Scoop: Three months into Australia's ban, new data given to Crikey suggests that most teens who were on social media pre-ban are still on those platforms. While it's just one data point, it adds to early evidence suggesting that there's widespread flouting of the ban. www.crikey.com.au/20...

“You probably got an F because many of the answers I gave you earlier were wrong” is taking me down 😂😂😂

I’ve explained to various non-finance people IRL recently how tight the supply-demand balance in oil markets is, and its asymmetric price elasticity, and tbh most people get it pretty quickly so yeah markets are weird and consensus is still just *somehow* US ends this?

“Relative to population, the death toll in Lebanon is equivalent to more than 9,236 people being killed in the UK in 11 days, or about 45,600 if compared with the US.”

The areas Israel are striking are deep into Beirut, they're civilian areas and extend far beyond any bombing campaign since the 2006 war. Large chunks of the south are on their way to occupation, this has reinvigorated Hezbollah and left nearly a million people displaced. Absolutely indefensible.

Over 100 children among nearly 800 killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon www.channel4.com/news/over-10...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

lmao

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

Prediction: it will not be built right the second time around, either

NEW: Character.AI continues to host bots styled after prolific abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as roleplay "scenes" created to gamify Epstein's island. They aren't hidden. One roleplay is called "Epstein's Island Adventure." futurism.com/artificial-i...

As we all know, the billionaire class is really invested in improving the life of the working class.

I just don't think we can trust that technology will be developed and spread in democratically and publicly conscious ways by these individuals. AI regulation has become more urgent. We need a far more robust strategy than we have. The EU AI Act gets a lot of stick- at least they have the tools.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

these are literally the shittest things. ban them.

Unreal

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in? www.ft.com/content/4493...

Idk, should this not have preceeded the radical roll out and use of AI in warfare ... ? www.militarytimes.com/industry/tec...

#HIRING We’re recruiting a Senior Research Fellow, European Security at the Royal United Services Institute. Lead research on Europe’s security architecture, transatlantic relations, and the UK’s role in European defence. Apply by March 26, 2026: https://bit.ly/4b5mWaN

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Cheerful stuff in the FT. Trump has started something that he cannot control. This is arguably far more significant for the world economy than the oil crises of the 1970s.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Almost two weeks into the war, where do we stand: -we have no more clarity on the US endgoal (beyond "this will stop when Trump feels like it"). -it's increasingly unlikely the US will be able to translate real tactical successes (serious hits on Iran) into durable strategic gains.

I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

The Dardanelles are open for transit, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill said. "The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is the Ottomans shooting at the fleet," he said. "It is open for transit should the Ottomans not do that."

Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?

this means it is not open for transit

🚨Publication Day!🚨 #Elemental is out now! And since everyone loves a dog video here’s Peggy singing.* *Prize of a signed book for first person to tell me what she’s singing along to.

It is quite amusing to me how so many people don’t understand scale . You would have to have a fleet of around 100k trucks running 24/7 down a road twice the size of the M25 Volumes of oil transitioning this strait are around 20 million barrels a day. Roughly 70% world trade volume

NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter… IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

I guess all those people on X who claimed it was an Iranian missile and Bellingcat had lied about it being a Tomahawk are rushing to correct themselves - U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

👇🎯 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

The world we live in… The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal “Tommy Robinson.” Following the Israeli government’s increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond.

Tech guys who only read self help books struggling to understand Shii'ism and glorious martyrdom

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!! Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

This is unambiguously genocidal rhetoric: framing people from different cultures living peacefully as an existential threat justifies and incentivises extermination. It is genuinely terrifying how normalised Great Replacement Theory is becoming in our political culture.

"There's a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by dffiferent people that are not indigenous to this land" "I would love to know where you are planning to go when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before + will happen again" Thomas Corbett-Dillon, GB News

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

no I guess we won't acknowledge that this is all stolen from human writers

A key component of cyber media-savvy is asking: Does the person making a claim have the visibility to know this? And that should fall on the reporter, not the audience. Like Microsoft sees cybers because they run Windows, Google because everybody uses them, US agencies because they're everywhere.

lol

Anthropic sues US government www.wired.com/story/anthro...

We have an astoundingly crowded political and media market for a 13% proposition, it must be said.

Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a “blood bond” with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen