HeartyBeast

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

If the police lose, you really lose

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 7 points 5 months ago

Let’s go clubbing

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 31 points 5 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

 

A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

 

‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

 

A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a

 

Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

 

It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.

 

If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

 

The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
 

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.

 

A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.

 

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

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