Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

"Each technological advancement that could free up physician time has instead tightened the productivity ratchet: these “efficiency gains” have simply been used to squeeze more visits, more billing, and more profit out of every hour." 🔥

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

Fourth Palestine Action prisoner launches hunger strike over ‘systematic abuse’ Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-four...

Losing a loved one is hard. Coping with grief is harder for some than others. In a compassionate society, a grieving person with mental health struggles who hasn’t paid a household bill would be helped, not convicted of a crime www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Despite a government report into employment and disability contrasting with media attacks on disabled people, significant concerns have been expressed. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Important article from @johnpring.bsky.social Dr Hurst uses her awful experience to highlight the desperate reality of health and social care for Disabled people ♥️ While the service instantly goes into reputation management mode, issues non-apology "...we were sorry to receive this feedback..." 💵

The Care Quality Commission said in its annual...report that the health and social care system remained 'fragmented and under severe strain'. 'Disabled people had told them how they had been 'left to sit or lie in soiled or wet clothing for hours while waiting for their care worker to arrive'.

A veteran activist, who has spent her life campaigning for disability rights, has called on the government to fix the “rotten to the core” social care system, after experiencing “terrifying” treatment during a short stay in a care home. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...

I had to explain AI psychosis to one of the staff members on the psych ward because she was recommending it to patients. She had no idea and she was horrified.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

#Labour #stopthecuts #takingthePIP #welfare #bbcqt We are being lied to. Benefit spend is not spiralling. It is in fact projected to go down! Please - Stop the cuts!

NHS independence ADHD Taskforce just put out their final report and it's sobering reading. So yeah ignore all the ADHD is over diagnosed stuff here what the actual experts feel we should do in education ⬇️ and across other services. www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/u...

Asking if phrenology is good is the most Economist article ever.

The final report of the independent ADHD Taskforce has found the condition is under-recognised, under-diagnosed, and under-treated, warning of an urgent need for major changes across the NHS. www.pslhub.org/learn/patient...

No mention of employers creating workplaces that aren't stressful, overworked nightmares with nothing but useless EAPs as pretend support. Nope, employees are the problem for being sick.

Official figures expose how Labour, Tory and Reform politicians and media have repeatedly lied about "spiralling" social security spending www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-official... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to rule out spending cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-refuses-... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

"This initiative will give teachers from every region of Iceland [...] access to advanced AI tools as the country explores how artificial intelligence can transform education." Has there ever before been products sold where customers* must figure out the use? www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

I think we need to reframe things and refer to any software that intentionally negatively affects user experience to further some ulterior motive as "malicious software"

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 💀 #Fauxcoding

I’m going to say this really fucking clearly: We have a right to an adequate social security system, that is not abusive or causes worsening health, impairments, and death. If all you focus on is work, I understand you are disablist. Even if you don’t. deathsbywelfare.org

NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social gives a stark warning that reforms for #SEND funding reforms will be immensely painful—but the current situation is chaotic and sinking fast. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #SEND#SENDsky

FT board making clear its hard line into terminal stage neoliberalism www.ft.com/content/0bd7...

"Patients seeking help with their mental health face a ‘one size fits all’ approach provided by a private company. They deserve better" thebristolcable.org/2025/10/bris... Via @thebristolcable.bsky.social @protectournhsbanes.bsky.social

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda “Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” An interview with Marius Turda published in @scielo.org www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8j...

Furthermore, I have named this book “Disabling Intelligences” because the concept of intelligence is inextricable from the heart of eugenics and must be dismantled as a socially constructed, metrically derived, and algorithmically upheld category of oppression.

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social: "AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed "AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

"Necropolitical power is materialised in current forms of advanced computation, but I believe another computing is possible" How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix. By @danmcquillan.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...

Beam, maker of the Magic Notes AI currently in 100+ LAs, admits that it could actually lead to MORE work and urges SWers to 'challenge the business case put forward by commissioners for using AI.' All while taking public £££ off the back of those business cases. www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.

“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/

📢 Attention Bristol comrades! Tomorrow sees the return of the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair... talks, workshops, info, stalls, stickers, zines... and books! Elmgrove Centre, Redland BS6 6AH 10.30am - 5pm See you there ❤️🖤 More details 👇 bristolanarchistbookfair.uk

There is no mainstreaming without the mainstream elite's complicity and that liberalism is no bulwark against the far right The French National Assembly passed for the first time a law pushed by the Rassemblement National "A historic day" says Le Pen www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

This explains a lot.

“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Let’s take a short pause to speak about the war in Sudan. 💔🇸🇩 The reason the world stays silent is simple. ➡️ The UAE is driving this war, funding, arming, and enabling the atrocities. And since everyone wants to do business with the UAE first, they choose silence. 💰🤐 #Sudan #HumanRights

Before we celebrate this win for disabled people - read : ‘further reforms would go ahead, but they would be introduced individually rather than all together in a white paper.’ So attacks on disabled people by stealth? 😡 Looks that way.The cuts to ‘access to work’ fund are already happening!

Labour scrap disability cuts white paper, following action by Disabled people... but ministers could use secondary legislation to “sneak things through in dribs and drabs and hope changes won’t be noticed”. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-plans-i... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Neoliberalism (2): when one makes simple betrayal too complex to understand, anything is possible. #auspol

Y'all are not upset enough about THE SNAP situation for my liking. This is the intentional starvation of a civilian population that is dependent in the first place because the government manufactured conditions of deprivation. We don't have a lack of food. We have a surfeit of greed and evil.