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I had the usual frustrating self service till episode earlier. This one was particularly fcking hair tearing. There must have been one person who felt it even more than me. That was the poor woman who had to keep coming over to flash her magic fob at it, getting on for 10 times. The people they employ to do that job must go through a hardcore selection process, to weed out all but those with the most superhuman of patience. Imagine doing that for 8 hours a day, without screaming at someone? Soul destroying. I'm sure they'd rather be manually scanning stuff through on proper tills. At least they get to judge all the punters on what they've bought.

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Obviously, the free just refers to the service users. He's proposing to take some money back from the filth. That'll go a good way to funding the buses. I expect Trump will make it too difficult, but just think how much more pleasant the city will be if he succeeds.

What's wrong with a free bus service? Anyway, as already said, it was probably as much of an anti Trump protest vote as it was a vote for the blue team. (Much like Labour getting in here last time).

Shouldn't that be SBS? 🤷‍♂️

Didn't think you'd see it. The clue is in the bloke's name.

Old school.

The irony. Do you see it @Johnsond? So, we've waited and we've seed Davey.

You didn't expect him to be happy with this news did you? Although from what I'm hearing now, the fact that the Republican candidate didn't win was largely due to the Trump Taint. 'Mandate for change': Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral election WWW.BBC.CO.UK It is a historic moment as Mamdani also becomes the first South Asian and first Muslim to lead the city. On top of the demographic complications this new guy has some very anti-trumpian policies indeed. POLICIES He has proposed: A free bus service citywide Rent freezes and stricter accountability for negligent landlords A chain of city-owned grocery stores focused on affordability Universal childcare for children aged six weeks to five years Tripling the production of rent-stabilised, union-built housing A flat 2% tax for New Yorkers who make more than $1 million a year

Students cheating is the least of our worries when it comes to children and AI. Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot ‘girlfriends’ will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries "The research, based on a survey of boys in secondary education across 37 schools in England, Scotland and Wales, also found that more than half (53%) of teenage boys said they found the online world more rewarding than the real world."

Interesting. I want to ask for a more in-depth explanation of the ANDing masquerading as adding thing. Guessing it's not something that fits neatly in a nutshell though. I was fascinated by Logic Gates when I was taught them all to briefly. Pattern recognition. A friend of mine was developing software to be used in a chicken nugget factory, or some such, around the turn of the century. It's purpose was to recognise and reject wrong or damaged ones by looking at their shape. AI wasn't even on the horizon then, it was just pattern recognition. He now works at GCHQ, something to do with policy, (that's all he's allowed to say).

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Yeah, that was what I concluded. Though I had them in a dim unheated garage I think, maybe if they were in a bright, warm conservatory or something they'd do better. No need to buy more seeds, just use some from last year's chillies. They're always viable. Dead easy, especially if your drying them out anyway.

The chilli plants you mean? I've tried before, indoors on window sills. Managed to keep a couple alive over winter, thinking they'd get a head start and do better than new plants the following spring. They didn't. The new plants quickly overtook them after a couple of months and produced more fruit. I think they really miss sunlight over the winter, as well as the heat.

I'm a self confessed Luddite. Point taken about the applications for labour always shifting in the past. This feels like a bigger step change, more fundamental though. It greater than just automation. Also, service industries are a mixed blessing. They've not been good for this country in the last 50 years. Last paragraph: completely agree.

Great, we can compare notes! Jelly is a more accurate description, you're right. I drain the juice out through a Muslim net after stewing. They're such knarly things, you need to really.

Oh, I didn't see that bit. How much? I'll sit down in preparation.

Oh jeez. I don't know they were in on the act as well. Like flies round the proverbial.

Lots of jam there. Even more when I mix them with Quinces. Impressive size to some of them this year. Also. See the ladybird hiding in the smaller one. There were many like that.

I'm not comfortable with this idea of human to human contact being replaced with human to AI contact. It seems to be increasingly accepted as the new normal. I heard a health program the other day talking about the use of virtual therapists to help people with mental health problems. Presumably there's at least some regulation backing that up if it's some kind of healthcare provider run thing. However, I recoil at the idea of children talking to AI bots about suicide in some dark, dodgy corners of the web.

A big part of the problem with AI seems to be about who owns it. It's currently largely in the hands of rich, powerful individuals or under corporate control. As such it's being used to further commercial interests and personal agendas. With very few benefits to society as a whole, other than the data crunching. Maybe we need more Open Source AI, as opposed to Closed Source. I won't pretend to know much more about how it works, other than what the names would suggest.

The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real THECONVERSATION.COM A philosopher on how and whether we’ll ever decide if AI has sentience.

I know. I think Garage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and our very own little wannabe influencer Davey were all complicit in stiring up social division after the event. I expect Musk had his fingers in things in the backend as well. Paragons of virtue all of them obviously. The question is how many of them knew that it was disinformation but broadcast it anyway to further their own agendas? Most I bet.