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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
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Damning moment on Newsnight as Dorries admits that the child grooming scandal was "never discussed" when she was a cabinet minister.
January 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Damning moment on Newsnight as Dorries admits that the child grooming scandal was "never discussed" when she was a cabinet minister.
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The Undertones - Teenage Kicks live 1982
YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee
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December 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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can't tell you what it feels like to work in the NHS as a trans woman right now. giving my life to this service while it's being run by a man who is actively malevolent towards me
Wes Streeting appears to have asked the anti-trans nurses to draw up NHS guidance on trans people.
Bethany Hutchison, one of the nurses, said that she hoped their “commonsense” proposals would set a “precedent for all public services and workplaces in the UK”.
ALL workplaces.
ALL.
Bethany Hutchison, one of the nurses, said that she hoped their “commonsense” proposals would set a “precedent for all public services and workplaces in the UK”.
ALL workplaces.
ALL.
December 2, 2024 at 9:22 AM
can't tell you what it feels like to work in the NHS as a trans woman right now. giving my life to this service while it's being run by a man who is actively malevolent towards me
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I think the best thing that could happen with this bill is that it leads to a government commission on assisted dying, where the issue is considered in the detail it requires and public opinion is sought. I disagree with those who are saying that 5 hours is sufficient time for debate.
Many MPs have significant doubts about whether the assisted dying legislation will pass its first parliamentary stage - with indications large numbers could abstain - @jessicaelgot reports on latest
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Under 1,000 patients a year may opt for assisted dying if bill passes, MP says
Kim Leadbeater outlines safeguards as some MPs worry proposal does not bar doctors in England and Wales from suggesting option
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I think the best thing that could happen with this bill is that it leads to a government commission on assisted dying, where the issue is considered in the detail it requires and public opinion is sought. I disagree with those who are saying that 5 hours is sufficient time for debate.
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You think nothing Musk could do could lower your opinion of him? Think again
November 3, 2024 at 5:16 PM
You think nothing Musk could do could lower your opinion of him? Think again
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The Daily Mail just won the right to say Douglas Barrowman has "cocktail-sausage fingers".
And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.
And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.
October 12, 2024 at 10:48 AM
The Daily Mail just won the right to say Douglas Barrowman has "cocktail-sausage fingers".
And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.
And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.
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The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed.
Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed.
By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed.
By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Tories Are Lost Because Their Ideology Failed
The question facing the Conservative party is what to do when its core beliefs turn out to be fantasies.
www.bloomberg.com
October 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM
The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed.
Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed.
By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed.
By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Kim Leadbeater - who came first in the private member’s bill ballot - is going to use her slot for a bill on assisted dying.
This is significant because it means the bill is pretty much guaranteed a debate and is also likely to get a vote.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is significant because it means the bill is pretty much guaranteed a debate and is also likely to get a vote.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour MP in fresh bid to change law on assisted dying
MPs have not voted on the subject since 2015, when they rejected a bill to introduce assisted dying.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Kim Leadbeater - who came first in the private member’s bill ballot - is going to use her slot for a bill on assisted dying.
This is significant because it means the bill is pretty much guaranteed a debate and is also likely to get a vote.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is significant because it means the bill is pretty much guaranteed a debate and is also likely to get a vote.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/a...
Anand Menon on racism: the UK has made progress, but this year's riots show there's a long way to go - Tortoise
One of Britain's leading public intellectuals reflects on how racism – and his experience of it – has changed over the last 50 years
www.tortoisemedia.com
October 4, 2024 at 6:28 AM
I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/a...
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I wrote about a development that I think might create some quite fundamental changes in the power between the state and the private sector: the role that civilian companies are increasingly playing in war.
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engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-c...
How companies go to war
We are living through a change in the balance of power between states and the private sector. The implications for modern conflict are vast.
engelsbergideas.com
September 26, 2024 at 9:36 AM
I wrote about a development that I think might create some quite fundamental changes in the power between the state and the private sector: the role that civilian companies are increasingly playing in war.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-c...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-c...
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The brothers who inherited Aldi couldn’t agree, so split up Germany and the world. The US was too big a potential market to give to just one of them, IIRC. They are separate firms with the exact same business model.
August 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM
The brothers who inherited Aldi couldn’t agree, so split up Germany and the world. The US was too big a potential market to give to just one of them, IIRC. They are separate firms with the exact same business model.
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Just found out that the voice actor that recorded the line 'you know when you've been Tangoed' for the adverts was GIL SCOTT FUCKING HERON, and now I need a lie down
August 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Just found out that the voice actor that recorded the line 'you know when you've been Tangoed' for the adverts was GIL SCOTT FUCKING HERON, and now I need a lie down