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Successful Human. Aspiring Corpse

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

OpenAI just released a model that can generate 1-minute videos.

You simply cannot argue that these models don't / won't compete with the content they're trained on, and the human creators behind that content.

What is the model trained on? Did the training data providers consent to their work being used? The total lack of info from OpenAI on this doesn't inspire confidence.

Across the AI industry, people's work is being exploited without consent to build products that compete with that work. This must be controlled by regulators.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Sunak the crooked is at it again. Public sector funding of his family company Infosys rose by nearly 50% last year. Decent people would keep personal interests at arms length from their role running the country. But when did we last have one in No.10? https://t.co/PIgz48AxhI

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@GeorgeMonbiot challenges Reem Ibrahim from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a right wing Thatcherite think tank that refuses to say who funds it. Ibrahim says its a wild conspiracy theory

Well done George. #PoliticsLive

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In today's earnings call with defense firm Raytheon, a Wall St analyst noted Israel’s war is an "opportunity" that "fits quite nicely” with the company’s portfolio

Raytheon’s exec agreed they'll “see a benefit...on top of what we think is going to be an increase” in DoD's budget

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

I've been speaking to folks from Maui and have heard this again and again: people are being preyed upon in their most desperate hour. They do not want to leave their ancestral homes. They should have the resources to STAY and rebuild

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If the Tories really cared about workers, they would kickstart a Green New Deal to create millions of jobs.

If they cared about commuters, they would take our railways into public ownership.

If they cared about security, they would tackle the climate crisis endangering us all.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Please screen-grab this tweet and keep it handy when food prices soar , water-wars break out , your house burns down , your business is washed away , polar bears are extinct or in a few years time when a desperate and angry young person asks you who was responsible for killing their world . . .

[Name can't be blank @Hugh_Sir]

Glad that the centrists like Lawson and Cruddas are finally realising just how anti-pluralistic the current iteration of the party is, but it all feels a bit 'they came first for the socialists and I didn't speak up' etc. etc. ...

[Name can't be blank @Hugh_Sir]

The irony of Starmer supporters calling the Labour left 'Stalinists', whilst the current leadership implements a 'ban on factions' far more illiberal than Corbyn could ever manage

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Life got better when I just admitted to myself that I don’t like techno.

[Dr Shama Junejo @ShamaJunejo]

@DoctorGladys @CTPHuganda @GCCoffee1 @ctph_camp hi Lawrence zikusoka such a wonderful family you all are, loved the song, and of course Samosas 🤩
Wishing best of luck to Gladys for her book.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

This graph shows the real GDP, the size of the economies adjusted for inflation, of Eastern European countries since the overthrow of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine's economy in 2020 was 57% of its size in 1989, before the USSR was overthrown. (And the war has only further devastated its economy.)

Poland received huge sums of Cohesion Fund support and investment from the European Union.

Excluding that outside factor of significant EU support, the country that actually did the best was Belarus, which unlike the others did not impose neoliberal reforms, maintaining state guidance of the economy.

(China's economic growth was so massive -- 1480% vs. Poland's 252% -- that it could not even be shown on the graph.)

This was made by economic geographer Mick Dunford, and he analyzes it in this fascinating discussion here: https://t.co/JYb6cIrY0v

[Steve Robson @SteveRobson04]

Exclusive: Thought the arrest of @GrahamSmith_ and @RepublicStaff protesters at the King’s coronation was a bit over the top? Meet Alice Chambers, a quiet, 36-year-old Aussie who’s lived in London for about seven years. What happened to her on Saturday is a wild ride.🧵

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Tacit admission here from Conservative donor that Voter ID law is there to help keep a Tory majority.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We live in a grotesquely unequal society that concentrates wealth, status & power in the hands of a few.

Real patriotism is about building a society that cares for each other and cares for all.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

There are few things that make me feel more Republican than BBC1 and BBC2 simulcasting. It’s such a pointless and pathetic display of subservience!

[Shelly M @ShellyAsquith]

Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards

So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart

[Name can't be blank @Hugh_Sir]

I think it's slightly telling of just how obviously formulaic Wes Anderson's style has become, that hundreds of thousands of people on Tiktok can accurately replicate both the tone and depth (or lack thereof) of his recent work.

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

The call to leave Labour is the siren call of despair.

It has no political project, no propositional alternative, no ask beyond ceding capacity & space.

Its only effect is to weaken the Labour Left and the survival of socialism within the public sphere.