Joel Scanlan

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

This ad is perfection - a perfect encapsulation of what Cory Doctorow described when he coined the term. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Adolescent Perceptions of an Online Safety Chatbot: Survey Study Background: Adolescents face a variety of potential harms in the online environment, including exposure to distressing illegal material, cyberbullying, image-based abuse, and “sextortion.” Various age...

The evaluation of the online safety chatbot we built with funding from the eSafety Commissioner has been published by @jmirpub.bsky.social humanfactors.jmir.org/2026/1/e71498

Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online A new eSafety report reveals an ongoing gap between what technology can do and what companies are actually doing to tackle child abuse.

How is big tech fairing on making their platforms safer? Here are my thoughts on the new transparency reporting that came out today from eSafety: theconversation.com/big-tech-com...

Make it viral.

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

I had the pleasure of co-editing "Health Information Management: Unlocking the Power of Data in Healthcare" with Sheree Lloyd and Sallyanne Wissmann- an open access text book accessible here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/health-infor...

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Dr @joelscanlan.com presenting on the evaluation of the ReThink chatbot

Industrial-scale deepfake abuse caused a crisis in South Korean schools. Here’s how Australia can avoid the same fate AI-generated deepfake abuse material is easy to create – but there’s plenty we can do to stop it spreading in our schools.

Last year 500 schools were targeted in an organised fashion with deepfake imagery of students in Korea - I think the rest of the world needs to pay more attention as it could be what awaits the rest of us.

theconversation.com/industrial-s...

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

We're looking forward to welcoming @joelscanlan.com as our guest speaker for next month's Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series. Dr Scanlan will speak on The Impact of AI on CSAM Offending and Deterrence Efforts. See poster for more details. To register, click here 👉 tinyurl.com/y548k8vf

Rich white men, use your platform. Don't be such fucking cowards all the fucking time, you have one life to live. How much money do you really need in a lifetime? Christ. How can you just sit there watching young women - especially young women of color - taking every risk, speaking truth to power?

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.

The UK’s Online Safety Act is enforceable from today.

And the regulator, Ofcom, has started an “enforcement programme” focussed on cloud platforms hosting child sexual abuse material. Ofcom recomends platforms use perceptual hash matching

Interesting given ongoing Apple/UK encryption fight 👀

Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

Nailed it - a nationwide problem with the sector.

Really enjoyable two days at the #AIC2025Confernce in Canberra this week - so much great research being done to minimise online harms

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

“A person familiar with the matter… said analysts were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.

“The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed””

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

(in that I think this kind of infrastructure will be used for harm a lot in the years to come, with multiple constellations going up, we are going to need to be vigilant to keep on top of them)

While the core of the story I feel shouldn't matter who owns the company, and so needn't be in the title; however, it does highlight that there is plenty of problems he should be working on in his own companies instead of what he is doing..

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows

Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

If these men whining about traditional masculinity wanted real heroes they would glom onto Zelensky. But no, they prefer their masculinity avatars to play golf (Trump),have lots of money (Elon), traffic women (Tate, allegedly), lie unashamedly(Trump & Elon), & celebrate cruelty (Trump & Elon).

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.