"Turnitin and Grammarly do not simply detect plagiarism but actively reconfigure what counts as authorship, originality, and intellectual integrity ... reshaping academic labor through anticipatory compliance and rendering originality as machinic compatibility." 🔥 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
CNN gas tracker: $3.41
vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page
"worse than the jim crow south" Have you seen Beirut? Quote ΘΔ Rush Girl 🔆✡️ @kripchakmentum · 17h the fact that 8 or so cities in israel have both significant jewish and significant palestinian populations at all is enough for israelis to call them “mixed,” and you look at those cities and basically all of them have residential segregation worse than the jim crow south x.com/davidshor/stat… 11:26 AM · Mar 7, 2026 · 1,874 Views
It says something about Israel that the capital of Lebanon is still more diverse than every single city in Israel after 30 years of sectarian civil war
In case you missed the earlier thread:
“And the ability of Western consumers to swallow higher prices is considerably lower than the Islamic regime’s ability to swallow American bombs.”
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Having known some of those specialists, it would be a good book!
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Fantastic: vibe coding privileges product over process
The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...
Palantir, Global Counsel (Mandelson) and NHS patient date:
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
The US bombing of an Iranian school seems to be the result of using Claude, which was relying a decade old data.
This is tragic, and such an indictment on the use of AI in warfare.
Lal Bihari campaigned for decades to be brought back to life. Now he’s saving souls from legal limbo. 1843 explores how the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People is helping India’s living dead econ.st/4bc787c
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Making enshittification a consumer protection concern: Bravo Norway!
There’s a huge need to model costs of strengthening sovereignty and resilience, including retaliatory measures - and the potential costs of not doing so, including both economic and security aspects.
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I think it all depends on what you define as DPI - ie is it primarily service delivery, or is broader ‘public service’. The former is relatively apolitical, the latter more so. Personally I think it is helpful - and aligns with European thinking on social media as public infrastructure
Strengthening sovereignty is a policy choice, and all choices include trade-offs. Investing in capacity has a cost, but the benefit is strengthened resilience:
Europe's EV battery cost gap with China could shrink to 30% • The Register
Building Digital Public Infrastructure: following India's UPI, Brazil's PIX, and South Africa's National Payment Utility, states' are increasingly building their own infrastructure instead of outsourcing:
Bank of England brings £431M settlement system in house • The Register
“And according to Tesla’s own published findings, the company’s autopilot is four times worse than that of a human. “
The Philippines has rolled out a unified platform that combines hazard data, land use standards and environmental datasets from multiple government agencies govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
Green party membership in UK passes 200,000 after byelection victory
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
This is a great thread on possible humanitarian migration, when the humanitarian system is already buckling with its own financial crisis
I have moved my account in @bsky.app to @eurosky.social
It is now managed by a European non-profit initiative, hosted on European cloud and governed by European law.
You can do it too and keep your profile and messages
www.eurosky.social/register
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
The Small States’ Antitrust Phalanx? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
"By connecting the citizens’ idea database directly to the workflow of the Senate’s Legislative Consultancy, the tool transforms a largely underused archive into a resource for drafting bills" modparl.substack.com/p/from-citiz...
