Today's discussion about the news
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I was surprised that the authorities in the US are linking the New Orleans attack to the blowing up of the Tesla outside a Trump hotel in Vegas. For me the latter seems obviously aimed at the President and Vice President elect.
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I see Neil Young is sticking to his principles.
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One headliner for the Glastonbury old timers I guess. He's definitely not one of those legends that everyone kind of likes and can have a bit of a sing along to though, is he?
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A friend of mine went to see him in the 1970’s, he played one song and buggered off. Probably need to catch his dealer.😉
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I understand Michael Eavis is particularly fond of Neil Young and they are getting him one last time for him. It won’t be a party vibe but I can see why they’re doing it.
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If he's insisted that he'll only show up if the BBC don't show his set, I won't be shedding many tears.
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I think he's back to playing again now.
I got quite into Neil Young after Glastonbury 2009, wasn't really consciously aware of his stuff before that but binged it for about a month after.
I had the same thing with David Bowie in 2000 (I think), had never really clicked with his stuff but he was amazing (and of course I knew every song he played despite thinking I knew almost nothing by him)
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I've never seen Neil Young so won't comment on that but David Bowie had that (real) X-Factor on stage, a presence, that very few have. The unfortunate thing is that recordings (video or audio) can't tell you who has it, and who doesn't.
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Why does "it's snowing in America" get onto the front page of the BBC news coverage?
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years of licence revenue falling vs. inflation and government funding cuts, the bbc inevitably seeks increased revenue through commercial operations
bbc usa news drives usa viewing figures/revenue, and it's effectively free content for uk distribution where news capacity/capability has had deep cuts
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Just wait till UK MSN (Express as a prime example) enlighten us of what's to come. It won't.
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Because of lots of Brits love to see snow despite how much chaos it causes.
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Two stories from today's news which indicate the future of information is going to be nuts. Not that these are reliable news feeds but a whole lot of people derive their info from them.
FB and Insta are following Musk and getting rid of fact checkers while Apple is being reprimanded for it's chaotic AI news.
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The pursuit of a purpose for generative AI seems to be driving companies crazy.
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Encyclopædia Britannica raised $1bn recently in an IPO. Apparently, some of the value comes from its purity - no AI contaminating it. An increasing problem is that AI is learning from AI.
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This exactly. The will be News and Alternative News, to paraphrase Rumsfeld. It will get considerably worse before it gets better.
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Somewhere someone was saying how with all their Substack subscriptions, it was getting quite a bit more expensive than subscribing to something where lots of trusted writers all grouped together and published something, like, er, a newspaper.
The trouble is all the newspapers seem to have been more and more influenced by their owners' leanings, and in the US, the both-sidesism (not least in order to boost sales) has got out of hand, to the point here it's just entertainment and bias confirmation.
It seems as if the whole system needs to be reinvented, and I suspect the fracturing of the media into small parts is a necessary corrective. Whether it needs to be or can be put back together is an interesting question.
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I feel like children are literally going to need to be taught how to tell if it's a real person and whether it's likely to be true or not.
Probably they already are? Maybe those if us remember the before are the most gullible, because it used to be souch easier to tell the difference between newspapera and the national enquirer.
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30 year gilt rate hits 27 year high.
Well played Reeves ...................................................................................................................... not!
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Blimey, I had a set of those as a kid. Yeah, you can understand that happening with AI.
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I'm not completely sure what the mechanism for it getting better is though?
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Well in science they teach you to go to the source material rather than the commentary on it, even to the extent of going to the source data, not the authors summary of it. Obviously most of us couldn't be arsed, but the basic principle of second guessing is quite straightforward.
I don't see it being specific to science....
I'm being totally unrealistic aren't I. We can't even do that here when dissecting a shock jock FT tweet.
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Not exactly a vote of confidence in Labour's management of the economy, is it.
But not a surprise either.
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Yes, they are to a degree - at least to be sceptical of what they read online. Was reading earlier that someone has done a study on AI generated exam answers, how they perform relative to real people and whether they can be detected. The results were, slightly better (half a grade on average) and no.
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Not sure that's how fire services work.
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You can be richer than Croesus, but that wealth becomes utterly meaningless when meteorological events like this occur.
A peacock-esque display of affluent arrogance assuming that such a mechanism exists.
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Isn't it ironic, don't you think...?
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halliburton boots & coots do oil well fires, could be a transferable skill
pay enough money and there'll be private security companies willing to arrange bowsers, a truckload of extinguishers, and some ex-forces guys with ppe, breathing apparatus etc., and plenty of guns of course
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Did he send a second message asking whether anyone in California has a private supply of water?
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