adam b

Guitarist and producer of the mighty Molotov Jukebox

[adam b @burkules]

@Clarabellepip Yep turns out you're quite correct! Quite a mad sight to see over London!

[adam b @burkules]

Extremely low flying plane with 2 fighter jet escort flying over London now - never seen anything like this before what's going?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The Friends of Israel include:

Prime Minister
Deputy PM
Foreign Secretary
Chief Secretary to PM
Health Secretary
Education Secretary
Northern Ireland Secretary
Cabinet Minister
Foreign Minister
2 Home Office Ministers
Justice Minister
Trade Minister
Energy Minister

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

Extraordinary essay by @maryturfah in @thebafflermag

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘰 🇮🇹 @Andy_Calcio]

Declaraciones de Jurgen Klopp a ZDF, sobre la reanudación del juego retrasada por el árbitro, durante el cooling break del México-Sudáfrica para que terminaran los comerciales de algunas cadenas de TV:
"Esto es el fútbol siendo tomado como rehén por ejecutivos en oficinas con aire acondicionado".

"Estos supuestos 'descansos por el calor' nos los vendieron como un escudo para el bienestar de los jugadores, una noble espada contra el calor. ¿Pero en realidad? No es más que una jaula dorada construida para patrocinadores. Cuando vi a los jugadores parados durante un descanso por calor mientras los tiempos de televisión dictaban el ritmo del partido, no pude evitar preguntarme: ¿a quién está sirviendo realmente la Copa del Mundo? ¿A los aficionados?, ¿A los jugadores?, ¿O a los anunciantes?".

"Un partido de la Copa del Mundo debería fluir como un río. En cambio, estamos construyendo presas en medio de él para que los comerciales puedan pasar. Eso es peligroso para el espíritu del juego. El fútbol alguna vez fue el evento principal, pero ahora corre el riesgo de convertirse en la música de fondo de un espectáculo publicitario. Nos dicen que estos descansos son por el bienestar de los jugadores, y por supuesto la salud de los jugadores importa. Pero cuando el juego empieza a doblar sus rodillas ante los tiempos de la televisión, la gente va a hacer preguntas. El balón se supone que es la estrella. No un descanso comercial".

"La Copa del Mundo es la catedral del fútbol. Sin embargo, a veces da la sensación de que la hemos convertido en un centro comercial donde la caja registradora recibe más respeto que el propio partido. Si este es el futuro, entonces el fútbol ya no está siendo interrumpido por los anuncios. El fútbol se está convirtiendo en la interrupción entre los anuncios".

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

when your boss's income has risen 947% since 1978 and yours has increased by only 5.8%, it's time to stop blaming minorities for your woės.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Someone searched for a Munich publishing company on Google. the AI Overview came back with:

"Yes, [company] is known for dubious business practices."

then added a summary. red flags. tips for users to avoid the scam.

confident and structured but was completely made up.

the sources the AI cited said none of that the AI mixed the company up with genuinely shady firms and invented connections that existed nowhere on the internet.

the publishers sent Google a cease-and-desist. Google didn't respond adequately.

so they went to court.

the court's ruling:
AI Overviews are not search results. they are Google's own words. Google rewrote the web "in its own words and according to its own structure." therefore Google is the author. therefore Google is liable.

Google's defense: users know AI makes mistakes and should double-check.

the court's response: that's not how publishing law works.

Google's statement after the ruling: "AI Overviews are designed to reflect information that already exists on the web."

the information that destroyed two companies' reputations did not exist on the web.

the AI wrote it.

Google published it.

a court just decided those are the same thing.

every AI search engine. every chatbot. every platform that takes information and synthesizes it into a confident answer is now looking at this ruling.

When your AI gets it wrong, who pays?

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Today, for the first time in recorded history, we have tangible, documented proof that even one trillion dollars can’t buy love.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Starmer even lied about McSweeney departing—apparently he never really did!

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

It means the end of the middle class. And, as a consequence, majoritarian democracy.

In a sensible media landscape that’s a *centre right* argument.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Elon led the mass defunding of basically every US scientific institution and frequently spouts anti-science and anti-education nonsense

Wonder if that has anything to do with it

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This is an affront to British justice & democracy. This is what Starmer, Lammy & Cooper have created in Britain: a system that represents Netanyahu & Elbit Systems rather than the interests of the British people, the vast majority of whom want to stop arms sales to Israel. The right to protest is dead, the right to an open & honest trial is dead. The right to be on the side of peace & human decency rather than genocide, is dead

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

What is Rowley up to @metpoliceuk?

He LIES about Palestine Marches, falsely labelling them antisemitic

He claims Russia and/or Iran are behind Belfast racist pogroms

Here he shills for Palantir

The man is a disgrace

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A police officer is under criminal investigation for using AI to generate false information in a court document, and the government announced a £140 million investment to roll AI out across all 43 forces the same week.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

You can make an argument that people in public sector service roles should not display political insignia. But only if you apply that universally and not make Palestine the exception. I was once asked to remove a Palestine badge by security at parliament. (There is a rule, bizarre as it seems, that you cannot wear political insignia in parliament). Next to me in queue was someone wearing a Ukraine badge. When I challenged why that wasn't being removed the answer was " that's not political". This is all part of the project by Israel and its allies to toxify support for Palestinian rights as something extreme , sinister and outside the boundaries of acceptable discourse, usually via narratives of antisemitism or support for terrorism. Its power is diminishing in the context of the genocide which has been livestreamed. People know what they have seen. But that doesn't mean the political establishment will still not try to use the playbook to repress, grotesquely framing opposition to war crimes and atrocities as a threat to Jewish safety, in this case the safety of Jewish patients. In doing so they undermine amy consistent antiracism, dehumanising Palestinians by suggesting bringing the facts of their oppression into the public domain and demanding an end to UK complicity with it , is something harmful. In the Health sector, the worst example of this was the successful campaign by @UKLFI to get a hospital to remove a display of pottery plates made by children from Gaza , on the basis that the images of Palestinian life and culture prevented Jewish patients attending the hospital. These initiatives must be resisted by all who believe that standing in support of principles of justice and rights and against the crimes of genocide and apartheid is not simply a right but a profound moral duty.

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

SpaceX IPO so perfect for right now. A company without profit, sold on a market detached from reality, based on fake promises about things it will never do. Layers and layers of bullshit.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.