Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

La diagonale du four

Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million

Every time he says this the preserved corpse of Jeremy Bentham should appear at the door crying “who watches the watchmen?” and Michel Foucault should look down and whisper “no.”

Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

Experience: I met my husband in the Dull Men’s Club

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.

Even my mum is raging at the Starmer analysis: 'why will no one say that what's wrong with him is that he's a human rights barrister who doesn't care about human rights?'

Suraj has a point.

The Chair of Sex Matters is currently crowdfunding for a quick SRY swab, to potentially use in schools. My Daughter is 20 now but if I’d heard they’d used something like this on her I’d have been down that school faster than shit off a shovel. It’s possibly one of the most evil things they’ve done.

Somewhere in your company is The Spreadsheet. At least one person is responsible for updating The Spreadsheet. Multiple people update other databases based on what The Spreadsheet says. As long as The Spreadsheet exists, nothing can be automated.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Puts me in mind of the famous Eric Williams quote, “British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it”

my siblings in Christ those are some bold assumptions

Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots https://restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-training-regional-languages/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1780680604

The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/europea...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

@drdavidnicholl.bsky.social & I argue that Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk is entirely within his rights to block the Met Police Palantir deal in our letter in The Times. Not obvious that his critics have read the legislation or understood the highly questionable process used here.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. LGBT+ Helpline Scotland (0800 464 7000 [email protected]) is open until 9pm tonight (Thursday). The UK national LGBTQIA+ support line (0800 011 9100 switchboard.lgbt) is open until 10pm every day. You matter, you are needed, you are loved.

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

time to pivot my career

Half-expect to be told next the £5m was for a secure ballroom in Clacton.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

Oruka's experimental drug helps clear psoriasis in mid-stage study reut.rs/41TQyUn

There are teens out there who've survived more than one mass shooting

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

Life as a neighbour of the EU is a permanent negotiation whatever your relationship status. And you have to compete for attention with all of the others in the same position. Which is the reality more than saying the EU isn't interested but... what can you really offer?

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

I hope Bsky doesn't ban me for this, but after this ep I had to provide a selection Ancient Delos penises as proof. Including giant statues of penises, decorated with penis-bird-creatures, or a carving of a penis meeting a penis, with a penis for a tail, and another penis for a penis. So sorry. A x

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

She's gonna print out 95 pro-Trump tweets and nail them all to the door of the nearest church

"But we're not immigrants, we're expats"

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Above all, there are no winners, only losers. Iran is left with a brutal state, a traumatized population, a decimated infrastructure and worse economy. Lebanon's best chance at a viable state in a decade is obliterated, with yet another generation of rebuilt infrastructure bombed to rubble.

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

neal stephenson also dislikes the pervert glasses www.theverge.com/tech/899797/...

On Palantir: “The Miami-based company embedded its technology in the NHS in 2023, the police in 2024 and the military in 2025.“ What could possibly go wrong… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Heron of Disapproval would like a word with you.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz: