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841.
by foldr 1y ago
This is the first result for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-... "Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past".
842.
by foldr 1y ago
Not OP, but this information is easily available by Googling ‘Bill Gates Epstein’. I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just a widely covered news story.
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by foldr 1y ago
From a linguist's point of view this is a perfect example of the chaos that ensues when people try to say how things are pronounced without describing the speech sounds using standard vocabulary. Here are the inept pronunciation instru
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s not entirely clear from the write up in the article, but it sounds like this was intended as a test of existing “off the shelf” AI agent models. In other words, the aim is to find out what happens if you try to use the existing commerc
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by foldr 2y ago
Lots of countries outlaw hate speech. I know that Americans tend to think that this is a slippery slope to totalitarianism, but much of the rest of the world disagrees. And America in its present state isn't a great advertisment for it
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by foldr 2y ago
Oh sure I agree that JK refers to JK Rowling. I just mean that the sign is probably an ironic reference to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling rather than an actual proposal to burn JK Rowling at the stake. It’s in extremely bad taste and I do
847.
by foldr 2y ago
The TERF one was posted earlier but obviously doesn’t mention JK Rowling. As to the other example, thanks for posting a source rather than just expressing annoyance that anyone would be asking for one. I think it takes some Yogi-level stret
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by foldr 2y ago
The tweet was posted elsewhere in this thread. It doesn’t express any political view. It just says hateful stuff. To your edit: If you’re making the comparison to anti-TERF “hate speech”, then it’s not treated equally because the law itself
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by foldr 2y ago
It wasn’t prosecuted as a death threat, so it’s not really relevant whether or not the threat was credible. The relevant offense is inciting racial hatred.
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by foldr 2y ago
Ok, so lots of sources that don’t show what was originally claimed (i.e. someone holding a placard at a recent protest in London calling for the death of JK Rowling). I don’t know why it irks you so much that people would fact check this p
851.
by foldr 2y ago
The original claim was that people were carrying placards at a recent protest in London calling for the death of JK Rowling. It’s not obvious that this has in fact happened, and it’s reasonable to ask for evidence of it.
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by foldr 2y ago
The original post said that people had placards “calling for the death of JK Rowling”. It may be that the poster’s overall point does not rely on this specific factual claim. But don’t try to muddy the waters around this: it’s a straightfor
853.
by foldr 2y ago
> The difference is so noticeable, it is now called "two tier policing". That’s what Elon Musk calls it. In fact, the difference in the case you mention is simply that: (i) Inciting racial hatred is a specific offense which doe
854.
by foldr 2y ago
It doesn’t. You can find people of all political stripes complaining about BBC journalism, including government ministers.
855.
by foldr 2y ago
The BBC certainly serves the interests of Britain, but it does so precisely because it is not merely a state propaganda service. You mention the limits on the PM's power. More generally, there are reasonably effective democratic norm
856.
by foldr 2y ago
Margret Thatcher wasn’t a “faction of the British Government”. She was Prime Minister for 11 years. Do you really think RT would still be here if Putin had wanted it gone for the past 11 years? People and institutions that Putin wants rid o
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by foldr 2y ago
It's mere cynicism to argue that the BBC must exist for propaganda purposes simply because the British government (very indirectly) pays for it. >we'll probably find out what the current vetting arrangements are in the 2040s We
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by foldr 2y ago
Every news organisation reports its own point of view and could potentially be shut down by whoever controls the purse strings. Your logic will lead you to the conclusion that all news is propaganda. That might be technically true in some
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by foldr 2y ago
The BBC’s editorial line isn’t determined by the government of the day. I’m not familiar with the output of examples you mention, but there’s no comparison with RT, which is simply a propaganda arm of the Russian state.
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by foldr 2y ago
Yes, exactly. And that means that trying to be a smart ass (I had a perfectly cromulent motive for doing it but I’m not going to tell you what it is and you have to prove I didn’t – nyah!) isn’t likely to be a very effective defense.
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by foldr 2y ago
The BBC isn’t propaganda. It has its biases for sure, but it doesn’t exist for the purpose of spreading a particular viewpoint. It’s good to be aware of media bias, but it’s reductive and cynical to view all media as propaganda.
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by foldr 2y ago
I’m not trying to defend this arrest, but that’s not really how it works. If there’s an obvious illegal motivation for doing X and the person who did X can’t supply a plausible alternative explanation, then a jury may conclude that X was do
863.
by foldr 2y ago
It’s not illegal to encrypt backups in the UK and the country does not come close to meeting any generally accepted definition of a “police state”. There is currently a lot of anti-UK hype in certain online spaces (including HN) which wildl
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by foldr 2y ago
But you can ask, how come they’ve run out of artillery shells and haven’t run out of drones? Answer: because drones are cheaper and easier to produce. That suggests that drones will be a significant factor in any future conflict that occurs
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by foldr 2y ago
He wins sometimes. Ask the Bishop of Bath and Wells. https://youtu.be/rBhTIoIXoTI?si=7Xc-1Mg7E60l645W
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by foldr 2y ago
Then why is the Catholic Church opposed to IVF? Let’s not pretend that there’s some sort of grand Darwinist scheme behind its sexual mores. Like most religions, reproduction is encouraged within particular constraints, and these are not suc
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by foldr 2y ago
I can’t help but feel that JD Vance has Liz Trussed the Pope.
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by foldr 2y ago
>Just like how American English has black and white accents, you could make a better-than-chance guess at a modern Londoner's ethnicity from a recording of their voice. (See Multicultural London English). The whole thing about MLE i
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by foldr 2y ago
This is a bit of a myth. A glottal stop is a full consonant sound which takes effort to produce. It's not really any 'easier' to produce than an alveolar stop in any objective sense.
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by foldr 2y ago
I think there are also plenty of counterexamples in that direction. Isn’t Edmund Blackadder a plucky underdog surviving on his wits?

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