Ah, moguls + FPTP strike again.
Yeah, I can see Green gaining traction as climate/environmental problems start to grow. The British Isles are relatively sensitive. Though it seems Green has had its own controversy (kinda like the small parties here in the US have).
That sounds… British. Frustrating, in a frustratingly orderly way.
Outside far-right politics must be making reform look bad in the UK though. Right? Like Hungary, Turkey, whatever’s going in Germany…
Sure seems like a roundabout way of just… being in the EU.
Are you British, by chance? What’s the mood on Brexit these days?
Y’all think the UK will rejoin the EU next?
And Ukraine, while they’re at it.
Let’s set all ethics and politics and humanitarianism aside.
From a selfish, strategic, “NonCredibleDefense” kind of perspective, Ukraine is an incredible military power. Militaries around the world should be on their knees begging for their experience, if not their units. With, for instance, shooting down drones.
And it’s absolutely mind boggling to me that Western powers don’t see that. Think how Ukraine could help them militarily all over the world… If I were Xi, I wouldn’t invade Taiwan with a bigger chunk of Ukrainians training them.
To illustrate what I mean more clearly, look at the top comments/replies for the NASA Artemis posts, as an example.
…It’s basically all conspiracy theorists, and government skeptics.
Twitter’s focusing the Artemis posts on them because it’s what they want to see, and most engaging for them.
In the EFF’s case, I’m not just talking about Musk’s influence. The algorithm will only show the EFF to users who would be highly engaged by it. E.g., angry skeptics who wouldn’t be swayed by the EFF anyway, or fans who already agree with the EFF. It’s literally not going to show the EFF to people who need to see it, as Twitter’s metrics would show it as unengaging.
This is the “false image” I keep trying to dispel. Twitter is less and less an “even spread” of exposure like people think it is, like it sort of used to be, more-and-more a hyper focused bubble of what you want to hear, and only what you want to hear. All the changes Musk is making are amplifying that. Maybe that’s fine for some orgs, but there’s no point in the EFF staying in that kind of environment, regardless of ethics.
I feel like the EFF’s messaging is just not going to get through to anyone still on Twitter.
Remember, it’s not a fair forum; it’s an algorithm. And it’s not going to show the EFF to users who need to see it.
More reporting on this. Whole article is short and worth a read, but:
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/lebanon-attacks-israel-iran-ceasfire
The U.S. official said the White House is not currently concerned that the situation in Lebanon would cause the ceasefire with Iran to collapse.
Hezbollah said it had a right to respond to Israeli’s attack.
Uh oh.
Also, I found some interesting trackers:
https://www.hormuztracker.com/
https://www.shiptraffic.net/2001/04/hormuz-strait-ship-traffic.html
No ships going through yet. And one had a very interesting nugget of info on insurance:
Insurance withdrawal makes transit commercially unviable independent of physical conditions. Even if the security situation improves tomorrow, insurers take weeks to reinstate coverage. Ships cannot sail without P&I cover — ports won’t accept them, banks won’t finance cargo, charterers won’t book them. Three weeks in, no insurer has shown willingness to reinstate. This is why the disruption will persist well beyond any resolution.
I’d be fine if these studios just…vanished
Outside mobile, it would honestly be a boon to gaming.
Think how much attention and funding they suck up from smaller studios/publishers making great games. Folks have no idea what they’re missing.
For what it’s worth, the Houthis are quiet now.
I read a rumor that the Saudis paid them off.
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Maybe occasionally when they visit their Mom, sometimes? But it’s not like they live together, no.
It’s not that unusual. I have 30-40 year old cousins that might share a bed with their mom, in gatherings where we’re short on beds. It’s a little odd, but… shrug.
I wouldn’t worry unless you feel like you have to do it.
Point being the ragebait crowded out all the interesting niche subs.
It wasn’t like that at Lemmy when I first joined, but with every passing day it feels more and more like a Voat, even if the political leaning is the polar opposite. And no one seems to want to do anything about it.
I mean, .world is an echo chamber too. It fits that exact definition.
It feels like all of Lemmy is going the way of Voat to me, and other long-dead Reddit clones. Drowned in ragebait once all the “hero” niche community posters leave from lack of engagement.
From my perspective in the local LLM scene:
They’re getting better at being dumb tools doing mundane things. Formatting for MCP, tool use and stuff is all getting trained in now.
…They aren’t getting much smarter or more reliable, though.
This is especially true with the big US AI houses. There are all sorts of incredible papers that come out weekly to address things like errors from sampling, power use, the one-way serial autoregressive architecture, all these fundamental caps of capabilities, and… they aren’t even testing any of it? Contrary to what you hear, LLM development has been very, very, very conservative, and even a single failed experiment can destroy a whole division.
The Chinese devs are the forefront IMO, and are really pushing efficiency, but are falling into a similar trap elsewhere, unfortunately.
So I don’t know how to answer your question.
There is TONS of low hanging fruit to be picked, both on the model and implementation side, but it doesn’t seem like anyone is picking it efficiently? It’s largely following the corporate enshittification model of “don’t improve, scale.”
Labs doing anything interesting/not scammy are either bought out and smothered (mostly in the US), tend to fall into a “herd mentality” (my observation looking into China), or are crushed by corpo nonsense (Korea/Middle East/US) or messed up laws (Europe).
If you’re on a browser, I’d recommend:
https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube
And perhaps other YouTube client apps have a similar feature.
I find, for a given topic, that there are a few common channels spamming hundreds and hundreds of junk videos. Block them as you find them, and it cleans up the feed immensely.
It’s absolutely mind boggling that YT doesn’t include this as a default feature.
Also, respectfully I would not get too invested in YT.
The other day, I found my TV (with the stock app) auto skipping sponsers. That’s just one of a bazillion ways Google is crushing creators that make anything but attention slop, intentionally, so that kind of long-form content you like may not last.
My datapoint from a US private school: bullying was stratified. You had the very rich “in” crowd and then everyone else in clumps of niches.
But it was too fancy for much “open” bullying; it was more implied. Basically, it was this:
Literally this. Kids from the old money neighborhood would hang out the school atrium balcony.
On a technical level, that makes zero sense.
AI “agents” are basically just fancy prompts with a tool calling harness. They are infinitely replicable, at zero cost, with no intrinsic value; the cost comes from the generic CPU host, and the API calls to GPU servers, databases, or whatever else that are all centralized anyway.
Wanna hear a dirty secret?
“AI” cost is going to zero.
Model capabilities aren’t scaling, but inference efficiency is exploding, thanks to more resource-constrained labs and breakthroughs in papers. The endgame of the current bubble is mediocre but useful tools anyone can host themselves, dirt cheap. Maybe a bit more reliable and refined than what we have now, but about as “intelligent.”
And guess what?
Microsoft can’t profit off that. None of Big Tech can.
Point being, this exec is either delusional, or jawboning to “maintain the curtain” so the world doesn’t realize that.