Shannon Vallor

Exclusive: the progressive voters abandoning Labour Daily Politics Daily Politics from the New Statesman > ٠١٠٠٠ ٠ • 17m Labour is losing the voters it used to count on, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the Green Party's triumph in the Gorton and Denton by-election, and with local elections in London councils and other major cities coming up, Labour is losing the left progressive voters it could once rely on having "nowhere else to go". Now, the biggest study ever of these voters - shared exclusively with the New Statesman - reveals the true risk to Labour's future of leaving them behind. This work, done by surveying 10,000 voters and a randomised control trial style approach, has found out who the so-called progressive defectors are, why they're deserting Labour, and what impact this could have on Labour's electoral prospects.

Worrying news at the NS podcast, where the lads have discovered millions of younger, mostly educated left/lib people get all upset and offended if you relentlessly insult them, tell them to fuck off and implement policies that they find appalling.

all of it? i don’t know what consciousness as a ‘frame’ means, or what you mean by the other, larger ‘frame’, or what’s beneath me, or why…yeah all of it

Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought

Not sure what that last statement means. With respect to the prior one, I am in fact quite curious about consciousness, and AI, both of which are part of my research, which is how I know that LLMs are non-conscious bags of math (also the view of almost all AI experts not paid to suggest otherwise)

This is so absolutely predictable:

‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Interesting interview study about AI in the labor process. Best possible atmosphere (well-paid, autonomous) still results in more work, not less, because AI helps you multitask, work during nonwork time, extend your capability into other people's turf (experts then need to clean up vibejobs)

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

Do you have a link? I don’t see the source

Trying to stay in academia has been so demoralizing even without [waves hands]. And yet every time I log onto this website I'm met by a diverse community of scholars working in a broad range of fields, all of whom believe in and fiercely advocate for a better academy. What could be more hopeful?

'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call

It would have been genuinely inconceivable. It would have been easier to convince them that their whole lives had been a dream.

Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports

and that no one will do anything about it

Rite of Spring + Mirror — Alexander Whitley

There is so much that absolutely sucks in 2026. Pets and nature are among my saving graces, and art is another. So I am overjoyed that my book The AI Mirror has inspired this work, and I can’t wait to see it.

Announcing Alondra Nelson as the 2026 History of Science Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecturer | Department of the History of Science

Pleas save the date, Cambridge-Boston friends histsci.fas.harvard.edu/announcing-a...

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

Better Images of AI We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

Pleased to say that two images I designed for the BRAID Museums and Heritage resource (sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...) are now featured in the "Better Images of AI" collection - a project curating graphics for AI that avoids the usual humanoids, blue grids, and binary sequences. Available here:

Boiling off a lake to do what you could have done with half a bottle of vodka and a keyboard

Perfect exchange in the comments on this article on the AP forcing journalists to hand over story writing to AI and telling them resistance is futile:

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a wall . Alt: Frank from Always Sunny shakes his head ‘nope’

It’s so hard to know who to trust with film stuff; I’m so sorry it turned out like that. They reached out to me last week for some reason asking for a chat about their promo campaign; I hadn’t heard of it until then. They sent me the trailer, I watched it and wrote them back like

American kitty Gothic

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People at The Atlantic will write anything. “Netanyahu was a peace activist until October 7.” No he wasn’t. That isn’t true.

AI and Ethics AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It ...

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

xenophobia is expensive

It’s like the dril ‘somebody who is good at the economy help me’ tweet except instead of $3600 in candles it’s £19-30 billion in lost tax revenue to pacify racists

I would like to remain open-minded about this. I am also using the full-freight, enteprise version of Claude Code running 4.5 Sonnet to compare the text of two PDF files, and it repeatedly pulls out false text and quotes. This is the simplest of tasks, and this is March 2026.

I believe every claim of the AI enthusiasts: it does simplify your inbox, Yascha Mounk did use it to write theory papers, you can write 1000 manuscripts for a hundred bucks. But I am a solid month into using the most expensive Claude Code for the most basic tasks and I cannot trust it.