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A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

NEW on Wonkhe: With new OfS research showing half of graduates felt unprepared, Jim Dickinson warns the regulator's response mistakes a structural problem for a communications one wonkhe.com/blogs/course...

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Wow. So the LibDems accept an explicitly transphobic group inside ["Liberal Voice for Women" - statement included in article, as virulently terf as it gets] and cower from making trans-inclusive statements as a "protection" against on-line violence from Rowling.

I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy

BBC once again said "biological boys who identify as girls", I expect they will remove "Transgender girls" from the headline as soon as the terfs put on the pressure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Weird happenings when I look at profiles on here including my own, including system claiming I lost internet ...

Bank of London fined paltry £2m for filing fake documents with regulator to conceal its financial position. Fine reduced from £12m because that "would cause serious financial hardship." Peter Mandelson was a director until 2024. No exec fined/prosecuted. One law for us, another for them.

I saw an interesting argument a few weeks ago along these lines (about AI ads specifically) It boils down to the idea that young people see AI as a tool for bullshitting people (teachers, parents, whoever) but they don't want to be on the receiving end of BS, and they're keenly aware when it happens

Important thread. The various doomer grifting institutes are not "AI critics". I don't believe there are ethical LLM companies at all.

This afternoon I will speak at the Oireachtas Justice Committee. I will share new information obtained by ICCL about the latest Data Protection Commissioner recruitment process, in which a former Meta spokesperson was appointed Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

See, the issue with pulverising Gaza was never that Palestine wasn't recognised as a state by most of the world, Israel can do it to Lebanon just as easily ...

Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on that Matt Goodwin book bylinetimes.com/2026/03/23/m...

We use a lot of words for Foucault’s Boomerang, but it’s simpler - it will all get used against you by people who are more powerful than you.

And I used to feel bad for him because "meme" now means a stupid picture with a caption...

This horrible story points up a difference between alleged and actual political extremists. Zack Polanski correctly says antisemitism is vile, and has no place here. Nigel Farage, with no evidence yet, whines about migrants, suggesting the attackers came from Iran... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Another UK Govt contract, involving huge volumes of sensitive, personal data, has been handed to Trump-backing US spy tech firm Palantir: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Mosley said that, if Reform won the next general election with a 'clear public mandate' to allow NHS data to be used for immigration enforcement, then the company would execute the plan."

Everybody who tried to argume with me about the water and energy consumption of "AI" abd data centers can go jump in a fucking lake. While they can still find any.

'The findings are uncomfortable. Students are submitting work they cannot fully explain, facing AI policies that do not function in practice, and responding strategically to assessment systems that reward production over understanding.' 1/3

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in 5 years. Handful of billionaires, often resident abroad, funding the push to the right. Organisations such as GB News used to push billionaire interests through right-wing ideologues. All part of the billionaire takeover.

By the way, this has flashing red lights for a subtext all the way through it. The librarian is autistic. The head teacher at the school then pursued a course of action which would create a justification for firing without citing her autism as a reason.

A man dies. The President callously celebrates. White House Rapid Response account for 47 shares. The state of Grok

These are the people Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are standing up for

New research reveals critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s PhotoDNA, the technology widely used to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material (#CSAM). Via Bart Preneel @cosic.bsky.social cyberinsider.com/microsoft-ph...

Exactly! Academic freedom is not protection for deficient work. In fact, academic freedom charges academics with the responsibility to self-regulate our communities. If anything, that means academic freedom calls us to respond to derelictions of duty, such as this.

Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

they literally renamed the entire company after this

It's sad and funny how Tories dress up their racism as religious intolerance and then try to use selectively applied gender equality as the excuse ... no shocker to anyone that in Tory world some people are more equal than others.

Guardian journalist defending the sherryate. And getting ratioed a little ...

Mate, if you're defending racism as "academic freedom", you're a racist. No surprise to see arch bigots Biggs Joyce Lawford-Smith or shit stirrers TYoung Furedi Kaufman Pinker. But at least one very disappointing name on there for me. PS the letter is editable by anyone :)

Shocked Pikachu faces all round as people realise that these people might have been wearing "feminism" like a convenient hat.

BBC Breaks Law by Failing to Say If It Made Calls to Israeli Embassy Has the Beeb got something to hide? novaramedia.com/2026/03/16/b...

All sweet but I already got the message loud and clear. Not being allowed to vote in EU referendum, settled status not quite the same rights, and even UK citizenship not secure for "foreigners". The message from the UK population "You'll never really be one of us" has indelibly landed in last decade

One of the most direct proxies for whether a society is healthy is whether it is a good place to be LGBTQ.

A week before Slovenia's parliamentary election, it now appears that Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence firm, was behind secret recordings of prominent (left-wing) Slovenian political operatives, borrowing from their Hungarian and anti-Kövesi playbook. www.mladina.si/247423/israe...

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

as a: shopper I want to: be doxxed by the grocery store so that: I never shop there again

Duh. The back engines of social networks and ad tech have been non-compliant with GDPR due to inferred special category data from long before we called them "AI" but regulators in UK and (critically) Ireland just refuse to enforce

We are absolutely rewriting grants, because using the word “censorship” (as in “censorship-resistant networking that allows people in Iran to bypass filters and access the Internet) gets your grants cancelled by the idiots at DOGE.

Extensive article but blinkered! Somehow fails to relate anything to the same funding streams supporting anti-trans movement and court cases in the UK. No mention of "bodily autonomy". No mention of action against morning-after pills by post. Or surrogacy. Or Gillick.

Thick Reform boy suddenly finds ECHR useful as an excuse to breach confidentiality in order to whip up anti-refugee sentiments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If this is sending the navy to do Trump's bidding he might as well quit while he's at it.

Labour just deleted their post on twitter talking about tackling LGBT hate crime after pressure from transphobes (the people they're supposed to tackle the hate) and didn't bother posting on Bluesky for some reason.

Am I confused or do I have this correctly??

"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."