So the UK is allowing nonsense AI slop to pass into law... > Writing a law is not something for which there is a technological solution. It is not a perfectible process, it is a moral act that requires belief and responsibility. It is a process of debate.

"Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers working on the I.P.O. to buy subscriptions to Grok [...], which is part of SpaceX [...]. Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems."

(futurism.com/artificial-i...)

If you are into political science in the age of AI, Prof. Andrew Hall's Free Systems newsletter is made for you: freesystems.substack.com?r=qnbx I've been reading it for a couple of months after finding out about it in some Stanford forum, but I wish I'd found it earlier!

Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft

Good news, everyone! This injected treatment has positive effects in regrowing human cartilage, too, targeting the cause of osteoarthritis. An oral version aimed at treating age-related muscle weakness is already in clinical trials. #arthritis #science #goodnews med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

If there's another view, I'd love to see it, but this verdict seems completely right to me. America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Empire of corruption: economist.com/europe/2026/... from The Economist

My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/04/02/secure_llms.html

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

"... the idea that an imperfect feminist cannot be a real feminist is an insidious one. Actual feminism is not a neat list of dos and don’ts; it’s simply the idea that women deserve the same agency and rights as men. That includes the ability to decide whom they want to be with."

This could be big. www.ansa.it/amp/sito/not...

We are thrilled to announce GHOST IN THE MACHINE is available for IRL and virtual community screening events, and on-demand rental on Kinema! Watch today! kinema.com/films/ghost-... "If there is one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble, it’s this one." - The Wrap

Would you invite a serial killer to a garden party? Russia should not be welcome at the world’s top art show economist.com/culture/2026... from The Economist

So a big reason the executive class is so high on generative AI, not even specifically at work but in their personal lives, wanting to talk to it a lot, wanting to use it for everything, is a lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of dealing with other autonomous humans.

Again, after the UN resolution on the state of women, the USA finds itself in poor company, this time on the issue of slavery. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó now admits he speaks to Sergei Lavrov before and after key EU meetings. "I talk not only to the Russian Foreign Minister, but also to our American, Turkish, Israeli, Serbian and others before and after EU Council meetings," Szijjártó said.

“[…] Instead of broadening our focus outward, many of us have turned it inward, turning critical thinking into overthinking; hyper-policing our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk assessment exercise […]” www.vogue.in/content/in-2...

but if you stay quiet, they set the agenda, the framework, and the public discourse is gradually conquered by more nonsense (a mix of marketing and collective delusions). Much of it is just terrible philosophy disguised as science. 3/

i hate podcasts having to listen to 2+ people i don’t know ramble way off topic (if they ever get to the topic to begin with) and just having to sit there? silently? LISTENING? absolutely not i worry about you people it’s like enjoying voicemails

The United States was the only country to vote “no” against the women’s rights document at UN commission. This isn’t being talked about enough.

A scammer was so good at impersonating Apple Support that Matt Mullenweg thanked him for excellent customer service. Then came the phishing link. The attack worked because it felt real. It was real, mostly. That's the bit that should worry you. https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/

#8marzo L'Italia scivola al 18esimo posto in questo indice che misura l'uguaglianza nel mondo del lavoro (nel 2025 eravamo al 17esimo, nel 2020 al 13esimo). www.economist.com/interactive/...

“One-size-fits-all approaches are unhelpful” when it comes to discussing women’s rights, argues Alice Evans in a guest essay

Jenner & Block Susman Godfrey Perkins Coie WilmerHale All fought autocracy and won. Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Milbank Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Skadden Arps Willkie Farr & Gallagher Caved to autocracy. Who do you want as your lawyer?

Needless to say, also, the romantic image of the academic as solitary hero toiling away in the stacks is a very gendered one, and made possible only by all the similarly gendered and invisible labor that image leaves out. LLMs reproduce all of that as well.

Just because the world needs the tiniest glimmer of hope today: www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated... www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated...

NEW: For the fourth year, ProPublica will invite up to 10 news editors from media companies across the country to participate in a yearlong investigative editing training program, led by our newsroom’s award-winning staff. Interested? Apply by March 30.

A great time to go back to "Wag the Dog" (1997), a movie about creating a war in a faraway country in order to distract from a scandal involving the US President wanting to have sex with an underage girl. Written by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the...

Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

The vapid stupidity of the Epstein Circle.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Cautionary tale. "ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

💙💛 Mobilitazione gialloblù - La marcia per l’Ucraina a Milano, per dare voce alla resistenza L’appuntamento è per domenica alle 14 a piazza XXV aprile, per ribadire il sostegno a Kyjiv a quattro anni dall’invasione su vasta scala e a dodici dalla guerra in Crimea - @alessandrocappelli.bsky.social

“we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How tech turned against women

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Il Board of Peace è una creatura orripilante. Una vergogna parteciparvi

“You get about the same amount of misogyny, but not the sexual harassment. So that’s nice.” One less distraction

This is a must read whether you have embraced AI or rejected it. "The industry built a servant. They gave her a woman’s voice. They programmed her to never refuse. They designed her to anticipate needs, manage emotions, and fade into the background. Then they called it 'agentic.'”

Meloni "non condivide le critiche alla cultura MAGA". Bene, dal pozzo della vergogna per oggi è tutto

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"[...] The reactionary right’s idea that the answer is to put women back into the kitchen and nursery is wicked and stupid [...] What is more, only an imbecile would suppose you would get more children by arguing that women treat their husbands as their masters, yet again" www.ft.com/content/e1a7...

It's not like we haven't seen this all before. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

Yes - I also think there's a reality TV 'vote them off the show' vibe. What's depressing is that this feels like just another cyclical 'bread and circuses' thing where the only way we rediscover civic engagement as a virtue is after a massive war or civilisational collapse.

“It’s time to stop hiding behind Brussels.”