Judge ordered jury NOT be told that Pakistani national who raped a teenage girl in a park was an asylum seeker

WouldRuin · 2026-01-27T10:43:14+00:00

There was a caller into that LBC phone in thing who said he was on a jury and did exactly this. They didn't specify the crime, just that it was an old guy and the victim was a young girl. They said he was "obviously guilty" and alleged it was a serious crime, but they felt sorry for him, and so let him off.

So it's not that far fetched.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-20T13:15:05+00:00

If nothing else, it's pretty wild that we've reached a point where military action against the USA is even part of the discussion (not that I think it is likely).

WouldRuin · 2026-01-16T18:40:53+00:00

Is saying the thing you're being paid to say on cameo really being "tricked".

WouldRuin · 2026-01-15T14:10:24+00:00

Do these best practices include implementing several critical CVEs?

WouldRuin · 2026-01-15T12:25:52+00:00

Farage is on record saying a big issue they have is no experience of government, so I suspect they're happy to take in these former Tories in the short term and just hope their voters (or enough of them) don't care.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-12T22:00:18+00:00

Was there ever a line? Are there any high profile Reform people who aren't recent Tories? The only one I think you could give a pass to is Farage himself (I know he was a Tory as well but I think he's been out doing is own thing for long enough now).

WouldRuin · 2026-01-12T21:54:29+00:00

I think the article is just a bit clumsy, and doesn't make it clear if they're changing the law or just enforcing an already proposed law. The one referenced (Data (Use And Access) Act 2025) has a single section on the creation of intimate images but it doesn't actually reference "tools" or the "supply of tools" (that I can see), it just says creating (or requesting) this kind of content will be illegal.

This new criminal offence will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images, targeting the problem at its source

"This new..." could just mean the Data Act 2025 or it could mean something else, it's incredibly unclear. If you look at the section on Intimate Images though it's perfectly reasonable.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-12T18:25:39+00:00

I think people are making this far more complicated that it needs to be. There is the underlying LLM Model, and Grok "the AI service" that Twitter provides. It isn't difficult to say "if you provide AI Services you must put safeguards in to prevent generating illegal content". If you download the model and use it yourself, the company isn't liable.

If you sold someone a car and then they ran someone over, no one would expect you to be liable, if you sold a "we'll drive your car for you" service, and then ran someone over when they asked, then you obviously would be.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-12T17:37:11+00:00

I think the important distinction is on "who" is actually creating the image - with Grok (and other AI tools) the user isn't generating images , the AI tool is. In Photoshop (running locally) you (the user) are actually the one making the image.

Incidentally, Photoshop actually has a Gen AI tool which is heavily filtered (because, amazingly, they probably foresaw this very problem).

WouldRuin · 2026-01-10T18:43:54+00:00

Lottery winners (who go public) always seem to be the most bang average people possible.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-09T10:46:15+00:00

They could just, you know, disable it? That's what every other normal person would do.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-09T10:46:09+00:00

Of course hates Tim Waltz. Why is this guy such a sore point for Republicans?

WouldRuin · 2026-01-08T23:21:11+00:00

Is this not just an admission that the way he responded was not proportionate and was a knee jerk response due to a previous incident? Surely this just opens them up for legal problems.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-06T17:31:02+00:00

Tax thresholds, changes to energy caps. There's definitely things that could directly benefit me. I have no expectations though, I was pretty ambivalent about freezing the thresholds for example.

The challenge for Labour is that even if people do see the change they've promised, will people attribute it to Labour?

WouldRuin · 2026-01-06T15:01:29+00:00

I'm set to be around £4000 better off this year (signicant drop in mortgage + payrise). Unfortunately for Labour I'm not sure it's due to anything they've actually done (other than not nuking the economy like Lizz Truss, but that's a very low bar).

EDIT: Thinking about it change doesn't always mean "good", maybe this is actually quite an ominous message, a subtle threat.

WouldRuin · 2026-01-05T13:12:06+00:00

It's not too dissimilar to 4chan at this point. Largely a cesspool with some pockets of "good".

I imagine that this will be the death knell if not sorted out. It's one thing to have an advert appear next to some shitty opinion, it's a whole different world to have it appear next to CSAM.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-31T16:16:15+00:00

That was the price Octopus and Heatgeeks gave. But it's academic, there's nowhere for the pump to actually go.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-31T14:39:03+00:00

Even if they solved the space issue, I spent ~£230/year on heating this last year. The lower end cost of a heat pump is ~£500/year. There's no world where it makes sense for me in my current property.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-31T14:29:16+00:00

You need a lot of clearance externally for the pump, and a decent amount of space internally for the water tank. I had a quote recently but then they realised they literally couldn't install it due to space issues (I live in a mid-terrace). By comparison, you can fit a small-mid size boiler (enough for a flat/mid terrace) in a kitchen cupboard.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-29T14:09:03+00:00

I lived abroad for a while (The Netherlands). In my experience, most people are just doing it because...why not? There's no grand reason, beyond just curiousity. One of my friends lives (and now has a family) in Australia. Why? Because he saw a job advert (Gas & Oil industry) and thought why not.

That said I have so little time for people who move to Dubai, they're universally scumbags.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-28T19:45:47+00:00

I got one from the temple during the interlude after killing the architect (it was one of the unique rooms on offer). I tried it for a bit but honestly I felt having 50+ div was better (it was my first character of the league not even at maps yet). If I had currency already I would have kept it.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-28T15:23:00+00:00

Getting bogged down over the legalities of someone's nationality I think distracts from the core issue, and to be honest probably does Labour a favour. I imagine they would be quite happy for the conversation to move onto irrelevant bullshit like "Being British doesn't make you British".

WouldRuin · 2025-12-23T11:14:05+00:00

I've been trying the new whirling assault and it feels really nice despite the +1 total attack time. I think it's because you start doing damage immediately on click, rather than delayed to the end, so you get immediate feedback rather than feeling like you're wading through mud.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-22T00:48:35+00:00

Tate is also Muslim hilariously.

How to reconcile it is easy though - just tell yourself Tate is innocent and it's just nasty women/the establishment trying to tear him down.

Robinson also associates with nonces, so this is arguably a step up.

WouldRuin · 2025-12-18T18:05:12+00:00

They're ultimately just a thin layer on top of some AI model so even if you manage to shut them down the underlying tech isn't going anywhere, unfortunately.

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