Wow, incredible. Huge win for the No Azure for Apartheid organizers.

To those asking, the NHS has misused gender care waiting lists to target families with social services referrals - and even police action - for doing something lawful, and in much of the world entirely orthodox, out of love for their child. It's ideologically driven targeting by the State and evil.

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!

I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

The whole discourse of digital sovereignty is massively problematic. Even as authoritarian states like Iran and China use this to create surveillable space, too many on, even on the left, seem to think digital sovereignty or nationalism is some kind of progressive answer to platform capitalism.

Reading up on dehumanising language the cognitive dissonance hits strong. As I get horrified by speech that refers to entire people as ‘dogs’, I cannot help but think how we have normalised and are not questioning the current usage of words such as ‘bitch’.

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

So you're going to "teach AI" this year. That's great! Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics" nautil.us/how-eugenics... #mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

The implicit threat behind the AI hype is the paradigm of Modernity; behind the relentless chiding to use AI for everything is that if you don't, you will no longer be civilised, no longer be part of a fully developed humanity.

The first unfortunate truth is that we have incontrovertible mathematical results showing that stochastic algorithms can never be rid of factual errors. The second unfortunate truth is that in lack of this critical literacy at large, we must prove it over and over with ad-hoc empirical data.

From the report the article is based on:

fastforward to tech companies marketing various AI Guards, AI Filters and AI Firewalls, the one tool they will finally make some money off!

I learned about this painting in high school! The paridigmatic “Manifest Destiny” painting, painted to support the U.S. white supremacy + colonial invasion idea. Where indigenous people are “savages” and all that. We felt thankful in high school that we were more informed about these things now.

Our new investigation: Ireland's own goal Almost every department of the Irish Government and local authorities have installed Chinese surveillance systems. It is hard to travel in Ireland without being tracked by China’s Hikvision surveillance system. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

This thread is incredible.

Would love to know how many more of the other 153 organisations were listed as advisors without their consent and any actual involvement. Gotta love this appropriation of participatory methodologies to whitewash OpenAI’s optics.

Today the OpenAI Nonprofit Commission released a report asserting OpenAI is ‘positioned to be a force of good in this Age of Intelligence’. The report also claims that AI Now was among the orgs participating in the listening process that led to this report. We did not.

I am so done getting dead stares by strangers as if I did 9/11 or October 7th. A society so shallow, miseducated by centuries of eugenics and oblivious to the fact that it was indeed their leaders that funded Hamas and the Taliban to obliterate any movement of solidarity. Fuck your physiognomics

I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.

Very important work by Tully, Longoni and Appel. General audience friendly article on HBR here hbr.org/2025/07/why-...

here's the blogpost as promised aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

Love the juxtaposition where last night there was apparently also an "AI For Good" Global Summit happening where a speaker was forced to remove criticism of AI naming Meta in relation to torrenting pirated data, and mentions of genocide were substituted by "war crimes" bsky.app/profile/abeb...

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, these companies put the entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest, write Paul Nemitz and Amin Oueslati. buff.ly/MHtIHAm

Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️ 👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support: ➡️an enforcement of existing laws & ➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces. 👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign

One of the most fascinating epistemological realities of being multilingual is realising the sheer volume of things for which names exist in one culture and not in another, and that the instinct to name, count and order things in the world is actually not a universal instinct in all societies.

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

200 journalists in Gaza have payed the ultimate price. Who will be held accountable?

As the rightwing media machine ramps up the lie that the Spanish Blackout was caused by attempts to mitigate climate-change, it seems that, in fact, it was CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, in ways we can, presumably, look forward to more of in future.

don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

Thirty years ago, Ian Hacking commented on the temptation to do push-button statistics without first thinking about the theoretical side. The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days. #rstats

Imagine that the cost of Legos dropped to almost nothing, millions of bricks for a penny, and suddenly people were claiming that non-experts would now build all of our houses, bridges, skyscrapers, and infrastructure out of Legos. "AI will replace software engineers" people sound like this.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Extract and dismiss.

Seconded. If you need to call it AI to sell it… maybe it’s not as useful as things that show value even when AI is not stamped on them?

shouting this from the rooftops

why you gotta disrespect sparkles and occupy my screen estate against my choice like that