telling me they never intended to even build the monorail?
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
I use Joplin which I like a great deal as a straight replacement for Evernote but I do host it on my own server which is a barrier. I've tried Obsidian but it's got too many features that don't serve my relatively simple needs. I've also used Zettlr which is good for writing.
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record store day at mono, glasgow, april 18. live acts kathryn joseph, bis, supersun, gichard. djs life without buildings, world of twist, karen dunbar. free entry.
me & sue doing a thing at yr mono for record store day
bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site
every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods
“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
I kept waking up and thinking I should check my phone to see if Central is gone.
On Friday, I bought The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett for a pound from the Shelter on Union Street in Glasgow. That Shelter shop is now gone and if I hadn't bought it, that book would be ashes.
Completely irresponsible to use a genAI image for this story. Especially one that shows the wrong corner of Union Street.
Why are there SO many fires destroying historical buildings in Glasgow? Tonight’s tragedy is just the latest.
@glasgowbell.bsky.social mapped them. ‘With every conflagration there are whispers that there’s slightly more to things than meets the eye’.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
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A bendy banana thanks to the bravery of the Conservative & Unionist Party.
It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.
For @takeonecinema.net, I reviewed EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, the opening film of this year's Glasgow Film Festival. It's a stirring documentary focused on the individuals who chose to defend their neighbours that day and the Scottish context of the protest. People Make Glasgow. #GFF26
Last day of the festival today. Another festival gone by. They're busily preparing outside the GFT for the premiere of James McAvoy's Glasgow-filmed CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN' tonight.
this is obviously inexcusable, but it’s happening in part cos glasgow city council has been hit with an enormous bill for historical underpayment of women workers by decades of labour councils — so to see the slimy opportunist paul sweeney rubbing his hands here does not sit well
You do sometimes really get it driven home that American Christianity was founded by the protestants so weird Britain had no choice but to persecute them.
Reddit post from u/JovanYT_: "Thank you for always being there for me, even in the darkest of times :)" I texted my best friend. "You're very welcome, and honestly, I'm really glad you feel supported, you opening up to me is not a sign of weakness — it's a big step in the right direction."
absolutely killer Two-Sentence Horror on reddit today
Surprisingly I haven't seen Cinderella III.
A new franchise for the podcast.
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
we can explain how an LLM works because we can alter it trivially. we can build it from scratch. you cannot build a human mind.
Challenge for those who claim the stripper is only hanging out with me for the money: Explain how friendship works.
The argument that LLMs and humans have the same level of consciousness--which I have seen in the wild--is the extreme logical end of logocentrism, which humanities disciplines abandoned half a century ago.
But apparently techbros did not get the message.
LLMs produce text from statistically likely arrangements of words. Call me conceited but I like to think my consciousness does more than that.
![”shift the terrain [...] from a defensive position — reacting to
elite policies and practices or merely offering dissent — to an
offensive one — contesting ruling structures and offering
workable alternatives. Movements need to shift from a position of
resistance to one of active transformation.” (p.25)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zijbjmkitpgqwxa6rxarnjmt/bafkreifye7jdeocijqd7rzvmju3l5rpvxw2rvjvy64eb7ynbghydr4ps54@jpeg)
”shift the terrain [...] from a defensive position — reacting to elite policies and practices or merely offering dissent — to an offensive one — contesting ruling structures and offering workable alternatives. Movements need to shift from a position of resistance to one of active transformation.” (p.25)
In the paper I co-delivered this week, I quoted Shantz (2018) at two points:
”There is a pressing need to take decision-making out of government bureaucracies, parliament, and corporate suites and boardrooms, and relocate it in autonomous assemblies” p.25)
