"In interviews over the last month, AI researchers, economists and tech workers said that essentially, we’re all living through an experiment" And we are the guinea pigs. Go tell AI "consultants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

A resident in Tehran films the US and Israel bomb densely populated neighborhoods in Tehran. These are clearly massive munitions with little to no regard for civilian casualties. Indeed, the entire neighborhood is engulfed in fire and smoke. Just as Israel did in Gaza.

Now France is denying airspace…

(Reuters) -- Italy has denied permission for U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella ​air base in Sicily before flying to ‌the Middle East, a source close to the matter said @reuters.com

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

After we @foxglovelegal.bsky.social worked with Carbon Brief to show the government’s data centres emissions projections were a fantasy, government responded by… deleting the projections and replacing them with a note that they are under “routine review”. So much for transparency.

AI hype is everywhere. Today’s guests on the Tech Policy Press podcast are studying this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, building out a line of inquiry they call "Hype Studies." They want to understand the social and political dimensions of tech hype, and what it portends.

Administrators spend $17 million of CSU money on ChatGPT while shuttering departments essential to the job of a university in developing, archiving, and teaching all kinds of knowledge

Here’s a good article about Meta’s very frustrating decision to pull encryption out of Instagram. www.wired.com/story/the-da...

Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers & settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Iranian writer Ahmad Zeidabadi said: “If the people of America or other countries do not stop this savage being, the Middle East will instantly become an unimaginable hell & then a barren & uninhabitable land.” The sense that the US is in the grip of a deranged figure is common among Iranians.

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!

Its Day 19. We have entered a new, more dangerous phase. Israeli attack on Iran's gas field "combined with the US bombing Iran’s coastline on Tuesday night is likely making traders realise the conflict can last for longer "the risk of damage to infrastructure is growing"

The war is a HORROR. One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms. Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...

"For all the fuss about whether Israel was responsible for the war, it's actually Israel's repeated choices to move up the escalation ladder, forcing the US to follow suit, that's a much clearer case of entrapment." - Emma Ashford

Israel is levelling down entire buildings in central Beirut

A terrifying line from @joelleabirached.bsky.social 's latest piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social "Our hospital at the American University of Beirut is preparing for an imminent disaster, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear scenarios." www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...

".. this is the realities of war, & those who target civilians, in particular the Iranian regime, that kind of action is appalling" Govt minister Sarah Sackman on the bombing of the school in Minab, which more & more people are now admitting was done by the US

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map Inside the UK’s asylum system

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”

US +Israel now in full blown war against Iran's civilian population. "Expect a deliberately created humanitarian catastrophe with food, water & energy shortages, hospitals destroyed...massive internal & external displacement" Also expect Iran to retaliate likewise on Gulf bsky.app/profile/alex...

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

UK accused of 'collective punishment' over Sudanese students ban - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-accused-collective-punishment-over-sudanese-students-ban

if the US doesn't want its military assets attacked maybe they should stop starting wars & fuck off back to their own borders

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

Impressive timing by Shabana Mahmood for today to be the day she announces her asylum policy 'inspired by Kristi Noem'.

Important to seek clarity today on whether Home Office and No 10 will try to defend - or will now withdraw - a false+misleading claim applying settlement reforms to 2022-24 cohort saves £10bn Not just overspinning lifetime saving in 30 years time Gvt policy doesn't save maybe £8-10 billion of it!

Now the Bekaa valley. The IDF is ordering the forced evacuation of three towns in the Bekaa, east Lebanon We now have all of south Lebanon, all of Dahieh and parts of the Bekaa

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa... EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6. 1/

Middle East crisis live: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut

'Claude' is a war criminal.

UK to further curtail rights of asylum seekers ft.trib.al/ElJqFvf

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Israeli “evacuation orders” have displaced 105 different villages in southern Lebanon. The illegal orders also extend north of the Litani River. Over 30,000 people are newly displaced in the country.

#BREAKING | Israeli and U.S. warplanes are carpet bombing the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

If you know your British including British colonial history, you might be a bit appalled.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Hugely necessary: a large scale mapping project, 'The Reactionary International" collecting research on the rise of the illicit far right reactionary.international

Anthropic refused to support the Department of War - but OpenAI stepped in to fill the gap. And once again, the United States is bombing the Middle East. We can’t rely on companies’ sense of morality to protect people from the militarisation of tech. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...