Excellent piece. But what an incredibly sad & frankly inhuman way to go through life.

"Soelberg told his son that the chatbot, which he named Bobby and talked to on his smartphone, said he was enlightened and had a divine purpose.... OpenAI has refused to release the full chat logs to Soelberg’s heirs or the lawyers representing his estate." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

We are now living in a 1.5 degree warmed world—with no end in sight (at least not based on current policies or practices). www.ft.com/content/9e0e...

I should know better than be surprised by this. Still, wow. Just wow, wow, wow.

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

this is just gutter racism

OpenAI has responded to a landmark wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that a teen who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT misused the software. More: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Stooooooop iiiiiiiit.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Another—more accurate—description of “scientific orthodoxy” is “fact.” It's shameful that the country’s medical policy is being led by a worm-brained roadkill-eating cook. And it's shameful that the paper of record helps sanitize this.

This is what happens when you treat posts on X as in effect equivalent to what historians of the Shoah have to say. www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

this is my surprised face

An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame. But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Speechless and deeply grateful: There Is No Place for Us has been named one of three finalists for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Big oof. on.ft.com/4peYLvP

More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

This… 👇 We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

What a statistic - "A Femicide Census report analysing the deaths of 2,000 women killed by men in the 15 years since 2009 showed more than 170 were mothers killed by their sons." Emma Jacobs on a terrible phenomenon: parents fearing that their children want to kill them www.ft.com/content/2347...

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Imagine coming to a country after fleeing war, miserable and impoverished, possibly traumatised. All you have is some family jewellery, maybe your dead mother's necklace. And then they take it away. Cruelty beyond belief. What is the UK doing?!?!

Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones. Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.

Friends, who is doing good work/research on the impact of AI on women's employment and careers? Do you know? Please share if so!!

Priorities.

"Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination. Instead, let me mould you into my warped, morally empty and reductive worldview, which is absolutely not indocrination too". fortune.com/2025/11/05/p...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

The inhumane cruelty of this sad excuse of an administration is genuinely unfathomable.

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Your daily reminder that fertile grounds for sexual harassment also include “organizations that have a preponderance of men, turn a blind eye to bad behaviour, neglect respect and fairness, and/or promote dysfunctional masculinity contests” (Cortina & Areguin, 2021, p. 299)." Welcome to academia.

I cannot believe this has to be said but "they were [insert anything]" does NOT justify pre-emptive murder. We have courts for that explicit purpose.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Paper on tech billionaires and predation got accepted for British Journal of Sociology conference! Not only do I get to spend time with sociologists, I also get to talk about my favourite subject. Ok, back to reading the House Subcommittee report on anti-competitive behavior by tech giants.

Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I urgently need fellow business school profs to get a grip and stop doing research that so blatantly makes us look even worse than we already appear. Phrenology has a deeply racist history & has been consistently debunked. Just because you can ask a research question doesn't mean you should.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The U.K. government will propose a ban on so-called “nudification” apps in its upcoming Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy amid pressure from campaigners to address deepfake-based sexual abuse, according to two people familiar with the plans.

This is a cult of personality. Even if all you cared about is shareholder value, Musk spent last 3 yrs torpedoing Tesla car sales, spurring lawsuits, pivoting to pipedream technologies, & ignoring all succession planning. Hero-worship is not a viable corporate strategy. www.ft.com/content/1062...