Starmer is no where near Blair 2.0, Blair at least had charisma, a political plan and, at least before Iraq, genuinly had mass grass roots support. Starmer has none of them, he’s an apolitical middle maneger who has been pushed to the top of the party by a right wing clique in labour as a way to purge the left.
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Womble@lemmy.worldto
UK Politics@feddit.uk•Labour knew Palestine Action posed no violent threat, but banned it anyway amid lobby pressureEnglish
42·6 months agoIts definitely not terrorism, but its more than just vandalism. Spraying paint into a jet engine is going to severly damage if not completly break it. Sabotage is probably the best description, of military equipment that wasnt doing anything involved with Palestein.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety ActEnglish
2·6 months agoAlso, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.
as per the article general_effort posted:
The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.
Its one of those laws that are on the books mostly becuase no one has got around to modifying it and removing the bits that are unused.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•introducing copyparty, the FOSS file serverEnglish
5·6 months agoYup, I tried to run the docker image with the suggested docker command and it errored out for lack of a config file (though it did offer a fix in the logs for mounting the current directory as read/write)
Womble@lemmy.worldto
UK Politics@feddit.uk•Kemi Badenoch: Argentinian president Javier Milei would be ‘template’ for my governmentEnglish
7·6 months agoThe crazy thing is, its not impossible you’re right. It’s not impossible that the most successful party in democratic politics (in terms of winning elections) implodes and is consumed by a brand new crypto-fash party built around one man.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search houseEnglish
10·6 months agoYou are right, but also I doubt she was expecting her protesting to directly change anyone in power’s mind. The tactic is obviously to keep doing this with people who are very media friendly (little old grannies and the like) so stories keep getting into the papers of “lovely person arrested for protesting!” which does put pressure on the government.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggestsEnglish
1·6 months agoNot easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggestsEnglish
3·6 months agoIn order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PCEnglish
1·6 months agoSure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.
What do you think their response would be?
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PCEnglish
7·6 months agoNo way they’d do that though, because then they’d have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.
It depends, if they’re use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same “AI wave” thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
UK Politics@feddit.uk•Plans for direct train to Berlin in new UK-Germany treatyEnglish
4·6 months agoGiven that there’s ~50 flights just from Heathrow to Berlin’s main airport today, my guess is quite a lot of people.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Global News@lemmy.zip•Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC NewsEnglish
51·6 months agoVerified footage shows large explosions unleashing plumes of dust and debris, as Israeli forces carry out controlled demolitions on tower blocks, schools and other infrastructure.
Multiple legal experts told BBC Verify that Israel may have committed war crimes under the Geneva Convention, which largely prohibits the destruction of infrastructure by an occupying power.
Gosh, such a mouthpiece for Israel
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?English
1·6 months agoI mean, if we’re going to shoot people for their awful beliefs I would like to know there is a good system in place so that we don’t end up shooting Alex Jacobson because Alex Jacobsonn has been spotted attending Klan rallies.
So again, if you want to advocate for extrajudicial violence: who gets to decide where the boot is stamping, and how do you propose making sure that it isn’t co-opted by bad people for their own ends?
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?English
57·6 months agoand who gets to decide who is a fascist, you?
Lots of people witter on about young men becoming right wing in the UK like we’re America, in reality young men were the second most left wing demographic after young women in the last election.
Given that in the 2024 election the two most left wing groups (lab+lib+green voting) were 18-24 women followed by 18-24 men, probably not.
Womble@lemmy.worldto
LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Very large amounts of gaming gpus vs AI gpusEnglish
2·6 months agoTheres also the upcomming Framework desktops with 128GB of unified ram for ~$2500
Womble@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL sweat comes out of the pores, which does this when you shaveEnglish
2·6 months agoAnti mater is routinely created in the nature. X-ray telescopes can see it being created and destroyed all over the universe.




















Dont be a dick, people arent simping for Thiel just because they think the article you posted is over interpreting a single pause.