"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
This is quite a post
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
This was one of the most interesting, candid conversations I’ve had while reporting from the tech beat.
@anildash.com did NOT pull any punches diagnosing what is happening with the tech industry.
If you feel like tech shit is melting your brain lately, read this
Some more thoughts on ICE protests and the tools described in this 404 article: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
(also this vid is how I found out that Richard Dawkins of all people now identifies as "culturally Christian," which is just)
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Outrageous.
😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
De website opent met een AdobeStock plaatje, niet meer en eigen of Europees alternatief. Elders ook iStock-foto. Zonde. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/digi...
I had a discussion last night about how anti-birth control content is taking over social media. And here’s the thing: I don’t think it’s that Natural Cycles etc are making better content. I think Meta is putting its thumb on the scale.
Happy 70th birthday, flag of Europe!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of
every one of them is off their fucking trees
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
The European Convention on Human Rights
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
V good.
on.ft.com/47mwZWU Amazon outage shows EU heads are still in the cloud
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Tonight's witchy wisdom… and #Caturday vibe. #witchsky
While osteoarthritis is the world’s most common joint disease, experts say the way we treat and prevent it is badly out of step with the evidence.
They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...
This speaks to a point @timothysnyder.bsky.social makes in The Road to Unfreedom: That a key part of Putin’s success was making Russians believe that there wasn’t some optimistic future for them
“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.
I've been working in digital for 25 years but Mastodon makes me feel like an idiot.
This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.
Lots of terrible stuff in this but "banning dual citizenship" a bit of a buried lede
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Agreed. It's the same BS as star signs. I have 2 identical looking ginger cats and they couldn't have more different personalities.
