t seems that in many people's minds, the political right has successfully linked their experience of decline in living standards and economic and social security with immigration. This link is a fiction - but meanwhile the left's true account of decline - that it's about a massive transfer of wealth from the public, and the public sector, to wealthy corporations and individuals - fails to cut through. Why ?
While the left itself sometimes fails to focus on the experience of decline and what is really behind it, I think the main problem is the sheer weight of centrist politics and mainstream media coverage. They avoid exploration of the fundamental economics of capitalism, but repeatedly focus on immigration.
It's important to understand that whether an individual news report is good or bad is not so important - what matters is that immigration is in the news so often, creating the impression that it is the key issue.
@GeofCox The media and politicians on the right and the other right (aka center) have been very successful at tying crime-insecurity to race and immigration. By repetition and cherry picking stories, data.
Here in Sweden TV news often start with a crime story. You'd think we're drowning in crime, which feels at odds with my own perception.
To me the failure of the left to tie declining living standards to growing inequality as data shows, comes down to captured press and politicians, and racism
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Another one of those XKCD-infrastructure-depends-on-some-random-person moments just happened.
Looks like the best database of meteors (and also reentries) just got taken out by a cyberattack. That really sucks. I hope they are able to get back online soon, that info is really useful to a lot of scientists (including me).
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Looks like I’ll be putting away my Daring Fireball and Accidental Tech Podcast shirts for a while. It’s a pity, they were comfy shirts and I thought I was supporting good people with them. https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=496
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> deeply weird in its structure and subtly wrong in a lot of small but important ways
This is why, if I'm asked to review work which I suspect / have been told is AI-generated, I explain that it causes increased risk and legal review time, and so my review will take longer and cost more.
I think that this comes as a massive surprise to some people, who expect that, because it was cheap and easy to generate, it will be cheap and easy to review.
I am confident that I have lost work over this, but I refuse to do a bad job because of a mismatch of expectations.
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@Viviane_DPR ordure.. etron salopard. .
la vindicte populaire dans toute dans sa nuance..
Même Barella était mieux considéré !
Il prétend être un gentil, c'est normal qu'il tombe de plus haut.
Faut arrêter avec ce réflexe de défense des copains en fait.
Le bon move, là, c'est *pas* de défendre ce mec coûte que coûte.
C'est d'acter qu'il y a eu une erreur de casting et le dégager.
Hey people in Japan! (and elsewhere)
Alfie is back on the Fediverse!!!! Happy dance!!!
Give him all the love he deserves.
David Gerard
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RE: https://social.lol/@brennan/117136056673309754
I stopped using pagecord and went to self hosted for my blog when I realized how much the admin relies on LLM. actually, he fed the entirety of my 26 year blog into Claude to figure out how to port it to pagecord, without my prior consent. I only knew afterward when I read his blog on how he resolved the situation
more info - https://archive.ph/nXVhi
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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"French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.DVDP.hQVCjYsFFYaN&smid=nytcore-android-share #AI
@cameronneylon @wragge Yes, that was definitely the policy intention. It's also a matter of saying, 'Oh yes, academics can get it', but the second it's a customer who might have paid instead, that needs to be blocked.
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RE: https://social.lol/@brennan/117136056673309754
I stopped using pagecord and went to self hosted for my blog when I realized how much the admin relies on LLM. actually, he fed the entirety of my 26 year blog into Claude to figure out how to port it to pagecord, without my prior consent. I only knew afterward when I read his blog on how he resolved the situation
more info - https://archive.ph/nXVhi
My kid just pointed out that the leftovers from making chokecherry jam really looks like a bowl of bear poo sitting on the kitchen counter. Yum!
@sundogplanets best CW evar! 🤣
Chip Butty
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ok, just finished hacking our LG OLED using an exploit published by a furry and then blocking it from surveilling us using this guide https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/255178
