as promised: I'm back and I have Opinions fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

"She frequently decried the influx of immigrants into France, especially Muslims. She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred . . ."

…If you think this is a good thing, a right thing, a "kind" thing, then we have such a fundamental mismatch of values that all questions of technology need to be put on Long Pause while you & i figure out what we mean by "good," "right," & "kind." You can't technofix your way out of values problems

The Countryside Alliance are once again talking out of their (top) hat. 80% of the public, rural & urban, think fox hunting should remain illegal. The ‘rural culture war’ is a myth, as @jon-moses.bsky.social shows here: national.thelead.uk/p/the-rural-... bsky.app/profile/theg...

“Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday … “

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

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For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:

Industry keeps returning to the same story: AI is presented as a cure for emotional difficulty. The narrative suggests that better computation leads to better humanity. This idea ignores why those emotional pressures exist and who benefits when people lean on commercial systems for relief. 2/*

The idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

Imagine if the £ billions wasted on harmful tech ('AI', surveillance, arms) were invested in genuine, helpful technologies like this.

Gaza doctors use 3D tech to save limbs shattered by Israel from amputation www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Reform UK flagship Kent council planning ‘huge’ cuts in adult social care

Just happen to be reading this today: “Privacy nicks come from the proliferation of cameras and biometric sensors on doorbells, glasses, and watches, and the drift of surveillance and data analytics into new areas of our lives like travel, exercise, and social gatherings.”

So the Government: Cuts disability benefits. Cuts practical support at work (the ‘access to work scheme’). Reduces targets for accessible homes. And now dismisses calls to improve wheelchair services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Labour government has been accused of a “truly horrifying” betrayal of disabled people after slashing an accessible housing target proposed by the last Conservative government. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-accus...

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

When a State is engaged in a genocide. What is called terrorism becomes any dissent.

This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.

Automatised metapolitics, coming soon to a uni near you. 'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

In a crowded field, Richard Tice is one of the most vile politicians in this country www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Government housing agency has failed to explain why its new five-year strategy fails to mention disabled people, or the need to address the accessible housing crisis. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/governments-... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Labour peer, trying to push Assisted Dying Bill through House of Lords, has rejected attempts to protect disabled adults and children who are homeless, in prison, pregnant, or have Education Health and Care plans (EHCPs) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/falconer-dis... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

We have updated our website to include information on the December hearings of the Lampard Inquiry, in which legal representatives of Core Participants were given the opportunity to address the Chair on any procedural issues Short thread stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/l...

The robber barons and far-right enablers will have to go. The public understands this, when will the media and politicians? archive.is/AbWSL

Still trying to process the grim news from Bondi, what can drive people to commit such horrible atrocities and how these can then be weaponised by others to divide us further and foster more hatred Solidarity with the victims and those who try to find a way out that is not some version of fascism

'SEND is not a framework for inclusion, but an administrative construct created to manage difference without requiring the education system itself to change.'

AI anthropomorphization hits new highs in science, thanks to a @utoronto.ca PhD candidate and some obvious @aixiv.bsky.social deceptions. @emilymbender.bsky.social @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social www.the-geyser.com/aixiv-nothin...

Israel is occupying Gaza There is no ceasefire It’s all lies ⬇️⬇️⬇️

NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON. Tees, Esk and Wear Valley mh trust have perpetrated some of the most abhorrent medical abuse and istr8genuc harm of my peers that I've encountered. They are notoriously negligent.

just taking this opportunity to re-up this post ali-alkhatib.com/blog/destroy...

Trying to (hate) read TIME's person of the year article and there is this "Ask the AI" window that does not have any visible dismiss button that just stays on top of the text as you scroll.

Must read new report from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social co-researcher Michael Geoffrey Asia. Find more at data-workers.org and read more about the DWI project at www.dair-institute.org/projects/dat...

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

What kind of human being brags about harming disabled people .... McFadden brags about cutting disability benefits, just as his own strategy warns of ‘deep material poverty’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...

Labour minister brags about cutting disabled people’s support, while his own strategy warns of 1.3 million children living in families where someone is disabled in “deep material poverty” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Under threat of judicial review, Kent County Council change their practice on charging disabled adults for their care: goldjennings.co.uk/under-threat...

Thousands of disabled people in one county should benefit from care charging legal case victory #CareCharges #MakeCareFair @inclusionlondon.bsky.social @goldjenningsltd.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/thousands-of...

Despite the amount of research which has shown that trying to appease or mimic the far right mainstreams and strengthens it, the Guardian sits on the fence and in fact spends much of their "analysis" justifying the move What's going on in that editorial room? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Congratulations to Nnena Kalu! Makes me think of Artists First from Bristol who smashed boundaries with their work, which can be seen here: www.artistsfirst.org.uk ‘Being known as artist first before anything else, changes things; it changes attitudes.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Boris Johnson regrets that so many disabled people managed to survive his Covid response.

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Palantir. Neurodivergent. Fellowship." "Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃" Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular. That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-