AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.
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2026-04-08
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-29
2026-03-27
Four Steps to Hell: ‘…if you’re seeking the most influential aesthetic vision on the 21st century, this is it. It’s simple to describe–but it’s ugly as sin.’
2026-03-10: Noted 6 decades ago: '...extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people'
2026-03-08: One reason LLMs hallucinate is because we incentivise them to give any answer over saying they don't know
2026-02-25: 📚 Finished reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee.
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-10
Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.
2026-02-08: A non-exhaustive list of cases where it is alleged that generative AI may have played some part in humans committing fatal violence to themselves or others
2026-02-07: An experiment suggests that using AI 'impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities' when it comes to mastering programming tasks
2026-02-07: AI companies are happily releasing products that they don't know how to test the safety of
2026-01-31
Only the Metrics Care: ‘The user isn’t the customer. And they’re not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimization–metrics on a dashboard’
The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’
Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns: ‘Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised’
2026-01-30
How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’
2026-01-29: When it came down to it, totally predictably, big tech chose to support the baddies
2026-01-23: 📚 Finished reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
2025-12-30: Tech bros seem obsessed with Lord of The Rings. Perhaps they should read it.
2025-12-28
Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’
2025-12-27
Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-11-28
King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.
2025-11-05: 📚 Finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT