Emyr Derfel

this administration scans authoritarian in everything it does, and the assault on the media -- and more precisely the public's right of access to accurate information & reporting -- is pretty much foundational. censorial in every respect.

Jeff Bezos is spying on you to determine the maximum amount of wealth he can extract from you. Tell him what he can do with himself.

why are bees doing brutalism

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Technology is politics.

You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics.

So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

I’m releasing a Japanese subtitled version of my special ‘Thief of Joy’ this Sunday on my new international YouTube special.

I know there’s AI programs that do it automatically but they’re inaccurate and unartistic so we hired a real life human being.

If he just renames it the "Strait of America", boom problem solved: no more blocked Strait of Hormuz.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Lots of folks have pointed out all of the banana pants stuff about this tweet, but I guess my question would be, "and then what?" You can research & write your dissertation super fast, then what? What is the destination you're trying to get to? A job? Good luck with that. A book? Ok...? Then what?

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Same, there's rows of new T chargers at Lymm services and the one time I've needed a top-up there since they opened, the Gridserve chargers were pleasantly unoccupied.

Once again, Badenoch endorses Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals.

If the government - against public opinion and all the evidence - continue to pursue them, they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

They call people who don't like ai "denialists" and meanwhile the dude is just saying this out loud

I don't see how Dale comes close to the worlds wealthiest fascist.

“It’s France saving Europe’s honour, not Spain” says French FM Barrot.

This is the EU’s tragedy in one sentence.

A beauty contest between capitals over who gets the moral credit.

Europe doesn’t need a winner. It needs a position.

See that's the thing about Farage: he does have a spine, but he's a snake.

LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING

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Spend the day comparing "prompt engineering" to "arguing with the Nutrimatic machine about tea".

I don’t know what’s worse: AI impersonating writers and editors and stealing the value they use to pay rent or people being casually dismissive of said writers and editors for being upset about that

Why don't they just make their tools not output crap code?

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

I’ve seen several potential clients using AI LLMs to evaluate legal claims and, besides often being wrong, they reliably interpret the query to predict what answer the user *wants* to hear. So, worse than wrong.

The say “I am alive” comic

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

Fatbike has meant a wide MTB for decades.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

This annoys me with my actual fat bike, a mountain bike with 4" tyres.

Uh...not an e-bike

Definitely not an e-bike

And this isn't an e-bike

But this is not an e-bike

Can anyone tell me what the bike industry and/or People For Bikes are doing about the way e-bikes are being blamed for havoc caused by people riding electric motorcycles?!!?

WAY MORE THAN HALF THE STORIES ABOUT DEATHS CAUSED BY E-BIKES DO NOT INVOLVE E-BIKES. THIS IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.

This is a lawyer without a client, rather than a plaintiff without a lawyer.

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.