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www.newstatesman.com How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power

The European Union was impotent in the face of crisis, while Britain remained agile.

How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power
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Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web
  • Yes, it is a travesty that people are being hounded for sharing information, but the solution to that isn't to lock up information tighter by restricting access to the open web and saying if you download something we put up to be freely accessed and then use it in a way we don't like you owe us.

    The solution to bad laws being applied unevenly isn't to apply the bad laws to everyone equally, its to get rid of the bad laws.

  • No way is Britain’s general election a done deal. Polls disguise huge uncertainty
  • I just dont see it. All the indicators are showing a siesmic labour victory and have been for a long time. Not just voting intention but "who do you want as a prime minister" "who do you trust on the economy/NHS/cost of living", local elections, by-elections, a fractured right wing vote, poor recent economic performance, an extremely bad campaign by Sunak highlighting the worst aspects of the tories.

    I just dont see how all that doesnt result in a huge Labour victory, the tories have even shifted their campaigning message to "dont let labour win too big and give them a blank cheque to do whatever they like"

  • Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022
  • The focus on construction is a distraction, the point here is that men of lower socio-economic status in the US are killing themselves at a horrific rate. From the actual paper this article is based on:

    The overall suicide rates by sex in the civilian noninstitutionalized working population were 32.0 per 100,000 among males and 8.0 per 100,000 among females.

    Major industry groups with the highest suicide rates included Mining (males = 72.0); Construction (males = 56.0; females = 10.4); Other Services (e.g., automotive repair; males = 50.6; females = 10.4); Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (males = 47.9; females = 15.0); and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting (males = 47.9).

    Major occupation groups with the highest suicide rates included Construction and Extraction (males = 65.6; females = 25.3); Farming, Fishing, and Forestry (e.g., agricultural workers; males = 49.9); Personal Care and Service (males = 47.1; females = 15.9); Installation, Maintenance, and Repair (males = 46.0; females = 26.6); and Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media (males = 44.5; females = 14.1).

  • OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content
  • You mean that work that took open source software, closed sourced it and refused to release the source code and the poisoning only worked against one specific open source model (stable diffusion)? I don't think that's going to come riding to anyone's rescue.

  • No way is Britain’s general election a done deal. Polls disguise huge uncertainty
  • Worth pointing out that the author of this piece is labours campaign manager. Its absolutely in his interest to try and make out that it isnt in the bag for labour as lower turn out if people think its a done deal could be the difference between a huge and crushing victory for labour.

    That said if you live in a seat where the Tories are incumbents or closest chalenger you should absolutly vote for whoever is best placed to win against them no matter what you think the result will be. They need to be crushed this election.

  • Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'
  • There is a bubble in AI, AI isnt a bubble. In the same way there was a bubble in e-commerce that lead to the dotcom crash. But that didnt mean there was nothing of value there, just that there was too much money chasing hype.

  • London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard
  • Book burnings dont remove all copies of a book from existence either. And no I dont get to decide what is and isnt art, and I dont presume to, generally if someone says something they have made is art and they're not asking me to buy it I'm happy for them to consider it art. Also I dont go around cheering when creative works I dont like get censored.

  • ‘Only Pirates Do This’: China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight
  • I hardly think its whataboutery talking about the topic in question, the claims in the south China sea. Did you miss the parts where I explictly said China was by far the worst for this?

    But you'll also notice that even though this incident is outside the internationally recognised waters of the Philipines it is claimed by China, the Philipines and Vietnam. Despite not being near enough to any of them to properly claim it.

  • ‘Only Pirates Do This’: China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight
  • All of those issues were provoked by China trying to exert control over coastal waters that are rightfully the property of other nations, such as Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. China is a bad neighbor.

    China is a bad neighbour, and fuck the CCP. But all the nations around the SCS have ridiculous claims of them controling huge swathes of water way outside their coastal waters. China is just by far the most aggressive about it.

  • www.theguardian.com Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented

    ‘Hasan’, 24, argued he would face persecution in Israel on grounds of his race, faith and its ‘apartheid regime’

    Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented
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    www.technologyreview.com People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    Compton drew a sharp distinction between the consequences of technological progress on “industry as a whole” and the effects, often painful, on individuals.

    For “industry as a whole,” he concluded, “technological unemployment is a myth.” That’s because, he argued, technology "has created so many new industries” and has expanded the market for many items by “lowering the cost of production to make a price within reach of large masses of purchasers.” In short, technological advances had created more jobs overall. The argument—and the question of whether it is still true—remains pertinent in the age of AI.

    Then Compton abruptly switched perspectives, acknowledging that for some workers and communities, “technological unemployment may be a very serious social problem, as in a town whose mill has had to shut down, or in a craft which has been superseded by a new art.”

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    www.theguardian.com Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Delta Air Lines jet was due to depart Atlanta international airport and none of the crew or passengers were hurt

    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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    www.theguardian.com Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

    Chunk of fuselage also broke away, forcing emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon

    Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
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    www.vanityfair.com The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst

    Silicon Valley’s court of public opinion found the ousted OpenAI chief innocent until proven innocent, exposing the cult of personality that surrounds the tech world’s star CEOs.

    The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst
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    www.wired.com Everyone Is a Luddite Now

    A new history of the Luddites, "Blood in the Machine," argues that 19th century fears about technology are still relevant today. It's the latest in a long line of attempts to reclaim the label.

    Everyone Is a Luddite Now
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    www.theguardian.com Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police

    Fears that China’s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of liberties

    Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police
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