h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

What if we said ‘linguistic prediction tools’ instead of ‘AI’

In all the jury kerfuffle what isn't being discussed and should be is magistrates. The mixed bench proposed by Leveson to replace juries has been quietly dropped in favour of a single judge. And mags sentencing powers are going up again to 18 months (+up to 2 yrs) www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

I absolutely refuse to share my spotify data with anyone only my God shall judge me

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

Several years in the making, we're pleased to finally see our Symposium in the Journal of Internat Crim Justice on #Professionals & #Professionalism in #InternationalCriminalJustice now out! Here's the Editorial, co-authored with Dr Ilaria Zavoli and Dr Nora Stappert academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...

I wrote a story about how easy it is to make accessibility accommodations happen, and yet, how somehow impossible? for people? to offer??? If you're in full fury over the discourse, come and get some catharsis at: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

A man has become the 7th person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. He’s also the second of the 7 who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

The major AI companies are just a series of Enrons stacked in trench coats.

Don't cross the picket line at the British Library, their staff are on strike and need our support.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Footnotes are Quentin Tarantino’s favorite part of the journal article

There is growing consensus that so-called 'conversion therapy' practices are harmful and must be banned. But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this? My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb

Another reason why it’s important not to obey illegal orders is because the people willing to give illegal orders will happily throw you under the bus for following them.

"It's not political" is an odd thing to say while describing the conservative mindset, though. The desire to be the hegemonic demographic, to impose your perception of "norms" on everyone else, is pretty political.

😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk

It's December, which means it's time for James' A Christmas Carol Quotes Advent Calendar! In keeping with the moral Dickens' tale, each one is a thinly veiled stab at certain political actors who simply must do better

Penultimate week of the toughest teaching term I've ever experienced While the threat of Compulsory Redundancy for academic stsff has been pushed back to 31 July 2026 at the earliest, there's much stress and sadness

My pronouns are he/him - as in masculine, and they!/them! - as in terrifying giant ants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

No, you should never accept to even contemplate collaborating with the far right It might protect you for a while if you're privileged enough but it will only legitimise them and put many communities at risk as well as democracy I can't believe we are at the stage when this has to be said...

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

Tax rich people and massive corporations. Provide universal basic income and healthcare. It's okay for them to have a bit less money and for the rest of us to have a bit more money. We'll spend it back to them anyway. They'll live. We'll all live. As a RIGHT.

Walk out to winter: swear I'll be there open.spotify.com/track/0XdpHC...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

What is to be done? VCs splurged on campus buildings. Student income now services property debt not teaching costs. So 14,000 staff must be cut. What kind of education will students get 🤷‍♀️ Will government resolve this privatization disaster? Or watch managers empty universities of knowledge?

UN report: 'Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2024. Gender-related killings (femicide/feminicide) are the most brutal and extreme manifestation of violence against women and girls.' www.unwomen.org/en/articles/...

Russian prosecutors asking to have Pussy Riot officially declared an "extremist" organization. From Pussy Riot's official facebook: "Singing in the streets is not extremism. If telling the truth is extreme, then hold my Red Bull."

This

Influencer is such a fancy title for an advert that can shit

Trying to find a way to argue back against Kapur's assertion that ihrl essentially subsumes the radicality of queer law back into homonormativity, and just wanting to point at @lawsadrag.bsky.social and yell 'look over there!'

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Alan Moore, the author of Watchmen, on superheroes

“I bought this house when it was only 300k and now it’s worth 2m, why should I have to leave because I can’t afford a tax???” - so you’re saying you’ve made over a million quid in profit off a house just by it existing and you’re now complaining that’s getting taxed a bit

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

🚨NEW: England wide strike action to hit 33 colleges Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers. Time for management to start negotiating! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427... #NewDealForFE

I have so little brainpower left to give, after this week, but thankfully I aspire to be a big dumb himbo

So, re. Sally Rooney, prescription of Palestine Action, hundreds of arrests, and so on: How's that goal of ensuring that "proscribed organisations are deprived of the oxygen of publicity" going

Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

47 arrested outside the Ministry of Justice. 90 arrested in Tavistock Gardens Peace Garden. 60 outside the Home Office. 140 outside the Royal Courts of Justice. These are just from the last week. Over 2,500 arrested in total. This is what Starmer, Cooper and Mahmood have done. Do you feel safer?

It's the #dragraceuk season finale tonight, and you know what that means!? That's right! It's time to read our open access article about how RuPaul is an autocratic dictator @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @lawsadrag.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

still a pretty good thread imo

Just think, if Dominic Raab’s Bill of Rights Bill had become law, its provision for the “right” to trial by jury, where legislation provides for trial by jury, would make no difference to anything

you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