The best part about the London mayoral election? That the massively racist party (Britain First) are so unpopular that they were beaten by a man with a bin on his head (Count Binface).
That said, if it comes to that it's completely stunning how straightforward the procedure is these days, like "walk out of the hospital that day" level stuff. Huzzah for Science(tm), at least?
Just because the right-wing are anti-Taylor doesn't mean everyone on the left needs to start stanning a billionaire.
There are no good billionaires. If she was a good person, she wouldn't be one either. It's fine to enjoy her music but she's as harmful as every other billionaire for simply existing.
Do I think some billionaires are more actively harmful than others? Sure. But none of them should be billionaires. There are no good ones.
Post Canada's #OnlineNewsAct and Meta's ban on Canadian news content, sharing journalism on social media has been tough to say the least.
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@Mary625@thetyee It's actually broader than that. Meta prohibits Canadian users from posting anything they consider news content (and they define that really broadly), or even viewing posts or comments that look like news content. We just get a "this isn't available in Canada" message replacing the posts in question.
It went to ridiculous places pretty quickly - for instance, Canadian FB group moderators explicitly aren't allowed to moderate posts/comments that look like they contain news.
@Mary625@thetyee Any news, or anything that looks sort of like news. (They initially nailed a pile of satire/parody sites, for instance.)
Meta made some weird (and false) claim that they weren't allowed to negotiate with Ottawa and just went straight to the content blocking. Google was starting to block Canadians from seeing news content but actually talked to the government and they hammered something out.
@TheSpaceshipper I know studio miniatures were usually built to the standard of "looks fine on screen" but it's striking how rough the edges are on that. (Unless that's just wear on a 40-year-old model...)
@StillIRise1963@sidereal@dan613@CStamp@courtcan Bear in mind Zenni's the cheapest option, but it's definitely not the only option. There's a few vendors in between Zenni's corner-cutting and Luxottica's planet-mortgaging costs.
I was poking at some in-between options when I got my new pair for the same reason; I'd prefer they last, too. (That and I had an edge-case prescription that Zenni couldn't make.)
Either way, saving $1K on the next pair definitely makes it worth hunting around!
@jrenken@NinjaDebugger I was always less concerned about the scraping and more concerned about Meta being - by any standard held by any quarter-way reasonable instance admin - somewhere between "completely unmoderated" and "actively supportive of harmful behaviour." Yay for preemptive defederation on those grounds alone!
Someone should develop a script that context-sensitively replaces AI with "LLM" or "machine learning" or "stable diffusion" in popsci articles
I'm getting sick of reading about real advances in science using one of those things getting obscured by "The researchers used AI to do a thing!" breathlessness.
@aris_tgd To say nothing of that kind of coverage's more inane relative, where journalists like using "AI" to mean "anything somehow involving computers that I'm not immediately familiar with."
"These people used AI to-" "No, that's a bubble sort."
If I hadn't already, I'd cancel my subscription over this. If you are in NS or PEI, consider cancelling. And file complaints, this borders on fraud. I'll explain.
@Rasta I axed them back when they got caught running fake news stories to stir up anti-refugee hysteria, but this would be as good a reason as any as well.