Shorting Palantir: Michael Burry just bet a billion dollars that the AI bubble will burst soon. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"When Viktoria asks about the method of taking her life, the chatbot evaluates the best time of day not to be seen by security and the risk of surviving with permanent injuries." "It drafts a suicide note for her" www.bbc.com/news/article...

#AI can actually be an accelerator of digital divides - Just Giulio, Senior Humanitarian Officer / Access Now at the CHA #OutOfTheBox webinar on #HumanitarianAI this week. Watch the recording here: https://ow.ly/BhbL50XofmT

Corporate manslaughter. Algorithmic necropolitics.

This project maps the "Authoritarian Stack"—a network of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms. Based on an open-source dataset of over 250 actors, thousands of verified connections, and $45 billion in financial flows. www.authoritarian-stack.info

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

Facial recognition wrecks lives and is a result of the technology's error-prone nature. #DigitalRights techpolicy.press/ices-reckles...

"'Rest easy, king,' read the final message sent to his phone. 'You did good.' "Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot."

Tech Tax by Intuit Software

Trump-Musk Necropolitics. The impact of USAID shutdown is measured in hundreds of thousands of child deaths.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

All technology is political. Musk engineers X/Twitter to boost far-right content and to systematically suppress non-partisan and left of centre content (a bit like the BBC and Daily Mail editorial policy!). news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Racist Reform: the evidence bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

X/Twitter is a far-right influence machine that necessitates anti-fascist responses.

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Trying to buy a new washing machine and finding that they can speak to tumble driers using wifi! Thinking of starting a campaign for surveillance-free domestic appliances.

Global DPI Summit opens with a plenary panel of five men in suits introduced by another man. Please try harder @CoDevelop @UNDP @ITU @WorldBank #ManelFail #GDPIS

“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist” apnews.com/article/arti...

Five-Homes Farage says minimum wage too high. Forking Bastard. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Every Billionaire is a taxation policy failure.

Rats. Deserting. Sinking. Ship. One in twenty of elected Reform councillors have already left as a result of being expelled/suspended, resigning or defecting. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A lot of academic research on AI currently is funded by the tech industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to what happened in the past with tobacco research. www.ru.nl/en/research/...

AI is being used by scammers to fake the voice of relatives

Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls

When citizens are reduced to data points and human-centred welfare systems are replaced with algorithms ...

Our article examines issues around digital surveillance: information warfare and psychological operations, control over telecommunications infrastructure, interference with humanitarian needs and operations, precedent for coercive messaging in war, & chilling expression and access to information.

Scientific research and data analysis are essential tools for holding those in power accountable. We stand with @hrdag.org in denouncing the growing attacks on science and human rights in the US.

What could possibly go wrong?

Authoritarian Practices Tracker

Uncritical Use of AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Shimon Perez application for Palestinian citizenship put online with 67,000 others www.timesofisrael.com/archive-of-p...

to be clear: ai investment is bad, but the danger is not superintelligence. that's stupid. there's no way billionaires would invest trillions into a technology that was going to "change everything". LLMs are the perfect tech for the investor class precisely because they cannot make anything new.

Governments are asleep at the wheel because they’re trying to present themselves as friends to the tech companies to attract some of the money flooding into AI and data centers. They’re sacrificing the wellbeing of their citizens on the altar of generative AI. disconnect.blog/generative-a...

Meanwhile, as the statement was spreading, Irish voters were running into a deepfake video of the presidential frontrunner saying she was dropping out of the race, days before voting day. It seemed like a clear effort to interfere with the result. disconnect.blog/generative-a...

AI Chatbots Operate As Confirmation Bias Machines new study confirms

Sainsburys Surveillance

How long does it take to build a hyperscale data center that robs citizens of water and electricity to serve up GenAI slop?

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

What could possibly go wrong?

Social movements around Africa, often led by young people, have been calling for democracies that empower ordinary citizens, deliver political stability, and support economic well-being. We asked people to define what democracy with dignity means for them⬇️

Russian Reform

We see only the polished face of AI- but behind it lies a web of people, data & decisions shaping who gains & who’s left behind. Join @geoplace.bsky.social @towardsfairwork.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk to explore fairer AI 📅 29 Oct 📍Museum of Oxford 🔗 www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/unveiling-th... #ESRCFestival

Compulsory ID checks for every worker, everytime you change job, throughout your lifetime. Labour to treat all Britons like criminals to appease the interests of corporations and spooks. #NoDigitalID www.bbc.com/news/article...

And 19 assists by 10 Arsenal players across 12 games Not bad for a team that only scores from set pieces

Never Mind the Bollocks, we're the Arsenal. Not well liked, much maligned, and couldn’t give a fork! Arseblog on the Sex Pistols and winning the league. arseblog.com/2025/10/the-...

Since the United States election in November 2024, the technology industry has distinguished itself in the race to capitulate to and enable the Trump administration, writes Paul Barrett. No gesture of obsequiousness or loyalty has been too great or trivial for the moguls of Silicon Valley, he says.

Nationalise the monarchy. Every stately home a museum. Nationalise aristocratic estates. Land reform now.

Abolish the monarchy. Reform the House of Lords. Uninstall the establishment.