Notices by sheislaurence (sheislaurence@mastodon.social)

I think #countbinface needs an exit strategy as he could totally win the #clacton byelection against #NigelFarage. I have no doubt he'd do better than most, he certainly has the wits to do so if you go by his interviews, but does he want to? H'Angus the Monkey became mayor of Hartlepool in 2002, the man behind it Stuart Drummond was reelected several times totally a tenure of 10 years.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOmzQbRT_E

#ukpol #reform

" I didn’t want to stifle his light before it’s time: the disease is already dimming him, I didn’t want to add to that". Incredibly loving words from the wife of ex #C4News anchor & broadcast #journalist #JonSnow.

"A last big story" is a #documentary masterpiece, beautifully crafted, navigating #Alzheimer, #journalism, the worst environmental disaster in Southern #Africa & the very meaning of life. That shot of Jon Snow as Sisyphus will stay with me.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-snow-a-last-big-story/on-demand/77517-001

#Football players playing #worldcup games in 39ºc heat (here's to France winning against heat AND Paraguay on Saturday), and matches being delayed because of severe #thunderstorms (here's to all #England fans getting stuck in pubs at 2am). Yes people, #climatebreakdown is raging down our door & we're pretending it's BAU. Anyone wanna bet if any world cups ever happen again they'll be indoors and people will be meh ah well 🤷🏽♀️ With 2034 in #Saudi anyway, it was the plan all along, innit?

@dansup what is happening every January, mass cleaning (troth) and mass automated account creation (peak)?

@Gargron as long as you don't move to the US, you'll be fine. Good luck!

@fesshole i don't know how much window cleaners make where you are, but in my country they wouldn't be able to afford most Lego boxes, let alone (check notes...🧐 ) a £734.99 set of mostly grey plastic 😱 !

A reminder that in spite of a High Court judgement declaring the #UK government's ban of #PalestineAction unlawful, the #met #police decided to resume arrests of people holding signs carrying the PA name. This weekend, 500 people got arrested, including the frontman of #MassiveAttack, #RobDelNaja. You have to wonder why the Met made the strategic decision to waste resource being on the wrong side of history & legality.

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-200-arrests-made-at-palestine-action-protest-13530519

#palestine #ukpol

#US talkshow hosts were joking Monday night about #Trump having no strategy in #Iran & changing his mind about bombing #Iranian #energy plants. No one is laughing now they realise this was in all likelihood another deliberate #insidertrading manoeuvre to fix #oil market prices in good time.
With the head of the #FBI & Chair of the #CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) nominated by Trump, everything is set so we never find out who made those 6.50am transactions.

https://www.channel4.com/news/democrats-call-for-oil-market-trades-to-be-investigated-for-insider-trading

This is so spot on it makes me choke. PS: Matt is a makeup #influencer . He happens to be #Jewish and #antizionist.

#Iran #Lebanon #Israel #Iranwar #mediabias

@fesshole meanwhile the Pope https://www.patheos.com/blogs/publiccatholic/2025/10/pope-leo-says-the-church-cannot-be-silent-about-ice/

@fesshole date the waitress

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116087240923837937

The thread under this post is really worth a read. However it somehow turned into a discussion on the ability/willingness of the #ATProto dev community to survive without #Bluesky, rather than the more important point of #JackDorsey's destructive behaviour. Not only the man suffers from founderitis (see #Nostr) but is clearly a #capitalism fundamentalist who believes creating (& cashing on) as many competing protocols as possible is good, because MARKETS will choose the best for society 🤡 🤦🏽♂️

🧵 2/2: when you know the entirety of #SteveBannon's interactions with #JeffreyEpstein were focused on discrediting #PopeFrancis & his "woke" agenda, while promoting a #farright #Christian think tank in Europe, you see #Talarico's fight to separate church & state is colossal.

As an aside, if you're curious about Talarico's #furries legislation intervention, here's the damming footage, where #Republicans admit blatant lying "this bill covers other things…… that ARE true" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MHEFbOgjrwo

🧵 1/2: 2.5m views and counting: #stephencolbert's YouTube interview of #Texas Senate Democrat hopeful #JamesTalarico is well worth a watch. Not just because it got preemptively banned from broadcasting by #CBS following the #FCC witchhunt on latenight talkshows, but because #Talarico is the most refreshing US #Christian since #PopeLeo: one that says unequivocally: "there is nothing Christian about Christian #nationalism".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

This video by collective #LedByDonkeys requires ID/login on #Youtube. However all videos by the man portrayed in the video, #AndrewTate, are freely available, including the full-length version about how to beat up a #woman (not sure if I was more shocked by his #violence or the laughing emoji comments underneath). The Led By Donkeys campaign rightfully targets #techcompanies who are bankrolling #misogyny & profiteering from it. Full LBD video on Bsky👇🏽

https://bsky.app/profile/ledbydonkeys.org/post/3mf4ygdl2ys2l

#domesticviolence

@evan @reflex @dansup @quillmatiq thanks for summarising Evan. Is there an accessible (non-dev) article available to explain the makeup of the ATProto ecosystem and the chances of it not being a target/surviving without Bluesky? As a tech-aware/non-dev person, I am not interested in the respective merits of the actual protocols, more about each's ability to thrive away from VC (dev community size, culture, capitalist power dynamics... what else?)

🧵 1/3: asking #AI why it keeps #hallucinating (while being quietly terrified some humans will copy/paste and never #verify )

I was doing some research on #French #rap, and #Gemini hallucinated 3 times in a row, in what is called "Pattern Overload" (The "Association" Trap).

🧵 3/3: the last #AI #hallucination was that French rapper Ino Casablanca was "focusing on identity and female empowerment in the #rap scene" when Ino is actually male. #Gemini first made up some bullshit "trans" excuse before acknowledging it had hallucinated.

The reason this time? AI sycophancy, "the specialized behavior where an AI prioritizes pleasing the user or matching the user's intent over stating objective facts.".

OMFG! I totally wasted time but learnt to label evil in the world!

🧵 2/3: the first #AI #hallucination was entirely making up a French female rapper called 'Claudie Rappe", who apparently is "widely considered the most compelling feminist voice in contemporary French #rap.". Her name returned zero #Google search results.
The second was attributing a track to the wrong rapper, here to Zamdane, when it's Niska. #Gemini explained this as typical "proximity error' or 'confabulation'. As it says "I don’t "know" facts; I calculate #probabilities".

#enshitification

You might think it is meaningless. For me, that's pure #hope, the demonstration that the human spirit cannot be crushed and always moves towards #creativity and #community.

#drummers against #ICE in #Minneapolis , by minus 25⁰c.

Via Jillian Ray (Music).

#minnesota #music #protest