“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi… … If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”

Recommend patching MongoDB as soon as ye back in the office tomorrow as I know of two large orgs now with big incidents caused by this. There's a ransomware/extortion group spraying the internet with mongobleed.py, to dump secrets.

Long shot, does anyone have an unwanted rabbit hutch in London? Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home

The 8:15 never arrives.

"Only he who can take care of what belongs to others may have his own." - G. I. Gurdjieff #quote

UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law…

Such a good one in @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

Have a very Bowie Christmas!

Quite.

How dare they call the EU co-regulation Code "deleterious"? This is serious, gentlemen, harrumphing required from everyone

You are painting a vision of a future in which teachers create lessons with "A.i.," students complete them with "A.i.," and teachers grade them with "A.i." No learning takes place under this system. The only benefactors of this system are the corporations being paid for the "A.i." products.

Some specific points: The document says "When appropriate, educators and school systems can use technology to create and grade assessments, saving time and allowing immediate feedback." No. No one wants to be or deserves to be graded by "A.i."

If you search bluesky wrapped it will come up, but to save you this is it. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

A guest arriving tomorrow is #vegan I have planned meals, but am struggling with dessert recipes. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

My reflections on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @michaelkenny.bsky.social 's recent article in Nature about getting science back into policy-making occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025). This is an essential reference tool prepared by students at NYU Law School.

“Prompt engineer” cracks me up every time I see it

The idea that I need to take a class to use AI tools "properly" when the entire project is designed with barely-literate dimbulbs in mind is fucking hilarious.

In the winter of 62/63 I was in reception class. We were sent home from school because the toilets froze, the snow came over the tops of my wellies.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Today’s Times

"70% of the world’s EVs were manufactured in China... roughly 80-85% of global solar photovoltaic manufacturing, and more than 75% of all global battery production. If we set AI aside for a moment and assume that these technologies represent the future, it is clear who is ahead."

Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...

Europe-based spyware vendor Intellexa doing illegal business and “thriving” despite US sanctions & in violation of EU export rules. Still no action @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu? Maybe cos of awkward involvement of @eppgroup.bsky.social members?

Also, a "the kids are alright" moment: I made my teacher ed students use AI to generate a unit plan (& required them to show track changes as they revised the plan).Their reflections indicated that they, like @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, find AI to be, at best, mid: boring, clunky, and disconnected.

how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on

The pursuit of ratings and clicks above anything else gets us to where we are. The old Fleet Street is not dead. It has just poisoned every other part of our media.

Billions are being shovelled - and the atmosphere fried - to create a lying machine

I missed todays episode, but yes.

The fight against surveillance must include infrastructure that enables it. We can’t just oppose collection we must also fight storage, analysis, corporate relationships… As someone writing a book on the history of government data storage and its harms, I’ll say that people in the past knew this!

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

every social media company is bad but Meta really is uniquely evil

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for

Every school who actually takes Safeguarding seriously blocks Roblox and has an informative informal chat with any pupils searching for Roblox/Robux.

Or for Brexit? Farage was its biggest British champion. Putin - its Russian one. Yakovenko, (Russian ambassador to the UK) boasted after the Brexit vote: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time" bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Deloitte also fucked up the same way in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wondering how this fits in the timeline of Harding being responsible for Test and Trace?

Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ugh, tech company certifications for kids. The credentials economy is particularly insidious corporate takeover of learning & knowing. This bounds tech as “just neutral tools”, builds brand loyalties at young ages, & dampens critical thinking about, eg, the politics & environmental harms of tech.

How to turn off Gmail's ability to read your emails to train its bots: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

So apparently Google just started scanning your emails with its Gemini AI and if you opt out of this, you lose your (vital to me) categorization of emails as important/promo/etc. I’m kind of stunned at this. After all these years, how do I switch to a new email provider?

so wait you're telling me someone is making money on internet censorship

I ask this because my daughter has a level mock papers that say “adapted from chat gpt” and I wonder how much longer we can drink from that well before it chokes someone

wonder if any education professionals, avidly using LLM have considered the slop filled future that education will have? All this “I asked ai” and “I made this with ai” is producing tolerable mediocrity right now. Because it is using pre LLM sources from actual humans How long until it is all slop?

I do often think about that excellent Duncan Robinson column from a while back that both major parties were disproportionately chasing voters that had died since 2016

The evidence from Farage and the people that surround him screams that there is really no two sides to this story or slipper definitions - not that you’d be able to tell with just how much smoke is being blown around this. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/deep-dive-...

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.