Nuts - Amazon intentionally hides it total company-wide energy use data, and has been doing so for two full years now. Norway's oil fund has no possible actual rationale for voting against transparency

I feel like it should be a bigger deal that this is just normal process

Folks, according to the effective altruists, it's not just the impending machine god that will bring us utopia. No no, it's also all their newly rich dudes from Anthropic & OpenAI IPOs who will save the world. Yes. We have so much to look forward to.

“Kat” Abughazaleh speaking after today’s crazy developments in the “Broadview 6” case

We have sent out the paper notifications for the ACM SIGIR 2026 JEDI Workshop. We accepted 7 proposals for presentation that will be part of the workshop program this year. Congratulations to all authors, see you all in Melbourne! 🦘🦘🦘 #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026

I think the great man theory of history is probably nonsense but the shit man theory of history is accurate

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The US Treasury Department has officially removed United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from its sanctions list. A federal judge ruled that the Trump admin likely violated her First Amendment free speech rights just for criticizing Israel and calling for legal accountability.

“If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems.” - Bruce Schneier

Haven't seen ratio like this in a while on this website

38 million deaths since 1971. “When you consider the scale of the violence and damages, it becomes clear that this system is not something we can continue to accept.”

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."

We demand the immediate release of all #flotilla abductees AND THE 10,000 #Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons. canadaboatgaza.org/2026/05/20/b... 🔻ACTION: freedomflotilla.org/action%EF%BF... 🔻SIGN PETITION: canadaboatgaza.org/petition/%EF... 🔻SUPPORT: canadaboatgaza.org/donate/ #FreePalestine

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Read about "Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity" 👇 edin.ac/42IljMo @uoe-gail.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms

such an important conversation and resource. enraging how many people are actively being affected and sidelined and replaced by AI. thank you to @benjaminharnett.com, @annaroseiovine.bsky.social, and Pomai Neil for sharing their experiences and insights, and Tina Park for moderating.

Such a wonderful visual summary of my recent keynote 🎤 at #CALC26 📚 conference. Huge thanks to Becky Ullah (Sketchnotes UK) for capturing this so brilliantly, and to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for inviting me to the conference. 🙏🏽 Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/17qM5...

"removes" friction that noone asked for and poisons the information ecosystem with unreliable and potentially harmful slop. for what?

Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.

Press release: Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/05/20/g...

im dreaming of a time when using ai is widely considered as embarrassing and big ai is viewed as a danger to the public on a par with big tobacco and big oil

Every god damn shooting it's the same thing now, right wing X accounts fabricating blatant lies that mass shooters are trans without any consequences. It's been years of this ever since Uvalde.

And it is really important to understand it in this context. Once you perceive ai as a political project, it makes arguments about whether new models can produce usable code or mediocre emails seem (correctly) irrelevant

all these features are going to suck shit

Canada is a racist state, especially when it comes to Indigenous relations. Same as it ever was.

this is a masterpiece

**NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task** Participate in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and/or English. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT Deadline for registration: June 1 Deadline for submitting runs: July 30 Guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines Register: research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-...

"During his summit with Xi, Trump also suggested that the US, China and Russia should join forces to combat the ICC, saying their interests were aligned, according to the people familiar with the talks." The Axis of Impunity  www.ft.com/content/567c...

but if you actually do the reading? you ACTUALLY find the edge of human knowledge. by approaching other research with care and interest you assemble a beautiful remarkable intergenerational pyramid of people thinking together across scales that exceed lifetimes and you answer a question *with* them.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Those men who kill their families and then themselves, but on a global scale.

I am still traumatized by the memories from my childhood of personal mosquito clouds following me around if I was out in open spaces in the evening. Coincidentally, my dad and I would have one each but not my mom. Mosquitoes definitely are picky eaters lol.

what if I like thinking, is there a product for me

This is a paper that needs to be read. The approaches discussed are applicable to every industry seeking power, influence, and wishing to create insurmountable barriers to entry.

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

We define Big AI “handful companies that develop & mass deploy large-scale AI built on massive datasets collected through vast, centralised infrastructures, which, with increased integration into societal infrastructure, continue to exert outsized epistemic, economic, political & societal influence”

Through extensive scoping review of grey and academic literature, we first develop our taxonomy of mechanisms related to capture of AI regulation, spanning 5 dimensions: Direct Influence on Policy, Conflicting Involvement, Market Influence, Elusion of Law, & Epistemic & Discourse Influence 3/

Applying the taxonomy to a dataset of 100 articles, specifically published around four critical events between 2023 and 2025 ( the EU AI Act trilogues and the global AI summits in the UK, South Korea and France), we find 249 cases fitting capture patterns. 4/

Big AI’s most powerful regulatory tool may be narrative capture -> Epistemic & Discourse Influence: getting regulators to adopt industry talking points as common sense. Close behind is Elusion of law: violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws 5/

49 out of the 100 articles we analysed contain narrative(s) that attempt to justify capture: 'Regulation stifles innovation,' 'Red tape,' 'National interest' were amongst the most frequently invoked 6/

Across the US, EU and UK, our findings show regulatory capture isn’t just driven by Big AI - governments and public officials are deeply entangled too. Revolving doors, blurr regulator-industry boundaries & ownership/direct financial stakes in companies are undermining democratic accountability 7/

These conflicts of interest endanger public trust in institutions’ ability to scrutinise corporations and enforce the law while raising serious questions about the growing integration of Big AI infrastructure into state power under the banner of "government efficiency" 8/

We survey and highlight transferable lessons from adjacent movements, namely Big Oil, Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. We advocate for supporting grassroots groups, CSOs and independent academics that are doing amazing work to hold Big AI and regulators accountable and to ensure the rule of law. 9/

Civil society orgs and investigative journalists are doing indispensable work: promoting counter narratives and resistance, exposing lobbying and deregulation, documenting harms, advancing strategic litigation... Support them. Fund them. Amplify their work. 10/