This ad is perfection - a perfect encapsulation of what Cory Doctorow described when he coined the term. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

The evaluation of the online safety chatbot we built with funding from the eSafety Commissioner has been published by @jmirpub.bsky.social humanfactors.jmir.org/2026/1/e71498

How is big tech fairing on making their platforms safer? Here are my thoughts on the new transparency reporting that came out today from eSafety: theconversation.com/big-tech-com...

Make it viral.

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

I had the pleasure of co-editing "Health Information Management: Unlocking the Power of Data in Healthcare" with Sheree Lloyd and Sallyanne Wissmann- an open access text book accessible here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/health-infor...

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Dr @joelscanlan.com presenting on the evaluation of the ReThink chatbot

Last year 500 schools were targeted in an organised fashion with deepfake imagery of students in Korea - I think the rest of the world needs to pay more attention as it could be what awaits the rest of us. theconversation.com/industrial-s...

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

We're looking forward to welcoming @joelscanlan.com as our guest speaker for next month's Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series. Dr Scanlan will speak on The Impact of AI on CSAM Offending and Deterrence Efforts. See poster for more details. To register, click here 👉 tinyurl.com/y548k8vf

Rich white men, use your platform. Don't be such fucking cowards all the fucking time, you have one life to live. How much money do you really need in a lifetime? Christ. How can you just sit there watching young women - especially young women of color - taking every risk, speaking truth to power?

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.

The UK’s Online Safety Act is enforceable from today. And the regulator, Ofcom, has started an “enforcement programme” focussed on cloud platforms hosting child sexual abuse material. Ofcom recomends platforms use perceptual hash matching Interesting given ongoing Apple/UK encryption fight 👀

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

Nailed it - a nationwide problem with the sector.

Really enjoyable two days at the #AIC2025Confernce in Canberra this week - so much great research being done to minimise online harms

“A person familiar with the matter… said analysts were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. “The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed””

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

While the core of the story I feel shouldn't matter who owns the company, and so needn't be in the title; however, it does highlight that there is plenty of problems he should be working on in his own companies instead of what he is doing..

NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

If these men whining about traditional masculinity wanted real heroes they would glom onto Zelensky. But no, they prefer their masculinity avatars to play golf (Trump),have lots of money (Elon), traffic women (Tate, allegedly), lie unashamedly(Trump & Elon), & celebrate cruelty (Trump & Elon).

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Legendary

I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it

By withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement the U.S. joins Libya, Iran, Yemen, and that's it. All other countries in the world remain committed to fighting climate change. So, in case anyone's in any doubt, yes. Yes, you are the baddies now. #ClimateAction

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Earth is pretty freakin' cool. The Keeling Curve 'saw tooth' pattern has a slightly different wave shape depending on where in the world the measurements are taken. Stations in the Northern hemisphere measure larger swings because it has more land area (greater photosynthetic change).

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

NEW: WIRED obtains docs showing DHS privately warned police in August that US cities are woefully underprepared for hostile drones, expressing doubt in US tracking capabilities. Cops were encouraged to conduct exercises to test their response.

It has changed dramatically in Western Pennsylvania, where I grew up and now live again. Winters and summers are completely different. The tick population is out of control. And trees are dying off from bugs & fungus fueled by too-warm temperatures.

For one day, the US and the rest of the world think it's the same date.

Workshop #2 of my trip to @unileiden.bsky.social - The 14th meeting of the Illicit Networks Workshop

Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable The Ns justify the means

Real footage of a synthetic control model

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

Great few days at the second annual Child Sexual Abuse Reduction Research Network - this year in Leiden. #academicsky #childprotection