Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’

The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’

In 1984, An Unemployed Ice Cream Truck Driver Memorized A Game Show’s Secret Winning Formula. He Then Went On The Show: …and became rich, for a while.

Where are all the ‘Don’t tread on me’ Americans?: ‘If you oppose tyranny, the people of Minneapolis are your brothers and sisters in arms, regardless of what you think about immigration.’

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core: ‘Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases’

Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.

Write about the future you want: “If complaining worked, we would have won the culture war already.”

The enshittification of American hegemony: Countries as platforms.

U.S Proxy Warfare: Patterns in Middle Eastern Conflicts

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’

How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’

Phantom Obligation: ‘The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.’, and how software design can exacerbate it.

When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’

The Observer view: Britain cannot afford Reform: ‘They offer not just a toxic nostalgia, but an uneconomic one; they promise a return to a better yesterday, but serve up an unaffordable tomorrow.’

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.’

Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.

Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.

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’

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.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response: The findings of part 2 of the Covid enquiry.

No pasarán: anti-fascist slogan takes on new significance in Ukraine crisis

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage: ‘What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.’

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds: ‘That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity’