It's cracking me up that he doesn't even bother to continue pretending that any of this is about Charlie Kirk

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

The UK-based automaker has been forced to stop vehicle production as a result of the attack—costing JLR tens of millions of dollars and forcing its parts suppliers to lay off workers. www.wired.com/story/jlr-ja...

House Dems should drop a “Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act” on the US House floor. Would Republicans go on record voting against it?

On Friday I was delighted to attend the launch of @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI - in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social and @drwaus.bsky.social with introductions and framing from @lisagiven.bsky.social and Lizzie O'Shea. 1/4

New by me —> The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

NEW X helped spread ill-informed conclusions about the motivations of the Minneapolis school shooter based on cherry-picked words or phrases to millions. with comment from @ninajankowicz.com @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social @rothschildmd.bsky.social @maargentino.com www.wired.com/story/disinf...

In a Netherlands hotel. A taste of home. Thank you Catherine McClements. 🇦🇺

Great presentation on AI depictions on TikTok by @kotlet00.bsky.social at today's #ddd17 @asdsdeath.bsky.social @ddd17-2025.bsky.social - the whole panel of talks was fascinating!

Could also make PhD programmes shorter like Europe and Australia.

@ddd17-2025.bsky.social What an excellent start to DDD 17 at the University of Utrecht. First panel I see Care of the Carers, End of Life: Planning and Care in practices and politics. With Louise Chartrand, Julia Spiti, Zhaoxi Zheng and Emma Kirby, and Elyse Singer.

People make fun of AI “hallucinations,” but this is 100% accurate.

Deleted last post on this, because it gave the impression that the parliamentary archive was the only archive. There is the National Archive at the Alele Museum. But it's still terrible to have lost the parliamentary archive. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Do you listen to the Australian Top 100 from Triple J? I found the Netherlands Top 100 songs according to their radio KINK.NL music.apple.com/nl/playlist/...

Academic publishing can be a hot mess of mixed emotions patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i...

#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence' ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social in the AFR on the consultancy's $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report: www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Reykjavík Harbor, 1981 by Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir #womensart

A decade-long effort to boost one man's reputation was undone in a matter of weeks. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

📊New research: Experiencing awe makes us feel smaller, but not less significant. The emotion of awe shrinks our sense of self while preserving our feeling of personal meaning and importance. Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: ow.ly/w3Ou50WGBL6

Me as a baby with my first word, was smarter than current medical AI. www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

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My third and final edition of the Journal of the @rafhistorical.bsky.social as editor is in print. It's the proceedings of the RAF culture seminar at @rafmuseum.bsky.social , organised by @sophyantrobus.bsky.social , @rafhistory.bsky.social, wonderfully guest edited by @sophyhiggins.bsky.social.

Info about the UChicago humanities reorg

What tropey toddler did they pay to write this 4th season of Star Trek Discovery?

It’s taken over THREE HOURS on the phone to add a service and remove a service from my phone plan @optus. THREE HOURS.

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future … BBC Future #AIslop www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“We cannot be spectators to this change. We cannot become spectators on our own land." – Naga Jason ‘Ink and Land’ explores the political and legal struggles over landownership in #PNG, as groups compete to be recognised as customary landowners of the Wafi-Golpu copper-gold mine.

You sure about this, Google?

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made (that would be the NSF budget) 😡 thehill.com/opinion/tech... 🧪

This is why I attempt every time to educate users of generative media.

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Reminder:

MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen afternoon of July 31. Was headed from Odda, Norway on solo backpacking trip. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk, finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search underway in the area. Please reshare www.facebook.com/veronika.sil...

I stand with @pbs.org and their efforts to carry on the legacy of the CPB. "For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated." www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Excited that my 3rd paper has been published 🥳 It focuses on space in young people's emotional experience of fitness tracking, engaging with digital geographies & feminist new materialism. Available Open Access in Emotion, Space and Society! lnkd.in/e-8cMqZT

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Big Tech's emissions increased 150% in just 4 years, "thanks" to the exploding electricity demands of slop-bucket LLMs that boil lakes to rephrase the internet Generative AI is worse than useless; it is making it impossible for us to limit climate change www.energymonitor.ai/news/interna...

Excellent title!

OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature that made some sensitive conversations publicly searchable. If you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets & more potentially damning scenarios. x.com/cryps1s/stat...

GET CHILDREN OUT OF PRISON NOW.

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

'Nature-based Solutions for Societal Transformation' is one of our most viewed talks this year. Challenging narrow approaches that reduce Nature-based Solutions to offsets or isolated projects, calling for integrating Indigenous & Local Knowledge for just, transformative change.

I’m honestly surprised that Major League Baseball isn’t pissed off. Latin America is a huge talent pipeline.

Donald Trump and the Republican party — big tough guys keeping America safe from… the little league world series. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes. www.wired.com/story/florid...