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And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
The world we live in… The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal “Tommy Robinson.” Following the Israeli government’s increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond.
Tech guys who only read self help books struggling to understand Shii'ism and glorious martyrdom
Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!
Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.
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Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.
This is unambiguously genocidal rhetoric: framing people from different cultures living peacefully as an existential threat justifies and incentivises extermination. It is genuinely terrifying how normalised Great Replacement Theory is becoming in our political culture.
"There's a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by dffiferent people that are not indigenous to this land"
"I would love to know where you are planning to go when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before + will happen again"
Thomas Corbett-Dillon, GB News
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
no I guess we won't acknowledge that this is all stolen from human writers
A key component of cyber media-savvy is asking: Does the person making a claim have the visibility to know this? And that should fall on the reporter, not the audience. Like Microsoft sees cybers because they run Windows, Google because everybody uses them, US agencies because they're everywhere.
lol
We have an astoundingly crowded political and media market for a 13% proposition, it must be said.
Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a “blood bond” with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life.
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I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen
The situation in Lebanon is truly bleak, Israel effectively occupying the south, regular strikes into civilian areas of Beirut, half a million people displaced and even if the strikes on Iran slow down or cease this is likely to persist. It's horrific the news continues to fail like this.
It does sometimes feel that a lot of people in Westminster are just in denial about how much the world has changed over the past decade
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
anyone who has been on social media for the last 15 years has ptsd for this exact thing when the charts start to buck and the smart weirdos start to flail and vaguely gesture like this
Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation.
tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread.
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FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer
It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
This is true, and a key thing to reflect on: one can be agnostic about tech in the abstract, but this tech *doesn't exist in the abstract*. It only exists concretely, and do you imagine you'll have more control over its concrete expression than the wealthiest people in the world? If so, how so?
