What the heck hahah
“The LEGION OF_DOOM…
whose primary reason for affiliation is to gather information for and then publish a "hackers" magazine called "PHRACK 2600".”
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
FT exclusive | Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot ft.trib.al/zgskGCm
My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Say “NO” to Victimisation in @ucu.org.uk
🚨 Strike rally
⏰ Thurs 12 Feb @ noon
📍 UCU HQ, Carlow Street, London
Including guest speaker for the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine 🇵🇸
Everyone welcome!
Bring your branch banner & your solidarity to say #HandsOffMarie
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
“I don't think this is just a phase.”
As the backlash grows against U.S. tech dominance, companies, countries, and individual users are trying to find alternatives:
restofworld.org/2026/big-tec...
BSC Feb book draw. This month's book draw is for 'Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice' by Lambros Fatsis @manchesterup.bsky.social. BSC Members can find out more here: britsoccrim.org/book-draw-2
Between April 2019 and March 2025, 107 of the 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+.
Forty-six of these children were trans – seven per cent of all children who died by suicide.
www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...
"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
UK police have blamed Microsoft Copilot for an intelligence mistake. Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant made up a non-existent football match and British police included the mistake in an intelligence report. Yikes. Details on the Copilot mistake here👇 www.theverge.com/news/861668/...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
The University have moved to close Cambridge Vet School in 2032 despite the enormous shortage of vets in the UK for public and government practice, the growing reality of imported exotic disease and enormity of health research that will be lost. Petition to save it at the link
savethevetschool.co.uk
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access!
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...
On that, "Fake News in Ancient Greece" looks at the form and function of ancient fake news and compares them to modern.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
"The 'deeper purpose' of nonconsensual AI nudes is darker than sexual gratification. The goal is to 'humiliate, shame, and objectify women, especially women who have the temerity to speak out.'" indicator.media/p/nonconsens...
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
The Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) will be held again in 2026, as part of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy.
The CfP is at: wacco-workshop.org
I hope to see you in Portugal!
Fun fact I learned about while writing this: During the 2007 holiday shopping season, retailers sharply discounted HD-DVD players and turned them into doorbusters, which made them fly off the shelves—only for the format to get discontinued in February of 2008.
tedium.co/2025/11/29/b...
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For all the dog people, some great research from my colleagues in The Conversation:
'Dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull size and shape more than 10,000 years ago, long before kennel clubs and pedigrees.'
theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
