The death of Renee and many thousands more are made possible by a culture in which it is acceptable to hate women.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Grok's issue is far, far worse than "put a bikini on her." There are huge groups of people on Telegram making it do far worse, then sharing how they did it. It truly is a nonconsensual sexual abuse material machine: www.404media.co/inside-the-t...

How has Grok not been shut down yet and those responsible at X been arrested over actively generating CSAM?

Wetlands filter water naturally—removing pollutants through plants & microbes, no chemicals needed. We bulldoze them for development, then build expensive treatment plants. Humility means restoring what works. #Ecology #Wetlands

The horrors persist

🚨 four hour, high-quality video about the making of fascism just dropped 🚨 youtu.be/yamV8VAPi0o?...

2025 has been an incredible year for using computers to make things worse

More killing tech they developed in Gaza to bring the war home

Here we see BioDynaMo, the Biology Dynamics Modeller, an open-source, agent-based simulation software originally designed to model the behaviour of billions of cells. These visuals demonstrate how BioDynaMo can be used to study biological processes at scale.

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles! gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/ #gamestudies

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Super happy that my friends @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and I have just published a chapter about conspiracy theories, their formation and persistence on digital platforms. Edited by @ihsanylmz.bsky.social & Shahram Akbarzadeh www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.

📣 Call for Papers: Weizenbaum Conference 2026 🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?” 📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026 📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026 🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc

A great keynote by @karinwahlj.bsky.social on the rise of boutique news media to start off the #AANZCA25 conference on the Sunshine Coast. Liveblog is up:

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

Tomorrow: Volume 2 of The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, a premium 12,000+ word guide to every major AI player, neocloud, and hyperscaler dicking around with AI. It is one of the rudest things I've ever written. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

frameworks & concepts are so interesting to me

There was a concerted effort to ensure no one was held accountable in any way for the Iraq War and torture. That’s the reason most young people don’t know who Cheney is.

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

Wonderful to see this article by my friend and colleague @kkasianenko.bsky.social out in Communication Theory this week. Go give it a read!! doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

After Axel Bruns’ talk at CFI’s 25-year anniversary, I’ve been rethinking “filter bubbles.” In dialogue with my MKVT students — and with Habermas & Meyrowitz — I argue the issue isn’t isolation but exposure. New blog reflection: jespertaekke.dk/archives/359 @snurb.info

this might be the most direct and strident journal article ive seen

The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

AGI is sexbots and weapons

"Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert. "'I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,' Allen said."

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

Went hiking recently with some lovely friends and can confirm I love nature (and taking photos)

Crazy to me how universities / companies love to talk about how much they respect and support indigenous culture but then at the same time support plastering a giant stadium over one of the most spiritually significant sites for indigenous folk in the region

Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

these people know how extreme they are

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Great video by @danarrows.bsky.social as usual discussing the posthumous remaking of Charlie Kirk’s politics, his continuous approval of political violence so long as it’s framed the right way, and relating his death to the killing of Horst Wessel, a martyr of the Nazi party youtu.be/Kh0el8phS_o?...

Gazan children are walking the long walk to homes that have mostly been destroyed, some of them barefoot This video of a 5 year old is one example. He was 3 when the genocide began: www.instagram.com/reel/DPtxJ6y...

Just because there’s been a ceasefire doesn’t mean that Israel has stopped being an apartheid state allowed to treat Palestinians and international citizens like chattel. www.patreon.com/posts/140822...

Remember the claim that we couldn't force a rush to renewables too soon, because it just wouldn't be fair to "developing nations" (i.e. the global majority world)? Welp, turns out they're willing and eager to get in on renewables, and are doing really, really well with them. So.

What exactly did this mass slaughter achieve in the end?

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

The "you don't understand how (AI/LLMs/Diffusion Models/NNs) work" posture in any debate is often just "we don't agree on how to interpret what (AI/LLMs/Diffusion Models/NNs) are doing"