Good Law Project has setup up a system so you can find out if your local #NHS trusts have signed up to evil US tech giant #Palantir and email them to ask them to opt out
In different conversations, friends brought up using ChatGPT to learn something. First, to learn Dutch, they prompted it to be a language instructor and rehashing exam questions for them to practice. Second, to learn a traditional Filipino board game called “Sungka”.
Everyone wants to “live authentically” but nobody wants to admit that authentic human behavior includes status games, tribalism, and caring what strangers think of you. We’re not trapped in society, we are society. The call is coming from inside the house.
"In de VS is het geweld overal, het zit in de samenleving, het is verankerd in de grondwet, de wetgeving is ervan doortrokken. Amerikanen hebben zelfrijdende auto’s en vliegen naar de maan, maar afscheid nemen van de barbaarse doodstraf ligt nog steeds moeilijk.
Daarmee schaart het land zich in een rij duistere naties die door schurken, antidemocraten of despoten worden bestuurd [...] maar dat deert ze niet, of niet genoeg."
In worrying statements released today from the #Hungerstrikers Heba Muraisi explained she "can feel myself get weaker as each day passes" with "bruising on her arm and constant body ache". She also explains she can "no longer lie on my side as it hurts my face" and is losing the ability to "form sentences, and struggling to maintain conversation".
And Teuta Hoxha has reported no longer being able to stand without blacking out, with dizzy spells and brain fog reportedly increasing.
Software engineering is in an interesting place where some of the most accomplished engineers in the industry are effectively saying their job is now just telling AI to write all the code, debug it and fix the bugs.
Some of this is obviously marketing hype from people who are selling AI tools (Boris works on Claude Code) but this is the current mindset of the industry.
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