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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Your wish is my command!

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‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’ Mojtaba Khamenei, a candidate to succeed his father as Iran’s supreme leader, is no reformer.

Now would be a good time to read @graemewood.bsky.social on Mojtaba Khamenei:

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Wolves have only lost two full-length matches at Wembley: 1939 FA Cup Final (months before WW2) and 2019 FA Cup semi-final (months before Covid). Probably best for the world if we don't get there this year.

Happy Threads Day

If you use generative AI willingly, if you engage in cryptocurrencies willingly, if you need ChatGPT to type out your emails and live your simulation of an actual life then you have compromised your soul unblinkingly and are someone who simply chooses to feed the beast for your own convenience.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny

Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby 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 ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

On Jan. 7, a European Robin was spotted in Montreal. The bird was authenticated by the Cornell Ornithology Lab. No one knows how he could have crossed the Atlantic.🌻🙂

emerald fennell - "imagine Jane Eyre but the wife in the attic is a kink"

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

Shocking but not surprising.

Maduro had lost the aloha spirit

Trump now owns Venezuela The US president has a growing appetite for military adventure

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2026: scrolling past the AI generated CSAM on the nazi pedophile app to see my favorite politicians' public anti-war statements

new this Christmas gaslight your grandma

Sure, Xmas trees are pretty, but the best trees are decorated with lichens…

Various Sticta & Peltigera species on willows & hazels in this wet woodland in the Fowey Valley, Cornwall

Last year I wrote my favourite thing I’ve ever written, and this year I am matching it with the equivalent rage against the tech industry - stage 4 of Enshittification, when the platforms begin to enshittfy shareholders. Out Monday if all goes to plan.

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splitting the g but it's a Yorkshire curry house and it's kingfisher

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Sunderland labeled Newcastle as “visitors” on the scoreboard. No Newcastle badge either

Sunderland diving into tackles in a local derby like kamikaze pilots. Foreign players who couldn't point to Sunderland on a map before they went there absolutely dialled into what it means. The contrast between that and us against achelsea and Arsenal is stark.
And they won too.

Let it be: Paul McCartney urges EU to drop ban on veggie ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’ Former Beatle argues use of terms for meat-free products ‘encourages attitudes essential to our health’ Paul McCartney has joined calls for the EU to reject efforts to ban the use of terms such as “sausage” and “burger” for vegetarian foods. The former Beatle has joined eight British MPs who have written to the European Commission arguing that a ban approved in October by the European parliament would address a nonexistent problem while slowing progress on climate goals. Continue reading...

Let it be: Paul McCartney urges EU to drop ban on veggie ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’

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