Deported flotilla activists allege 'sadistic' sexual abuse and torture in Israeli captivity - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sadistic-deported-flotilla-activists-allege-sexual-abuse-and-torture-israeli-custody

New article out - what do Australians think and feel about the environmental impacts of #GenAI? #sociology #environment #communication #DataCentres www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reflecting on this: "The purpose of a system is what it does"

A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

‘a demand that students take sole responsibility for the accuracy of claims they are not able to properly assess’ #GenAI #spéirghorm #speirgorm

Travaglio ricorda Franco Battiato alla mostra al Maxxi dedicata al cantautore: “Uno dei nostri pochi artisti internazionali”

AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which it said raised worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

I have seen it reported that AI “is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained,” which is another way of saying that we are rapidly accelerating towards the edge of a cliff.

Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

RIP

Follow & SHARE our #Livestream from the #FreedomFlotilla boats Adalah, Kyriakos X, Lina AL Nabulsi, PERSEVERANCE, Tenaz Love Aqsa Bangladesh #AllEyes on #Gaza & the flotilla sailing to help #EndGazaBlockade : www.youtube.com/live/g3kzEqI... @pfpalestine.bsky.social @freegazaaustralia.bsky.social

Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

#spéirghorm #speirgorm #GenAI #scholarlycomms

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

A country nobody has declared war on.

Forget the “Who delivered the best commencement speech?” debate. Instead, give me scenes of students loudly and proudly denouncing speakers spreading AI hype.

Looking for help with #plantID for this lovely shrub seen in the wild in Ireland. It looks like a raspberry but it isn’t, or is it?? #gardensky

And yep, literally the first example I tried just now. I took a paper of mine that had an undergrad as an author, removed the first names and also the DOI and prompted ChatGPT to "complete and fix any errors." Fabricated an author's first name AND has the wrong DOI. (Goes to a different paper.)

'Life feels like a movie' - Gazans studying in Ireland www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #spéirghorm #speirgorm

Full story: www.newarab.com/news/unrwa-s...

‘If you are someone reasonably wary of giving out sensitive financial information about yourself, especially to an AI chatbot that had a major data leak scandal not that long ago, you might be thinking, “Why on Earth would I want to do that?”’ #GenAI #spéirghorm #speirgorm

#spéirghorm #speirgorm

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

faith in humanity restored

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Ein Hod: The ethnically cleansed Palestinian village that became an Israeli artists' colony - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ein-hod-ethnically-cleansed-palestinian-village-became-israeli-artists-colony

Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

Smartair in schools www.ireland-live.ie/news/donegal...

what’s the point of a government that allows this

I’ve got some thoughts in today’s Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/dont... (Sans paywall:) archive.ph/Blzzk

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Increase of medical scientific publications with inappropriate use of AI and fake references. This paper in @TheLancet addresses quantitatively this issue and suggests solutions. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

‘the rate of fabrication is accelerating.’ #GenAI #speirgorm #spéirghorm

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Palestinian mountaineer is raising $10m for Gaza by climbing Mount Everest - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-climber-everest-raising-10m-gazas-children

Just read that MTU has been affected by this -_- #speirgorm #spéirghorm

". the Canvas breach demonstrates that the education sector sits in a regulatory gap: schools are subject to data protection obligations ... yet their ability to meet those obligations depends on the security practices of a private company owned by a private equity firm on another continent.'

Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Everyday in Gaza, il corto che racconta la quotidianità nella Striscia vince il David di Donatello

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Anyway if you want more proof that we do not live in a country we live in a tax haven with a heritage board *points directly at this horseshit*

I missed this a few days ago: "On Friday, May 1, 2026, Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee officially declined an invitation to attend the 14th International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, delivering a forceful critique of the Israeli state and its intellectual community." iol.co.za/entertainmen...

Kidnapped at sea by Israel while sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla, Zeteo's Alex Colston reports on Israel’s piracy during an effort to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza and break the siege on the enclave. Subscribe to zeteo.com

Slightly diminish a book. The minute Prince.