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Since apparently some of my friends are unaware, these are the things that are bothering me and other UK trans people:
theguardian.com/society/2024/a… - the UK government’s latest transphobic shit. 1/3

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#ukpol #transphobia thetimes.co.uk/article/rosie-d… - the leader of the opposition agreeing with the government’s plans and backing his leading transphobic backbencher 2/3

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#ukpol #transphobia rcgp.org.uk/representing-you/p… - GPs’ representative body calling for end to shared care with the private sector, and restricting their role in other aspects of trans healthcare. 3/3

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TERF bullshit, but it’s funny, in a pathetic way

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Sarah Brown
TERF bullshit, but it’s funny, in a pathetic way

@Ed Davies Oh yeah, they do that too, regularly.

"Someone clicked like on nasty Sarah's post. SEND THEM TO PRISON FOR A THOUSAND YEARS"

Like, how little self awareness do you have to have?

Sadly, the Lib Dems are increasingly not telling them to fuck off. Apparently if this is all you do all day, every day, eventually you get your way because people get exhausted trying to ignore you.


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Hearing some news on the grapevine that pubic lice would stop sucking blood if only their victims weren’t so mean to them.

Also, coincidentally, transphobes are very new to the whole, “taking responsibility for your own actions” thing.

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@Alisdair Calder McGregor honestly, I certainly am. Vagina tight as fuck, but mostly because I never use it.
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@Alisdair Calder McGregor aaaaasanyway, must dash. Got a subtropical sunset to watch over my citrus trees, safe in the knowledge that I have no pubic lice.


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Bottom line, anyone who protested as a student knows you simply don't have the education and sophistication to really understand the complexities of the Middle East.

In contrast, I look forward to the predominantly male Supreme Court ruling on women's bodies.

#Satire

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So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.

Then we just watch the generational loss compound.

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OK, sure. But the important question is, what are you going to use for generation 0?

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As you likely know, Brexit import checks start in earnest on Tuesday... but at facilities which are (mostly) inland; in the case of Dover 22 miles inland....

Now, of course most shippers can be trusted to drive those 22 miles for a check, and then either 'enter' the UK or drive 22 miles back with their refused shipment....

Hmmmm.... so that 44 miles of driving when, for the less scrupulous, a little bit of clandestine unloading could take place... this is a system built to be circumvented!

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

I understood that most of the testing locations are at the ports.
The exception, and it's a major one, is Sevington, which is 22 miles inland from Dover, our busiest port.
FWIW it wouldn't need a roundtrip, as Sevington is near Ashford, Kent, just off the M20.
I suppose they could use ANR to track the lorries going to Sevington, and pick up any doing illicit diversions, but I don't think they are.
But as it is, no one, apart from our Govt, thinks this is a good idea.

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NEW

The placard of Trudi Warner

Why the government sought to criminalise someone for stating a feature of constitutional law—and how it failed

By me, at Prospect

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/l…

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Great article. I remember jury equity from my undergraduate law degree thirty years ago. I did not go on to practice and haven't thought about it since - I didn't know it was controversial and might have assumed it was part of jury swearing-in. The case will surely stand as a monument to a delusional Solicitor General who thought they might achieve anything other than being slapped down by a gleeful judge?
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The Trudi Warner #contempt case brings to mind a significant so-called 'perverse' verdict from 1991.

Michael #Randle and Patrick #Pottle were charged with helping a spy escape from prison in 1963.

The judge told the jury the defendants had no defence. The jury knew they were guilty - the pair admitted it in a book - and yet the jury unanimously found them not guilty.

More in this short thread:
mastodon.green/@robf/112310283…



My language learning web page (linguno.com) has gone all political today on this 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. This means I know how to say "I will abolish the death penalty".
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@Sarah Brown @kæt Having now heard it in Capitães de Abril, yes, yes it is
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@goatsarah I remember watching a replay of that contest, I don't remember it (but then again, I don't remember any except Waterloo).

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@sundogplanets ob rathergood.com/2015/09/10/my-b…

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"babe, the upside down peas aren't real, they can't hurt you"
upside down peas:
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they almost killed me whith laughing and in turn choking me with my own spit! be careful!


Is Grogu Gillick-competent? Do they have Cafcass in a galaxy far, far away?

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Fantasy problem questions...

Suppose you are the judge in the fictitious case of Djarin v Skywalker. The parties each seek a child arrangements "live with" order in respect of a child, G. How would you apply the welfare checklist in s1(3) of the Children Act 1989?



Re A (A Minor)

In this key case, the judges were in a chord.




"The hearing was entirely conducted remotely by Zoom" says this judgment*. I wonder in some future era this will make as much sense as discussion of stannary courts or writing things down on vellum.

* [2020] EWHC 1238 (Fam)

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"Zoom", hmm, let me see: "magnification, especially with the aid of optics". Well, it was at the time of the great illness, so probably they were sat in different buildings and using telephoto lenses.

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Cass report: there’s a useful phrase in politics for the kind of thing that it is: policy based evidence making.

in reply to Ian Smith

It could just be that those people do not understand and could use some guidance instead of being categorized into a hateful group that are against trans.

I stopped asking questions about trans people after being totally put down, made fun of and categorized because I just didnt know something and evidently was stupid enough to ask.

Im an ally to humanity. I am good with ANYTHING you want to be. I do not care. But I do not publicly support or ask questions because every time I do Im treated like shit.

So there is that side of the coin too.

Now I fully expect everyone to come yelling at me for posting my cishet feelings, since my feelings no longer matter since I seem to be unfortunately average.


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Publication on the wonderful EULawAnalysis blog, together with @Frederik_Borgesius: a short analysis of the Podchasov v. Russia case of the ECHR.
This is an important case for the role of encryption for the protection of privacy (Article 8).

For our analysis and some short comments, see the blog post: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/202…

Thanks for publishing @StevePeers!

#encryption #humanrights

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🤢Oh geez. Sorry for TMI, but Meiselas is reporting this:

Meiselas: What I’m hearing from credible sources is that Donald #Trump is actually farting in the courtroom… I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s kind of falling asleep, he’s actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. #TrumpTrial

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3/ lol again, via Meidas Touch:

Trump is taking gaslighting to the next level inside the NY court.

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Andrew Feeney
@joshsusser The courtroom sketch artists are going to need to start adding stink lines.

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Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)

A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!

in reply to Kenn White

TL;DR: The most popular chat-assisted app frameworks aren't even doing basic process sandboxing or sane file/network isolation. We are still very much in the early infancy of security maturity with current gen LLMs.

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Mortgage office near me had an Alexa in the window. At night, I'd shout things at it like "Remind me at 10:30 every day to apply pile cream", or other puerile stuff. I missed any of these going off, but enjoy the thought of them alerting mid-mortgage-chat. Alexa has been moved.


There's a provision of the Children Act 1989 which requires the court to have the child's welfare as its paramount consideration.

I am finding it very hard not to call this the prime directive.


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Dual layer VHS.

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first thing I checked (and I salute you) the dual write-protect tabs! Bravo.

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* mutters and grumbles about old server *

Anybody know what happened to witches.live?

Anyway, here now, hoping to refind everybody

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Welcome. I was able to keep up with the old server on a different app before I had an official presence on Pagan Plus. I always enjoyed both your posts and your alt text. Great to see you here!


Exhausted. Going to take a quick nap before attempting to write this essay that’s due in in a week.

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We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.

Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.

This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…

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@anonymous236 I'm sorry to say that I don't know anything about ArcosPutty or its version numbers. You'd have to ask its own maintainers which version of upstream PuTTY it's based on, or what fixes they've applied.


To read the UK media you’d think Cameron was swooping in to sort the mess Brexit left Gibraltar in. Talking to a Gibraltarian friend though he didn’t have much part in it beyond bringing the tea. The hard work has been done by the Gibraltar government and the local government of La Línea just over the border.




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WHERE THE WEB IS GOING: The convergence of LLMs and web advertising will lead to "ads" consisting of several hundred gigabytes of javascript containing a (weighted) neural network designed to generate unique per-user video advertisements—generated on your computer at your expense to ensure the imagery is unique and evades AI-based ad-blockers.

"AI spam" is an entire AI, squatting on your CPU and making it glow dull red as it works out how to capture your attention.

Welcome to the spamularity.

in reply to Charlie Stross

Block JavaScript. If that results in no useful content, then find another source for the content.


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just time traveled to the Android 18 launch event here are some features you can look forward to
- Google's new chat service Semaphore is replacing Google Pigeon (formerly Google Chat (for business (old version))). it will launch without encryption
- Gemini can now physically stare at you while you sleep
- Pixel Camera will automatically edit out people it doesn't like and replace them with your favorite Fortnite skins
- Settings is now a progressive web app
- Material4 is launching. the corners are now so round they bend the opposite direction
- the current Maps API has been deprecated and replaced with an unfinished newer version
- all the non-ads on the Play Store were ruining the experience so they removed them

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Bus your drivers trying to poach customers from the queue for the cable car. I think they miss the point that it’s a cable car!

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Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:

O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.

King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.

In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.

He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.

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Asserting we haven’t got a constitution because it is not written down is like saying your washing machine doesn’t exist because you haven’t got the manual
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no it isn't. A washing machine is a physical thing. If you wanted to, you could kick it. An invisible constitution is imaginary and can easily be ignored, changed, or discounted.


Instructor: gives stern words about timeliness in professional sailing
Also instructor: “I’ll be five minutes”

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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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in reply to Dean Burnett (that brains guy)

Once you're over 45 your brain's completely calcified.

It's basically just a lump of granite that replays songs from your teenage years while you still think of technology in terms of the poorly-scripted Sci-Fi TV you still own on DVD.

Definitely can't be trusted to vote on any new issues (i.e. 'any issues at all') once you lose all ability to develop beyond the thinking of the previous century.

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Wayne Werner
I *had* heard that your brain stops /developing/ -- e.g. your prefrontal cortex actually functions so you can make long-term decisions. But it doesn't surprise me that the idea has taken on a life beyond that understanding 😂