HeartyBeast

joined 2 years ago
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

If the police lose, you really lose

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Let’s go clubbing

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

 

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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 1 year 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

 

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.

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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.

 

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.

 

The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

 

It was a freezing Friday evening early in February 2023, when my boiler broke. An engineer was called, several cold days passed, and his declaration came in sombre tones: ‘uneconomic to repair’. Li…

 

Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.

 

Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.

 

@streaming21 has been spamming the fediverse magazine with movie links What is the best way to get a particular rogue account looked at?

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