NEW: Elon Musk is pushing people to pay for X's nonconsensual intimate image generator Grok, meaning some of the app’s tens of millions of users are being hit with a paywall when they try to create nude images of random women doing sexually explicit things within seconds.

It’s time for governments and politicians to get off the child porn app. Staying is a statement of its own.

On Telegram, a community of thousands are working around the clock to make Grok produce far worse. They share Grok-generated videos of real women taking their clothes off and graphic nonconsensual videos of any kind of sexual act these users can imagine and slip by Grok’s guardrails.

2026 will be the year the government uses "child safety" to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Act and proceed to criminalize critique and dissent of the Trump Administration and/or its policies. Go ahead. Save this post.

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A fresh round of Industrial Action is being balloted for across UK HE. Strike! Strike! Strike! - We Are the University drdavebeck.substack.com/p/strike-str...

If you’ve not read enough this weekend on an AI bubble, here is our take. Much of the AI investment isn’t made for AI as it exists now, or even this at its full potential. It’s for a sci fi dream of AI. When dreams meet reality something breaks. theconversation.com/what-could-b...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Curating your own set of news sources through an RSS reader is the best way to do it. Highly recommend checking out Molly’s guide and making your own. I use Inoreader for mine.

Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September. 💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST! Let's make it absolutely massive. stoptrump.org.uk

“When people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of A.I. war drones.”

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Denmark’s Ministry for Digitalization is looking to get off Microsoft products by the end of the year, starting with the adoption of LibreOffice. It follows similar moves by Copenhagen and Aarhus.

“Universities are in crisis and this inquiry couldn’t come soon enough.” @drjogrady.bsky.social After sustained pressure from UCU, The Education Committee has launched an inquiry into university finances. We’ll be submitting evidence. Full statement here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1405...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Oof

Let's be clear: what is happening in Los Angeles started because ICE launched a series of immigration raids. Then, when people protested against the raids, Donald Trump sent in the National Guard. It's not about "lawlessness", it's about state repression.

We also get many emails from people suffering from these delusions at DAIR. www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Reform aren't replacing the Conservative party; Labour are. This is 2010 all over again but with a red tie. Disgraceful. People are voting Reform because they want things to change, Labour are doing everything they possibly can to keep things the same.

Hey there manchester

"We are building robots to replace all of your jobs, which we will own, but it won't replace my job," said the VC. Are these the good guys?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Brutal article from Gizmodo ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... "It will also include seminars on spotting fake news, staying safe on the internet, how to challenge racism, sexism and homophobia, gambling awareness and avoiding scams." I can think of another generational demographic who would also benefit from this...

🏳️‍⚧️UCU and the trade union movement stands with the trans community. Join us and fellow unions for an emergency demo on Saurday: 📍Parliament Square 🗓 Sat 19 April 🕐 1pm Solidarity means standing together, especially when it’s hardest. ✊

I'd like to remind people that on my 1980s birth certificate, the doctor's signature is on a line that says "i testify that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge and ability." My birth certificate literally acknowledges that the doc could be wrong.

The first thing everyone should learn is that science is messy and doesn’t care what you think.

I really liked this (featured in This American Life / Museum of Now / Exhibit Three) on a court hearing on Trump’s EO banning transgender people from the military. Judge Ana C. Reyes gave an excellent concise summary of the complexity of the biological concept of gender.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

In practice it seems that this "biological" sex of which they speak is nothing biological at all - it's just whatever was written down on your birth certificate when you were born.

This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

don’t just stop at tesla. we need to get serious about boycotting the US in a more concerted manner.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Revealed?! They clearly weren't paying much attention to GenAI development if that wasn't utterly apparent. Either way, this is a FUNDAMENTAL part of the technology and should be as widely known as possible. These are the consequences of "progress".

I'm assuming Liz Truss is watching all this while holding Donald Trump's beer right now.

When we laugh about Tesla’s stock price crashing, that’s evil. But when Elon Musk guts the US government, opposes his workers’ attempts to unionize, sexually harasses his employees, backs neo-Nazi parties, and says his trans daughter is dead, that’s just normal cool guy stuff.

Tesla Takedown #Manchester 📅 29 March ⏰ 11am 📍Tesla Manchester South, 396 Wellington Rd N, Stockport, SK4 5AD FB: www.facebook.com/events/93012... AN: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla... #TeslaTakedown 4/11

The Mozilla Foundation says 30 companies should block web scrapers from ShadowDragon, an ICE contractor. 🔗 www.404media.co/mozilla-foun...

www.theverge.com/news/634680/... Never, ever trust your data with companies like this. You have no idea who they might end up being bought out by, just like these guys.

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

I like this push to get off US-based digital services. I don’t think it will be possible to cut off everything — I’m hopelessly tied into the Apple ecosystem, for example — but I do think there are opportunities to cut more out in favor of alternatives elsewhere.

"If someone uses an LLM as a replacement for search & the output they get is correct, this is just by chance...a system that is right 95% of the time is arguably more dangerous than 1 that is right 50% of the time. Ppl will be more likely to trust the output & likely less able to fact check the 5%."

LFG! March 29. 500 #teslatakedown protests globally. Every showroom in the US. Hundreds more around the world. Will you step up to host a @teslatakedown.com event? It’s easy, it’s fun and it’s making a real difference: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

www.theguardian.com/education/20... ... or, maybe, force big tech companies to fix these harmful tools. This is punishing the victims rather than the perpetrators.

Let's do this! Manchester, UK will be representing, so come on Europe, we need more pins on that map! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #teslatakedown