After the interview aired, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent, but the trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct and not revived due to fears about Higgins’ mental health....
Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...
But the ban – last updated in 2003 – only applies to traditional television channels and not to streaming television delivered over the internet. With audiences increasingly switching off traditional broadcast channels, the UK’s big political parties are preparing to take advantage of the loophole and pay millions of...
I don’t believe that our coverage of the Marion County raid or Kansas Legislature led to the digital purge of Kansas Reflector content. But I can’t say that for certain, because Facebook has been maddeningly opaque about the entire situation. Stone outright denied that the likeliest target — a column from documentary...
The arc of Boeing’s fall can be traced back a quarter century, to when its leaders elevated the interests of shareholders above all others, said Richard Aboulafia, industry analyst with AeroDynamic Advisory....
Maybe, to the extend that we are institutionalists, we need to recognize that our vote doesn’t free us from any other obligations between elections. Maybe we need to recognize the ways our commitment to institutions that abuse others have caused abused people to despair and mistrust us. Maybe we need to admit how we were wrong...
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The...
If I have the right zoom level to make the text in the feed a sensible size, the font size in the threads is too small to read easily. Correct the zoom level in the thread and the font size in the feed becomes way too large....
As the Post Office (Horizon/Fujitsu) scandal is getting more coverage this week, I thought this accountancy blog (which talks about an accompanying video, for those who like video) might be of interest. I’ve been following this story for years but this is the first thing I’ve read that gets into the detail of what went wrong...
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200m during the Covid pandemic....
In the August 6, 1945 edition, under the blaring headline: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON JAPAN; TRUMAN WARNS FOE OF A ‘RAIN OF RUIN,’” the New York Times traced the simultaneously terrifying and wondrous development of the atomic bomb, its scientific history, and the race between the Allies and the Germans to build it and...
These periodic episodes of killing and destruction, which Israeli commentators and politicians cynically call “mowing the lawn,” have been a price Israel was willing to pay to avoid being pushed toward a two-state solution. We chose to “manage” the conflict through a combination of brute force and economic incentives,...
Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University | Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby (www.theguardian.com)
Worth reading in full but here’s some snippets:...
‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Accused rapist who tried to clear his name loses blockbuster defamation trial against TV network | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
After the interview aired, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent, but the trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct and not revived due to fears about Higgins’ mental health....
On Being an Outlier (www.goethe.de)
Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...
Political ads could be heading to UK TV screens due to legal loophole (www.theguardian.com)
But the ban – last updated in 2003 – only applies to traditional television channels and not to streaming television delivered over the internet. With audiences increasingly switching off traditional broadcast channels, the UK’s big political parties are preparing to take advantage of the loophole and pay millions of...
The Bloody Math (www.the-reframe.com)
Worth giving this a click but here’s a few summary paragraphs:...
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged (www.wired.com)
'Facebook has nuked our page': Inside Kansas Reflector's clash with the social media Goliath • Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
I don’t believe that our coverage of the Marion County raid or Kansas Legislature led to the digital purge of Kansas Reflector content. But I can’t say that for certain, because Facebook has been maddeningly opaque about the entire situation. Stone outright denied that the likeliest target — a column from documentary...
When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread (www.seattletimes.com)
The arc of Boeing’s fall can be traced back a quarter century, to when its leaders elevated the interests of shareholders above all others, said Richard Aboulafia, industry analyst with AeroDynamic Advisory....
The Thing That's Coming (www.the-reframe.com)
Maybe, to the extend that we are institutionalists, we need to recognize that our vote doesn’t free us from any other obligations between elections. Maybe we need to recognize the ways our commitment to institutions that abuse others have caused abused people to despair and mistrust us. Maybe we need to admit how we were wrong...
Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker (www.wired.com)
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The...
Font sizes on Lemmy: they vary too much?
If I have the right zoom level to make the text in the feed a sensible size, the font size in the threads is too small to read easily. Correct the zoom level in the thread and the font size in the feed becomes way too large....
Brian Feeney: Forget the smoke and mirrors of the DUP deal – the real change for unionists will be a Sinn Féin First Minister in Michelle O’Neill (www.irishnews.com)
Archive link
Fujitsu will never be held accountable for the Post Office scandal. It is too important to this government | Sam Fowles (www.theguardian.com)
Origins of a disaster: The Role Of Her Majesty’s Government In Shaping Horizon And The Post Office 1998-2000 | Eleanor Shaikh (www.jfsa.org.uk)
Summary linked, long version here: jfsa.org.uk/…/origins_of_a_disaster_-...
Now claw back Vennells’s bonuses from the Post Office. The rules allow it | Nils Pratley (www.theguardian.com)
And all the others, thanks....
Claudine Gay’s ousting reveals that the messenger is still an easier target than the message | Kenan Malik (www.theguardian.com)
What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial (www.benthamsgaze.org)
As the Post Office (Horizon/Fujitsu) scandal is getting more coverage this week, I thought this accountancy blog (which talks about an accompanying video, for those who like video) might be of interest. I’ve been following this story for years but this is the first thing I’ve read that gets into the detail of what went wrong...
Michelle Mone admits involvement with ‘VIP lane’ PPE company (www.theguardian.com)
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200m during the Covid pandemic....
The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History (lithub.com)
In the August 6, 1945 edition, under the blaring headline: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON JAPAN; TRUMAN WARNS FOE OF A ‘RAIN OF RUIN,’” the New York Times traced the simultaneously terrifying and wondrous development of the atomic bomb, its scientific history, and the race between the Allies and the Germans to build it and...
The RSF are out to finish the genocide in Darfur they began as the Janjaweed. We cannot stand by (www.theguardian.com)
Councils in England facing bankruptcy as lack of housing pushes up costs (archive.ph)
I Fought for the I.D.F. in Gaza. It Made Me Fight for Peace. (archive.ph)
These periodic episodes of killing and destruction, which Israeli commentators and politicians cynically call “mowing the lawn,” have been a price Israel was willing to pay to avoid being pushed toward a two-state solution. We chose to “manage” the conflict through a combination of brute force and economic incentives,...
Pluralistic: In defense of bureaucratic competence (23 Oct 2023) (pluralistic.net)