Leadership teams at the New York Times and Washington Post are captured. If you want to stop fascist military aggression in 2026, you can't go to accommodationist or outright fascist press. Better off taking your information to ProPublica, Marisa Kabas or some other independent outfit.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ordered that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez assume and exercise all powers and duties inherent to the position of President in order to guarantee the continuity of government and defence of the nation.

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

Call your Senators and your Congressperson. Tell them EXACTLY how you feel about what our military and the executive branch are doing in Venezuela.

Israel is a rogue apartheid state committing genocide. Palestine WILL be free. Happy New Year! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Begum may be 'distasteful', but it is pretty clear she was a victim of grooming and trafficking. The decision to make her defacto stateless is also clearly incompatibile with the principles of international law. Labour doubling down doesn't change that it is bad. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh this is sad. Impossible to rank but: Nirvana unplugged Aha take on me Paul Simon Call me Al Lauren Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

I understand your point, although I believe the main issue with all these terms is that they are stuck in binary thinking which itself is a product of the ‘enlightened’ thinking that led to colonialism

I really dislike the term "majority world". Like I hate hate it. I think it tries to do something nice but really does something insidious and much worse than many of the other terms. It reflects accurately that colonisers were always the few, but it betrays a lot for that mission.

thanks for the question william b fuckley. if some rando deployed an AI chatbot into a Discord channel we wouldn't cover it. this is an Anthropic exec, and here's what he said in his justification to push Claude into this Discord for gay gamers: read now: www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Encryption isn't hostile. It's a bedrock of our cybersecurity 🔐 The UK's national security laws join a long line of attempts to frame encrypted messaging as something to be broken into pieces. Without it, we're more open to threats from hackers and criminals. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Announcements for #FAccT2026! 📣 #FAccT2026 will be on June 27-30 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal! Keep reading for important information about submitting papers! ⬇️ 1/n

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life." Amanda Dobbins, on fire

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Andy Guess (Politics/SPIA), Brandon Stewart (Sociology), and me (CS). puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

Recently read some dumb papers, but lack time to respond to them myself. So DM me if you want to write with me about: - How AI does not become decolonial by just using LoRA, or - How saying that something is AI generated is not a slur Before you ask, yes, people have really made both claims.

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro called FIFA President Gianni Infantino giving President Donald Trump a "peace prize" an attempt at "sucking up" to Trump and compared it to a parent giving a child a toy phone. Read more about the Fifa Peace Prize here: https://cnn.it/4rGBgOd

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Anders Breivik's fairy godmother. The fact that she is still in paid employment after inspiring him to mass murder a load of kids is pretty disgusting.

She has always been utterly grim. Apart from Israel, she was a big Wakefield supporter. She published loads of stuff denying climate change. And thoroughly opposed gay rights. It's always been incredibly disappointing she continues to have a job and audience

The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...

“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”

This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.

Sounds about reich

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Important piece. The many worrying human impacts come through very strongly here. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Local (separate from individual, which are also important) actions have the potential to inspire broader action, esp. among institutions. So: -Demand better options/behavior from our vendors -Judicious vs. regular AI use -Host communities of learning -Host local models -Seek community input!

(Public) library usage is actually pretty strong, thanks in part to our ability to adapt to changing tech landscape! I think the real challenge is how do we spin up in-house expertise though, since we've outsourced a lot of our tech. Most lib'ns are not technologists, and reskilling is hard.

A: To be fair, libraries have a strong track record of coexisting and even using our ostensible replacements (google and search, e-books and print media, wikipedia and reference questions, zoom and public meeting spaces), so *existentially* I'm not nervous. Not about THAT, anyhow. But/And...

Finally! The European Union is prioritising the ease of access to personal and private data for large tech companies! So good that the EU politicians are starting to take their role as representatives of tech companies' interest more seriously than their side hustle of representing their people.

It's absolutely fucking insane that we have to keep telling scientists that offloading scientific tasks to a probabilistic machine is bad scientific conduct.

Biden knew that Israel was committing crimes against humanity in Gaza and then decided to keep US commitments to Israel, shortly before handing it over to Trump www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

If Labour wants us to think about their wonderful policies on housing etc, they need to stop making us think that all they really care about is how be nastier and more evil on immigration. Like, every day.

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains. That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.