Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Did you know? In the Victorian era, “Acme” became one of the most popular company names in the English-speaking world. It eventually inspired the absurd cartoon corporation that supplied Wile E. Coyote with his disastrous inventions. #Victorian #history

I think it's worth people knowing that Enfield has a Labour MP and a Conservative councillor who are *both* called Bambos Charalambous.

Every three minutes on Bluesky today: oh that's a delightful name for a town! Dudly-on-Friendton. I see they have voted for the Murdering Orphans party.

Exactly. Views on immigration (like crime) are extremely vibes-responsive and facts-resistant, which is why those issues are so appealing to populists. Stats and evidence barely make a dent, the only hope is to lower the heat under those topics.

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social: nice issue this week, but is the Codeword really only supposed to have one letter with 2 appearances for a clue? Is it actually a secret audition for MI5 (or Slough House)?

flat earth is one of those things where if the conspiracy is true you should just let them win. *every* government with a space programs is in on it as well as *all* astronomers ? what do you think could prompt that level of cooperation? they've got reasons. leave 'em alone.

On this day in history: TVNZ run an expose on 'New Zealand's biggest (?) freelance sperm donor', and accompanied the link with this picture.

The Asimov act “would ban the New York Police Department from deploying armed robots while assisting officers.”

No therapist should be working online for a company that saves those transcripts to a model ; if they do they should be at least suspended from any professional association they belong to. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

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My latest pre-print is out: "Pareidolic Illusions of Meaning: ChatGPT, Pseudolaw and the Triumph of Form over Substance" I really enjoyed this one, where I juxtapose LLMs & pseudolaw to argue both create illusions of meaning that trick users. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

The crowdfund trailer now exists... youtu.be/cou28XeCpyk

“Workers at companies that adopted AI tools over the past year are reporting, in anonymous surveys and in the growing genre of unsigned workplace confessions, that the tools have made them slower. Not marginally. Measurably.” thecritic.co.uk/the-emperors...

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It

Seven peers tabled over 800 amendments between them in a deliberate strategy to cause the assisted dying bill to run out of time. They are: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Baroness Grey-Thompson Lord Carlile of Berriew Baroness Coffey Lord Goodman of Wycombe Lord Moylan Lord Sandhurst Shameful.

“The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100” 🤯 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.

Things I will not be embracing: - massive environmental damage - mental ill-health exacerbated by weird AI interactions - taking my work without consent or remuneration because these are not huggable things.

I find this bizarre. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

This thread is required reading...

A critical moment for the #AssistedDyingBill. Join our protest at 09:00–12:00, Parliament Square, 22 April, and send a clear message to peers: stop using delay tactics to block one of the most important pieces of legislation to pass through the Commons in a generation. humanists.uk/events/prote...

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Heading into Capital City for gig (Kim Gordon), show (Inter Alia) and talkie thing (with @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social). Free day tmrw with no plans yet. What's great to do in London daytime right now?

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Here's the conclusion of my free newsletter going out tomorrow, on the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis. wheresyoured.at

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Cracking book launch for a superb writer. And the cheese puffs were 😻

For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A new @frankpasquale.bsky.social paper always goes to the top of the reading stack!

Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

Nearly *six months* in jail because of a faulty AI system mistaking her identity. AI produces *actual harms* — not *potential risks* — on a daily basis. Stop talking about *potential risks*. Talk about *actual harms*. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more: www.404media.co/students-are...

I generally think reporters at outlets like the Mail need some leeway: especially early career people need jobs and experience, so have to work places they might not want to. But genuinely, I’d quit my job rather than have my byline appear next to that headline. Surely any decent person would.

If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.

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Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)

Here he is taking the photo.

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.