Will be interesting to see whether this sets a precedent for political campaigning in Europe
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4euncr44a5aflpbcbjhvjvdo/post/3mxxmi3it7r2m
La députée RN Laure Lavalette se fait épingler en direct sur RMC car elle ne connaît pas le montant de l'aide française à l'Ukraine, alors que Marine Le Pen veut y mettre fin si elle est élue en 2027. J'aurais presque pitié pour elle si elle n'était pas une faf... Que c'est bon. Parti de collabos!
#Politique #RN #Ukraine #Macron #Russe #Poutine #MarineLePen #Presidentielle #ExtremeDroite
Everyone can tell you used AI to do it. They just aren't saying anything about it because they want to be polite.
(Do you know someone who needs this thought to pop unbidden into their head?)
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117445755203041743
I used to volunteer at (& very, very briefly was an executive director of) a nonprofit whose mission was to help girls & trans youth get into programming.
We were all-in on Apple products. We taught them Swift & used Xcode on MacBooks. The kids made iPhone games.
We gave demos on campus at Apple. Tim Cook shouted out the organization by name on stage.
Apple never gave us a single dollar. Not even an Apple Pencil or iPod touch.
But they spent $25,000,000 to kiss the ass of a wannabe dictator.
Citing concerns about misinformation and hate, @ScottishGreens have (Finally!) made the decision to leave X.
They cited Mastodon as one of the platforms they can still be found on, I hope they increase engagement on the fediverse.
Politicians not using fascist mouthpieces is good actually. Some of their accounts can be found at @EdinburghGreens @HI_Greens @PerthKinrossGreens @maggiechapman @patrickharvie @katenevens
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-greens-quit-x-over-125527731.html #scotpol #scotland #uk #ukpol #politics #greens
Increasingly, after reading about the latest oligarch or billionaire tech-bros travesty, I find myself idly researching the cultural and social history of guillotines.
"Overall, windfarms and hydropower plants with about 9 gigawatts of capacity were paid to not generate on Wednesday..enough to power more than 8m typical households.
Instead, the grid operator was forced to pay for a string of gas and biomass plants to fire up and bought more electricity imports from Europe via high-voltage subsea power cables."
A ludicrous situation.
NB. The National Grid was privatised in 1990 by Thatcher.
I'd take commentators claiming the Green Party of England & Wales has been beset by Left entryism more seriously if they hadn't dismissed the party in the past as a marginal force in British politics.
The worry that the GPEW has widened its focus & encompassed views popular on the Left is not so much a worry about the policies the party espouses, as a concern they might actually gain more votes thereby disrupting the political class' domination of the political agenda!
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/117441043503225633
The new policies for the Linux kernel make it more or less impossible to support a slop-free fork of Linux, so if you're worried about the reliability of your system level software, or have ethical concerns about LLM usage on your computer, the time to act is, well, now.
If you have time this weekend, I recommend you to try one of the slop-free systems: NetBSD, 9front, Haiku, or OpenBSD. If you're adventurous, you could try new AlpineBSD, or research smaller systems, like RedoxOS or FreeDOS. If you don't feel adventurous, you might want to check out anti-AI Linux distributions, like Elementary or Gentoo.
There's no "one solution that fits all". But there's a solution that I chose for myself, and that's NetBSD: it gives me the most freedom, it supports most of my hardware, and can run a great deal of software I need. It's not easy to run, but it's a great learning opportunity. There's quite a few folks around using BSD and capable of giving hints and advice, so if you feel stuck, toot about #netbsd.
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@ChrisMayLA6 Being a broken record, I’ll point out again that this is bullshit - there’s no lack of transmission capacity, only a lack of spare capacity at peak times. Which, with storage at both ends of the major bottlenecks, would stop being a problem.
You don’t have to be a top economist to work out that £50m/day would quickly pay to build some storage.
But that might make gas companies sad.
The costs of 'balancing' the UK's generating capacity & energy needs across the country continue to rise as we await for the network structure to ameliorate these pressure to be built.
Of course, right now this is a mechanism to transfer additional money from bill ayers to energy firms (including those renewable suppliers being forced to shut down plant as the energy cannot be distributed).
More localised generation (including home solar) would help.
#energy #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/15/cost-of-balancing-great-britain-power-grid-50m-daily
Child Psychotherapist Forced to Close Practice After Holding Sign at Peaceful Protest
Alex Payne, a #UKCP-registered integrative child psychotherapist, had her professional indemnity insurance cancelled following her arrests at two protests opposing the genocide in #Gaza and the ban on #PalestineAction.
Epic Games goes full vibe code: MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION
‘No more hand-written code’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UGgcs0H3s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/episode-20261015 - podcast
time: 5 min 08 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/15/epic-games-goes-full-vibe-code-maximum-ai-acceleration/ - blog post
@davidgerard@circumstances.run
So while Epic was busy touting that their vibecoded slop launcher was "fAsTeR tHaN sTeAm" Valve was apparently quietly working on an update that made it considerably faster than the new Epic Games Launcher and dropped it. Perfect. No notes.
Fucking disgraceful, this Government are as bad as Trump.
Petty, and vindictive, another stain on Human Rights in this country
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/117445681732706926
Time to update international legislation to make this kind of shit a war crime
Millions of phones exposed to Israeli spyware operation through online ads, researchers say
🖊️ Antoaneta Browning
#EU and #NATO websites displayed online ads linked to Israeli hacking software.
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-firm-advertising-spyware-mobile-phone-hacking
SELL BABY SELL
make those stocks implode like a million Titans filled to the brim with techbros.
In yet another hybrid attack against NATO, 11 out of 17 Starlink ground stations near Sofia in Bulgaria were set on fire.
A similar sabotage attack occurred in Poland in late September.
Europe needs a Churchill. It is time to stop Putin.