"Despite widely reported concerns that the wealthy are choosing to leave the country owing to higher taxes, the survey found millionaires were much more concerned about medical workers moving away than wealthy people emigrating."

They know private healthcare is no good at serious illness and the NHS is always the backstop.

#TaxTheRich #Inequality #UKPolitics

Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds | The super-rich | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/13/three-quarters-uk-millionaires-willing-pay-more-tax-research-finds

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

Words are not immutable boxes. We may wish for their boundaries to be protected but they cannot be.

We cannot stop ‘sick’ becoming ‘good’, or ‘oversight’ meaning to oversee and also to miss.

The job of words is to be understood *in the moment*,
in a context. For their intent to be a discernible eddy in a current.

And then the current flows on by and there is no protection to be had

If you are interested in my talks about #McCLIM and #ECL at #elsconf this year and couldn't attend, they are available in the second day's recording of the conference:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2770056923

#lisp

@susanleemburg this is pretty awesome though, what was the problem?

@bagder This is a marvellous idea! And more FOSS projects could take this approach! That way, their developer bases would grow even more!

@djc it could definitely be gamed, but given how little funding is given to oss, you'd probably spend more on gaming it than you'd get back!

Also GitHub spam protection might pick you up, although maybe less so these days given all the openclaws roaming around.

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

@sovtechfund's investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

http://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde

#investment #sovereigntechfund #development #DigitalSovereignty

RE: https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/116563999173255293

ICYMI overnight. 👊

Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/

One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

Videos of spa-like service for plushies at Cleaning Yonmarusan in Yamanashi Prefecture have gone viral on social media, mesmerizing fans and attracting customers from around the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/13/companies/plushies-cleaning-service/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #yamanashi #socialmedia #toys

@politicalbeauty.bsky.social

Pöhe Puben!

#koks

Per #Deepseek és més important la velocitat que la precisió, comet errors sovint perquè vol ser ràpid.

@strypey
The solution to propaganda is to not listen to it. Or else if it's really that politically dangerous and you can't trust the people not to vote the wrong way or something then I'd rather democracy be abolished than live in a society where we can't speak freely.
What kind of a democracy is it anyway where you can't speak freely? It's like: you get to choose your leaders, but your leaders get to choose your thoughts on what leaders to choose. It's circular and corrupt.
#rant

You can't compromise with conservatives

They'll just take your concessions and then move the goalposts further to the right

Meow #cat

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I don't know why they're complaining, I was just removing the dam of greed preventing the wealth from trickling down.

@susanleemburg is it at 44.1? does the hardware or software have lineage in audio equipment?

edit: oh wait no the scale is Hz not kHz, nvm

@Daojoan I can't not