I caution against the enthusiasm here. As I understand it, the complaint wasn’t that Anthropic didn’t want to make autonomous weapons so much as that they wanted to retain control over the systems once they were sold to the government.

No reasonable government should allow corporate control over their military assets, and frankly, I trust Anthropic with control over weapons even less than I trust the Trump administration.

I’d say that it’s for a few reasons:

1. In this country’s broken electoral system, “tactical” voting is quite common. Until now, Labour has been heavily relying on the idea that they’ll be elected by default: the not-Conservative choice. When Reform ate the Tories’ lunch, they continued to push that they were “the only party that can beat Reform”. This result suggests that this reasoning no longer applies and indicates that Labour’s dominance as an alternative to the right-wing forces in the UK is ending.
2. By pushing the traditional parties into 3rd, 4th, and 5th place, this election may mark the end of these guys in favour of the new challenger parties that’re both advocating for more direct action to combat the problems we have.
3. Reform took 2nd, consuming the Tory vote almost entirely indicating that they’re the force to beat. This makes the revelations of #1 all the more relevant for those of us who think that Reform are dangerous fanatics.
4. The Greens are unabashedly socialists and this result indicates that their position is resonating with voters far more than Labour’s “Tory light” platform. When the “labour” party gets spanked by a party that’s advocating for wealth taxes, that’s a Big Deal™.

Well he used the word “antisemitic” to describe a party led by a Jew, so that was my first hint ;-)

That’s the really encouraging part of all this: Green is looking like the tactical choice now :-)

Don’t ruin this for me :-)

Yeah I realised that after watching the TLDR News coverage. I hadn’t seen the video myself obviously 'cause I don’t watch TV and don’t speak Urdu ;-) It was the fact that it felt like racist fear-mongering that made me jump to conclusions. Like, seriously, as a politician, you go to where the people are. If a large portion of your electorate speak a different language, you’d better figure out how to talk to them.

You posted a YouTube video from some rando account suggesting that it was posted by the newly-elected MP, and then copy/pasted some other rando’s lie-ridden opinion. Everything you’ve shared here is at best irrelevant, and at worst misinformation.

I get that you’re sad that Reform lost, but they’re the wrong path for this country. Maybe one day you’ll understand that. The Greens ran on a platform of hope and community over division and fear and I’m absolutely thrilled that they beat Reform so bad. It renews my faith in humanity that we can make good choices in the face of divisive, hateful demagogues and that’s just awesome.

I just think it’s hilarious that Labour has for years been leaning on this “the Greens split the vote” line. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, I’m betting they feel differently.

Honestly, I’d buy 6 external 20tb drives and make 2 copies of your data on it (3 drives each) and then leave them somewhere-safe-but-not-at-home. If you have friends or family able to store them, that’d do, but also a safety deposit box is good.

If you want to make frequent updates to your backups, you could patch them into a Raspberry Pi and put it on Tailscale, then just rsync changes every regularly. Of course means that wherever youre storing the backup needs room for such a setup.

I often wonder why there isn’t a sort of collective backup sharing thing going on amongst self hosters. A sort of “I’ll host your backups if you host mine” sort of thing. Better than paying a cloud provider at any rate.

The Guardian has effectively got rid of 100 journalists. We actually leave the building next week. And shortly afterwards, it signed a syndication deal with OpenAI. Or as I think of it, it married its rapist

That’s from the tail end of Carole Cadwalladr’s recent TED talk called This is What A Digital Coup Looks Like.

Wait, what?

*its

We shouldn’t be in Eurovision. If the UK had any self respect, we’d be boycotting it like Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia.

All the pearl-clutching about how the product you receive may not adhere to good quality standards ignores the fact that “legitimate” companies like Hobbycraft were selling asbestos-laden products to kids right out of the brick and mortar stores until about a month ago.

You know, I read that book as a kid 'cause my grandmother came to visit annoyed that I’d published a book and not told her. I think was 17 at the time.

It was one of those books that really got to me though. It changed my entire worldview and I still think of it from time to time. I’m now 46.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

I grew up in a car-dependent suburban shithole called Langley, and moved to Vancouver at the earliest opportunity where I could commute via transit, scooter, or bike. Every time I moved after that (7 different cities so far) it’s been to places where I can safely walk, cycle, and/or take transit because not being car-dependent was a high priority for me.

I should also point out that this decision, while resulting in higher rent & mortgages than if I’d chosen suburban life, has meant I’ve not spent the roughly $10k annually to maintain a car, which meant that I could afford a to buy a good-sized home in a bike-friendly city. We expect to pay off the mortgage this year.

Car-free really is what it says on the tin: freedom.

To add to your list:

Delegating of a task to a third party allocates control of how that task is done to said party. They can:

• Vary the cost (not like you know how to do it anymore)
• Modify the result to suit their economic/political preferences
• Refuse to perform the task or deliberately sabotage the output if the task contradicts their interest.

“Hey robot, build an app that helps people fight fascism”

LOL no.

From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.

This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.

Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to “yeah, nothing we can do about that”?