The Telegraph did a response to this, make of it what you will: https://web.archive.org/web/20250102100357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/02/no-brexit-not-costing-uk-economy-100bn-year/
Challenge Defeatism. Resist Doomerism
The Telegraph did a response to this, make of it what you will: https://web.archive.org/web/20250102100357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/02/no-brexit-not-costing-uk-economy-100bn-year/
You are 100% correct, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf
Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html
And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367
But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news
So it’s important to try and stay positive:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news
If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:
Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/
https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism
And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling
https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/
Some world news summaries can be found here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37067259
https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week
I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the warmth and the depth.
Posts rarely make me laugh out loud, but yours often do. Please keep at it!
On today’s episode of Bullshit That Never Happened…
Why not both?
Sequel to Alyx?
Gotta dream fast!
Escort Section where the person you’re escorting moves at a slower pace than you do, forcing you to jog, walk, jog all the time.
Want to quit the game? Sure go into the menu, click Quit Session -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Game menu -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Unskippable game title intro -> sub menu with Quit Game, Continue Game, New Game -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Desktop
Ironlily’s stuff is pretty cute.
This looks like the armour you’d get as a quest reward in a ARPG.
Maybe the real BDSM duck was the friends we made along the way?
Nearly £3,000 for a graphics card. Jesus fucking Christ.
plagiarize: : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source.
Since almost no one actually consented to having their images used as training data for generative art, and since it never credits the training data that was referenced to train the nodes used for any given generation; it is using another persons production without crediting the source, and thus is text book plagiarism.
AI systems like generative art models are trained on large datasets to recognize patterns, styles, and structures, but the output they create does not directly copy or reproduce the original data. Instead, the AI generates new works by synthesizing learned features. This is more akin to how a human artist might create something inspired by various influences. If the generated image does not directly replicate any specific piece of the training data, it cannot be considered “using another’s production without crediting the source.”
Also AI platforms like Midjourney do not “reference” specific works in a way that can be credited. The training process distills millions of examples into mathematical representations, not a library of individual artworks. Crediting every source is not only infeasible and impractical, it is also not analogous to failing to attribute a specific inspiration or idea, which is a cornerstone of plagiarism.
Hardly surprising given the money donated to the Tories by the property sector:
https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-20-of-conservative-party-donations-from-property-sector-2021-7
Not sure how things stack up compared to Labour, but there’s most likely still a lot of money being thrown around to make sure builders make as much profit as possible.