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Bloody hell
Just the BBC, the national broadcaster, mainstreaming a fascist blogger. I guess this is normal now.
January 6, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Bloody hell
Geez, doesn't take much.
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Geez, doesn't take much.
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Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
May 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
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FT had a depressing report on this www.ft.com/content/50b1...
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
FT had a depressing report on this www.ft.com/content/50b1...
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subscribe to 404 Media if you want to see a few people do the news half a year before corporate media reports it
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
subscribe to 404 Media if you want to see a few people do the news half a year before corporate media reports it
Guys! You guys! I made an MLM! It works! It even has an equation! It's slightly embarrassing that I will probably be able to write up what it actually means in an afternoon, but it works!
January 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Guys! You guys! I made an MLM! It works! It even has an equation! It's slightly embarrassing that I will probably be able to write up what it actually means in an afternoon, but it works!
Jimmy Fleeman couping stanes here theday. An snaw!
January 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Jimmy Fleeman couping stanes here theday. An snaw!
I had a lot of marking before Christmas, and at one point accidentally read a journal article as if it were a student essay. It was actually not a bad approach - does this have a coherent argument, does it make appropriate reference to a suitable range of relevant literature,
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I had a lot of marking before Christmas, and at one point accidentally read a journal article as if it were a student essay. It was actually not a bad approach - does this have a coherent argument, does it make appropriate reference to a suitable range of relevant literature,
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the extremely capable, performing better than a human, and close to achieving conscientiousness AI systems, y'all
“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:44 PM
the extremely capable, performing better than a human, and close to achieving conscientiousness AI systems, y'all
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🟢 This week, thousands of people across Somalia took to the streets to protest Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, a self-declared breakaway region in northern Somalia.
In Baaydhabo, in Somalia’s South West State, demonstrators described the move as a violation of Somalia’s sovereignty, waving...
In Baaydhabo, in Somalia’s South West State, demonstrators described the move as a violation of Somalia’s sovereignty, waving...
January 3, 2026 at 2:05 AM
🟢 This week, thousands of people across Somalia took to the streets to protest Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, a self-declared breakaway region in northern Somalia.
In Baaydhabo, in Somalia’s South West State, demonstrators described the move as a violation of Somalia’s sovereignty, waving...
In Baaydhabo, in Somalia’s South West State, demonstrators described the move as a violation of Somalia’s sovereignty, waving...
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The fragility of digital evidence
🔴 BREAKING: Namecheap, a major domain registrar and web-hosting company, revoked the domain of Zionism Observer, an archive account which had uploaded more than 16,000 videos of Palestinians killed in Gaza, mostly documenting suspected Israeli war crimes.
Namecheap explained the move by saying th
Namecheap explained the move by saying th
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
The fragility of digital evidence
Just read the New Yorker article about Sacks. I'm not sure you can do narrative without constructing a story. Although now I know how everyone in that era was so fiercely literate, I suppose.
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Just read the New Yorker article about Sacks. I'm not sure you can do narrative without constructing a story. Although now I know how everyone in that era was so fiercely literate, I suppose.
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She flees, pursued by a single candle.
January 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
She flees, pursued by a single candle.
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Oh, I don't know, mate? Is it because Universities are not like car manufacturers, and because automotive brands aren't remotely like university reputations?
www.cairneagle.com/wp-content/u...
www.cairneagle.com/wp-content/u...
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oh, I don't know, mate? Is it because Universities are not like car manufacturers, and because automotive brands aren't remotely like university reputations?
www.cairneagle.com/wp-content/u...
www.cairneagle.com/wp-content/u...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Quite sensible, I thought.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Quite sensible, I thought.
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“Genocide is turned into an act of God and Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people are raised to the status of a cosmic event. State violence has been sanctified. Netanyahu has saved his soul, absolving himself of sin.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Genocide is turned into an act of God and Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people are raised to the status of a cosmic event. State violence has been sanctified. Netanyahu has saved his soul, absolving himself of sin.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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It’s simultaneously annoying and unsurprising to see academics and researchers who argue that creating a digital mind is improbable or impossible being subjected to more criticism and held to a higher standard than those arguing that tech bros are creating a completely new form of sentient life
December 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It’s simultaneously annoying and unsurprising to see academics and researchers who argue that creating a digital mind is improbable or impossible being subjected to more criticism and held to a higher standard than those arguing that tech bros are creating a completely new form of sentient life
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Also all the problems caused by Ed tech can be solved by smaller class sizes and well-paid teachers given real academic freedom.
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Also all the problems caused by Ed tech can be solved by smaller class sizes and well-paid teachers given real academic freedom.
Embarking on 'a quest for parsimony'. I am so happy about the wording, I can't even resent working on Boxing Day.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Embarking on 'a quest for parsimony'. I am so happy about the wording, I can't even resent working on Boxing Day.
"In addition to being a superb marketing tool, Doomerism is also an excellent distraction from the real-world harm being done by AI right here, right now." Lanchester being actually quite sensible. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"In addition to being a superb marketing tool, Doomerism is also an excellent distraction from the real-world harm being done by AI right here, right now." Lanchester being actually quite sensible. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
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So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Does anyone else find that no matter if you start with Christmas tree, you end with the Red Flag?
December 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Does anyone else find that no matter if you start with Christmas tree, you end with the Red Flag?