unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever. no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't. anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.

Maybe this is a controversial take but I would love it if we were able to do our jobs and ask questions of elected officials.

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods. skewed.de/lab/posts/co...

Yes, @rebeccasear.bsky.social has a great piece on this www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the newsletter: 'Why Dashboards That Deliver' by @datarevelations.com @abmakulec.bsky.social and @acotgreave.bsky.social by should be your next read openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/why-dashbo... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

This is a great and very valuable list that Eryk has compiled, and I am more than grateful he included my essay on «Platform Realism.» Such a great honor! Many pieces in there I've missed, so I'll be busy the next hours checking them out …

Such a great and important piece!

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

I just published a new installment of “A Gentle Introduction to GDAL” — Python & the Command Line. #dataviz #cartography #python #gdal medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

As the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China continues, Weijia Rao explores how Beijing has begun to adopt laws that mirror the national security legal tools that America has deployed against it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chin...

chaser: after local outcry against a massive proposed AWS data center near Tucson (yes, in the desert!), developers agreed to use a less water-intensive cooling system. AWS has now backed out because "its operations aren't compatible" with the less water-intensive option. tucson.com/news/local/s...

The Machine Stops (1909) by E. M. Forster Here's a PDF: www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teach...

Pete Tuffrey (British Artist, born 1953) "The Bolton Wanderer", 2025. Oil on Canvas, 16" × 12". Private Collection.

The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊 Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-... #DataViz #ggplot2

This is what we need. A way of talking about AI literacy that centres critical thinking!!!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... How are still not being genocided? Y’all treat us like lab rats to this day! And want to hide it all behind racist fears and projections. Land back will happen! #Landback

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Excited to share a new working paper! What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

there was this which has a handy-dandy venn diagram: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

New preprint 🎉 Living systematic reviews ensure evidence stays current osf.io/preprints/ps... In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake 🧵 1/8

Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier highlight four choices–similar to those faced during the advent of social media–that private and public actors must reckon with that will dictate whether artificial intelligence will be used for pro-democratic or civically destructive ends.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

The promised thoughts on this topic -- too long for a thread, so as a blog post instead: bsky.app/profile/emil...

Humans were travelling with dogs 10,000 years ago, a new study finds Paper: Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last few months I’ve found the Podcasts app will randomly open religion/spirituality podcasts. Sometimes app opens by itself and directs people to potentially malicious website. Apple no response www.404media.co/someone-is-t...

The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots Joe Sacco is one of a very small number of graphic novelists who have...

White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From Associate Editor @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism www.liberalcurrents.com/inheritance-... Liberalism for the 21st Century www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-f...

On the reading list it goes!

I could have told you that..and he'll win. (I'm not a supporter btw)

Wow. If money laundering in Canada is a $50 billion business or 2.4% of our GDP, isn't it in our NATIONAL INTEREST to prevent/stop it? Maybe a central banker, who is concerned about improving the CDN economy, would know about this/could talk to us about this...

I have news. Wonderful news. New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief. philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF

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As someone who likes change — when it's slow enough to understand — I've been cheered up by Ilya's affirmation that scaling won't solve everything, and by recent signs that business adoption is slowing (Economist article below).

Lots of shoving from NYPD to create an empty area for ICE to RETREAT after their planned raid got exposed LRAD now ordering dispersal outside parking garage to force dispersal.

Here is the Stanford paper on better prompting arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01171

What's the law say about attending to unattended objects that are moving through your public space? I'd like to think that ces objets trouvés can be cannabled with impunity. Other thoughts?

Buster Brown has been reincarnated as Donald l'Orange. Who's the other guy been reborn as?

"Billionaires, tech titans and their opponents are amassing multimillion-dollar war chests for a chaotic, bruising battle over AI regulation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections."

#stats Modelling proportion data? A reminder that adding small values to true zeroes (or subtracting from 1) can severely distort results Instead, try ordered beta models (or ZOIB) available in brms, ordbetareg or glmmTMB #rstats 📦 Great tutorial: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.

This is handy. Google Ads Transparency Center: This is Google's official, free tool where you can search any advertiser's name or website URL to see all the ads they are currently running or have run in the last 30 days across all Google platforms. adstransparency.google.com?region=NZ

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

Cliff Rowe (British, 1904-1989) - The Struggle between the Unemployed and the Police Forces, 1932-33.

…trample Indigenous rights and FPIC in favour of an energy-economy arms race, mirroring American policies completely. Today’s MOU is exactly what I was talking about. Anyway, check out The Canadian State for more sobering facts. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-can...

📊 #infoviz #dataviz Uncertainty comes to the weather-- Environment Canada has adopted a new color coding 🌈scheme for weather alerts, combining anticipated impact with confidence.

AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy. An essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Nice thread over on the DataMethods discussion forum (an invaluable resource for me, personally!) on differentiating between conditional and average treatment effects discourse.datamethods.org/t/propensity... #statsky #episky