Norwegian salmon aquaculture happens in the sea, this contaminated fresh water would be very diluted by the time it could get to a fish farm. The salmon are also fed food that was grown elsewhere, so local wild prey having more heavy metals would not lead to accumulation in the farmed salmon. The top predators in the wild that already accumulate all kinds of pollution however … Yeah, they’re going to accumulate even more than before.

Reddit attempting to ban bots makes little difference. This is what I was referring to: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-approved-operation-disabled-russian-troll-farm-during-2018-midterms-n976381

I have the impression that there was some impact, but that it was less general and much shorter than when the Russian ira was temporarily shut down around the 2018 midterms. Maybe the effect was bigger + longer on sites with more account security like Facebook, but i don’t use any, so I wouldn’t know.

There’s going to be some fuzzy math hidden behind that article, I’d only expect a 9x difference when comparing lemons with melons, new small electric cars vs older non-hybrid SUVs for example. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they also ignored less favourable conditions like highway driving or colder temperatures. How they came by their numbers is mostly opaque, but I suspect that this source is pretty biased.

I do believe that if you need a new car and if you can charge at home, that EVs should now be a no brainer for most people. I just don’t believe this article.

I’m not from the UK myself, I’ve just read some trash tier articles from The Telegraph in the past. Articles written with long words, but still obvious falsehoods. Which is a shame, because they didn’t use to be like that. Wikipedia lists some of their controversies (see history since 2004): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph

About the new law:
“Fixed-term tenancies mean renters are obliged to pay rent regardless of whether a property is up-to-standard, and they reduce flexibility to move in response to changing circumstances, for example after relationship breakdown, to take up a new job or when buying a first home.

Instead, all tenancies will be periodic, with tenants able to stay in their home until they decide to end the tenancy by giving 2 months’ notice. This will end the injustice of tenants being trapped paying rent for substandard properties and offer more flexibility to both parties to respond to changing circumstances.” https://www.stirlingackroyd.com/property-insights/fixed-term-tenancies/

In addition: The Telegraph is a rightwing rag who are automatically against anything Labour does. Apart from their right-wing bias, in the last few (3?) decades they’ve seen a decline in quality to the level of gutter journalism, so they have no credibility and their claims are basically meaningless.

Headless chickens are a good example of this. If the chop leaves enough of the brain stem intact, then the now headless chicken can still run around and “live” for some time. Since “running around like a headless chicken” is a saying in several languages, this probably wasn’t an ultra rare occurrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

The best succinct description of llm that I’ve read was “plagiarism machine”, because that’s basically what they are: automated plagiarism. At best they create a collage of other works, at worst they copy one work verbatim, but they never create something original because they can’t.

Copying something is a lot easier and thus cheaper than creating an original work from scratch, so genuine creators cannot hope to compete on cost. Which leads to less people being able to afford to earn a living from creating works, which leads to less original works being created.

Short term that’s great for the neoliberal company executives: fire the expensive artists, create cheap slop with the plagiarism machine, and thus maximize profits now. That the plagiarism machine becomes stagnant because not enough new original works are being created is a future problem, by which time the current executives will have already jumped ship.

But while it’s great for the neoliberal business model, for the rest of society it will suck. So now that we have confirmation that the AI executives know how bad their products are, and that they were just publicly lying about it in the style of tobacco executives, will anything be done about this “astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Personally I doubt it, there’s too much regulatory capture.

A bout of hyperinflation is all that’s needed to make this prediction come true.

I found an English article on it. It has the original photo and the painting, there was little point in trying to deny that it was copied :) https://hyperallergic.com/luc-tuymans-convicted-of-plagiarism-for-painting-photo-of-politician/

A copy is a copy, it shouldn’t matter what tools were used for it to be considered a copy. That tech Bros want to claim that their black box of tools absolves them of responsibility is absurd in my eyes.

The painter copying a photograph is an example from my country, where a painter was convicted for plagiarism after copying a photographer’s work.

Ignoring the fact that that would be so unlikely as to be nearly impossible, art that is almost identical to other art is a clear case of plagiarism. The method that was used to create the copy should not matter. A painter copying a photographer’s art without proper attribution or renumeration, is still plagiazing. They might have used different tools, but it’s still a copy.

My takeaway from that is that every ai model should have a disclosure as to what it was trained on. If it can create art with significant resemblance to work that was not included in the disclosure, that would be proof of a failure to disclose, which should come with repercussions.

Imo plagiarism machines should face the same repercussions as humans that do plagiarism. Obfuscation by a black box shouldn’t protect the plagiarist from liability.

Honey lost 40% of their users and has 4.6 stars on the Chrome webstore, which tells us a lot about the trustworthyness of the star ratings in the various Google stores.

“NU.nl noted that, under the Match Act, American companies would still be allowed to sell their most advanced chip etching machines to Chinese customers. China has discovered that, using these etching techniques and DUV machines, they could produce chips that typically require an EUV machine.”

Rules for thee, but not for me. Nobody likes a bully, decoupling from the USA becomes ever more inevitable.

I was hoping to find some recordings/archive of the Wildberries SMO section from before they removed it, but no luck. The best I could find was a reddit thread with some examples from a month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1uzsxn9/a_huge_amount_of_military_goods_are_sold_on/. Camo bulletproof vests and equipment for fiber optic drones.

Crypto farming, feeding the ai bubble, large scale wars of aggression, commuters replacing cars with trucks, buying throwaway junk has never been easier. That’s the relatively new completely unnecessary hubris that I can think off atm. These should be the low hanging fruits to just not do, but apparently we’re going to continue doing them anyways. If we can’t address the low hanging fruits, then tackling the harder challenges will remain a pipe dream until it’s too late. Climate stability is fucked, and we’re in for a rough ride.

Khan’s lawyer says:
Tayab Ali, head of Khan’s legal team, noted that a judicial panel had “unanimously” determined that findings by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services “did not establish misconduct or breach of duty by Mr Khan under the relevant legal framework”.

Versus the claimed reason for firing him:
“The Assembly has decided by a majority of 82 States Parties that…prosecutor Karim Kahn committed serious conduct and a serious breach of duty…and to remove [him] from office,” the Assembly president announced, calling for the dignity and privacy of all those involved.

Does not compute.

The narrative of the icc can be read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/07/1168025 Except everything that matters is confidential, so we just have to take their word for it apparently.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en-masse

The generally refers to the exceptions where no consent is needed. Had the ladies been committing a crime, then no consent was needed to start filming. Had they been filming some landmark and the ladies walked through the frame, again no consent needed from them. But generally speaking, consent is required before you may start filming a stranger.