I complained on #reddit / #cybersecurity about @developers.google.com logins post-apple-upgrade caring about whether I was near the home I‘d never consented to them recording. Reddit bros thought I was a fool, but this is the flip side of that.

It gets better! infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

Peter Garrett also famously wrote multiple songs decrying US military presence in Australia, including this banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv...

It gets better! infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

All things proper universal healthcare would help with.

Just saw an influencer praise a vibe-code project because they "rewrote bash from scratch in 1million+ lines of code" 😬 bash is <200,000 lines of *.c and *.h files... And companies wonder why their AI costs are so high Probably not what they intended when they say AI will 5x-10x engineering output

Neither marking nor writing my book, but attending the distinguished lecture of @univie.ac.at #datascience by David A Smith of @northeasternu.bsky.social

Good perspective on the barriers that libraries often put up to customers actually consuming their product. When late fees are eliminated, people actually return more books, and more people get library cards. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Everyone says social media is over, and I saw no comments about my @aamasconf.bsky.social keynote here, mastodon, or twitter. Yet suddenly two relevant blogposts are getting heavily hit – I didn't even mention these posts or my blog, someone found and shared them SOMEWHERE.

Amnesty International on Artificial Intelligence (haven't read yet, SHOULD be #marking dissertations.) #AIEthics

So last night, state police and ICE cornered and kettled protestors away from Delaney Hall so they could absolutely rain down violence on protestors. FYI: Kettling is when law enforcement block an exit for protestors, direct them to another exit, and THAT exit is also blocked by law enforcement.

"In 1974, I was a kid from San Diego who wanted to build guitars. I could never have imagined it would one day lead to me supporting elephant dung research in Africa. But you can’t unknow what you know… This isn’t about charity or PR. It’s about responsibility and, ultimately, #resilience." #ethics

That blogpost also goes into a conversation with Dennett on philosophy, BTW. And the Weizenbaum aritcle I wrote went into both the present moment and the EU is trying to meet it with #digitalGovernance. 2/2

The first time I ran into that concept I was so impressed I blogged about it. This was back when I was on sabbatical and my blogposts were basically letters to my, parents so it goes on a bit. I hadn't fully realised how awesome Weizenbaum was before I read up for an invited centenary article. 1/2

Most people still see #batteries as a niche tech. Meanwhile Australia on track to grow home battery capacity from ~5 GWh to ~13 GWh in 2026, while leading the world with 2.14 GWh of battery storage per million ppl, over 4x the US. This is transformational disruption unfolding. #Bettrification

"Quietly, and with surprisingly little fanfare from the rest of the world, Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies."

Talk about #dualUse. Trying to break embryo editing prohibitions by solving cystic fibrosis is like trying to break privacy to solve child abuse, or getting scientists to solve land mines & fire fighting with robots & drones as if those wouldn’t then be highly effective weapons. #humanEnhancement 1/

Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻

Cloudflare protects a quarter of the internet from cyberattacks, including Follow the Money. The downside? The US tech giant needs access to an enormous amount of sensitive data to do so. That’s why we’re switching to a European alternative.

Hunter-Gatherer Studies has a long intellectual history. For this special issue, lead by the indefatigable & inimitable @ceciliapad.bsky.social & @haneuljang.bsky.social, we will be taking (critical) stock of that history by fostering inter-generational dialogue between early- & late-career scholars

How do birds respond to active fire? This has been studied in various fire-prone regions (brief review included), but less elsewhere. Here, I observed Swedish birds mainly ignoring fire, and some even continued singing. Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The censorship and isolation is imo scarier than the funding-decision control — meaning even more likely to eradicate the effectiveness and accuracy of any science that does get done. (Nested skype here nests a @Science.org article; click through to see.)

In the book Computer Power and Human Reason, Josepeh Weizenbaum wrote about “civil courage”: “Every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity itself, depends on him. Anything less is a shirking of responsibility and is itself a dehumanizing force..."

The Gates Foundation helped supplant the WHO through massive donations facilitating agenda control by an elite at a time when the WHO was becoming globally representative. This article says nothing either way about the financial tractability of the sidelined WHO agenda, but interesting on power.

Them: “Please be aware of my new 10 volume scholarly trilogy. I don’t expect you to read it, just to deploy it.” Should I write back “please just you yourself ask your LLM what Joanna Bryson would think of your work.” ?

