Yeh, I need a Xanax after that.
This made my rather sad. I loved his programmes
Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers
If the police lose, you really lose
It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.
In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.
If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.
Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.
Plans dropped to replace community school with CofE school
Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal, as a victory f...
Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal
Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying
Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok
However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.
There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated
To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments
It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.
Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(
So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?
Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.
“It’s a bit lively tonight “
£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter
I contribute plenty. I volunteer for several charities including AgeUK and a local food bank and I give blood.
Want to make it mandatory? piss off.
A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.
You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites
No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage
‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say
A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a
Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.
If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated
It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.
AFP: Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories
Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt
X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
So blimey - what happened there?
Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.
A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We...
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
Butter chicken - a curry popular around the world - is now in the middle of a court battle in India.
Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.
It was a freezing Friday evening early in February 2023, when my boiler broke. An engineer was called, several cold days passed, and his declaration came in sombre tones: ‘uneconomic to repair’. Li…
Judges at the International Court of Justice stop short of issuing emergency measures ordering a ceasefire in Gaza.
Massive leak exposes 26 billion records in mother of all breaches - It includes data from Twitter, Dropbox, and LinkedIn
Cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, who has uncovered many big data leaks over the years, and the CyberNews team discovered the exposed records.
