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06.01.2025
Keir Starmer Hits Back At Elon Musk And 'Poison Of The Far-Right'

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the online debate about child sexual exploitation was based on lies, with politicians "jumping on the bandwagon".

Responding to questions about a slew of social media posts from Tesla owner Elon Musk, Mr Starmer said "a line has been crossed" when safeguarding minister Jess Phillips and others receive serious threats as a result of the "poison of the far-right".

Mr Starmer's comments follow a flurry of posts by Mr Musk on his social media site, X, in which the billionaire claimed Ms Phillips "deserves to be in prison" for denying requests for the British Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and called her a "rape genocide apologist".

Earlier on Monday, Mr Musk suggested the Prime Minister was "complicit in the crimes" of child sex offenders, and in a separate post added: "Prison for Starmer."

He also accused former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown of having "committed an unforgivable crime against the British people" and "sold those little girls for votes", over his handling of grooming gangs while in office.

Asked about Mr Musk's posts to his 210 million followers following a speech at Epsom Hospital in Surrey, the Prime Minister said: "Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves."

Mr Starmer also criticised Mr Musk's support for jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson, saying; "Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. They're supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case.

05.01.2025
Should Starmer Worry About Elon Musk’s Attacks On His Government?

One of Sir Keir Starmer’s biggest challenges in 2025 will come not from the Conservative Party, or even inside Parliament or the UK, but from the heart of Donald Trump’s administration.

The prime minister has faced a barrage of attacks from Elon Musk since July’s general election, with the Tesla tycoon’s fury heating up in recent days over renewed calls for an inquiry into child sexual exploitation and grooming in Oldham.

The billionaire has latched onto fury at failings in the handling of historical child sex abuse cases across the country, calling for Sir Keir to be removed from office and saying safeguarding minister Jess Phillips should be jailed.

But despite being the world’s richest man, and a core member of Mr Trump’s inner circle, Mr Musk’s tirades against the British government have often strayed into outright misinformation.

04.01.2025
AI's Bullshitting Obscures Who's To Blame For Its Mistakes

Right now artificial intelligence is everywhere. When you write a document, you'll probably be asked whether you need your "AI assistant." Open a PDF and you might be asked whether you want an AI to provide you with a summary. But if you have used ChatGPT or similar programs, you're probably familiar with a certain problem - it makes stuff up, causing people to view things it says with suspicion.

It has become common to describe these errors as "hallucinations." But talking about ChatGPT this way is misleading and potentially damaging. Instead call it bullshit.

We don't say this lightly. Among philosophers, "bullshit" has a specialist meaning, one popularized by the late American philosopher Harry Frankfurt. When someone bullshits, they're not telling the truth, but they're also not really lying. What characterizes the bullshitter, Frankfurt said, is that they just don't care whether what they say is true. ChatGPT and its peers cannot care, and they are instead, in a technical sense, bullshit machines.

03.01.2025
What Is The Hat Man? 'Shadow People' & Sleep Paralysis

Tales of things that go bump in the night are often met with scepticism but one nightmarish figure keeps cropping up in reports from all around the world.

Since the late 2000s, posters on social media and online messageboards have been sharing their experiences of waking in the dark to find a shadowy figure, dubbed the Hat Man, looming over them.

The phenomenon has attracted widespread attention, inspiring documentaries and the launch of a dedicated blog, The Hatman Project, where people can share their experiences.

02.01.2025
Amnesty Accuses Israel Of Genocide Against Palestinians In Gaza

Amnesty says that its research over months “has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed - and is continuing to commit - genocide against Palestinians”.

The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted following the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.

Agnès Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said Israeli actions “include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction".

01.01.2025
The Unhinged Miniature World Of Bobby Fingers

Normally, it takes months or years for a YouTube creator to refine their style, but it seems like Bobby Fingers figured it out on day one.

His combined set of skills is so unusual - prosthetics, model-making, video production, musical comedy - and the channel showcases all of them so well. But I also sensed this was an experienced internet creator, someone who knew what worked well online.

I wanted to meet the full-size person behind these miniature worlds - so I did a little digging and tracked him down, and he kindly agreed to answer a few short questions.

01.01.2025
Late Night Linux - Episode 314

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.

