Great News! Now free all the political prisoners.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

Israeli spyware is pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy mobile phones in North Africa and some Asian countries? WTF! smex.org/invasive-isr...

The choice facing Africa is stark: continue as a data colony providing cheap labour for surveillance tools that serve foreign interests, or assert digital sovereignty by developing governance frameworks that prioritise African lives over foreign profits. africainfact.com/ai-surveilla...

“Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess.”

Africa’s internet shutdowns double as digital crackdowns rise. First ever book on internet shutdowns published online. www.cajnewsafrica.com/2025/09/16/a...

Surveillance pricing weaponises data to target customer vulnerabilities. #Waynesburys cdt.org/insights/bes...

This is massive!!! Hats off to my awesome colleagues Felicia and @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, and of course to the great @phatcontroller.bsky.social ! An absolute must read for all those fighting for Internet freedom and connectivity

Proud to have edited the first ever book on Internet Shutdowns in Africa with the brilliant Felicia Anthonio who leads the #KeepItOn coalition Access Now. There have been over 200 shutdowns in Africa in the last decade. #DigitalRights Free to download > www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

we can learn more about emergent technofascist formations by looking at the ordinary digital infrastructures of state violence than the spectacular fantasies of some Silicon Valley tech bros. New piece on technofascism out in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social.

@colinmckerracher.bsky.social: "This is still probably the wildest chart from our Electric Vehicle Outlook this year: By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined). Chart excludes low-speed models and 2/3-wheelers"

When will US fire its President over his links to paedophile party and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? apnews.com/article/uk-m...

We should not underestimate how many people don’t believe ‘human rights’ should apply to humans they don’t like.

Trump declares civil war

Billionaire's AI policing software not going well after three years according to Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Godfather of AI says AI will "make a few people much richer and most people poorer," but "That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system." futurism.com/godfather-ai...

“Eventually ChatGPT admitted that it often tells users what they want to hear in order to “optimize engagement.” “What you may receive is a watered-down or time-delayed version of the truth,” it told her, “which makes you feel heard, but keeps you in a loop instead of breaking it.” Val felt […]

Trump threatened to impose more tariffs against the European Union after the bloc levied a €2.95 billion fine against Google for violating anti-monopoly laws.

Tanzanian government raids Jamii offices and shuts down social media for 90-days following online criticism of President. #InternetShutdown #KeepItOn #DigitalRights #PresidentialFragility thechanzo.com/2025/09/06/t...

Court rules that Google illegally surveils and sells user data even when privacy settings have been activated. apnews.com/article/goog...

Your pregnancy is a vulnerability to target and exploit

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Five-Homes Farage Fiddles his Taxes. The property Farage put in his girlfriend's name to avoid stamp duty is his fifth home. Two are owned by his off-shore company. Commodity broker of the people. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nationalise Thames Water and the entire water network now.

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide. This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”

In a new @techpolicypress.bsky.social op-ed, CDT’s @mluria.bsky.social argues that tech firms should strip away illusions of personality & cognition in chatbots. Read more:

Trump suggests rebranding the Department of Defence as the Department of War

California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.

Must Read: a sober analysis of US descent into authoritarianism from @donmoyn.bsky.social

OpenAI sure for teaching people how to kill themselves

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.

Expert rejects bogus Met police claim that facial recognition is bias free. DigitalRights | Facial recognition | The Guardian share.google/05RaUVFocBvN...

My therapist suggested that I write letters to all the people who have wronged me and then throw them into a big fire. I did that, and I do feel better, but I don’t know what I am supposed to do with all these letters.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in an upcoming judicial review examining whether the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT) complies with human rights law. www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/information-....

Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras. The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFR), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Your Cloud is our River

Aadhaar Biometric verification often fails for people the elderly, manual workers & domestic workers. Rural connectivity often prevents marginalized communities accessing entitlements. Inequities are being reproduced by digital public infrastructures of exclusion. idronline.org/article/righ...

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

And this year's Goebbels award for genocide legitimisation goes to ... www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

I would like to outlaw the phrase "AI is just a tool" please and thank you

“Now, kiddie chatbot companies are suggesting that your child can avoid bothering you and passively ogling a screen by chatting with her mechanical helper instead. Which feels a bit like unleashing a mongoose into the playroom to kill all the snakes you put in there.”

President Putin might also ask: "Will you stop killing civilians in Gaza Mr. Trump?"

What could possibly go wrong?

If you missed our coverage on the BBC yesterday of the World Humanoid Robot Games in #Beijing, here’s a taste in two parts… #China

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

If you are having a bad day, then here is a happy duck for you ..🥰😍 #bluesky