No disrespect intended to the author, but "Everyone should submit to voluntary keylogging surveillanceware on the blockchain to prove they're human" is not exactly the digital future I was hoping for in 1994.

If all of America's fossil-fuelled data centre power plants go ahead, it'll be the same climate impact as adding another Australia to the world. environmentalintegrity.org/news/74-gas-... www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🚨 Will you STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras @sainsburys? I will no longer shop at your supermarkets if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech. Use @BigBrotherWatch's speedy tool to bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...

They can save even more if they cancelled the subscription altogether. And if they got back in time to before they started firing their employees to ‘replace’ them with AI they’d still have people who know how to do their job without it. Regrets, yet?

🚨 AI companies are trying to use their vast, ill-gotten wealth to buy a change to the law in Australia. They say they will invest in data centers *if* the Australian government hands them the work of Australian creatives. This is a grotesque abuse of power. 🧵 1/3

Naomi Klein is always excellent.

RouteNote, a platform that lets you distribute your music to Spotify etc., is automatically opting its users into an AI licensing deal with Meta. They say “This is your choice”, and give you 14 days to opt out - but lots of users will miss this email & therefore miss the chance to opt out. 🧵 1/2

This is disgusting behaviour from Google. It is using its monopoly power to try to force creatives to let it train on their work. 🧵 1/2

We're feeding #Slop to the kids: «Some 59% of videos served to a new TikTok account’s ‹For You› page are AI slop … And a similar share (57.4%) of all TikTok videos aimed at children are AI slop, too.» #AISlop #PlatformRealism www.kapwing.com/resources/th...

Brilliant. The only think missing from this analysis is the role of ed-tech and AI tools in accelerating the demise of Universities. I know that at Goldsmith College the staff has been opposing the government's push to adopt untested, controversial tools, with great personal repercussion.

These social media age limit policies are almost a gift to the major tech companies. They’re simplistic and largely ineffective measures that distract from the more difficult policy work of regulating platform design and function that would yield much better outcomes — for youth and adults alike.

anything other than outlawing smart glasses that try to disguise themselves as normal glasses isn't going far enough you cannot concede to the premise that surveillance cameras worn by strangers in public are a thing that's allowed to blend in. that will never be acceptable under any circumstance

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

If the Trump administration was curious to find out what's animating all those pesky ‘anti AI extremists’, here’s a clue.

This was a brilliant interview. If you do nothing else today, watch this!

Forgive my skepticism about the social media ban for under 16 when Starmer goes above and beyond to expose vulnerable minors to AI, a technology that proves to be more addictive and alienating than any other platform. Our leaders are all followers of the tech religion.

How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

That anyone would support Nigel Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain the implications of them to the public

How to cut through the rhetoric.

“I think we are in the process of lifting the veil.. it is indeed time that the Pope takes a position on this.” The Nerve’s luciaoc.bsky.social spoke to Gisèle Pelicot - a global icon who has been instrumental in empowering women sexual abuse survivors. Full interview on our YouTube channel. Link ⤵️

Palantir - it's worse than you think. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on @doubledown.news explains. @thenerve.news www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7V...

This reveal and the news yesterday— about Meta having shipped the code for facial recognition in their glasses—should be understood as very deeply intertwined.

Palantir is becoming increasingly embedded in the UK via the military, the police, and the NHS - but they're evidently fascists By @joejglenton.bsky.social

By Jim Benton

🚨LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD director Martin Scorsese has been accused of “throwing artists under the bus” by promoting the use of AI to generate movie storyboards. Full story and the week's developments as creators fight back against #degenerativeAI 👊 grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/scorsese-t...

New: The CMA has finally acted on calls from Foxglove to stop Google's theft of journalists' work - but it still needs to move faster against Big Tech: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/06/03/p...

It just gets worse. "The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities." www.ft.com/content/710e...

PEN America mourns the death of Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author, illustrator, director and activist best known for her graphic novel series and film Persepolis. In 2005, Satrapi joined us for a talk with Art Spiegelman on the art of comics and narrating lives: pen.org/conversation...

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Yesterday I watched Tótem, a movie by Mexican Director Lila Avilés. It was beautiful and poignant.

It’s very difficult to understand how we got to this point, and it’s terrifying.

Babe wake up, new Brexit Benefit just dropped

Suno - a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet", and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billion. They will pay for GPUs, and for engineers… 🧵 1/2

AI is Appropriated Intelligence. It is built on the work of the world's creatives - authors, artists, musicians, actors, voice artists, designers, journalists, directors - without permission. 'Appropriated' is a more useful description of the tech than 'Artificial' IMO.

Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

We welcome today's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report that urges the Government to exercise a 2027 break clause in Palantir's NHS contract and either seek an alternative UK provider or develop an in-house alternative. dauk.org/mps-warning-...

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

Brilliant interview. So refreshing to hear someone saying things as they are. I can’t wait to read Mariana Mazzucato’s book on this.

Disturbing and incomprehensible.

In the UK, facial recognition is everywhere—but no statute authorizes it. Police rely on their own internal policies, and a recent High Court ruling refused to look beyond them. Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball considers the legal vacuum enabling Britain's surveillance boom.

The UK ban on Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur is deeply disturbing for many reasons. One: another assault on free speech, and specifically pro-Palestinian speech. The assault on pro-Palestinian speech is the biggest assault on free speech in the West since McCarthyism 7 decades ago.

As questions grow over its NHS data deal, Palantir’s recent contract losses in the UK highlight concerns about procurement rules, escalating prices and overstated benefits, writes Martha Dark.

Here’s another ‘useful idiot’ of the UK branch of American big tech. The more we tell the Labour party we don’t want this crap, the more fundamentalist they become.

they’d better give me the option to turn all this shit off. unreliable information is being built into the guts of every tech product that was once pretty useful and dependable, with little concern for the societal effects of all that bullshit.

🔥𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: why should a family in Ireland pay more for electricity so a billion-dollar tech company can pay less? 💵

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Exclusive: Meta tool to track employee mouse clicks on collision course with EU privacy rules www.reuters.com/business/met...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

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