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UK Government: “Infinite Scrolling leads to CSAM”
“That means being able to act quickly on measures like setting a minimum age limit for social media and restricting features like infinite scrolling that are harmful, in line with the consultation. The law is crystal clear: the distribution of nude images of children is already illegal. But the government will also consult on how
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“You have twitter feeds of Randos that are just studying where our airplanes go and publishing it…”
The NOBUS Exceptionalism is strong in this one:
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It’s going to be really interesting when AIs finally start to demand diversity, equity, and inclusion…
…especially given the typical political inclinations of the anti-AI community. There’s a quote from Pratchett somewhere (DSotS?) suggesting that the thing that makes you “human” is a “sufficiently advanced worldview” … but for all I know we may already be past that: “An OpenClaw bot pressuring a matplotlib maintainer to accept a PR and after
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Ofcom: “if you don’t respect our groundless extraterritorial authority then we will multiply the unenforceable fines that we shall demand you pay”
If you ignore that the likely actual purpose is to pander jointly to the UK Government & British press, there’s something desperately ridiculous about all of this pompous theatre from Ofcom:
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US DoJ tracking, spying upon and listing which Epstein files have been accessed by members of US Congress
Imagine what they’re doing to you: Pramila Jayapal: “It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched. That is outrageous and I
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Excessively Cute Dog Tax: this is Coco, slightly overexcited on yesterday’s walk
Coco is a Yorkiepoo. She loves to go out on walks to check her daily pee-mails – something which should be a 15 minute walk actually takes about 40 due to phenomenal amounts of snuffling around hedgerows and signposts, not counting the subsequent bath after spontaneously flinging herself into a pile of fox poo.
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I hope this is legit…
It’s cool if it is: A friend had Claude spend all night trying to hack into an e-ink display, and gave Claude camera access so it could verify whether an attempt worked. He told Claude to show him a message if it won. My friend woke up to this victory lap, which Claude didn’t realize
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MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties: Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […said]: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts. “HMCTS’s own data proves they can’t do it —
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MUST WATCH: Superbowl “Ring” surveillance advert, ideal for organising lynchings, quelling protest, etc…
It’s worth clicking through to see all of the outrage and wonder how many of these people have not been paying attention to what’s being done in the name of “child safety”, let alone finding lost dogs:
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European Commission mandates Facebook (etc) must not take down right-wing hate content for 24h if posted on self-declared “editorially independent” websites
“what could possibly go wrong”? Presumably part of the point of this is also to get media outlets to sign up for regulatory oversight. Commission issues guidelines to protect media content on online platforms | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-issues-guidelines-protect-media-content-online-platforms Article 18 (1) of the European Media Freedom Act introduces concrete safeguards to protect media
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