Haven't read about MENSA and NetHack, but Jan Krajíček single-handedly solved NetHack in 2015 pre-llm, pure softeng. dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.50... The approach was quick debugging of (Clojure) rules in multiple NetHack sessions interactively.

*Upcoming deadline for two advertised posts in the Miller Cognition and Conservation Group is 5 June 2026* - 4-year PhD advert: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - 4-year Postdoc advert: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78...

Unfortunately I can't figure out how to retrieve @aamasconf.bsky.social papers to from particularl sessions, but both the GAAI panels look to have super interesting papers. If there's no way to dynamically build that page, ( #AAMAS ?) then someone should make a Webpage! @louiseadennis.bsky.social

Awesome talk! roger0426.github.io/MENSA/ online in real time. Two things I love: knowing when to "think" and getting massive improvement, AND #netHack – I haven't seen that as a test domain before, #LLMWin #AAMAS #AAMAS2026

Any test that’s usable in biology is contingent on regularities not reliable in artefacts. And then just becomes a design target for people wanting to believe in [their ability to create] things attributed (wrongly) to the supernatural.

How did I not know SAB is running in Berlin in October? robotics-institute-germany.de/event/from-a... @vvh.bsky.social

Integrating Counterfactual Simulations with Language Models for Explaining Multi-Agent Behaviour Bálint Gyevnár, Christopher G. Lucas, Stefano V. Albrecht, Shay B. Cohen arxiv.org/abs/2505.17801 #AAMAS

Temu got fined €200mln today by the EC but Musk is the story. Last year he was fined a paltry €120mln for 3 violations of the DSA amid suspected ongoing threats to democracy. Meanwhile Temu was fined more for what appears a one-off about dodgy toys. EU is fighting shy of real threats from Big Tech.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Ok tbh this looks like profits might catch up. I mean ultimately, if we can stabilise redistribution/politics and get this thing sustainable, then I expect EVENTUALLY economists will improve enough to be able to measure the productivity gains of digital technologies.

Love this…

Why do sex chromosomes stop recombining? New models show even weak sexual antagonism can strongly drive recombination suppression, with mating systems shaping the outcome. By @ewanflintham.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Researchers at Utrecht University have upgraded Paleolatitude - originally built to link fossil records to ancient climates, but now it is a free online tool that traces the geological history of any point on Earth over the last 320 million years 🌐 paleolatitude.org#!/

#UnisRetten - Heute in Wien, morgen in Graz! 🗓️ Donnerstag, 28. Mai 2026, um 14 Uhr 📍 Treffpunkt Wilhelm Fischer Allee (Stadtpark Graz) 📷 Uni Graz/Elke Höfler #UnisRetten #weworkfortomorrow #universityofgraz #unigraz

An EU watchdog is taking a stand against normalization of fascism in EU politics. Excellent scoop @maxgriera.bsky.social cc @terryreintke.bsky.social

To be fair, many of these people may be insecure about their English, which I get. But we should be able to have live talks in e.g. Chinese with automated real-time subtitling / supertitling already. I think it's time for this both online and in person. #AAMAS #academicChatter

These were my suggestions for "virtual presence" #hybrid in 2016! IMO you should never speak at a meeting without real presence, meaning you can adjust your talk to the talks that went before you. You don't have to be physically present, but mentally, yes. #aamas

Bad news, it looks like even AI rsearchers are stil fuzzy on the fact that LLM don't report e.g their own characteristics, but rather the characteristics of the humans whose text makes up their training data. As usual, I'll be live blogging where I can edit: mastodon. mastodon.social/@j2bryson/11...

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

I hadn't realized that I didn't truly understand the meaning of a hunger strike until I interviewed people who had been on hunger strikes. In that spirit, some thoughts on the hunger strike inside ICE's Delaney Hall detention complex in New Jersey.

For the @wired.com Big Interview pod, I sat down with Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian, who was imprisoned by the regime for nearly two years and now works on press freedom at the Washington Post. We talked internet blackouts, Jeff Bezos, and whether he'll ever go back to Iran:

Can AI do fact-checking? We asked an intrepid @wired.com fact checker to fact-check the LLMs: "According to my research, AI is even more wrong than people might think."

Re @anthropic.com + the pope — regulatory evasion via avoiding rather than prioritising #transparency. Fortunately, now illegal in the EU thanks to the #AIAct #digitalGovernance #AIEthics

Re @anthropic.com + the pope — regulatory evasion via avoiding rather than prioritising #transparency. Fortunately, now illegal in the EU thanks to the #AIAct #digitalGovernance #AIEthics