write their newspapers that they would cancel their subscriptions if the articles quoted … tweets.

Given the former and future president of the USA’s habit of announcing policies there, that seems unworkable.

As much as I dislike Musk, expansion of the great firewall of Europe seems like a bad idea.

It’s like JK Rowling all over again.

You’re going to upset a lot of chess players if you get rid of all AI.

I’m not anti-ai, but all signs point to the who thing stagnating, I don’t see what mozilla could contribute in the current climate.

Another way to help: If you have an idea that someone could possibly patent, no matter how stupid you think it is, you can publish a defensive technical disclosure on tdcommons for free https://www.tdcommons.org/

Not the best example, the health risks from radium dials were mostly to the people that painted them, because they licked their brushes to point them.

Not temu, but I buy loads of stuff from aliexpress, from dice to entire 3d printers.

If your kid tries to eat their camera you have bigger issues to worry about.

On the actually change - if moving I to bugger funds allows for them to actually own companies etc, then I think this is a good idea.

Aren’t pension funds supposed to spread their risks?

But if they are forced to invest for economic growth instead of pension fund growth, then that’s bad.

That appears to be the concern, that it will be used to invest in what the government wants to invest in, as a substitute for the government investing directly as they should be doing.

The GMB expert also rubbished Treasury arguments that pooled assets can be used to invest into a wider range of riskier and long-term assets.

“We are not speculators — we are not going to put it on the 4:30 at Haydock,” he said.

He said Treasury plans to have each administering authority set targets for investment in their local economies was also wrong-headed.

“We invest to get a return, we don’t invest in the local economy for the sake of it,” said Mr Georgiou.

Both people in this relationship sound annoying, I guess they deserve each other.

Viral is no longer a strong enough adjective for headline editors, we now have MEGAVIRAL.

There’s no need for mastodon to be in the mix here, whatever software they are using can federate directly. I know wordpress already has a plugin to do exactly that. (I have no idea what CMS major news outlets use, hopefully not wordpress)

The Skripal thing? No amount of tanks or missiles can stop espionage.

Self hosted instances are artificially limited to 10 accounts, however https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation

And that’s only the frontend “server” that can be self hosted, the “relay”, that’s more equivalent to a mastodon instance, doesn’t seem to be self hostable.

From an entirely selfish perspective, the UK has very few threats militarily, unless the French decide to invade again.

Well now I’m going to have to use it even more.

When you take “fuck nazis” a little too literally.

The government that engineered his escape from standing trial for genocide, then indicted him for “kidnapping” only to dismiss the case.