HeartyBeast

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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If the police lose, you really lose

Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Sentencing July 11 - delayed because the original date would clash with a court appearance in Florida

Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've finally worked out why in c/globalnews
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Let’s go clubbing

Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.

Kent hosts hundreds of wild beavers, survey finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

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Plans dropped to replace community school with CofE school (humanists.uk)
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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

Farming News - DEFA: Public to be vigilant against oak processionary moth in c/[email protected]
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

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Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms (www.theguardian.com)
 

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

[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 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

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Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

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

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If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated (kbin.social)
 

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

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AFP: Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories (www.msn.com)
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Vice Media stops publishing on website and cuts hundreds of jobs (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

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

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Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt (www.washingtonpost.com)
 

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

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So blimey - what happened there? (kbin.social)
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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.

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Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

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

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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

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

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PAPERWALL: Chinese Websites Posing as Local News Outlets Target Global Audiences with Pro-Beijing Content - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
 

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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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
 

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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