reflecting pool girl summer [trying to change myself and making it worse]

i dunno but using a machine that always regresses to the mean (llms) to simulate “diverse populations that are not readily accessible” seems the oppose of good science to me… no matter how popular it has become in behavioural sciences

This is a major problem for policymaking, especially on long-termist areas like climate featuring long lead times, technical complexity and steep upfront costs (defence too). France for example has had 7 different climate ministers within past 7 years: ecfr.eu/publication/...

“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

UK will have its 7th PM in 10 years. But rising political volatility is a pan-European story. As colleagues & I show: post-Feb '22 the average tenure of a government-leading party in the EU is 3 years 6 months, down from 5 years 9 months over the preceding decade. ecfr.eu/publication/...

#FT @jemima.bsky.social is correctly identifying a recent normalization of more nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-feminist, and anti-liberal tendencies on the right, chart @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/313f...

This is the future of warfare. The old “garbage in, garbage out,” applies as much to AI as old style targeting where you screw up because you had the wrong map. The difference is the scale and speed now, with too many targets for humans to double check. But they call it “operational efficiency”. ☹️

Imagine posting this on X, a social media platform awash with far right extremism, great replacement theory and Islamophobia - not least, promoted by its owner.

Always grateful for proper research to confirm a hunch but you would expect that if you think less you would get worse at thinking

It’s been 5 hours since BBC first reported this story and the national pick up is fairly sparse. Has violent Islamophobia been normalised to this extent?

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A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Guardian has now reported this as its lead uk story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.”

Musk's pick for NASA chief, Jared Isaacman, bought up to $50 million worth of stock in his payment processor for SpaceX ahead of its record-breaking IPO. He was not required to divest from his Shift4 holdings as NASA administrator. By @donnydonny.bsky.social

Some rape cases are under review as a result of the Derbyshire police AI case, the FT can reveal: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The officer involved allegedly prompted AI to make documents as damning as possible.

🚨🚨 This is the only way: First UKG Department leaving #X over concerns of incitement of #racism, #violence and #misinformation concerns. Major kudos to Richard Hermer pulling Attorney General's Office off X platform. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

Me when I’m definitely NOT a spy sent into the CIA offices to collect evidence of confidential papers:

Who has ever thought of Davos as "woke"? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hm. Is this good www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...

Really impressive giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Ukraine hits Moscow with largest-ever drone attack

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Moscow air defense starting it's own fires by shooting down Ukrainian drones. The building hit by the downed drone in the first video is visibly on fire in the second video, as are numerous structures in the area.

OR: pervert glasses are getting harder to spot and we should BAN THEM

i think we should be deeply embedding this tech within our education system. as school staffing levels naturally decline, every child should have access to an AI tutor

NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year. However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year. In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult

What a waste. Just what a waste.

At a time when racist and anti-Muslim extremism is being nromalised and sponsored by Moscow, the @OxfordUnion choosing to invite Yaxley Lennon is disgusting. I hope that every serious public figure now boycotts this group of attention-seeking students. bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...

The Oxford Union is one of the most cynical and amoral institutions in the UK. You're not going to get "debate" from a racist thug

Scream it from the rooftops (But I know this will not change anytime soon. Researchers and law enforcement and security services are obsessed with ideology as if it is somehow explanatory.)

Really excited to have @georgeosborn.bsky.social on the podcast. No, not the former Chancellor but the massive expert on gaming and how this hugely influential culture is being taken over by extremists, authoritarians and populists. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up

"Uber and Lyft ... routinely charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, a monthslong Consumer Reports investigation has found. Across the routes we tested, the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings was about 50 percent."

The 2 biggest supporters of The Heritage Foundation’s tech policy agenda, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jonathan Haidt, are part of this Peter Thiel initiative

🚨🚨 Excellent news: #French domestic intelligence service is ending its contract with US tech giant #palantir in a move ween off reliance on #US technology for sensitive services. www.politico.eu/article/fren...

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

my god, it's real

Our investigation at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social found that nearly a third of NHS hospitals have delivered *fewer* operations since adopting Palantir’s Federated Data Platform, indicating its claimed benefits should come with a serious health warning. Exclusive in the FT. www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

LLMs "are increasingly relying on the judgment and taste of subreddit moderators or Wikipedia editors, and at the same time those websites are increasingly under strain from people and companies trying to manipulate them.”

In a disastrous ruling, the Court of Appeal in London has overruled the High Court and upheld the government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Defining a protest group as terrorists has created an absurd situation where thousands have been arrested for holding up signs.

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

So, the delightful Peter Theil has a secret club. I’m glad the Prime Minister’s Advisor On AI isn’t on a list of members or associates found in the code. Oh…

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

This is the thing with the BBC. One section of it will cover the far right disastrously while another is diligently digging out the truth. It runs the gamut from courageous gold-standard reporting to Justin Webb