Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

That perfect holiday gift might not exist. Scammers are using AI to create convincing fake products and stores. Bellingcat's @koltai.bsky.social reveals 10 real examples found online — plus quick, practical checks to help you spot what’s real before it’s too late. www.youtube.com/watch?v=txcN...

Greetings and good morning it’s the Sunday day farm rush hour with our donkeys and toast

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

Apple wants most to update to iOS 26.2, but if you want to stay on iOS 18, but don't see iOS 18.7.3 as an option. Here is how you can update for now. youtube.com/shorts/p6RK1...

Now, *this* is a proper Christmas story with a buried lede: 'the goat later tried to munch on some safety equipment in the back of the officer's car' 🤣 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia’s military euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...

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Color me shocked.

This is evil. ICE ripped a 6 year old away from his father and sent him to the office of refugee resettlement. The father had to agree to deportation to China in order to see his child again. Innocent children being used as leverage.

Dover ferry delays hit Christmas travellers after French border IT failure www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UPI: '32 genes thought to be key drivers of long COVID-19 identified' 'The mystery of what causes brain fog, fatigue, chest pain and other symptoms of long COVID-19 has been traced to a set of 32 genes in an Australian study released this week' www.upi.com/Health_News/...

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Early Winter Solstice piece Mari Bringer of Light

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...

16 minute old account, no bio, pic of baby with dog as profile pic, already following 400, posting 2 posts? Chooses my insignificant account to follow? Nope. Who next? George Cluney?

Christmas party time for our animals. Our donkeys wanted to escape and do a toast run

Here's a list of opportunities if you're looking to volunteer on Christmas Day and help people during the festive period.

French culture boss accused of mass drinks spiking to humiliate women

I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.

Can the elites, just unexist? I'd rather them trade incredibly ugly ape JPEGs over shared natural heritage.

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Good to see this story on BBC News. Deserves a wider audience. Sadly, ‘basic land law’ and ‘dealing with vexatious litigation’ are life skills that few people have. When faced with an attack on their homes, most people are terrified. Which is the whole point! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#AshmoleanAdvent Calendar Day 19 – Starry Sky British artist Eric Ravilious trained as a wood engraver and mural painter at the Royal College of Art. This wood engraving, showing mountains, stars and gems, is an illustration for a collection of epigrams and epitaphs by Martin Armstrong. ⭐ WA.OA979

#BBCNews - Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵 This image provides an overview of the 25 brightest stars in the night sky (as seen by humans). It shows them in true color, highlighting their beauty and diversity. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061... For more, read the thread. 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #science #Universe #Astronomy #HistSci

Firefox will offer an option to completely disable all AI features, dubbed the "AI kill switch", and make AI features opt-in, including a local ~20MB image-captioning model for alt-text, on-device translation, automatic captioning, text-to-speech and a sidebar chatbot.

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

Dancer, actress, resistance fighter and civil rights activist Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975) and two of her children decorate the Christmas tree at her family’s beloved Château des Milandes in France, 1956

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲

Au Pairs frontwoman Lesley Woods: ‘We were the antithesis to all that boy-meets-girl stuff’

‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act

⚡️ Russian border guards briefly crossed into Estonia, Tallinn says. Igor Taro, the interior minister of the Baltic nation, said it remains unclear whether the incident was intentional but emphasized that there is no threat to Estonia's security.

The Winter Witch Lussi and Sicily’s Saint Lucia #Folklore europeanconservative.com/articles/ess...

"Tänk att just jag får dela julmagin tillsammans med er! Det finns inget bättre än det ❤️ There’s nothing better than sharing the Christmas magic with you ❤️"

"Krampus with a Cat" Postcard by Mac Jaffe 1901 #MenWithCats

Turns out my article on drones in Ukraine is ECFR’s most read commentary this year. Isn’t this nice! ecfr.eu/article/dron...

« Le groupe de professions présentant les risque les plus élevés de #longcovid comprenaient les professionnels de santé et des services sociaux, les enseignants, les employés du commerce de détail, les travailleurs des transports et le personnel de sécurité. » www.germanstrias.org/en/news/665/...

Ran into @bigissue.com vendor Richard in London today and had to get my hands on the bumper Christmas copy ! Plenty to leaf through over the break , get yours while you can . . .

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

Look closely at a collection of old-fashioned Italian and German menorahs, and you’ll find a figure no longer mentioned in today’s Hanukkah story: a lone woman with a knife. She is Judith, the OG Jewish badass lady who was once commonly celebrated alongside the Maccabees.

This is one of many reasons why I use my “smart” TV as a dumb monitor, and don’t connect it to the internet. As @jesgilbert.bsky.social & I discuss in “The Secret Life of Data,” all networked devices are Trojan horses, whose function can be flipped long after we’ve invited them into our homes.

The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie - and had a smash hit with ‘Mickey’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...