You didn't worry about toilets, you didn't obsess over strangers' genitals, you didn't believe in a secret cabal of lefty parents and endocrinologists or a tidal wave of predatory men in dresses with blue hair and gender certificates until about 7 years-ago when the right told you to!!

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

The default position of the EA was you had to treat EVERYBODY exactly the same, unless you had a legally watertight case not to. As of today, that only applies to cis people. The default for trans people is now the opposite. Sarah may say that isn’t so, but daily reality will tell a different story.

And also, you don’t ‘know’ that someone is trans (unless they told you). So if you see someone who doesn’t conform to your gender stereotypes in a single-sex space then just mind your own business.

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

Well, this reading is expressly endorsed by the Supreme Court, otherwise they could not explain why para 28 Sch 3 exists. The same would be direct sex discrimination against a cis, butch woman. The fact that a trans man is not afforded the same protection IMHO is a slam-dunk Article 14 violation.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Ahmed is an art therapist who specialises in treating the trauma of children in Gaza. After protracted statelessness as a refugee, he's trying to restart his life in Europe. He needs help with basic living costs while he waits for funding for his studies tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Might be helpful to the 32 mutuals still following him.

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Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious. No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns. Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it. #skystorians

Can you help with ten quid to help keep a young family in Gaza housed?

Fun Radio a supprimé cette vidéo scandaleuse où Hanouna et sa cour se moquent des signataires de la tribune contre Bolloré Tu connais l’effet Streisand ?

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

I for one am no longer reading anything published on @grantamag.bsky.social.

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

Thanks I hate it.

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I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

When you see a nob in a suit on the streets of London recording a video where he is spewing anti-immigrant hatred for his social media, it is your duty as a member of the public to shout a strong, powerful rebuttal as you walk by, thus ruining the shot. I went for "That's a load of bollocks!"

Just a wee reminder that 'Father Ted: A Song for Europe' is available to watch online, and it's free, and Graham Linehan is mad about people choosing it as an anti-genocidal alternative tonight. www.channel4.com/programmes/f...

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

This is common on campuses especially in the arts. Schools facing $ hurdles panic towards AI & leadership eye rolls at angry students as if the students are out of the loop. They aren't listening and learning from students who are almost always more informed about tech. Everyone loses.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

People who get AI to summarise everything so they can complete their doctorates should get the title ‘[tl;]Dr’

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Israel has killed nearly 600 people in Lebanon since a supposed ceasefire took effect on April 17. And more than 1 million Lebanese are still displaced.

BREAKING Reporting restrictions on the so-called “terrorism connection” in the Filton retrial have been lifted. For the first time in British history, a judge is seeking to sentence protestors as terrorists despite the jury convicting them only on criminal damage charges. 🧵

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

1️⃣ "why use a machine owned by fascists to experience reality or express yourself?" 2️⃣ "how is it intelligent any more than say the internet when it requires — & mirrors back — the output of our cognitions in data form as input & it needs supervision / input from people in the Global South to work?"

Folks at Hampshire are trying to save the college by buying it: www.instagram.com/p/DYDbRd-CB4... cc @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Exactly, and this is a perfect case study in Pygmalion displacement. philarchive.org/rec/ERSPDW

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

the future of higher ed organizing right here

Jesus Christ - this is Uni of Herts. Solidarity to all colleagues there.

Obviously university admin don't realize this, but they are destroying the "value proposition" of their institutions. The more you make a university like a tech company, the more you give people a reason to NOT be part of it. Google will hire you w/o a college degree.

AI is "just a tool" but also "every child on the planet must be forced to learn to prompt (train) the machines and edit its output and that is the future of education" do not make sense. If it is "just a tool," we do not have to repurpose the entire architecture, goals, of education.

Put ketamine in the schools! No, it will not help children learn! No, it will not improve their socioemotional skills! Yes, it will put them all at all sorts of risk! Yes, it will wildly distort their ideas about what those in authority want of them! Put ketamine in the schools! Start in kindy!!

packing up their entire brain and moral compass is correct, esp some academics and academic administrators