I just re-read this article I wrote a while back.Still quite pleased with it.
Don't call me "left"
@mojo it could be an engineered shortage to drive prices up with immigration being used to distract from greed and manipulation yanno.
@Radical_EgoCom @slowmart iirc in the UK doing that is illegal because the powers that be don’t want sympathy with the strikers.
Useful: 9 tropes about Muslims that are a product of Islamophobia
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/11/us/islamophobic-tropes-muslims-in-america/index.html
Recent news on Angela Chao
RIP to Angela Chao, who accidentally reversed into a shallow pond in her Tesla. She called her friends to help, and they arrived. But... none of them knew how to open the doors.
This shouldn't have happened.
Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion
@HauntedOwlbear how unsurprising.
Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion
AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'
Link to the damn paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742
New Green Plenty article:
"What next? How do we start building a better world?"
I wrote a poem back in 2018 called "Darling Albion"
Next time someone says I'm anti-British I will send it to them and they probably won't get it.
I see rich 'non doms' are angry at Jeremey Hunt stealing Labour's policy to end the tax break... and some are now threatening to leave the county.
To my mind this is a bit like squatters complaining to a landlord that the imposition of rent means they will leave & find somewhere else to live...
I say good riddance to them if they don't want to contribute taxes to the maintenance of a country that due to their malign influence is falling apart.
If seeing Biden both facilitating genocide in Gaza and destroy public health, allowing Covid to cause a mass disabling event, isn't enough to show how dangerous Vote Blue No Matter Who is, I don't know what will convince them. Right wingers are dangerous regardless of whether they have an R or a D after their name.
#US is showing clear signs of pulling out of #ProjectUkraine and this has panicked all #EU puppets to an unprecedented degree.
#LePetitRoi is suffering Napoleonic Syndrome and dreams of wars with Russia, and #FrauGenocide, as she crosses the boundaries of paranoia, wants to develop new weapons systems overnight.
All US puppets in #Europe have become dangerous for peace.
@danjac@masto.ai @ChrisMayLA6 at least part of the problem is it’s extremely hard to do business with the government. You need to be able to have staff who can answer the questions on contracts and be able to pay their salary for years on end before you can actually make any money. This tends to mean that the big guys are the only ones who can afford to do that business.
It also means that the government tends to pay a huge premium to make it worth their while.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.