31.12.2024
Know Their Names - Palestinian Journalists Killed By Israel In Gaza

As the conflict in Gaza enters its 15th month, more than 45,400 people have been killed and 108,000 injured. The war has been particularly marked by the challenges of reporting from a warzone in effect sealed off to reporters from outside Gaza, where reporting has been impossible at times - and far too often, deadly.

Despite these challenges, Palestinian journalists have continued to report the horrors of the war, serving as the world’s eyes and ears during one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century.

From October 7, 2023, to December 25, 2024, at least 217 journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza. Five more were killed on December 26 when an Israeli air strike targeted a news van near al-Awda Hospital. These most recent killings of journalists underscore the perilous environment in which media professionals are operating in Gaza. Simply put, this has been the worst conflict for journalists - ever.

30.12.2024
When Burning Hospitals Are No Longer News

This morning, I opened social media to search for Gaza news. I had to scroll for a while through my newsfeed before seeing the first mention of my homeland.

Yet, the news we receive from Gaza through friends, family and social media is no less grim than it was a year ago. Its people continue to cry out for help, hoping the world would hear them.

For three months, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, sent appeals for help to the world, as the Israeli army besieged the hospital, cut off supplies, bombarded it, slaughtered people in its vicinity and injured some of the medical staff and patients inside.

29.12.2024
Scrcpy

This application mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or over TCP/IP, and allows to control the device with the keyboard and the mouse of the computer. It does not require any root access. It works on Linux, Windows and macOS.

28.12.2024
Betteridge’s Law Of Headlines

‌One of the more curious, yet revealing, principles in journalism is Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’.” This adage, named after British journalist Ian Betteridge, might seem like a throwaway line, but it actually provides a window into the mechanics of media and the subtle ways in which information is presented to us. Betteridge’s Law is less about the literal truth of the headlines it critiques and more about the nature of the relationship between the media and its audience. The law suggests that when a headline poses a question, it’s often a signal that the article doesn’t have the concrete evidence to support a definitive statement. Instead, the headline is designed to draw readers in with a hint of controversy or intrigue, only to deliver an anticlimactic conclusion.

27.12.2024
How To Jailbreak An Amazon Fire Stick

‌This process is often associated with Apple systems such as iPhone and iPad. However, that typically involves modifying the firmware and that is not what we are doing in this guide.

Jailbreaking a Fire TV Stick is a much different technique that only requires changing a few options within Settings. This is called side-loading and doing so allows for downloading applications that are not available in Amazon’s App Store.

These are referred to as 3rd party applications since Amazon does not host them in their official app store.

This process works on other variations including the popular Fire TV Cube and Smart TVs with Fire TV built-in. In this guide, we are using the most popular version which is the Fire TV Stick 4K Max.

26.12.2024
The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza

‌The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel's war on Gaza.

Their primary battlefield has become the online news operation. Drop Site News spoke to 13 current and former staffers who mapped out the extensive bias in the BBC's coverage and how their demands for change have been largely met with silence from management. At times, these journalists point out, the coverage has been more credulous about Israeli claims than the UK's own Conservative leaders and the Israeli media, while devaluing Palestinian life, ignoring atrocities, and creating a false equivalence in an entirely unbalanced conflict.

25.12.2024
Merry Fucking Xmas!

‌The nativity journey today, at a glance.

24.12.2024
The Zionist Blueprint

‌The Israeli military has spent the past year committing nearly every war crime imaginable against the people of Gaza. Now, as these ongoing atrocities fall from the headlines, Israel’s ultra-right-wing government is only expanding its radius of destruction.

In the first few months of the genocide, mainstream media outlets worked overtime to manufacture consent for the Israeli government’s mass slaughter of Palestinians. Now, these same outlets have seemingly wiped their hands of the responsibility to report on the U.S.-funded horrors being carried out across Gaza. As international attention fades, the Israeli military is taking the opportunity to expand its campaign of terror and destruction to the wider region.

Zionism has always used the same blueprint. First, decimate the land and ethnically cleanse the people who live there. Then, colonize it. The goal remains the same: To gain as much territory for the Israeli state, with as few Palestinians or Arabs on it, as possible.

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