vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

I’ve posted online our 2025-6 20 week Internet Law and Policy syllabus on our LLB programme, run by Orla Lynskey, Tommaso Fia and me. We hope it’s useful for other tech law educators! michae.lv/updated-inte...

From Michael Milken to Sam Altman, perhaps we should interrogate why our economic system seems to structurally incentivize the rise of grifters….

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online: academic.oup.com/book/62523 In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

Time for this again.

'there is also a deeper question that must be asked. What does it say about a world in which the survival of newborns depends on negotiation? What does it say about systems of power — state, military, international — that the most vulnerable can be rendered invisible so quickly?'

Beautiful sky tonight.

Tony Leung plays a neuroscientist in Indiko Enyedi's Silent Friend, joining the tradition of actors who make academics look ridiculously cool in a move that's unfair to the rest of us 📽️ youtu.be/72SfEyxoZrA?...

gee, why would there be regulatory challenge? oh because people will be dead, misdiagnosed or otherwise harmed? im tired of tech ecos portraying the rule of law as something they should be exempt from

OK folks this reads to me like a stacked pile of nothing put in a box labeled 'wow, so interesting!' and if there is something anyone thinks I am missing (I'm talking to you, bluesky-doesn't-get-AI guys) I would like to know what it is. Here's how I read it: 1/n www.anthropic.com/research/emo...

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

Genetic data are increasingly used in research on educational outcomes, with proposals even being made to use DNA for policy and practice. It's already controversial science, and its potential applications pose many risks. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...

Excellent data and analysis

Schwalbe: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

In space IT can’t hear you scream..

This review's 'findings' are a mirror of reactionary education tropes that have been swilling about for years before Streeting took them as gospel/useful. What a disgraceful outcome, and of course a colossal let down for children and families across the country.

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

I notice Microsoft place the responsibility for any harm incurred by embedding copilot in all their products firmly on the consumer. Further down this list it also tells people not make deepfake exploitative images, instead of putting guardrails in their product to make it impossible to do so.

I have no problem with the police not recording incidents that are not crimes - IF they do record + police hate crimes, including online ones. (But they simply do not do this at all effectively). It is essential to make platforms abide by the law - which they do not. With impunity, so far.

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

The thing is, the science IS settled on these matters. The absurdly simplistic claim that White and Black people have innately different levels of intelligence is not supported by genetic evidence. Claiming settled science is not settled is a “merchants of doubt” strategy

As you contemplate the Very Serious People about to get busy telling you the Obvious Limitations of Green policy, remember to always ask yourself, which parts of their vision of Immutable Reality actually look a lot like "the convenience of very rich people"?

I feel that the designer may be making a point here

1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com

I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

No spoilers but what a great final of Masterchef the professionals - such talented people and a truly deserving winner. Important now more than ever to see expertise flourish and be celebrated, properly inspiring stuff.

Grace Jones in a dress painted by Keith Haring, at a New Year's Eve Concert, 1987, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. 📸 : Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

On April 30, 12-1pm ET, I'll moderate a webinar that will include Afghan American psychologist Dr Rosalind Rogers who will discuss this trauma affecting kids & families It's open to all, & I'd be grateful if you could spread the word Register/post Qs: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t...

A short thread on #OpenClaw deleting files and draining bank accounts "unexpectedly". techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/a... www.wired.com/story/malevo... 1/3

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

George Michael is one of the best people this country has ever had. Nobody in Reform is even remotely a decent person

Political donations should be in sterling from UK bank accounts. If you can't pass the checks imposed on the origin of your wealth by a British bank, then you really shouldn't be funding our politicians anyway.

I like the proposal to cap donations from Brits living abroad. It's obviously wrong for someone to move to a tax haven and then to use the money they save in taxes to buy influence in the UK. I think the cap should be substantially lower than the proposed £100-300,000, however.

Nick Timothy, a leading Conservative MP, thinks that it's somehow an outrage that an envelope has some Bengali writing on it. A bit like how countries like Spain publish many things in English for people whose Spanish isn't perfect. This is hatred of Muslims, and he should be expelled by Badenoch

Me on Salah. www.theanfieldwrap.com/2026/03/youl...

I've just set up a couple of 'pay what you can' online events for next term. The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching is on 28th April at 4.30pm and you can book tickets here. ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985806308...

💔Have loved watching Mo play, beyond sad to see him go #YNWA

Wonderful film of Paul Robeson's solidarity in action, and of his beautiful voice.

And tonight in news that will surprise no one..

Wait til you find out how much money is behind banning abortion, contraception, gay marriage, divorce... and how much I wish I were joking, but I'm not.

Ending this with a statement to say Girl Guiding is still committed to inclusion, after telling the tiny amount of trans girls and volunteers they must leave is a hollow gesture. I despair for what has happened to trans people in this country, it shames us all.

'MattGPT is as bad for the intellectual ecosystem as ChatGPT is for the environment.' 👏

This was a bit of a labour. First drafted in the first days of the trump in a fever that is largely gone from this version. But insurance, finance, theory and a Stuart hall cameo survive if you like that kind of thing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This Friday:

If Democrats don’t repeat this message constantly on TV, Print and on Socials this information is unknown even to those following politics.