Amelia Pollard

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

Good advice!

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

“The study, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), also found that similar care needs in women were more likely to be omitted or described in less serious terms.
Dr Sam Rickman, the lead author of the report… said AI could result in “unequal care provision for women””

Our government is so *so* dumb.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

Fuck Labour. Creating a new Section 28 for trans people? Are you fucking serious? Unforgivable. #labour #trans

Not In Our Name NION Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community ch Sign petition 39,091° Verified signatures

Today is Trans Pride London.

If you can’t make it, and you are a cis woman who is fed up with transphobic restrictions being imposed on a marginalized community in your name, please consider signing and sharing this petition

www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Today, our capital proudly marks seven years of London Trans+ Pride.

As trans rights come under increasing pressure across the UK, this year’s march is a vital reminder: London is a city that stands for equality, dignity and pride - for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️

what the *actual fuck* america?

You either believe in bodily autonomy or you don't. I do. I believe that what you do with your body is your choice, and no one but you can give enthusiastic informed consent. I believe that coercing or forcing someone else to conform or use their body within your expectations is monstrous.

Ok, time for a short thread about this paper.

My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks.

But how revolutionary is it?

I hate Python. I just hate it so much.

Trans people warned you this would happen when 'gender-criticals' joined up their hate campaign with the far right, part 3 million...

Here are some ways the world has gotten better.

UK now ranking alongside Russia and Hungary - tremendous work by the Labour party.

I swear Starmer has never held a single principle. The man's a windsock, he changes position at the slightest political breeze.
Tory policies in a red tie, why even bother?

Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender A couple said a security guard at the Liberty Hotel in Boston challenged their use of a bathroom and kicked them out.

Oh look, the inevitable consequence of sex essentialism: www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Spoilers, it was never about trans people, it's just more patriarchal bullshit.
#trans rights are human rights.

They are fucking BANNING trans inclusive freedom of association what the actual FUCK

There you have it, Kier Starmer is further right and more viciously anti-LGBT than the previous Conservative government

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Separate but equal. #uk #trans #lgbt #transphobia

A thread of protests across the UK, standing up for trans rights:

that's just the first action. This fight is far from over.

write to your MP, protest, join & donate to groups pushing for action, *organise*

i have ten pages left but the whole thing is basically like this, lmao. "we're exiling trans women from society for being men and we're exiling trans men from society for being trans." you guys i found where 4chan migrated to

Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificates

The UK's Supreme Court ruling is abhorrent and outwardly validates an hateful anti-feminist rhetoric that is extremely harmful towards all minorities (incl. cis-women). I am sick of it.

Trans women are women, trans men are men 🏳️‍⚧️

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days.

Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

Supreme Court backs 'biological' definition of woman - BBC News Judges deliver a landmark ruling on how a woman is defined under the law.

Well, shit. This is gonna be a nightmare for a lot of people. #trans #discrimination #uk

A surprising double benefit from replacing solid targets in Laser-Plasma Accelerators with a stream of water:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not only can the target be for quickly reused, the vapor cloud it releases generates magnetic fields that focus the proton beam to 100x flux!