Rep Stansbury: “The president & his admin can’t explain a legal justification for an eminent threat that gave them the authority to use the military— They can’t provide an explanation of their war plan — they can’t explain why they’ve killed over 200 civilians — the president needs to be impeached”

the harder the industry invests on pushing narratives of AI as (only) positive, inevitable, and inherently good for society/business, the more any criticism of this narrative becomes “too radical”, “unworkable” and “unrealistic”

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed. “Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

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The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

The Iranian warship that was bombed by the US was unarmed www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian...

It’s truly incredible that with the Americans and Israelis making up claims of potential Iranian WMDs, there is virtually no mention anywhere in most of the mainstream coverage so far that the *only* Middle Eastern state with undeclared nuclear weapon is Israel.

Absolute legend. The Spanish PM is a proper statesman.

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

Which is entirely due to the quantification of educational excellence via the use of meaningless proxies - proxies established as meaningful by commercial operators prioritising revenue generation over scientific advancement

I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.

The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets? And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

mondoweiss.net/2026/03/unde... Western media audiences are being spoon-fed the usual false narrative, framed as it is by the state perpetrators of the aggression, the war profiteers, and Zionist proxies. War is peace. Peace is a threat. Aggression is self-defense.

Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

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Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is so much of the US coverage implicitly blaming Dubai for not having a "carefully calibrated" system of sirens and shelters?! It's not the result of incompetence - its because the UAE hasn't gone around pissing off its neighbours so badly it needs defensive infrastructure like this.

This needs to be illegal

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

Slightly surreal to have spent the afternoon at a baby shower, listening to the boom of missiles overhead and watching the puffs of smoke as (most) of them get intercepted. Perhaps a trite commonplace, but its awful to know that while we're celebrating a new life others are dying across the region.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

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Meta’s plans for AI facial recognition smart glasses ‘threatens safety of all women and girls’ Domestic abuse charities said the feature could pose a ‘direct and serious’ risk to survivors by placing them “in harm's way” and enabling abusers to locate and track them.

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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Every single "oh mah gawd Claude Code" story is written by somebody amazed that Claude can barf out something that's ripping off an open source library or Tailwind CSS template. Every single claiming "the cost of developing software is going to zero" is written by an imbecile or industry plant.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

In a competitive field like academia, everyone feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a bad comment from a student, or being shooed away by campus security when you get caught eating apple cores and chicken bones out of the dining hall dumpster at 3 a.m.

Pretty much every development on the ground in Gaza I've heard first from Palestinians on here trying to raise funds for food, shelter, and medicine. Sometimes I don't see it reported in the news for days if not weeks. It's not just preventing fundraising, it's intentionally silencing the victims.

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Just got this email from my 4yr old's school - and all I can say is JESUS F*CK this is a thing?!! As if I don't have enough to worry about...

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This was a fantastic conference, and it is great to see all the presentations "out in the wild" as essays - thoroughly recommend this special issue!

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

Working from home today and have to pause and admire the new books pile on my desk - god bless family who understand what you **really** want for Christmas! (Most notably the gorgeous new Longman edition of Don Juan!) #romanticism #byron #literature

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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Gaza used to have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Since October 2023, more than 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or maimed; many who survived are now orphans, trying to stay alive. Education is a distant memory.

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

Love this from Guillermo del Toro