peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

Everyone on my feed talking about sandwich guy and giving sandwich details and I’m stuck on a train with no access to sandwiches and I’m so hungry

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

The Data Empowerment Clinic has officially launched! The Centre for Data Futures has launched the Data Empowerment Clinic, the first educational initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing grassroots data empowerment movements worldwide. Learn more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-dat...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

💡 What does quantum revolution mean for humanity? On 19 November, join our event in collaboration with @scigallerylon.bsky.social and hear from Professor James Millen, Dr Libby Heaney, Faiyaz Amin and Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social. Register below — no science background needed! ⬇️

I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.

'Study in SHAPE disciplines – social sciences, humanities and the arts – develops the skills that underpin a modern workforce: critical thinking, communication and creativity. These are not peripheral to the industrial strategy but essential to it.' 1/3

@ginasue.bsky.social Look what has arrived in my life!

Except Barry.

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

2025 is the 25th anniversary of space archaeology as a field! Here is a thread of 10 videos to whet your appetite. #SpaceArchaeology 🧪 🏺 🔭

People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

Do the dead have free expression? Griefbots are becoming increasingly popular in the age of #AI. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social explores the growing phenomena and questions whether we should have the right to shape our own words once we die: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/do-t...

Every time.

#ChatGPT is getting spicy 😳 With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology. #KingsQs🧵⬇️

No one’s really bothering to build sex robots anymore. That shipped has sailed. It’s AI lovers on your phone, not sex robots in your home.

My morning walk in the woods; not sticking around for nighttime, thanks.

(Well, obvs my regret is that my work email address is online and that men take time out of their day to tell me in detail why they think I'm wrong.)

It's me: your local, friendly, left-wing, bleeding heart, liberal, woke academic (and I regret nothing): www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.

NEW EPISODE What happens if the A.I. bubble bursts? Today on The Bunker, Seth Thévos is joined by Ryan Cummings, chief of staff at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policymaking, to ask whether the future of A.I. could trigger the next big economic crash. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod #AI

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I cannot stress how much I enjoy my job — I genuinely do — but today I am the embodiment of the This Is Fine meme while my husband is at home, writing by the stove in the company of two beautiful dogs (one ours; one visiting). I may be a tad envious.

My day started with painful dental treatment and went on to back-to-back meetings. Downed tools at 5:30pm to go to the cinema and see After the Hunt, which just made me more annoyed because films never do academia properly (probably because the reality is eternal emails and back-to-back meetings).

News coverage of OpenAI's recently announced, forthcoming updated functioning w/ respect to the types of conversations enabled - from France 24 - featuring some commentary by me, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), & other AI ethics researchers: www.france24.com/en/technolog... #aiethics

New blog post (never a paywall): "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Medicine's idea of a “universal body” was never universal. It was male, and now AI is learning from that legacy. Bias doesn’t disappear in data; it scales. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Yep. I have dual nationality because the Good Friday Agreement allows me to be both — something that is deeply important to me. (I wrote about it here: www.perspectivemedia.com/choosing-to-...)

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

I also wrote about AI ‘psychosis’ (not a clinical term) for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. Paywalled, but the tl;dr is that AI is likely a catalyst rather than a cause, and that if the techbros are so concerned, how come they keep feeding this stuff to us? subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/78/t...

"There is no true freedom of speech in the literal sense, and no objection available to the lack of it. The dead have no redress." I wrote on 'griefbots' and freedom of expression for the latest @indexoncensorship.org – topical, with Sora producing videos (without permission) of people we've lost.

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

earlier today someone showed me a picture of their baby and said "that's not even AI that's just what she looks like" and I am still thinking about the implications of that statement

Right now, at this point in time (10:53pm) at this place (train hurtling homeward through the dark) there is no finer song to listen to than the Afghan Whigs’ What Jail is Like. (This song is now 32 years old. How?)

Here is an approximate text of my talk at today's @kings-dfi.bsky.social event (with links to sources cited), the "Digital Futures of History"; on the (quasi)superstitious nature of AI: stuartdunn.blog/2025/10/15/t...

Doing two consecutive full days + evening work events in London so stayed away from home last night — but forgot my meds. As a result, have been playing seizure roulette all day, but other than a banging headache at lunchtime, I think I’ve got away with it. (Seizure-free for 12yrs and counting.)

If you build it, they will come. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deeply disappointed that the names in the list have been redacted.

Hear hear! It’s an AI companion in every phone, not a sexrobot in every home.

We (OpenUK) are running a free unconference in London next week to discuss AI. agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk Boosters and sceptics very welcome! #Unconference #London #AI

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

No.

Just ditch the human and go straight to the AI partner. At least then you know what you’re getting. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.