Good - possibly time for a resignation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

quite interesting (if very partial) interview from the NSA Deputy Director during the Snowden affair. he says the quiet part out loud — that people didn’t understand how the FISA law relates to technology was itself an NSA capability www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/n...

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

when your main qualification for the job is the provocative message it sends to democracies around the world

Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.

it's everything you loved about 1918, with added stupidity

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:

Very pleased to see a former student has published his Llm dissertation - and won a prize for it too. Congratulations Adalberto! lawreview.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....

A senior figure who worked a lot with the CPS during Starmer's tenure told me he was a good DPP on the law and strategic direction, but that the actual *management* of the organisation was almost entirely outsourced to a deputy. That was a more significant observation than I realised at the time.

Simply put. A must-read piece on the Supreme Court's upcoming oral arguments on global human rights litigation in U.S. courts. by the legendary Harold Hongju Koh, former State Department Legal Adviser, former Dean Yale Law School Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting Mass Atrocities

Apparently being a narrow waisted coeliac ginger has mysterious advantages www.thetimes.com/article/b522...

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

mainstream conservative views on the US president now split two ways: 'chosen by Christ' or 'antichrist'

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Really interesting piece of work - and conclusions broadly the same as our new exploratory study on adoption of models in the cybercrime underground (don’t panic - yet) arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

what an idiot

When the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

The human condition

"Dress your age not your shoe size" - baffling statement for Europeans

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Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

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They will not remove him. They are not the self-sacrificing kind.

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I feel like I have watched this coming in slow motion from the early days of 4chan. At this rate I will be an old dude watching on the prison camp tablet as the first zoomer president exhorts his audience to read Siege

Another paper from the TCS SI on "Planetary Property" is online. In their electrifying piece, Alain Pottage and @bernardkeenan.bsky.social read Carl Schmitt through the lens of electricity.

Big money has bought British politics 75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

The financialization of everything is all that is left. Which is why we end up with the totally insane situation that people are betting on whether world leaders are going to get killed, or that a nuke will drop this year Watch, subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHM...

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Loved working with Alain on this account of Schmitt's nomos and its disavowed sociotechnics.

"Only defending our allies from attack" is also how Britain entered WW1

Daniella Lock: In Defence of the Divisional Court’s Palestine Action Ruling ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/02/d...

I keep thinking of @dylandifford.bsky.social's point that everything wrong with the McSweeney-Starmer governing strategy was obvious to anyone who had done the most basic and broad of first year political science.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

The Guardian/UCL have conducted an in-depth study of all of the immigration debates in parliament over a century. It shows sentiment more mixed, more negative today than in the past. (Though also that parliamentary sentiment historically is more pro than con) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

This is utterly horrifying www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Trump regime is using AI for mass surveillance of Americans, and plans to integrate AI into their weapons systems. They are trying to extort Anthropic for refusing to go along. The oligarchs and their would-be King want to make human beings like us obsolete.

Three things are remarkable. 1) The Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill is mandating age gates on *any site or service* which falls in scope of the Online Safety Act, 2) Regardless of whatever compliance that service already did for the OSA and AADC; and 3) Nobody knows about this, or cares.