LLMs are an interesting tool to fuck around with, but I see things that are hilariously wrong often enough to know that they should not be used for anything serious. Shit, they probably shouldn’t be used for most things that are not serious either.

It’s a shame that by applying the same “AI” naming to a whole host of different technologies, LLMs being limited in usability - yet hyped to the moon - is hurting other more impressive advancements.

For example, speech synthesis is improving so much right now, which has been great for my sister who relies on screen reader software.

Being able to recognise speech in loud environments, or removing background noice from recordings is improving loads too.

As is things like pattern/image analysis which appears very promising in medical analysis.

All of these get branded as “AI”. A layperson might not realise that they are completely different branches of technology, and then therefore reject useful applications of “AI” tech, because they’ve learned not to trust anything branded as AI, due to being let down by LLMs.

Women are underrepresented in CEO positions, although perhaps not for the reasons people think.

The average age of a CEO is 55. Many are far older. You get to that point by being in management positions within an industry for decades. Outside of fringe cases, it takes a long time to become a CEO.

Obviously, that filters out some women due to them choosing family life over chasing job position above all else, as well as things such as in the past there being an even greater disparity in the difference between maternity and paternity leave than there is today (and it’s still not great today either!), as well as past sexist attitudes in having women in managerial roles.

IMO, there being fewer women in CEO positions is an indicator of sexism in the past, not sexism in the present.

Nowadays there are far more women in managerial positions, it’s not seen as weird anymore in the slightest, and that will naturally translate to more CEOs. It will just take time for that influx of managerial-position women to reach the CEO-level.

Will it be 50/50? Eh, probably not. The fact that women give birth means there will always be a not insignificant amount of women that take a significant amount of time out of work and prioritise family life to a greater extent than men.

I miss the internet being a wild west.

It certainly had its downsides, but it felt a lot better than the nonsense that’s been happening over the past decade+.

Absolutely grotesque and evil. It boggles my mind how some people can be this hateful.

What excellent news Farage has woken up to.

Great, let’s split the vote even more, to the benefit of Reform.

A party whose leader just the other day said that he thinks gay marriage was a mistake and shortly before that was talking about restricting womens’ right to an abortion.

Fucking brilliant. I hope people enjoy a Reform government.

Why compare it to nuclear rather than what’s currently being used in that area? Coal and gas.

Nuclear is good for providing a stable base load, but having the entire grid be nuclear would be very expensive. And if everyone were to do the same, the market cost of fissile fuel materials would skyrocket.

Lots of solar and wind in the energy mix is a no-brainer.

This is such a depressing read. So fucked up. How can people be this evil?

I’m glad this has become illegal, but I’m sad it even had to be in the first place.

One way to interpret this is “ha, people consider AI worthless!”

However another way to interpret this is the same way users view everything on the web, from social media to journalism and media streaming: this should be free and they should use my data and advertise to me instead, consequences/enshittification be damned.

I mean that’s what happens when your organisation organises a break-in of an RAF site and causes millions of pounds of damage to military aircraft.

There are reasonable ways to protest, and that wasn’t one of them.

Support one of the many other unaffected groups that support Palestine without doing absurd things like this.

I don’t know why there is such a focus on levies/taxes in this article. For energy, the VAT rate is only 5% - even if we scrapped it entirely, it’d barely make a dent. I truly do not understand where the “getting rid of levies will cut energy bills by over £500” thing comes from.

The only way to bring bills down is to bring the cost of energy down by increasing supply and bringing down our average cost per MWh for production of energy.

The good news is that the government, to their credit, have been doing that.

The bad news is that this isn’t a “press the ‘fix everything’ button in No. 10, then everything will be hunky dory” situation, it’s a “take action now so that we can benefit from it in 5-10 years” situation.

E: Reading E3G’s own Energy Bills Charter, the only levy they want to remove is ‘legacy costs’, which they claim would save roughly £80 per household per year. They want it instead to be paid from income tax on workers. Legacy costs, btw, is things like insulation schemes and solar feed in tariffs. Of course, if it is paid via income tax, that’d be an additional £3bn the government will have to find from somewhere, likely meaning more cuts.

I don’t know where this alleged £500+ has come from. It seems other-worldly optimistic to me.

Break the law and pay 0.014% of your market cap, or 0.31% of their 2024 profit.

Tech firms will suggest any invasive nonsense that will make them money.

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military

A completely unsurprising list of companies lol

There is no backdoor. We do not have the export variant of the F35 with US-controlled software. The software on our F35s (and Trident missiles) is British. This came as the result of concerns New Labour had about the very thing you mention - US backdoors.

And I agree that the US cannot be trusted. Thankfully our sixth gen fighters have no US ties, and most of our other recent military developments aren’t either. For the time being, though, we can’t really abruptly scrap trident or F35s, despite maintenance not being 100% done here (particularly for Trident). Our missiles only need maintenance every 10 years - I’d hope we have facilities to do that domestically by then.

Ok so you think that the old 4" screen phones should actually have been sub 2". That seems excessively small to me.

There’s a disproportionately high amount of old people in that area - a demographic probably less likely to care about a gaming preservation petition.

First I’ve even heard of it, damn, I’d have totally signed.

MP pay is such a red herring.

Yes, their pay is a lot compared to, say, minimum wage, but a low MP pay even further encourages only wealthy people to become MPs.

I’d much rather see MP salary significantly increased, but expenses capped and put under a much greater level of scrutiny.

They’re also comparing total appointment numbers from a time period where there was a lot of Nurse/doctor strike action against a time period where strikes had stopped and NHS staff were working through a backlog.

It seems insane to measure air pollution by this metric rather than, you know, actually looking at air pollution levels.

"There is no such thing as safe strangulation; women cannot consent to the long-term harm it can cause

What? Of course women can consent. Women aren’t bumbling morons who don’t understand anything, ffs

There is of course the risk of injury when you engage in BDSM. It’s not for everyone, and if people do it they need to be cautious, they need to consent, and they need to be aware of the risks.

But this idea that women specifically are unable to consent is bullshit. Women also drink alcohol, smoke, take drugs, drive cars, give birth, engage in sports, etc – all of which also present danger, should these also be ruled as things women don’t have the mental capacity to consent to?

I absolutely hate that “women are too stupid/infantile to know what they’re doing, they’re delicate flowers that need constant protection” is presented as a feminist position now.

Women being treated like they’re children is the exact kind of thing the Suffragette movement rallied against, and now it’s people who call themselves feminists advocating for this nonsense.