If you’re worried about Palantir and want to understand more about their NHS data deal, this piece is new+excellent 🚨 Takes about 10 mins to read so brew a cuppa first! I’m mentioned in the article (thanks @petergeoghegan.bsky.social!). Ooh please share this too👍 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Wild that they already have a demo up letting you write a sentence and look at what's happening in Jacobian space while it's processed. "Mary" and "Frank" indeed. www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

So, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating?

Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Israel har kidnappet Tara Adler, dansk deltager i Global Sumud Flotilla, på havet i går. Hun forsøgte sammen med andre samvittighedsfulde mennesker at bryde blokaden af Gaza og levere nødhjælp. Skriv til udenrigsministeriet og kræv de beskytter hende her brevstorm.dk

Digteren Frederik Lind Køppen råbte i går et digt op i Deadline iført logo fra serbiske ultranationalister. Det er anden gang på meget kort tid at DR Deadlines nye vært Christian Benikke giver platform til højreradikale hundefløjter i programmet, uden kontekst eller modstand Tråd 🧵

We haven’t heard Steven Pinkers or Richard Dawkins or [insert name here] weigh in on this yet, have we? Where are all the academic superstars who lectured us for years on what a peril “woke” was?

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

New @citizenlab.ca report with an incredibly sophisticated analysis of covert surveillance operations with a focus on location tracking, which target phones by exploiting global 3G/4G telecom networks and sending invisible SMS while acting as trusted telecom operators: citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

Wow - unexpected!

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Did the President of the United States really just announce, "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”? Yes. Yes, he did. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Says Vance, interfering in the Hungarian election.

I may be on the wrong side of this war.

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

Mark Zuckerberg, 2021: “within five years, [Facebook] will be known primarily as a metaverse company.” Mark Zuckerberg, now:

“Astronaut” is ancient Greek for “Star Sailor” But sadly that’s all we know about the ancient Greek space program.

How Trump is taking control over CNN. It's terrible to watch how MAGA is gradually defeating the free press.

Easy targets: kids using AI, woke AI, thirsty AI, immoral AI Don’t hold your breath: concentration of power amplified by proprietary intellectual capital

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The fuck is a jingle horse

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

honestly impressive feat from mr musk. grok said it so it must be true.

Registering my prediction: over the next 5 years, Tesla sales will continue to decline, and the Optimus robots will be a Cybertruck-scale nonstarter. BUT. The company will be a world-leading innovator in shady market manipulation and fraudulent accounting techniques. He’ll hit his fake targets.

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning. They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Not a lot of people know this but the MC in MC Hammer stands for master carpenter

Conditional on somebody being a more senior scholar active in replication initiatives, they are less likely to be known for their own highly visible scientific achievements. In other news, conditioning on the outcome reliably makes it very hard to understand how the world works.

Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr

urlaub bedeutet schönere umgebung bei schlechteren matratzen

While commentators obsesses about how young men are moving to the right as important is young women moving to the left. Sam considers the evidence and implications. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

I'm pretty sure it's possible to calculate almost the precise number of votes every tweet like this hands directly to Nigel Farage.

Opportunities for interpretable statistics for large language models statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/11/o...

people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now. Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.