HeartyBeast

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.

In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Let’s go clubbing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For me the headline was drowned out by the sound of Beavis and Butthead laughter

 

Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal

 

Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?

 

A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

 

It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.

 

Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.

 

If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

 

X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.

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Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.

 

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

 

The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.

 

A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign PAPERWALL. We attribute the PAPERWALL campaign to Shenzhen Haimaiyunxiang Media Co., Ltd., aka Haimai, a PR firm in China based on digital infrastructure linkages between the firm’s official website and the network. These findings confirm the increasingly important role private firms play in the realm of digital influence operations and the propensity of the Chinese government to make use of them.

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