In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

As a health journalist I often come across scams/grifts where there has been a complete failure of regulation. This is magnitudes above that.

This piece has stirred up a lot of debate. There is clearly much work to do in oversight of how trusts are treating their locally employed doctors, the contracts they are on and training offered. Here’s a rapid response from the @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Do really bad scuba divers think they’re better than they really are? Yes, they do! Dunning Kruger effect replicates in 40 novice scuba divers diving for the first time as part of a PADI DSD class #SSSP2025

“War—whether it takes place between societies or within them—has no heroes, only distributions of cruelty, debasement, and ruin, a fact that is routinely denied, ignored, or repressed by those most responsible for perpetuating it.”

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

"The Australian Wars" (2025) The history of over 150 years of battles, massacres and guerilla warfare as Indigenous nations resisted colonial invasion and occupation of their lands. Editors: Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray & Henry Reynolds. HB 4Nov2025. 416p. #Australia #history #BookSky

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

For you @smellosopher.bsky.social and @keithwilson.eu Sigh! Otherwise, and excellent podcast from both of them

You know what? My Alma mater can f*ck right off. They aren’t here or I would tag CWRU and tell them—I’m ashamed and embarrassed and furious. Yes I know #AI is not a single entity, has utility, and isn’t evil in itself, but it currently threatens the earth, all creatives, everyone except 1% tech bros

I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w... There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.

I really hope outrage builds over historic abuse in institutions *not* run by nuns or brothers. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

One of my colleagues discovered a journal had published an article co-authored by her that she never wrote. Appears to have been AI generated and put behind a paywall. Identity fraud, plagiarism, exploitation. Just more awesome benefits of AI... #NihilismAndTechnology

'Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld', the fascinatingly important 1983 book on the video game experience, has apparently been republished by Boss Fight Books. 🔖Find it here: bossfightbooks.com/products/bre...

we made this beautiful record with my Georgian friend Natalie Beridze in 2014 I Am Life by A-symmetry agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-l...

You might be interested in this older piece: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social: Who Remembers Attention Spans? Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though? nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...

The syndrome, which is characterized by sensory perception distortions, was present in 25.2% of the participants with persistent headaches following #Covid infection. bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #neurosky @bmc.springernature.com A 2025 cross-sectional study in Latin America found #AliceinWonderland syndrome (AIWS)a notable feature in adults with persistent #postCOVID/ #Longcovid / #neuroCovid #headache, esp in younger patients with a history of #migraine.

Good morning good ppl 🥰 I haven’t given y’all a book thread in a lil minute so here’s one inspired by Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS. This will be a mix of books I already read and loved, and a few from my TBR. All the authors are BLACK and as usual, drop a 📌 to bookmark! Let’s get started! #BlackBookSky 📚💙

youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk... @karenhao.bsky.social explores the issues around AI and psychosis.

Thanks so much; all shares greatly appreciated! Here's a cookie - I mean a monster - for your troubles. 😀 "Spend time reading and reading changes you. Make words, pictures, or dance moves to flesh out your thoughts as you read, and those changes are greater - and you make something unique." From:

I've been unable to keep a polite, neutral face when people talk at me about generative AI, to the point where, without me saying a word, they immediately pivot to being defensive and telling me why I should be using it. It's like a cult.

When I hear people say they've used GenAI for anything, my face now automatically reacts as if they'd just aggressively farted at me

The larger stakes: "By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Free excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social excerpted in @literaryhub.bsky.social: 2/2 lithub.com/were-already...

Whenever I see academics say this stuff, I physically wince knowing the environmental, ethical, and moral impact generative AI has. Academics using LLMs essentially validate the theft of colleagues’ work, condone its disastrous energy usage, and undermine the benchmark for academic integrity.

Critics including Elon Musk have assailed my @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh's study finding that most politically motivated terrorist killings in the U.S. since 1975 have been done by persons on the right. Alex responds to the critics here and explains his methods and classifications.

And if you prefer to watch & listen to talks, here's the talk it is based on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons (slavery) m.soundcloud.com/llbdpodcast/...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

No, my message is that govs are containers for power, which can be exercised brutally or w wisdom, & tech is a collection of methods that can be abused or leveraged for good. TLDR tech and gov aren't stable categories. Validate both (like, by examining Signal's open source code) before you trust.

"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.

The EA acquisition continues an alarming trend of media consolidation—social media, TV, print news, and now gaming—by Trump’s inner circle of oligarchs. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook and we should all be alarmed. apnews.com/article/ea-e...

EA's Net Income (See: Actual Profit) is like 1.1b a year. That's less than the interest on this loan. To make any money EA either has to dramatically increase how much money they make (lmfao) or ruthlessly cut expenses so their profits are higher, which never, ever works. It's over.

So much love to all my friends, mutuals, colleagues, etc who work at EA studios. You all, and the entire industry, deserve better.

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

The survey, undertaken by the Bectu union, found that 69% of women in the sector said they had directly experienced workplace bullying and harassment in the past 12 months. The figure rose to 72% for workers with disabilities. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

It's really reached the point where you can be confident of the dude's politics (and how public he was about them) almost precisely based on how much 'caution' the authorities are exercising in making them known to the public.

With the cover ready, proofs submitted and index made, I am very happy that my next book “An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is now ready for release on 22 January 2026. Co-authored with my friends Stijn De Cauwer and Joost de Bloois 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/introduct...

Its Monday morning and the President of the United States has committed another impeachable offense by threating to withhold funds from a major city in order to persuade voters not to vote for a certain candidate.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

An important tactic Trump learned as a private citizen is that if you’re rich, you can wreck people’s lives with completely frivolous litigation, even if you have no chance of winning. This terrorizes everyone else who might get on your bad side by, say, demanding payment or reporting facts.